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6 Product Managers Who Became CEOs-and How!

The Product Coalition

While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true. Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority.

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The Ultimate List of Product Leaders You Must Follow (UPDATED)

The Product Coalition

29 Product Leaders You Must Follow Julie Zhuo is Product Design VP at Facebook. She studied Computer Science at Stanford and joined the company in its early stages, way back in 2006. Starting as a Product Designer, she then became Manager, Director and finally VP. Josh Fetcher is an author and business consultant.

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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

But before we dissect this pivotal moment in Google’s history and how Pichai used it to propel Google into completely new markets—and himself up the corporate ladder—let’s step back and review how he even got to that position. Next up was a management consulting role with McKinsey & Company. Life before Google.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

For example, SEO is a way to “game” search algorithms and create content that would be shown on the first position in SERP. When we first decide to build an ML-driven product, we start from the problem definition: in the case of Search it will probably be “users would like to be able to find relevant information on the internet quickly”.

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Three Product Strategy Tools to Use in Your Next PM Interview

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Tim has worked for HP, Apple, Sybase, Siebel, Oracle, and Citrix before starting his own consulting company. Tim has recruited, mentored, and managed product managers in each of these positions, so you could say he knows a thing or two about interviewing for product managers. Explain to me Google’s product strategy.

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Climbing the Product Management Career Ladder

bpma ProductHub

There are a multitude of new roles that encompass broader responsibilities and get product managers and marketers out of the day-to-day grind. Product strategy managers, market segment managers, solution marketing managers, and portfolio managers, to name a few. Products are just the means to the end!