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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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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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Where Does Product Management Fit?

Product Management Unpacked

I see product management reduced to a gopher for development and a clean-up function. Product management under sales. When I joined a company in 2006 to run product management (as a CMO), the VP of sales would meet with the product managers every Monday morning to make new feature requests per what sales had sold the week before.

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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. Life before Google.

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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. April Underwood is Chief Product Officer at Slack.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

The Product Coalition

Apparently, there is a difference in the inspect & adapt cadence when product strategy and Sprint Backlog are compared to each other. Example : The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me) from August 2nd, 2006.) If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

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The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery

Product Talk

This is one of Microsoft’s worst products. By 2004, Microsoft was already announcing that they didn’t want to support it anymore, and by 2006 they ended support for it. Let’s think about what product management looked like during this time period. The opportunity space is where product strategy happens.