The document discusses a presentation given by Greg Crescimanno, a Principal Product Manager at PayPal. He discusses common product fallacies, including assumptions that a product manager needs a technical degree from a top college, when in fact Crescimanno himself has a communications degree from a lower ranked college. He also discusses how visionary leaders are often difficult to work with despite their successes, and addresses the fallacy that a product will necessarily fail, noting that the product manager is responsible for the product's success or failure.

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7. Greg
Crescimanno
TONIGHT’S SPEAKER

8. Product School
Greg Crescimanno, Principal Product Manager -
PayPal

9. Who is this person?
Greg Crescimanno
Principal Product Manager @PayPal
Former Lead Instructor @ProductSchool
Lifelong Student
Total Nerd
Emoji Model

10. Emoji Model?? What?!?!?

11. Let’s play a little game

12. Who is the product manager?
Person A Person B
College Ranking Top 25 Ranked 175 or above

13. Who is the product manager?
Person A Person B
College Ranking
Degree
Top 25
B.S. Computer Science/MBA B.A. Communications
Ranked 175 or above

14. Who is the product manager?
Person A Person B
College Ranking
Degree
GPA
Top 25
B.S. Computer Science/MBA
3.8+ 2.5
B.A. Communications
Ranked 175 or above

15. Who is the product manager?
Person A Person B
College Ranking
Degree
GPA
Internships/Tech Experience
Top 25
B.S. Computer Science/MBA
3.8+
@Fortune 500 tech companies None
2.5
B.A. Communications
Ranked 175 or above

16. Person A!
….right?

17. Of course.
But would it surprise you to learn that
Person B is ME?

18. So what is a product fallacy?

19. Fallacy: a mistaken belief, especially one based on
unsound argument

20. Let’s play a game part 2

21. What words come to mind...

22. What words come to mind...

23. What words come to mind...

24. What words come to mind...

25. What do they all have in common?

26. You might be thinking...
They are all visionaries
They have all been very successful
They have all had very public failures

27. Again, of course these are true
But they are also notoriously difficult to
work with

28. Okay! On to number 3

29. You suck at being a product manager

31. More often than not, your product will
fail

32. You are the product owner
You are responsible for the success or
failure of your product

33. Thank you
Q&A

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