The document summarizes a presentation given by a Google Product Manager about their journey to becoming a PM. It outlines the speaker's career path including past roles at startups that were acquired. The presentation then discusses what PMs do such as understanding problems, removing user barriers, and owning a vision. It also covers what great PMs know like the meaning of minimum viable, thinking in depth over breadth, and finding insights below top-level metrics. The document promotes part-time product management courses from Product School.

1. My Journey into Product Management by
Google Product Manager
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8. Tonight’s Speaker
Josh Hudgins

9. My Product Management
Journey
And What I’ve Learned Along the Way

10. How do I become a PM?
What do PMs do?
What do great PMs know?

11. How I got
here...
ClickFind
Business
School
Acquisition
KG Capital
Acquisition
Acquisition
G Suite
Ads Research
Team

12. Thinking like a PM

13. Be insatiably curious
Ask Why. Constantly.
Build your heuristic

14. What PMs Do

15. Understand the Problem
Remove barriers to end users
The right problem is more
important than the right solution
The emergent success metric

16. Own the Vision
The what and the how.
Work in all directions
Data supports a vision,
it does not define it

17. Create Focus
Know the most
important thing
Mind the gaps

18. What Great PMs Know
That Good PMs don’t

19. What Min Viable really means
Think Depth first not Breadth first

20. How to measure success
Below the ‘one true metric’ is where all the complexity (and insight) lies

21. Questions?

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