Getting Started in Product

Product related roles have grown considerably over the past five years, which means an influx of people who are starting out in a new skills area. Getting Started in Product aims to support these people make the transition.

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Product Round-Up — January 2025

2 min readJan 22, 2025

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It’s the start of a new year so lots of “new year new start” content has been working it’s way around Medium and other platforms, but avoiding all that, here’s a round-up of some other types of content that I’ve come across during the past few weeks which I think might be of interest to you in your adventures in product management.

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Podcasts

Why Duolingo Worked (with Luis von Ahn, CEO) — Duolingo has fundamentally changed the landscape of self-guided education, starting with language learning. It is now a $9B publicly traded company in a space where everyone thought you could never build a large and exciting company.

10 growth tactics that never work — Elena Verna shares 10 growth strategies that teams often try but don’t work, plus her 3 favorite growth frameworks, and advice for exploring a non-traditional career path

Books

Raving Fans! A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service — Raving Fans, in a nutshell, is the advice given to a new Area Manager on his first day — in an extraordinary business book that will help everyone, in every kind of organisation or business, deliver stunning customer service.

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Getting Started in Product
Getting Started in Product

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Product related roles have grown considerably over the past five years, which means an influx of people who are starting out in a new skills area. Getting Started in Product aims to support these people make the transition.

Robert Drury
Robert Drury

Written by Robert Drury

Helping people kick start their product management career with job application prep & CV prep at https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjdrury/