Jules Walter is a product leader at YouTube and co-founder of both the Black Product Managers Network and Codepath.org. Previously, he led monetization and mobile growth teams at Slack. He’s also a very well-known leader in the broader product community. In today’s episode, we discuss the skills that matter most to PMs, and how to build those skills. We also spend quite a bit of time talking about the importance of finding mentors to help you learn new skills, how to nail your next job interview, barriers to entry for underrepresented people, and some of the most common paths into product management.
Really enjoyed this episode, lots of simple and yet powerful tipsy and advice!!! Thanks to both of you. Btw Lenny - since you like brutal honesty - after listening to a few of your podcasts over the last 3 months I get the feeling your questions are more specific and you shoot them more often. To me they very very often now come at the exact right time and they follow up with the right open topics. Really appreciated!
If you want, I'd be happy to share this with the ProductMentors community, where we try to figure out mentoring and 1:1 advice for product people specifically (see more here if you want https://www.productmentors.io/)
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
I love the common sense advice of a "small ask" when approaching potential mentors.
Really enjoyed this episode, lots of simple and yet powerful tipsy and advice!!! Thanks to both of you. Btw Lenny - since you like brutal honesty - after listening to a few of your podcasts over the last 3 months I get the feeling your questions are more specific and you shoot them more often. To me they very very often now come at the exact right time and they follow up with the right open topics. Really appreciated!
Fantastic with focus on mentoring! 👏
If you want, I'd be happy to share this with the ProductMentors community, where we try to figure out mentoring and 1:1 advice for product people specifically (see more here if you want https://www.productmentors.io/)
Really like this episode. A lot of practical advice that I can relate to.