My guest this week is Linda Zhang. Linda started her career as a Consultant at Bain before heading to Snapchat. From there, she left big tech to join a startup, becoming an early employee on the Product Management team at Faire. She had an incredible ride at Faire, shipping numerous products and earning multiple promotions along the way to helping the company achieve a $2.5 billion valuation in late 2020. And now for the last few months, Linda has set out on her own entrepreneurial path, launching Product Lessons and Product Toolkit. These sites include content derived from her own experiences and serve as fantastic resources to both aspiring and experienced product managers.

In this episode we cover:

• The highest probability way for Consultants to break into Product Management without going to business school
• The potential strengths and weaknesses of Product Managers who come from Consulting
• The art of negotiation and how she turned down a $375k job offer, plus many more lessons