About Our Guest

Jeremy Horn is an award-winning,  product management veteran with 2 decades of experience leading and managing product teams.  Jeremy has held various executive and advisory roles, from the founder of several start-ups to driving diverse organizations in online services, consumer products, and wearables.  As founder of The Product Group, he has created the largest product management meetup in the world (16k+ members in NYC) and hosts the annual awarding of The Best Product Person.  Accelerating the next evolution of product management, Jeremy acted as creator and instructor of the 10-week product management course at General Assembly and The New School, and mentoring at Women 2.0 and Lean Startup Machine (where is has been a judge).

Jeremy shares how his path of computer programming at five years old has helped him stay ahead of the curve and what is coming in the future of artificial intelligence. He also shares his secrets of building a 16k plus meetup group.

Insights From The Episode:

• The power of being ahead of the curve and changing with the times and technology

Three Things Jeremy Looks For in Project Managers:

• A drive to help others

Quotes From The Show:

 "Roadmapping is critical, its how you keep yourself on track, it's how you communicate with what you're doing internally and externally." - Jeremy Horn episode #113

“When you think about AI, it can solve more problems at a greater scale than ever before.” - Jeremy Horn episode #113

 "Don't be a victim of death by comparison." - Kevin Y. Brown episode #113

“AI is creating new opportunities for people who would not have had opportunities for jobs.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “I didn’t pick product management as much as...i just realized I was doing it.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “The best reason to go into product management...is you want to help people.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “You are really in it to solve problems and generate revenue for the business.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “A product managers will have a road map...at the end of the day you have to be a people person.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “Don’t build anything just do a quick tiny slice and throw it out there, if it doesn't work, try something else.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “Make sure you can be very adaptive.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “Even Apple does research...market testing and experiments.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “The meetups are laidback roundtable style..diving into product problems.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “You always want objectives to be measurable you always want the results to be verifiable  but someone else, not opinionated.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

Key Components to a Company Like Apple Consistently Being Able to Put Products Out:

     1. User testing

     2. Experiments 

Three Things Why One Products Sells vs. another:

     1. Who has the better marketing

     2. Who has a better market fit with the right movers in the       

         industry faster

     3. Who executes faster

Resources Mentioned: Google Cloud, Python Cloud

Favorite Quote/Motto: “Just do it” - Nike

Favorite Book: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Three keys to creating your best life:

1. Don’t forget to prioritize your happiness

Stay Connected:

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Kevin:

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Jeremy Horn:

http://theproductguy.com/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/theproductguy

www.theproductgroup.org

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