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CYLS 113: Strategies To Growing Your Meetup Group To 16,000 Members With The Product Guy Jeremy Horn

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Episode Summary

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.

 

Kevin Y. Brown

Kevin Y. Brown is a National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) Center For Public Trust (CPT) “Being A Difference” award recipient, international speaker, entrepreneur, and author.  The former MTV Networks host and NYC fashion marketer has created an international following as a speaker on personal excellence, effective communication, and leadership. Kevin has been featured by Black Enterprise magazine as a “Modern Man of Distinction” and highlighted in various publications for his self-help speaking work and helping students graduate college debt-free.  Recognized for his commitment to empowering foster care youth and as a foster care system alumnus, he has also delivered the keynote address at the International Foster Care Organizations Conference in Sydney, Australia and Osaka, Japan.  Kevin is currently the creator/host of Sirius XM’s “Create Your Life” series, a fellow in the New York Chapter of the Startup Leadership Program, and an active member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. 

 

Jeremy Horn

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).


Insights From the Episode

  • The power of being ahead of the curve and changing with the times and technology
  • The importance of vision
  • New roles in agriculture, artistry, and writing being needed
  • The importance of AI technology and how it is creating new job opportunities
  • Insights into Product Management
  • The secrets of a great Product Manager
  • Insights into the keys to a strong project manager
  • Insights into Lean Methodology
  • The importance of Road Mapping
  • Insights into companies generating revenue over time
  • Keys to product success
  • Insights into Product Meetups
  • Strategies to grow a meetup to 16k
  • How to set goals and achieve them

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    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, Create Your Life Series, #113
    • “When you think about AI, it can solve more problems at a greater scale than ever before.” - Jeremy Horn, Create Your Life Series, #113
    •  "Don't be a victim of death by comparison." - Kevin Y. Brown, Create Your Life Series, #113
    • “AI is creating new opportunities for people who would not have had opportunities for jobs.” - Jeremy Horn, Create Your Life Series, #113
    •  “I didn’t pick product management as much as...i just realized I was doing it.” - Jeremy Horn, Create Your Life Series, #113
    •  “The best reason to go into product management...is you want to help people.” - Jeremy Horn, Create Your Life Series, #113
    •  “You are really in it to solve problems and generate revenue for the business.” - Jeremy Horn, Create Your Life Series, #113
    •  “A product managers will have a road map...at the end of the day you have to be a people person.” - Jeremy Horn, Create Your Life Series, #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, Create Your Life Series, #113
    •  “Make sure you can be very adaptive.” - Jeremy Horn, Create Your Life Series, #113
    •  “Even Apple does research...market testing and experiments.” - Jeremy Horn, Create Your Life Series, #113
    •  “The meetups are laidback roundtable style..diving into product problems.” - Jeremy Horn, Create Your Life Series, #113
    •  “You always want objectives to be measurable you always want the results to be verifiable  but someone else, not opinionated.” - Jeremy Horn, Create Your Life Series, #113

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

      • User testing
      • Experiments 

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        Three Things Why One Products Sells vs. Another

        • Who has the better marketing
        • Who has a better market fit with the right movers in the industry faster
        • Who executes faster

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          Resources Mentioned

          • Google Cloud
          • Python Cloud

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            Favorite Quote

            • “Just do it” - Nike

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              Favorite Book

              • The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

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                Keys to Create Your Best Life

                • Don’t forget to prioritize your happiness
                • Don’t overthink it
                • Build relationships

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