Kiran Johns is a product manager at Hoppscotch, he has over 2 years of experience as a PM.
In this podcast we discuss:

• product management as a function in an organisation


• IBM Quantum computing


• getting started in product


• building proof of work


• cold reachouts and job hunting

Chapters:

• 00:00 intro


• 00:08 what is product management


• 07:34 landing an APM role


• 13:15 proof of work for an aspiring PM


• 19:26 what’s a PRD


• 22:40 meme marketing


• 24:46 how did you discover product management


• 28:04 role of campus and communities in your journey


• 31:24 communities you can explore


• 34:42 cold reach out


• 38:28 side projects


• 40:43 minimum viable processes


• 43:24 people you look upto in the product ecosystem


• 47:57 products & practices that helped in your career


• 51:53 recommendations for product management


• 56:11 hype of the PM role


• 57:44 advice for younger self


• 01:01:14 productivity tip that worked for you


• 01:03:05 why kurious kathakal

Where to find Kiran:


LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiranjohns/


Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetronjohnson

Recommendations from Kiran:

People to checkout:

• Jason Levin: https://twitter.com/iamjasonlevin


• Ryan Hoover: https://twitter.com/rrhoover


• Vedika Jain: https://twitter.com/vedikaja_in


• Shreyas Doshi: https://twitter.com/shreyas


• Lenny Rachitsky: https://twitter.com/lennysan


• Paul Graham: https://twitter.com/paulg


• Marty Cagan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cagan/


• Anamita Guha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anamitag/

Books/Newsletters/Blogs:

• Working Backwards: Insights, Stories and Secrets from Amazon


• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries


• Product Led Growth by Bush Wes


• Hooked by Nir Eyal


• Silicon Valley Product Group: https://www.svpg.com/


• Signature Block : https://www.signatureblock.co/


• Lenny’s Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/


• Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup

Communities:

• Kerala Product Hunt: https://bio.link/keralaph


• Tinkerhub: https://www.tinkerhub.org/


• The Product Folks: https://www.theproductfolks.com/

Products/Companies mentioned in the podcast

• Vahan: https://vahan.co/


• Hoppscotch: https://hoppscotch.com/


• Airchat: https://www.air.chat/


• Notion: https://www.notion.so/


• Amie : https://amie.so/

other mentions:

• 
  Mathew Varghese: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathewvarghesemanu/
  


• IBM Qiskit Advocates: https://qiskit.org/advocates


• PR/FAQ docs by Amazon : https://coda.io/@colin-bryar/working-backwards-how-write-an-amazon-pr-faq


• Generalized Specialist: https://fs.blog/generalized-specialist/


• Weekend Fund: https://www.weekend.fund/


• Minimum Viable : https://www.minimumviable.cc/


• Dropbox MVP - https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-product/

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