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Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia

Ship it - Free book where Silicon Valley product managers reveal all 🙊

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This📘contains compiled secrets from Slack, Facebook, Reddit, Square and more:

💡Lead Through Influence

💥Product-Market Fit

💰Why FinTech Matters

🤩Unleash Your Inner Leader

📈The Metric That Matters

💪User Research to Empower

🔬Culture of Experimentation

💯Crack the PM Interview

📚Lessons from Managing Products

🗿Evolution of the PM Career

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Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Maker
Hey product people, I'm thrilled to announce the launch of a brand new book: "Ship it: Silicon Valley Product Managers Reveal All". The book is free for everyone and available on Product School's website. Each of the 10 chapters draws on the wisdom of product leaders from top Silicon Valley companies like Slack, Square, Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit, Optimizely and Robinhood. The theme of this book is understanding: Understanding your customers through research and data, understanding your industry, and understanding yourself. For people who already have our other books (The Product Book and Launch), you’ll find all new insights from PMs at the top of their game. After reading this book, you'll understand how to make informed decisions, how to lead with integrity, how to grow your product career, and how to hire the right PMs for your team. I can't wait to hear what you think! BY THE WAY - HERE'S IS THE 2ND EDITION OF THIS BOOK - (GET IT HERE)
Joseph Adewunmi
@villaumbrosia the book is great and covers a lot of themes, but doesnt seem to break new ground. Nonetheless, v.useful for those trying to get into product management
stefan vaziri
While the content of the book is sound, I'm not a huge fan of this company (Product School) manipulating the Product Hunt voting system by encouraging their emailing list to come here and upvote in order to receive a free copy of the book. How do you feel about that @rrhoover ?
Ryan Hoover
@stefan_vaziri1 I wasn't aware they were doing that. We explicitly say not to ask for (and definitely don't incentivize) upvotes.
stefan vaziri
@rrhoover a big "UPVOTE AND GET THE BOOK" CTA in their email announcing the launch of this book is probably against the rules here then...it's misleading at best.
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Maker
Hi @stefan_vaziri1 - First of all, thank you for your upvote. I am glad to see that you like the content of the book. I just want to clarify that there is no incentive to upvote. The book is free for everyone and available on our website. You can find it here: https://www.productschool.com/sh... In response to your feedback to @rrhoover we were not aware of the fact that makers are discouraged from asking their followers to upvote their products on Product Hunt. In fact, that seems to be common practice. I personally have gotten multiple shares and requests for upvotes from other makers on social media, etc. That being said, I will personally review the fine print of the terms of service of Product Hunt and make sure our future messages are 100% in line with the requirements and, most importantly, the spirit of Product Hunt. Hope this clears up the misunderstanding. We are huge fans of Product Hunt and look forward to launching more free products that add value to the community.
John
The PDF download link sent to my mailbox is not working, it links me to the book cover photo()
Dan Zirkelbach
@jpequod Hey, John! That's odd? I just downloaded it as PDF and it worked fine. Can you try again?
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Maker
@jpequod Hi John, do you have the book? We fixed the bug hours ago. But here's the link just in case -> https://www.productschool.com/sh... - DM me if you need anything else!
Shibani Mishra
I gave my email id to get a copy of the book but didnt receive the copy
John
@villaumbrosia thanks! it is working now :)
John
@danzirkelbach i just tried and it is working fine now! thanks :)
Jack Smith
is this a physical book or an ebook? is unclear
Lyubomir Hristev
@_jacksmith, good question.
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Maker
@_jacksmith @lubo the book is currently available on pdf and kindle formats. We'll add paperback and audiobook formats soon
Lyubomir Hristev
@villaumbrosia, thanx for the info! I just added it to my reading list. Sounds like an interesting reading indeed!
Ejaz Asi

Product School is quite unique in delivering high quality content outside its courses so people who are not even enrolled can still get tons of advice and access to webinars and many other content pieces.

Pros:

Take it from the best minds in the industry

Cons:

not really

Faraz Shah
I have attended Product School
Debajit Sarkar
Since I'm involved in Project Management myself for more than a decade now I can connect to some of the problems and settings described in the book. I was incredibly invested in the business case examples. One particular topic where the author could have provided some more in-depth explanation is that of Targeting Customers. How exactly should businesses ( especially new businesses) identify & subsequently target customers. Apart from that, I like this book and I think the author has handled the subject perfectly.
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Maker
@dsarkar Hi D Sarkar - Thank you for the feedback! Our team will be creating more content focused on Targeting Customers! Check our blog for fresh weekly content >> www.productschool.com/blog and we are glad you enjoyed the book! 💥
Andu Potorac
@dsarkar You may want to look into ODI and Market Opportunity Navigator, for those two things.
Debajit Sarkar
@andupotorac Thanks Andu. I will take a look.
Katie Black
Hi, I can't seem to download the book, if anyone can help me to do this, that would be great. Thank you.
Cristian Dan
@katie_black would be good if they could share the EPUB version as well
Gaby Araujo
Maker
@katie_black Hi Katie - I am glad you are interested in our new book 🙂 Visit this link and you will be able to claim 'Ship It' > https://www.productschool.com/sh...
Jorge Jiménez

I like the logos in the book and the people behind them.

Pros:

great companies and advisors

Cons:

nope

Roy Cobby

Recommended if you are starting or hold a mid-level position in product. You are bound to come across something that adds to your product prowess.

Pros:

Full of product pros!

Cons:

I would have enjoyed even more information on product roadmaps

Shibani Mishra
How can i get a copy of this book
Adam Kazwell
Feedback for the landing page: it's not obvious what I'm signing up for. I got the email to get the free book but then when I landed on the site, there's a form to enter my email address again, with a "submit" option. Made me feel like I was signing up for another mailing list. If the messaging on the page or the button had a more descriptive CTA, that might help. Eager to check out the book, thanks for making it!
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Maker
@kaz thanks for your feedback! We're looking into it right now
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