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Ship it — Free book where Silicon Valley product managers reveal all 🙊
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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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!
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@kaz thanks for your feedback! We're looking into it right now
@_jacksmith @lubo the book is currently available on pdf and kindle formats. We'll add paperback and audiobook formats soon
@villaumbrosia, thanx for the info! I just added it to my reading list. Sounds like an interesting reading indeed!
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)
@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
Ship it has been nominated as the best book of the year on Product Hunt! If you enjoyed the book, please vote for it here before Tuesday 6pm. Thanks! https://www.producthunt.com/gold...
If you enjoyed Ship It, check out my newest book launch on Product Hunt "Product Mindset: How to get inside your customer’s mind" and get a free copy https://www.producthunt.com/post...
@jpequod Hey, John! That's odd? I just downloaded it as PDF and it worked fine. Can you try again?
@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!
@shibanim I just sent you a private message with the link to download the book just in case you didn't receive the email yet. Thanks!
This looks great - looking forward to reading it.
FYI @villaumbrosia Kindle format is 'mobi' - it doesn't support 'epub' files.
This is such a Scam!
Someone is Not doing their job!
I was offered a Free eBook by upVoting this.
Which I did.
The only thing I got was a ClickBait Sandwich. (W'GACA)
Way to go Ship It book author.
Rather ironic of the Title of the Book.
Yeah, sure... Ship It only when we feel like it.
Good Luck. You're going to need it.
A lot of these Positive comments looks like shills.
@spicer23 I just sent you a private message with the link to download the book just in case you didn't receive the email yet. Thanks!
I know product school and am enrolled in its product manager course
Pros:Trust Product School
Cons:None
@villaumbrosia I have not been able to download this book...the link sent to my email always breaks. Is it possible to fix it or to send me the book as an attachment to my email?
@onyezenwa no worries, I just sent you a private message with the link to download the book just in case you didn't receive the email yet. Thanks!
I've just started reading the book, and I think it's great. I like the fact that it's short and digestible.
However, one of the earliest examples in the book is based on an urban myth: that NASA spent $1M in the 60s on R&D to invent a "Space Pen".
In truth, it was a private company called Fisher Pen Co. who spent $1M of their own money to develop the pen. The pens are still being sold, although I haven't done enough digging to know if it was worth the $1M investment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://history.nasa.gov/spacepe...
I like the logos in the book and the people behind them.
Pros:great companies and advisors
Cons:nope
I love this book. Product School continues to release true-to-life content that makes a real impact on my work life.
Pros:These are real Product Managers, talking about real Products, from companies we all love. There is really no better way to learn than this.
Cons:None.
The Product Leaders who contributed chapters to this book are true champions.
Some give super practical concrete advice. If you're in this situation, here's exactly what you do.
Others prefer to focus on the principles. The attitudes, guidelines and ideas that will guide you to make the best decisions in a range of circumstances.
All totally knocked it out of the park!
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 ?
@stefan_vaziri1 I wasn't aware they were doing that. We explicitly say not to ask for (and definitely don't incentivize) upvotes.
@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.
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.
