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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!
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Maker
@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!
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

Ejaz Asi
@farazshah shit, I didn't know. When and for which courses?
Jack Smith
is this a physical book or an ebook? is unclear
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!
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! 💥
Nathan Thomas
Maker
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!
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.
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

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
Emer
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.
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Maker
@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!
Tuyen Khuc

I love that

Pros:

I love that

Cons:

nope

Swaroop Rath

I know product school and am enrolled in its product manager course

Pros:

Trust Product School

Cons:

None

Jack Eisenhauer

Just wish it didn't end

Pros:

Very interesting information

Cons:

none

Tyrone Hall
hi all, i received an email this morning informing me to download the book but can not. the link does not work for me. also, do links that you have posted in this section for the pdf does not work.
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Maker
@tyrone_hall no worries, I just sent you a private message with the link to download the book. Thanks!
Kubilay Özışık
@tyrone_hall @villaumbrosia could you send a link to me as well?
Micky Mirila
Hey. How do I download this book? TNX
Dan Zirkelbach

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.

Sheng Wang
I cannot get the book pdf.
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
Maker
@sheng_wang Hi Sheng, here's the link to get the book just in case you didn't already -> https://www.productschool.com/sh... - Feel free to send me a private message if you need anything else!
andrew
This looks great - looking forward to reading it. FYI @villaumbrosia Kindle format is 'mobi' - it doesn't support 'epub' files.