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

About Our Guest

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).

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.

 

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

 

Three Things Jeremy Looks For in Project Managers:

• A drive to help others
• Creativity
• A people person

 

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 episode #113

“When you think about AI, it can solve more problems at a greater scale than ever before.” - Jeremy Horn episode #113

 "Don't be a victim of death by comparison." - Kevin Y. Brown episode #113

“AI is creating new opportunities for people who would not have had opportunities for jobs.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “I didn’t pick product management as much as...i just realized I was doing it.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “The best reason to go into product management...is you want to help people.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “You are really in it to solve problems and generate revenue for the business.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “A product managers will have a road map...at the end of the day you have to be a people person.”- Jeremy Horn episode #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 episode #113

 “Make sure you can be very adaptive.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “Even Apple does research...market testing and experiments.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “The meetups are laidback roundtable style..diving into product problems.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 “You always want objectives to be measurable you always want the results to be verifiable  but someone else, not opinionated.”- Jeremy Horn episode #113

 

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

     1. User testing

     2. Experiments 

 

Three Things Why One Products Sells vs. another:

     1. Who has the better marketing

     2. Who has a better market fit with the right movers in the       

         industry faster

     3. Who executes faster

 

Resources Mentioned: Google Cloud, Python Cloud

Favorite Quote/Motto: “Just do it” - Nike

Favorite Book: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Three keys to creating your best life:

1. Don’t forget to prioritize your happiness
2. Don’t overthink it
3. Build relationships

 

Stay Connected:

 

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Kevin:

www.kevinybrown.com

www.instagram.com/kevinybrown

www.twitter.com/kevinybrown

www.facebook.com/kevbrown001

 

Jeremy Horn:

http://theproductguy.com/

http://twitter.com/theproductguy

https://www.facebook.com/theproductguy

https://www.linkedin.com/in/theproductguy

www.theproductgroup.org

www.theproductmentor.com

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