009: How Failure is Better than an MBA for Product Managers

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Path into Product

Aaron Airmet

28 episodes

9 months ago

What is product management? How do you become a product manager? The Path into Product podcast is for college students or professionals considering a career as a product manager but don't know where to start. We interview actual professionals from a variety of backgrounds about their path into product. Where did they start? How did they land their first product role? Why (or why not) choose product management as a career? You'll hear answers to these questions and more. And you'll see that anyone from any background can develop the mindset and skillset needed to be a product manager.

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009: How Failure is Better than an MBA for Product Managers

Path into Product

34 minutes

4 years ago

009: How Failure is Better than an MBA for Product Managers

Justin Knutson, senior product manager at O.C. Tanner, is no stranger to failure. After dropping out of high school (and never completing a GED), Justin started and failed eight small businesses. Yet he credits those failures with teaching him to approach business, product management, and life with an insatiable curiosity, humility, and willingness to learn.

Justin shares his insights on questions like:

What is at the core of being a good product manager?
Do you need a formal education to be a successful product manager?
What non-traditional learning experiences prepared Justin to be a product manager?
Why should someone not choose to be a product manager?
And so much more!

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