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Ask HN: Great Product Managers to follow?

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I want to learn by example more about Product Management.

Any recommendations of great PMs that are active on twitter/blogs/etc?

Merci Grace. She's the former director of product for Slack and founder of Women in Product. She takes takes special interest in mentoring PMs who are women and people of color.

https://twitter.com/merci

https://byrslf.co/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-women-...

Thanks! I am a soft dev, considering a transition to PM in one or two years, so I just want follow good people for now. I am man, but the leader of Product in my startup is a woman, I sent her these links. I think it is a great opportunity. She is young and awesome, a good mentorship can make her even more incredible

I am a soft dev as well, although freelance, and plan on transitioning to management or focus on a startup. Product manager was one of my thoughts - but what is your thoughts behind it - why that route?

I became a web dev just last year (at 37yo), before that I had worked with startups (marketing and as a founder). So I always was interested in creating and improving digital products.

I am pretty happy with the day-to-day activities of a software developer, but I miss talking to customers, creating spreadsheets and reports to reach business decisions, understand how a product solves a problem, etc.

I am still not sure about the transition, but I would like to learn from other people about it.

Hey, I'm also a software dev interested in transitioning to PM as well. As I understand it, you'll have to do it either internally, via an MBA, or have someone else maybe who is already a PM / senior PM help you get in. That's my thoughts anyways.

Not sure if this is directly related, but patio11 (@patio11?) has a popular blog which talks a lot about building a company. He talks a lot about building products & companies, so you might find some of his content useful: https://www.kalzumeus.com

Maybe you also ask him directly if he has any suggestions: https://www.kalzumeus.com/standing-invitation/

A couple more suggestions:

- Find company's with products you like, track down the product people at those company's, and then dig up their blogs/twitters/whatever (pro tip: focus on companies with a product/environment similar to the environment in which you intend to be around product management)

- Reddit can be an amazing resource, too: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+product+ma...

There’s no need to study product managers, just study great products.

Can go both ways. Sometimes certain pm’s have been through bad experiences which can be better learnings than looking at their good results.

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