Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia is an entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience building global companies and digital products in the US, Europe, and Latin America. Carlos founded Product School in San Francisco in 2014. Today, the company is the global leader in product management training with a community of over one million product management professionals.
Designed to fit into work schedules, classes are held in the evenings or on weekends.
All the instructors are real-world product managers, working at renowned tech companies like Netflix, Airbnb, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Paypal. In addition to individual classes, Product School also delivers custom corporate training programs to Fortune 500 companies seeking to upskill their existing teams or onboard new talent.
Carlos is committed to pushing the product community forward. With this aim in mind, he published the Amazon bestseller, The Product Book. He also hosts Proddys – the annual awards honoring the best software products -, produces ProductCon – a multi-city conference attended by tens of thousands of product managers every year – and helps organize over 1,000 free events every year in 200 cities around the globe.
Topics:
- Carlos’ journey into product management.
- The value of failing and learning to carve your own path.
- Building the Product School community to over 1m product professionals worldwide.
- Keeping quality as your community and organization scales.
- Common misconceptions around product management.
- The brain of a product manager: resourceful, analytical, and empathetic.
- Customer retention as the key to growth.
Resources for the show notes:
- Product School
- The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager
- Proddys: Annual awards to honor the world’s best digital products
- Product Career Fair
- Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how anyone can harness it. Even you.)
- Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues
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