Product Management, landing an APM role, IBM quantum computing | ft. Kiran Johns

Kiran Johns is a product manager at Hoppscotch, he has over 2 years of experience as a PM. In this podcast we discuss:

• product management as a function in an organisation

• IBM Quantum computing

• getting started in product

• building proof of work

• cold reachouts and job hunting

Chapters:

• 00:00 intro

• 00:08 what is product management

• 07:34 landing an APM role

• 13:15 proof of work for an aspiring PM

• 19:26 what’s a PRD

• 22:40 meme marketing

• 24:46 how did you discover product management

• 28:04 role of campus and communities in your journey

• 31:24 communities you can explore

• 34:42 cold reach out

• 38:28 side projects

• 40:43 minimum viable processes

• 43:24 people you look upto in the product ecosystem

• 47:57 products & practices that helped in your career

• 51:53 recommendations for product management

• 56:11 hype of the PM role

• 57:44 advice for younger self

• 01:01:14 productivity tip that worked for you

• 01:03:05 why kurious kathakal

Where to find Kiran:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiranjohns/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetronjohnson

Recommendations from Kiran:

People to checkout:

• Jason Levin: https://twitter.com/iamjasonlevin

• Ryan Hoover: https://twitter.com/rrhoover

• Vedika Jain: https://twitter.com/vedikaja_in

• Shreyas Doshi: https://twitter.com/shreyas

• Lenny Rachitsky: https://twitter.com/lennysan

• Paul Graham: https://twitter.com/paulg

• Marty Cagan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cagan/

• Anamita Guha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anamitag/

Books/Newsletters/Blogs:

• Working Backwards: Insights, Stories and Secrets from Amazon

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

• Product Led Growth by Bush Wes

• Hooked by Nir Eyal

• Silicon Valley Product Group: https://www.svpg.com/

• Signature Block : https://www.signatureblock.co/

• Lenny’s Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/

• Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup

Communities:

• Kerala Product Hunt: https://bio.link/keralaph

• Tinkerhub: https://www.tinkerhub.org/

• The Product Folks: https://www.theproductfolks.com/

Products/Companies mentioned in the podcast

• Vahan: https://vahan.co/

• Hoppscotch: https://hoppscotch.com/

• Airchat: https://www.air.chat/

• Notion: https://www.notion.so/

• Amie : https://amie.so/

other mentions:

• Mathew Varghese: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathewvarghesemanu/

• IBM Qiskit Advocates: https://qiskit.org/advocates

• PR/FAQ docs by Amazon : https://coda.io/@colin-bryar/working-backwards-how-write-an-amazon-pr-faq

• Generalized Specialist: https://fs.blog/generalized-specialist/

• Weekend Fund: https://www.weekend.fund/

• Minimum Viable : https://www.minimumviable.cc/

• Dropbox MVP - https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-product/