Nick Nguyen

✨New launch, 2 years in the making: Just wrapped up the very first cohort of my course on Improving your Product Sense. maven.com/shreyas-doshi/prod… It was an intensive 1 week course (18+ hours of instruction with lots of examples & practice, and 7-8 hours of Q&A sessions, all live on Zoom). This inaugural cohort was capped at 48 people — founders, eng managers, design managers, PM leaders, IC PMs, and engineers from these companies: Docusign Amazon OpenAI Front Cash App Coda YouTube Palo Alto Networks Meta Vidyard Walmart Google Reddit Uber Square Indiegogo 2K Games Invideo AI Snowflake Tubi TV Broadcom Grubhub Intuit +several startups across the globe I have been working on this course for 2 years and did not launch it all this while because I wanted it to be really, really good. Specifically, I have designed this course around building the skill of making better product decisions (macro & micro), by significantly deepening students’ understanding of human nature, systems, strategy, competitive dynamics, creative execution, taste, influence, etc. It is much easier to build a course or a bootcamp around process-oriented & framework-oriented content, but the big problem is that you can follow the process and the framework and odds are high that you will still fail. People who consistently build successful products do not succeed because they talk to customers & test+iterate & focus on the user & scratch their own itch & make something people want & answer support tickets etc. etc. Of course they do all of these things — but these tablestakes aren’t actually going to make you successful. They are necessary conditions for product success, but the sufficient conditions are about how you extract the best, correct signal from all of these activities and what skills enable you to get insights from these activities that no one else is getting and how you creatively execute on those insights to build something amazing. So in my course I decided to focus on skill-building, not process-knowledge & not framework-acquisition & not inspiring success tales that aren’t actually actionable for your startup or product. Of course, this self-imposed constraint made it much harder to build out the curriculum & content, but after 2 years of working on it and trying to perfect it, I am pleased to say that the first cohort of this course was a resounding success. The next cohort is in July — we are going to take the lessons from this one and make it even better. After July, we will have more frequent cohorts (likely every month) and we will also increase cohort size. So if you have already applied for the course but didn’t get into the inaugural cohort, don’t worry, we will get you into another one later this year. Thank you for all your love & support, and most importantly, your patience, as I kept on delaying the launch of this course like 5 times since 2022 😄 But fortunately, it’s here now, and it’s a lot of fun 🙌🏽🙏🏽❤️

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