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How do you evaluate a Consumer product company or opportunity and if it is a good job to take?

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Consumer Product Management
  1. Neel Joshi
    Neel Joshi

    Google Group Product Manager, Google Assistant • 3y

    Let's split evaluating the company and evaluating the opportunity. When evaluating the company - or if it's a huge company like Google, the division - I like to think about three criteria first and foremost:  User value - Is the company delivering undenyable user value with the product/service it's offering? A company that is set out to solve for concrete user needs with a great product/service is set up for success. There are of course many other related components such as good market positioni ...Read More

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  2. Jeff Chow
    Jeff Chow

    Miro Chief Product and Technology Officer • 4y

    There are really 3 types of consumer companies The bigs: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Airbnb, Spotify etc - these are mega corporations that have achieved product market fit and are now monetizing at an incredible scale. In general their orgs are huge, processes are locked in, and PMs have very thin surface areas to work on and usually there is limited innovation vs optimization opportunities. But you are also working on products that literally touch hundreds of millions of users daily. Hype ...Read More

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