Product Teacher - Winner of the Great Companies Global Business Award - 2023

Business Name: Product Teacher

Name: Clement Kao

Location: Irvine, California

Establishment (Year): 2021

Category / Industry: 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠

Sub Category / Sub Industry: Product Management Coaching

Number of employees: 1-10 employees

Website URL: https://www.productteacher.com/

LinkedIn URL: LinkedIn

Company Detail:

Product Teacher is a product management education company. They serve three core customer segments: aspiring PMs, experienced PMs, and PM leaders. For aspiring product managers, including college students and working professionals, they provide on-demand video courses. Their investment thesis is to provide aspiring PMs with easily-accessible, low-cost, high-impact resources to help them break into product management. For experienced product managers (1 to 5+ years of product management work), they provide career coaching and upskilling resources. Their investment thesis is to empower experienced PMs with in-depth evergreen resources that they can use for the rest of their product careers. For PM leaders (directors of product, VPs of product, chief product officers, etc.), they provide group workshops for their teams. Their investment thesis is to provide targeted training to address skills / market mismatches in a way that doesn’t require product leaders to sacrifice their own valuable bandwidth. They’ve served product managers and product leaders from leading tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, Airbnb, Zoom, Adobe, and more.

Specialization Product/Services:

They provide self-paced courses that students can take on their own schedule. Their “PM Resume Course” has enabled product managers to secure PM interviews with leading companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and more. And, their “PM Interview Course” has enabled candidates to win PM job offers, in some cases earning 2-3x more than their previous compensation.

Unique Value Proposition:

Their product management coaching practice is rooted in deep first-hand experience. Their lead instructor Clement Kao has personally shipped 10 multimillion dollar B2B products as well as dozens of smaller products within 5 years, operating in highly-regulated verticals including real estate, mortgage, and consumer finance. Furthermore, Clement has coached product managers from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, Airbnb, Tesla, PayPal, Box, Zoom, Adobe, Uber, Lyft, Salesforce, Reddit, Okta, Redfin, etc. in his one-on-one coaching practice, with highly-positive testimonials from clients. Clement has won multiple awards in product management, such as “Alpha Product Management Leader Award”, “Gainsight Ones to Watch in Product-Led Growth Award,” and “Amplitude Product 50 Award.” In his work as an instructor, Clement has helped legacy IT teams make the leap to product management by providing a robust framework and associated OKRs to measure progress. Through Clement’s work, his clients have won significant praise for their newly-revamped product departments from end users, customers, internal stakeholders, and internal executives. And, Clement has helped leading digital product organizations solidify their best practices, enabling them to stay ahead of the competition and retain their top product management talent. As a small and nimble organization, Product Teacher moves significantly more quickly than competitors. They provide a higher degree of customization and configurability for their offerings than other providers in the space. Furthermore, they cover a wide range of product management topics, including product vision, product strategy, product execution, A/B testing, data analytics, accountability frameworks, agile/scrum, user interviews, stakeholder management, emotional intelligence, and more. As Clement has presented at dozens of conferences and events all over the world, his velocity for establishing curricula is unparalleled. Clement typically converts inbound topic requests into presentations within 2 weeks: in week 1 he establishes the outline for the topic of choice, and in week 2 he converts this outline into a final draft presentation. They also have a track record of collaborating with other professional development organizations to provide training. They’re more than happy to collaborate with any existing vendors to provide product management training, including both newly onboarded vendors and incumbents. Clement has also planned and executed both hackathons and pitch competitions. He can help set up these events for clients, and/or train product managers to run these events on their own.

A customer’s review:

Best value for the cost, Understands my needs

Community / Society Service:

They have signed on to the Pledge 1% commitment to formalize their continued investment in the product management ecosystem. They’re joining 15,000+ companies across 120+ countries to make the world a better place. By donating their products and their employee time, they seek to make a significant dent in the problem space of “making product management more inclusive.” Clement Kao has personally signed on to the Giving What They Can pledge to ensure that they are backing the organizations that will have the most impact in the world. He is joining 8,000+ others to donate a portion of my income to high-impact organizations. They’re also proud to share that they have partnered with Blacks in Technology Foundation to provide hundreds of free licenses of their PM resume course to Black professionals. Furthermore, through their charitable work, they have donated not just to the Blacks in Technology Foundation, but also to other worthy causes. Through the DonationMatch platform, they’ve provided thousands of dollars of product management educational resources to non-profits across multiple axes, including female empowerment, queer empowerment, and neurodiversity.