David Fradin is a product management expert. He has experience in building successful products since 1969. He was classically trained as an Hewlett-Packard Product Manager and was then recruited by Apple to bring the first hard disk drive on a PC to market. As a result of his leadership & management skills, Apple promoted him first to Group Product Manager and later Business Unit Manager which put him at the same organizational level at that time as Steve Jobs. David also heads a professional development company specializing in building insanely great products, product management, product marketing and has trained thousands of managers throughout the world based on his over 50 years experience at Hewlett-Packard, Apple and across 75 products and services (representing over $250M in revenue) and eleven startups.
Fradin is the author of 3 books: "Successful Product Design and Management Toolkit", "Building Insanely Great Products" and "Organizing and Managing Insanely Great Products" all available on Amazon. His on-line courses & in-person boot camps are based on his book “Building Insanely Great Products” They cover the complete product management life cycle starting with the founding values, vision, product life cycle & management employed by Apple today. What students will learn from Mr. Fradin is exactly what has made Apple the most valuable company in the world.
During our conversation, David talks about
-how he got his start in product management
-current state of product management and its future
-what his competitive advantage is as a product "success" management expert
-moving and entertaining stories from his life and career
-possibly the best networking advice I've heard in awhile
-advice he gives to people who want to go into product management
-important life lessons
-book recommendations
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