One Knight in Product14 Apr 2021

Treating your Career as a Product & Making a Wicked Impact as a Product Leader (with Gibson Biddle, former VP Product @ Netflix)

About the Episode

An interview with Gibson Biddle. Gib is the former VP of Product Management at Netflix, and former CPO of Chegg. Nowadays, he's a coach and teacher who gave 140 talks over the last year. He's also recently started a mailing list, "Ask Gib" where he answers some of the top voted questions every week.

We understandably speak about a lot, including:

His new newsletter "Ask Gib", and why you should subscribe to it
Whether he's gotten any difficult questions he couldn't answer
How he manages to do 140 events and how he optimises the format
How to make an impact in your first 90 days as a product leader
The importance of moving quickly to make an impact, and striking whilst the iron is hot
What to do if you aren't passionate about the company you work for, and when to leave
How to handle M&A as part of your product strategy & why not to worry about the valuation
The pros & cons of using different frameworks to teach product leadership practices
Treating yourself as a product, and experimenting with your career choices to help build your intuition and business maturity
The importance of taking risks, both for mature businesses as well as in your career
Whether Gib could have saved Blockbuster, why he thinks they ultimately failed, and how the Innovator's Dilemma loomed large

And much more!

Gib answers the most upvoted questions once a week on his newsletter, Ask Gib. Sign up here and never be bereft of content again.

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Contact Gib

You can contact Gib on Twitter, LinkedIn or gibsonbiddle.com.

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