How To Become a Product Strategist

Jonathan Courtney, CEO of AJ& Smart is sharing with me how to learn product strategy and why it's a much better position then a product designer.
AJ&Smart YT: / @ajsmart
Jon on IG: @jicecream
Links mentioned:
Hacking Growth: www.amazon.com/Hacking-Growth...
WTF is Strategy?: hackernoon.com/wtf-is-a-strat...
The Whale: 500ish.com/the-whale-38c3cfa2...
The Squid: 500ish.com/the-squid-218be993...
The Leviathan: 500ish.com/the-leviathan-cdcd...
The Squid & the Whale, Revisited: 500ish.com/the-squid-the-whal...
Product Strategy Blog: stratechery.com/
Exponent Podcast: exponent.fm/
Product Strategy for Pirates: / startup-metrics-for-pi...
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You guys together are awesome. Really really great content. Hope more videos coming.

[@AlbertoOrsini]

Ran, I can't thank you enough for your latest content. This is so helpful!

[@golandesign]

Actually "play-paused" this clip writing and sketching on my notebook. Thank you both, guys!

[@LifeIsGoodChannel1]

Your videos have great insights. I am so happy someone is sharing this kind of stuff! Keep it up!

[@GrouEEf]

Golden! Im on my way to being a product strategist, and these literature tips will help me a big deal. Lots of love, Johnathan.

[@justthatpm]

great insight here. first time hearing of a product strategist but makes sense how big of a role they will play with stakeholders, PM's and other designers.

[@pjvalenzuela352]

So many gold nuggets in this conversation. Thanks Ran and Jonathan!

[@jaironcuadra]

Where is the link to download both of your brains.

[@FluxAcademy]

it's in the description.

[@walidhefnawy7418]

awesome talk. very helpful. please make more of these ran

[@misterhanwee1030]

Watching this for third time and this is still gold ~

[@bravenick]

I hope links are coming a long the way. My personal opinion is that it doesn't matter if you are a in UI/UX team or your are a developer or simple QA like me. You should know all this key features that John mentioned. Thank You for a video!

[@chacecampbell2697]

Love all the insight and resource sharing, thanks!

[@eth_fish]

Interesting to hear about what a product strategist is! Thanks for all the links too

[@Ganji2009]

Thank you very much for this video! This is super valuable to me!

[@peter.dimitrov]

Great video full of insights. Thanks!

[@hoangtrinh2965]

Super inspiring ! Thank you !

[@Sirwastealot]

Only 2.6K views on this gold mine? Shocking. But I'm subscribing, loved the information in this video and the attitude both of you have towards design.

[@smshabbir]

Both of you are awesome and very inspirational. Thanks for sharing. (Y)

[@maralvafaei6439]

Great! Awesome! Thank you soooo much you two guys are adorable.

[@meligatt]

Excellent! Thanks 🤓

[@kiranjuvvalapalli7279]

This video is a masterpiece. Thanks Guys

[@LeonJCort]

really good video collab of two my two foremost product online mentors! cheers. having issues finding the ziegler articels though

[@AJSmart]

Leon Cort Thanks!!!!

[@twaan7440]

m.g. siegler ;) 500ish.com/the-whale-38c3cfa2cc3e 500ish.com/the-leviathan-cdcd0cfd7f59 500ish.com/the-squid-218be9939cdf there you go :)

[@LeonJCort]

Hugely appreciated

[@duuriib2464]

Again John is blowing my mind

[@sasko03]

Thank you!

[@Jonesrful]

Dig it. Applying it.

[@Andrea-ps8ov]

Amazing content

[@user-dt8nc9bt4s]

הי יש לי מלאנתלפים דברים להגיד לך :-) ראיתי בימים האחרונים המון סרטונים שלך. אני עושה שינוי קריירה מראיית חשבון לעיצוב פנים ויזמות והתכנים שלך ממש נותנים לי המון ערך: גם על חיי הפרילנס, גם תכנים על בניית לוגו ובניית זהות מותג, גם על שיווק ועל מציאת נישה ואפילו חווית משתמש. התובנה שלי להיות היא שאני רוצה לעצב חווית משתמש לחללים פיזיים כלומר, לעצב חללים מסחרים, אפילו משרדים ביתיים שבהם פוגשים לקוחות ומרכזי למידה אלטרנטיביים ולעצב ממש את חוויה של הלקוח דרך עיצוב החלל כך שזה מחבר מספר חוזקות שלי ואת האהבה שלי לבניית קונספטים. אני מרגישה שהתכנים שלך עזרו לי לדייק את הערך שלי מתוך הגם וגם וגם שמעניין אותי. אה ואני גם רוצה לפתוח ערוץ יו טיוב משלי כי אני גם לומדת המון דברים חדשים ורוצה לשתף בידע ומחשבות שלי. בקיצור, תרמת לי המון ואני אמשיך לצרוך את התוכן שלך, אז תודה רבה!

[@SketchbookStudioo]

This is awesome!!!

[@ILZorya]

Amazing.

[@kimmdesignstudio5933]

Wow, that was cool!

[@vaibhavmore8416]

Thanks man....

[@jimmykoli]

Any good books for learning Marketing for Designer.

[@alexhartan]

More John, Ron!

[@rongalay7812]

Where to find clients as product strategist?

[@OwnlyMirah]

💗💗💗💗💗

[@maxman177]

Jonathan is very funny

[@brian102024]

How a to product become strategist? LMAO.... Had to do it

[@conorsmyth12358]

Thumbnail: How A To Product Become Strategist.

[@ourguitar]

why creative people love creating fancy titles for themself?

[@davidgenger2378]

I just noticed your wires! please do me a favor and get yourself a pair of AirPods. I promise you wont regred it.

[@FluxAcademy]

I have them. But since MacBooks Bluetooth sucks it’s not reliable

[@davidgenger2378]

That is very interesting, its the first time I hear such a thing.