jefferyyy!! oh man didn't know about your youtube until now!! we need you to come to LA to hang out ~ but also i don't have enough dedicated time to sit and film so i gotta do it on the go 😩😩
I just stumbled upon your video and first of all, being a PM sounds like the most insane but rewarding job. ALSO the fact that you had 1.5 hours to wake up, get ready, AND FILM a notion sponsorship, and get to your event on time is mind blowing!! 🎉
GIRL I HAD SO LITTLE SLEEP THIS WEEKEND 😭😭 it was incredibly painful. i made all the wrong choices haha, but i've been catching up on my sleep debt ever since ~ i actually was late to call time for the event but thank goodness the coordinators managed everything themselves! thank god for competent people!!
She’s so amazing. In my 1+ years of challenging PMing, watching a video from Chloe, keeps me going. Will be such a pleasure to work with her and learn a whole lot.
Ngl, I kinda got a little emotional towards the end there. I started as a PM and realized it's been a mental test of strength. 😅 I am so inspired and encouraged by your PM videos and passion for it. Congratulations on the launch!🎉
Haha I def shed a tear when we launched. I’ve gone thru so much shit to get here, and the flashbacks just hit me all at once. Hope work is going well for you!! 🫶
As a PM I find your videos so relatable even though we're from different countries, i'm shocked by the similarities lol Also, sometimes we get lost at the day-to-day chaos and forget to cherish this little moments when we see our hard work pay off, so is nice to see you being so happy about this big launch. For me, being able to create a safe space with my team and finding ways to deal with difficult stakeholders are the most important (and difficult) parts of the job imo. Can you maybe share your experience with this topics in another vlog?
hi diana! wow - that's so fascinating! there's definitely way too much universal chaos in this role 😂😂 hm, so is your question more around how to protect your immediate team from stakeholders who may add pressure to your time or aren't cooperating well or are blocking your team?
This is amazing to see! I didn't think running events, being a public face for the product, and meeting with users would be part of the Product Manager role, but I have some experience with this as a conference director and I love it!
ah it's not normally part of the role actually. my product marketing manager left and we had a big re-org, so i had to step in for the role. meeting with users is definitely part of it. being a public face depends on the company - i think airbnb is shifting towards having their PMs be way more public facing whereas it doesn't quite matter that much in many other consumer tech products esp if you're not VP level
such a joyful vlog!!! as a new grad currently interviewing for APM roles, your content makes me so excited about what my future could be like :D congrats on the launch!
Please keep making more of these videos🥰 I'm an incoming full time Product Manager and it's refreshing to see someone who looks like me thriving in the industry
aww heck yeah i'm so glad to hear!! where are you working as a PM? and congrats on coming through!! :D :D it's a challenging career path, but also pretty cool!
aww thank you so much!! i'm really glad i paused to document the process. sometimes i really go through the waves of life and i never document it bc life is too crazy. but then it becomes a huge blur in my memory and i could never remember it properly x_x thanks for watching this video~~
@@tinalouisechenAbsolutely. If you don’t have a good team, no private company is good to work for. A government job is 1000 times superior to a private sector job in the absence of a good team. Moreover, the Manager has to be a people person otherwise the criticism about government job of excess concentration of power in one person will be applicable in private companies also. Team matters a lot.
Incredible work Chloe!!! It’s so cool to see your communities come together and also your team sounds amazing to work with 🎉 How do you keep motivated after a big (and tiring and long) launch like this?
Congrats on the launch of your product and for vlogging. Such an inspiration to watch, learn, and experience the joy it creates not only for you, but for the end users. Kudos!
aw thank you! i'm really glad to hear that you like the vlogs~ i tend to forget some big moments in my life when things get too busy, so the vlogs help me remember these highlights in life!!
So cool to see this! I know making the time to vlog when your schedule is already so insane is incredibly difficult so thank you for taking us with you on your journey! Congrats on your product launch and for buying a house right before your 30th birthday!!
aww thank you!! yeah it was crazy to juggle and i've definitely been sleeping as much as i can every day now x_x and yess thank you so much! 30 is happening so soon!!
oh boy im so sorry! honestly this has been one of the most stressful times in my career i've had in a while! i'm def tryna chill out for the rest of the year. i'm done, dude!! gonna potato and just watch anime until 2024 lmao
You have been such an inspiration for a PM just starting out in this industry and an aspiring content creator! Thank you for doing what you do 🥹🫶🏻 I hope to be brave enough to be a content creator too one day! Such a daunting thought 😅
thanks for sharing all that Chloe really embarking - i've been working other the last 2 years to make that move from my presales eng role to PM role, not that easy in a b2b tech company especially in global company where most of the product team are in the us and that you are located in EU for example, there is extract work to get noticed and demonstrate that you can be a real asset. but i'm learning a lot from you post - keep doing that
Hey Chloe, recent sub here! Thanks for all the insights surrounding the PM role. I’ve recently accepted a position to a DPM role from Engineering. Would really like to hear your thoughts (perhaps a topic for an episode) about Ai and how it will affect Product Management. There’s been a lot of swirling on this topic in my org especially around Engineering. Congrats on the crib and product launch! Cheers from an LA native and former YT creator✌️
Congratulations 🎈 I just found you today! I’m glad, I did! You have so much energy and are so sweet! I’d love to see your home decor when it’s all all done! ❤
your videos give me so much life! came across your channel a few months ago as a lost fresh grad, but you've always amazed me with your work ethic and passion for what you do 🥹 congrats on the launch Chlo - hope you get some well deserved rest!
aww thank you!! i'm so glad to hear🥹🥹 makes me so happy! lmk if there are other topics you're interested in hearing! i remember being a fresh grad - everything was so overwhelming and i wish i had more direction at that time. i'm definitely sleeping a TON this weekend haha
omg taiwan!! ❤❤ btw i'm thinking of doing a cafe meetup in taiwan later this year when i go. are you based there? :o the last time i was in taiwan, i got a lot of DMs asking me to do a meetup, but i didn't think i had viewers there. trying to see if i should plan something!
Yesss! I’m based in Taipei! Would love to have you here to have a meetup! 🫶 I’m sure there’ll be a huge fan base 🤩 (I am also working in product/project management in tech ❤)
Congrats on the product launch and the new house! I was wondering if you think a project manager can transition over to being a product manager? I've been interested in changing PM roles from being a project manager to a product manager!
yes i do! but also project mgmt is v different from product mgmt. product mgmt is very specific to product development. there are definitely transferrable skills, but it's always actually best to work on shipping a product with an eng team first. is there any internal opportunity at your current company to do so?
Feel this super hard. At a previous PM role, I ended up having to take on program managing our component migration work for the entire engineering org. Suffice to say, it was ruffsauce
PM from Israel here - just watched this from the shelter 😔 but it definitely made my day better! Been loving binging ur content. Great multi-tasking Chloe 👌
Oh my god i love you Chloe! I love product management like the way you gather pple for the lauch anyway i sucked as oftware eengineering anyways .much love from Rwanda
Congratulations on the launch, Chloe! I imagine that making slide decks like the one in 5:02 is second nature, now, so do you have a go-to app/service for making them?
i mostly just do google slides and i find a template that the company already has or a template on canva or adobe express or slidesgo. i'm actually trying to be way more design-oriented. like it's not just a basic template but it looks like it's very much designed by a true designer. i'm currently curating all my design resources, but it's slow since i'm not a designer haha. hope i can build my design skills throughout this next year! it's one of my new goals!
oof honestly this is just a habit i've had since taking notes in college. i'm an insane note-taker and i cannot remember anything aftwards. i always have to reference my notes. that made me learn to type really fast!
I always find these videos interesting. I'm loving my first year in data science, but I still feel like I don't know what the product managers are doing.
Hm it might be good for you to start using a bunch of AI products and see which area you’re most interested in! Like is it chat based? Video? Images? Audio?
Chlo, I discovered ur channel while learning about the PM world over the summer and I feel so lucky to share that I landed a PM internship in tech! I go to a no name college and have parents that work low income factory jobs. I’m so thankful for your channel for keeping me motivated in pursuing this career path🥹 Thanks for being yourself and all the advice you’ve provided us with on this channel. I’ve referred to all your videos from day in the life to interview advice to negotiating! Thank you for being a mentor to so many students like me 😭🫶
Omg how clearly i see it now...30 years back all techies themselves invented blockbuster products like google search fb etc. Imagine they giving up control to hired mba to drive product direction. As a young product manager i never understood this major contentitious issue back then. Now its clear as day light and so many fights could have avoided if i treated the geeks with more respect. I also wish the geeks could listen better to the pm. How they fail to get the big picture is stunning to my comprhension beyond words.
oh man so i take my rest days for sure. i'm a big sleeper. i think it'll take me 3 weeks of constant sleep for me to recover fully from this haha. it was a one-off thing. i think im done with big work things for the year!
Haha I explained it and then decided to delete it! Basically I had friends and family staying over and they took my original beds from the previous apartment. Gonna remove the bed in my office soon!
