40 million students in eight months - product lessons from teaching the world t...
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Led a full curriculum overhaul on typing.com mapped to US grade standards, built thousands of lesson lines, multimedia and teacher/admin UX, and launched before the school year so districts could adopt it. Recruitment uses calls to action popups and Calendly, interviews via Google Meet and automated transcription, analytics via quar room. Team works in Basecamp with Basecamp and Shapeup discipline, set fixed appetite-driven dates, kept scope by slicing work, and reaches 40 million students in under eight months.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Product management today
- 7:30Joining Typing.com
- 14:31Institutional knowledge
- 16:57User research
- 20:26Curriculum overhaul
- 22:34Product development fixes
- 26:24Roadmap deadlines
- 28:52Team well-being
- 34:09Results and lessons
- 36:36Three key lessons
- 39:04Closing and Q&A
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