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Christian Idiodi

Partner @ Silicon Valley Product Group

Partner at SVPG, coaching product leaders worldwide. Hosts the Product Therapy podcast.

β€œThe essence of product management, covering team leadership, product strategy and execution, and product design.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG)Partner~2019-present
Merrill CorporationGlobal Head of Product~2017-~2019
SnagajobVP of Enterprise Product~2014-~2017
CareerBuilderFounder & GM, CareerBuilder Institute~2010-~2014

Episodes (1)

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β€œI didn't. I consider him one of the most interesting people in the world too.”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

4:18
β€œNow, what you're doing is you're extending that person's trust to yourself. You're also building a relationship with that person. But more importantly, you're learning what is driving that person's in...”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

9:35
β€œYou do things that don't scale and then you do things that do scale. And it's so powerful when you discover how to do things that don't scale, when you actually know. Because it's the power of technol...”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

46:18
β€œI do teach a lot of leaders how to coach. I do a lot of people work with leaders. There's not a singular product problem. People here me say, "All problems are people problems." There's not a singular...”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

1:12:48
β€œ"Oh, my environment was great. The culture was great." "Who taught you? Who coached you?" Do pick-up games with the people that they coached. They will tell you what patterns their coach told them. Ho...”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

1:14:19
β€œJust an amazing, tremendous amount of talent. It's a very young population. I talk to people all the time. I say, "Look." Someone told me, "Well, Africa, seven of the eight most underdeveloped places ...”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

1:17:26
β€œWe don't have a talent problem or a resource problem. The biggest opportunity I've found is to really empower a continent with enabling technology and the mindset and the skills to be able to leverage...”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

1:18:24
β€œThat'll be launching in January. I'll probably do an announcement about it. I'm excited about that work and to really try to promote more of product-centric thinking on the continent.”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

1:20:55
β€œThat's right. They'll be learning a lot of that.”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

1:21:12
β€œI always make that appeal to product people as like, "Yeah, all the frameworks, techniques, all the stuff, just think truly about what you're trying to do. You're trying to care enough about a problem...”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

1:22:21
β€œOh boy. In this discipline, probably all of our books: Inspired, Empowered, and we are coming up with one in March, Transformed.”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

1:22:59
β€œI jumped on the Succession bandwagon, and I enjoyed, and I used to love Billions too as well. I love good writing, really just intellectual media writing business. And so probably Succession and Billi...”
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Christian Idiodi

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

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