Christian Idiodi
Partner @ Silicon Valley Product Group
Partner at SVPG, coaching product leaders worldwide. Hosts the Product Therapy podcast.
βThe essence of product management, covering team leadership, product strategy and execution, and product design.β
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) | Partner | ~2019-present |
| Merrill Corporation | Global Head of Product | ~2017-~2019 |
| Snagajob | VP of Enterprise Product | ~2014-~2017 |
| CareerBuilder | Founder & GM, CareerBuilder Institute | ~2010-~2014 |
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βI didn't. I consider him one of the most interesting people in the world too.β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
βNow, 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...β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
βYou 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...β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
βI 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...β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
β"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...β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
βJust 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 ...β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
βWe 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...β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
βThat'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.β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
βThat's right. They'll be learning a lot of that.β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
βI 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...β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
βOh boy. In this discipline, probably all of our books: Inspired, Empowered, and we are coming up with one in March, Transformed.β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
βI 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...β
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)