From the course: Becoming a Product Manager: A Complete Guide

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What is a product?

What is a product?

From the course: Becoming a Product Manager: A Complete Guide

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What is a product?

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- Hey, welcome back. So, what is a product? Bear with me here because I know this seems like a silly question, but it's actually a topic that you need to really pay attention to as a product manager. Obviously everyone knows what a product is. It could be anything. Could be a keyboard that I have here in front of me. It could be a laptop, or the device you're using right now. My shirt is a product. The web browser that you have on your computer is a product. All of these things are products by the classical definition. So we know from the title, product manager, that a product manager is someone that manages a given product. However, it's not always the case that a product manager is in charge of an entire device or piece of software. In many startups, and especially large companies, product managers are in charge of sections of what we normal consumers would typically think of as a product. I'll give you an…

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