Product School

Product School is a for-profit tech business school founded by Carlos González de Villaumbrosia in 2014.[1] The organization provides certifications in Product Management at three different levels: PMC (Product Manager Certificate™), PLC (Product Leader Certificate™), and PEC (Product Executive Certificate™).

Product School
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School typePrivate
Established2014
FounderCarlos González de Villaumbrosia
Websitehttps://www.productschool.com

The organization maintained fifteen campuses, located across the United States, Canada and Europe, and also offered their courses online, until 2020 when all of its operations moved online.[2]

The company is well known for hosting weekly events and workshops with industry professionals at each campus, covering topics such as Product Management, Machine Learning, and how leading tech companies[3] manage their product teams. They are the publisher of The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager (2017)[4]

History

Product School began in early 2014 in San Francisco founded by Carlos González de Villaumbrosia. It opened its first campus in the Financial District and opened more campuses at the beginning of 2015, one in New York City and the other in Silicon Valley. In 2016, it expanded from three campuses to five, including Los Angeles and Santa Monica. It also added a new course that same year, Coding for Managers. In early 2017 the company opened an Orange County campus and in August of 2017, launched the Data Analytics for Managers course. More recently, the company opened further campuses in Austin, Bellevue, Boulder, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Seattle and outside of the United States, in London, UK and Toronto, Canada. In the summer of 2018, Product School launched its online campus and added two new courses, Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies and Digital Marketing for Managers.

The company's founder, Carlos González de Villaumbrosia has created three companies in the education space and has worked in building digital products in Europe, Latin America and the U.S. Prior to founding Product School, he worked as Lead Instructor at General Assembly, teaching product management in San Francisco. Before General Assembly, he was the Co-founder and CEO at Floqq, invested by 500Startups,[5] a marketplace for online courses in Latin America. Prior to founding Floqq, he worked as a Product Marketing Manager at Involver, acquired by Oracle.

In 2010, Villaumbrosia was awarded as one of the top 10 young entrepreneurs in Spain by Banco Santander with NetDay,[6] the world's first Open Innovation Platform in schools and universities, devoted to inspire and connect students with thought leaders.

The organization is 100% bootstrap-funded and has not received any private or public investments.

In 2017 it was featured on the Breaking into Startups podcast.[7]

Product School also hosts a conference for product professionals; #ProductCon. The first #ProductCon was held on March 20th 2018, at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District. Until 2020, when its operations moved online, the conference was held six times per year in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and London.[8]

In 2020, all of the cohorts were moved online, offering certifications to students across the globe. As of October 2020, all classes, events, and conferences are now hosted online.

Course Offerings

Product School teaches 8-week part-time courses in Product Management, following a track which mimics the development of a product professional’s career, designed to be taken consecutively.

PMC (Product Manager Certificate™) is a 40 hour live course, designed to get students their first product management job.

PLC (Product Leader Certificate™) is a 40 hour live course, designed to help established product managers move up the career ladder.

PEC (Product Executive Certificate™) is a 20 hour live course, designed to take product managers to C-suite.

Along with their B2C certifications, the company also offers B2B corporate training. .[9]

References
  1. "Product School". angel.co. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  2. "Home - Product School". www.productschool.com. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  3. "Product School". Eventbrite. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  4. González de Villaumbrosia, Carlos (2017). The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager. San Francisco: Product School. ISBN 9780998973807.
  5. "Floqq - 500 Startups". 500.co. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  6. "Carlos Villaumbrosia archivos - Blog Santander YUZZ - Jóvenes con ideas". Blog Santander YUZZ - Jóvenes con ideas (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  7. "#32: Carlos González de Villaumbrosia - Founder of Product School — Breaking Into Startups". Breaking Into Startups. 2017-03-13. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
  8. "Gary's Guide". www.garysguide.com. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  9. "Product Management Certification - Product School". www.productschool.com. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
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