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ABOUT GYLDS
What:
A different type of network
Gylds are small, local networks that admit the most promising early-career PMs to receive mentorship from respected product leaders.
Why:
To accelerate your path to leadership
At the most critical moment of your career
How:
Giving you three things you'll need as you rise
Knowledge beyond your job
You'll explore new problem spaces and PM practices, gaining the breadth you'll need as a leader
Insights about yourself
Your mentors will help you understand what makes you tick and chart your path ahead
A go-to PM network
For support, objective feedback, and friendship, like an MBA cohort
WHAT SETS GYLDS APART
1. Selective Admissions
Only practicing, early-career PMs eligible
Based on earned respect from colleagues
Capped at 35 new members each year
2. Distinguished mentors
Director-level product leaders peer-nominated for expertise in specific domains
3. Learning experiences that take you deeper
Monthly salons with product leaders: each covering a facet of PM expertise
Tough product problems: you solve them, your mentor listens and prompts you
Debate and feedback: the best way to build deeper mental models
Problem: Product Strategy
"We want to build an AI-powered Q&A tool that allows users to query their data in our app directly from Slack. What shape should the product take?"
Plus opportunities to make friends
Supper Clubs
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Admission Criteria
Practicing product manager
Less than 5 years of experience in product
Invite by a gyld member or nominated by a qualifed product leader
Interview or references
If you'd like to organize a new gyld, click here.
Our Story
Gyld came out of a research project on grad student debt. Many attend grad school, it turns out, to be part of a trusting network of peers on their same path. Gyld aims to create similarly trusting networks in a radically more affordable way.
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