Updated: December 30, 2024- 5 min read
As 2024 draws to a close and with our sights set on an even bigger 2025, we’re pausing to celebrate the milestones, wins, and moments that made this year extraordinary. From launching new certifications to expanding our global community, here’s what the last 365 days of defining the gold standard in Product Management looked like:
100,000+ Product Professionals Trained in 2024
The Product School community grew to over 2.3 million members worldwide, with most learners joining us from the US and Europe and the total number of countries represented surpassing 100.
300 Enterprise Trainings, Workshops, and Coaching Sessions
This year, we partnered with some amazing companies to upskill, train, and advise them on how to drive impactful business outcomes through product. We get a rush from innovating new approaches with some of the world’s top enterprises, including:
JP Morgan
British Telecom
Mayo Clinic
Stellantis
Johnson & Johnson
New York Life
By delivering tailored upskilling programs, we’ve helped their teams elevate their product practices and deliver measurable results.
10 Years of Product School
Product School celebrated a significant milestone this year—we turned 10! That’s 10 years of training, teaching, mentoring, and community growth.
Product has evolved so much over the past decade. We see it everywhere, from the spread of product-led growth to the rise of the CPO. We’re humbled to have played a part in this transformation and can’t wait to see where our 2.3 million-strong community takes product next.
2 New Certifications
Speaking of growing and evolving, this year, we introduced two new certifications, both of which have received high praise from students:
You spoke, and we listened! We created specializations based on the feedback of our Product community. The rise of artificial intelligence and the increasing focus on growth objectives created a need for cutting-edge curriculums developed by top Product leaders like Sam Stevens and Shahzad Shaikh, whose combined experience spans Meta, Google, American Express, and Asana.
We continued to offer all five of our certifications live and online. Our small cohorts maximize student contact with our instructors, all of whom are experienced product leaders from top Silicon Valley companies. Product School creates a space for these inspiring professionals to pass on the hard-won lessons they've learned from their years in Product.
4 ProductCons, 50k + Attendees, and World-Class Speakers
In 2024, we hosted four truly awesome ProductCon events in person in New York, San Francisco, and London, plus ProductCon AI, which was hosted online.
Together, our conferences brought in a record-breaking 53,000 attendees! What's more, the quality of the speakers and their insights have never been better. I was honored to share the stage with trailblazers like Sneha Rao, VP of Product at The New York Times, and Noam Lovinsky, Chief Product Officer at Grammarly.
250th Episode of The Product Podcast Published
2024 marked a special milestone: five years of The Product Podcast! With 600,000 episode downloads this year alone, we’ve seen incredible growth in 2024.
And the best is yet to come! 60% of new listeners discovered us for the first time this year, attracted no doubt by our impressive guests like Jay Lee, SVP and Head of Product Experience at the NBA, Jaime DeLanghe, VP of Product GM at Slack, Stephen Hsu, CPO at Calendly, and Jeetu Patel, EVP and CPO at Cisco.
In 2025, we aim to keep telling stories that inspire us to make great things happen.
7 Kinds of Free Resources
At Product School, we believe in keeping product education as accessible as possible. Every week, we publish several new free resources in the form of:
The Product Podcast
The Product Management blog
Daily live events
Micro-certifications
Templates
Guides & reports
Ebooks
Plus, our Resource Hub got a makeover this year! Check it out.
35 Lasting Partnerships and Growing!
We’re proud to work with the best tools for product teams, including trusted partners like:
Amplitude
Productboard
Pendo
Glassbox
Quantum Metric
These tools empower product teams to deliver impactful results, and we’re thrilled to have them as part of our extended Product School family.
80 Companies Honored as the Best in the Business
Speaking of phenomenal products, the Proddy Awards returned this year to celebrate the best tools and teams in Product. In 2024, 80 top companies took home awards in 13 different categories. We love celebrating the innovative platforms and tools that product teams rely on every day. When you see a Proddy's badge, you know you're looking at a best-in-class product.
100 Prodstars Working Behind the Scenes
I’m so proud of the hard work our fully remote team representing 22 nationalities has done this year. For every certification, corporate training session, or podcast episode, there are tons of talented people grinding and aligning in the background! Our team is over 60% women—one of the many ways we show our commitment to breaking down barriers in tech.
2025: The Best Year for Product Yet
2024 has been a year of remarkable growth, learning, and celebration for our community and for product more broadly. As intractable as some of the world’s problems may seem, we know that scalable, innovative technology is going to play an important role in addressing them. We’re honored to have the opportunity to spend another year educating the next generation of Product leaders.
Thank you for being part of the journey in 2024. It wouldn’t be possible without the trust and support of our students, instructors, speakers, and partnerships. Looking ahead to 2025, we’re more eager than ever to shape the future of Product with you.
Here’s to building even bigger and better in the year ahead!
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Updated: December 30, 2024
