Become an AI Leader in 2025: My Holiday Gift for You

AI is shaping both today and the future. It will be incorporated into all products and businesses. That’s why I believe everyone in any role, particularly founders and product leaders, needs to understand AI, use AI tools, and be able to build basic AI applications.

For this reason, I decided to make my holiday gift to all of you a short list of AI-related resources that will enable you to bring AI to your work and organization and empower you to be most effective in your role in 2025 and beyond.

Having a growth mindset, embracing upskilling, and learning new skills is the only way forward in our fast-evolving world.

I hope you decide to take advantage of one or more of the offerings below that I’ve hand-picked for you:

1) Join These 45-minute Fireside Chats with World-Class AI Experts:

Learn about AI from the best AI experts and world-class operators by joining these high-power, high-impact events offered virtually and at no cost:

• How to Become an AI PM in 2025 LinkedIn Live (Wednesday, 12/17 at 9AM PST): Join a fireside chat I will host with the one and only, Marily Nika, Ph.D , Gen AI Product Lead at Google (previously AI Product Lead at Meta) and an award-winning AI product leader, to talk about how to plan your career and set goals to become an AI PM in 2025. Sign up here.
• 5 AI Concepts Every PM Should Know LinkedIn Live (Monday, 12/9 at 9AM PST): Join the panel of AI experts I will host to discuss five AI concepts every PM and leader should know. The topics we will cover include how to build your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with AI with no coding, how to evaluate the quality of your product outputs using human-in-the-loop (HITL) and/or auto-eval systems, and how to measure the success of your Gen AI products. My guests will include MAHESH YADAV (Google), Max H. & Harold D. (100Schools), and Sara Davison & Tyler Fisk . Sign up here.

2) Get a Deeper View into AI by Joining Top Industry Operators in Small Group Settings:

Take an AI course with experts to go a level deeper into AI and start building AI products and applications. All the Maven courses I’ve selected, taught by world-class operators, provide tactical and practical learnings that will empower you to be more effective at your job almost immediately and bring more AI thinking and applications to your work.

**Note: You can use code YASI to get $100 off these selected AI courses on Maven (now until December 13th):

? Marily Nika, Ph.D. (Google): AI Product Management Bootcamp https://bit.ly/4fbIJyo

? Mahesh Yadav (Google): MAANG Level GenAI Product Management https://bit.ly/3YTKri0

? Max Haining & Harold Dijkstra (100Schools): No-Code x AI Bootcamp https://bit.ly/3YRjbR7

? Sara Davison & Tyler Fisk: Scale a Business with AI & Agentic Workflows https://bit.ly/3YPRyIm

? Miqdad Jaffer (OpenAI): How to Build AI Products https://bit.ly/4fcmg3X

? Nate Jones (Amazon): AI Career Accelerator https://bit.ly/3YRHzlN

3) Read These Books in Your Leisure Time:

The holidays are arriving, and it’s the perfect time to pick up a new book. Why not one about AI? Here are some of my favorite AI books to read during the holidays:

• The Experimentation Machine: Finding Product-Market Fit in the Age of AI: This is a must-read for any founder, builder, or product person. In this book, Jeffrey J. Bussgang (Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer and Co-Founder & General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage VC firm with $1+ billion under management) shares invaluable insights about leveraging the Experimentation Machine Operating Model to land product-market fit and how to take the concept of 10x Founders to the next level using AI. You can pre-order the book here; use the FamilyAndFriend code for a 20% discount (you’ll also get immediate access to the PDF version upon the purchase of the book).
• Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI: Written by brilliant operators in top companies, Shyvee Shi (Microsoft & LinkedIn), Caitlin Cai (AI Fund), and Dr. Yiwen Rong (Google & Amazon), this book features over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks. Reimagined covers a depth and breadth of AI applications with numerous practical examples and frameworks anyone can use to lead a better AI strategy in their organization.

Let me know your thoughts about these resources.

If you have taken the courses I've recommended or read the books I suggested, share your thoughts and learnings.

If you have other AI tools and resources, please share in the comment to help others have a broader set of resources.

Happy Holidays!

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