#16: Coaching early product hires and founders with Josh Herzig-Marx

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, we’re excited to bring you our conversation with Josh Herzig-Marx.

Josh was one of the early facilitators in Supra, has been a successful founder who sold his company to Google, held multiple early stage product leadership roles, and in recent years has found meaning in his role as an early stage product coach.

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In our conversation, we talked about

* Josh’s decision two years ago to take a break from full-time salaried work to become the primary parent for his two daughters, supporting his wife Carla’s booming career as a bestselling author and clinician

* The founding PM + founder relationship and why it’s critical for founders to own the product vision and strategy for longer than comfortable

* The role of product coaches in early stage startups and Josh’s journey into the coaching world

* And more!

This conversation will be particularly useful for founders, early stage heads of product, and founding PMs. Hope you enjoy listening!

If you’d like to watch the video of our interview, you can catch that on YouTube:

Links:

* Josh’s LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaherzigmarx/

* Josh’s website: https://joshua.herzig-marx.com

* Josh’s wife Carla Naumburg’s newly released book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Freaking-Out-Ultimate/dp/1523518243

* All of Carla’s books: https://www.carlanaumburg.com/books/

* Article: Why You Want to be the *Second* 1st PM by Jason Evanish

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