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Join us live every Wednesday as School16 founders Vadim and Sergei Revzin interview Operations, Project Management, Sales, and Product Marketing experts as they share their experiences and advice for navigating a career in tech.

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Past Class Recordings

Get access to recordings of past seminars with experts from industry professionals in Operations, Project Management, Sales, and Product Marketing roles at major tech companies.

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How to Learn Sales Even if You Have No Experience
Michael Furgason
Sales Readiness Leader at LinkedIn
In this seminar, Michael discusses how to rapidly acquire skills that drive revenue for technology organizations, and what it takes to grow into a leadership role in sales.
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From Product Focused Entrepreneur to Director of Product at Audible
Sean Jackson
Director of Product at Audible
In this seminar, Sean discuses his approach to launching new products in big tech, and how he used his entrepreneurial experiences to become a product management leader.
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How to Prepare for Interviews at Companies Like Facebook
Macleen Pereira
Project Manager at Facebook
In this seminar, Macleen discusses the networking techniques she learned to be able to generate several interviews at big tech companies including Facebook
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How to Grow Your Career At a Global Tech Giant Like Uber
Chip Koziara
Global Program Lead at Uber Eats
In this seminar, Chip discusses how he grew his career in Ops by leveraging his experience as a sales and product specialist for early stage startups and his own entrepreneurial projects.
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How a Director of Product at Paypal Navigated Her Career
Sheila Guastamachio
Director of Product at PayPal
In this seminar, Sheila will walked us through how she developed her career in product management across a variety of industries, and what it takes to succeed in this role.
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Getting into Brand Partnerships in Big Tech
Carlotta Zorzi
Brand Partnerships at Oracle
In this seminar, Carlotta will walk us through how she got her start in marketing for Silicon Valley startups, eventually working for global media agencies before moving on to ad tech.
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How to Stand Out to Tech Employers to Land Interviews
Sergei and Vadim
How to Stand out to Tech Employers to Land Interviews
Founding Directors at School16
In this class the lead instructors of School16 will be sharing lessons on what startups and established tech employers look for when reviewing candidates for non-technical roles.
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Breaking Into Content Marketing
Rishi Mathur
Global Program Manager
In this seminar Rishi will discuss how he's been able to combine both of his passions - comedy and content - to quickly establish himself as an effective content strategist across several tech brands.
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What Every Startup Founder Needs to Learn Before They Launch
Vadim and Sergei
What Every Startup Founder Needs to Learn Before They Launch
Founding Directors at School16
This event is for anyone who wants to learn about what it takes to be a successful founder, and what skills are most critical for any first time entrepreneur to acquire before they get started.
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Navigating Your Career to Become a Global Product Leader
Gaurav Khillan
Navigating Your Career to Become a Global Product Leader
Vice President & Head, Global Product Development & Innovation
In this seminar Gaurav discusses how product innovation works within a multi-national financial services brand and the various career paths that can help you become a global product leader.
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Building Products That Serve Millions of Businesses
Jackie Do
Staff Product Manager at Etsy
Jackie will discuss why Ops and Customer Service experience is required for PMs, and how to leverage your domain expertise to become a PM when coming from a different discipline
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Becoming a Product Leader in Tech
Maggie Crowley
Director of Product at Drift
Maggie will walk us through her transition into Product Management, what she looks for when recruiting for PMs on her team, and what it takes to succeed in this competitive role.
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Insights From a B2B Customer Success Expert at Salesforce, Google, and Slack
Misha Margitich
Customer Success at Slack
Misha will discuss how the Customer Success function has evolved at some of the fastest growing B2B organizations in tech and the skills employers look for today when recruiting new talent
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From Software Development at Intuit to Building a Multi-Million Dollar Ad Agency
Kevin Urrutia
Founder at Voy Media, Previously Intuit
In our conversation Kevin will discuss how he transitioned from engineering to marketing and the skills that have contributed to his ability to create several multi-million dollar businesses.
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From Non-Profit to Customer Success At a Public Tech Company
Jeff Love
Customer Success Manager at HubSpot
In this seminar Jeff will discuss how he went from Non-Profits to establishing himself as a client services expert through his roles in Account Management in Client Success.
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How a Sales Training Leader Develops Talent at Companies Like Amazon
Blaire Hervey
Sales Enablement Leader at Amazon
Blaire Hervey will discuss how she develops talent with a focus on inclusivity as a sales training leader. She will also talk about what it takes to be successful in revenue roles at companies like AWS.
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How a SpaceX Engineer Launched a Rapidly Growing Consumer Health Startup
Josh Clemente
Founder at Levels, Previously SpaceX
In this live podcast recording of The Mentors Podcast Josh will talk about how he went from being a hardware engineer at SpaceX to launching a quickly growing consumer health brand.
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How to Make Product Decisions that Impact Millions
Juan Figuera
Sr. Product Manager at Amex Digital Labs
Juan will talk through how his entrepreneurial background prepared him for the product innovation role at Amex and how the 170 year old company makes key product decisions
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How Operations Teams Function in a Fast Growth Environment
Nicole Delany
Market Operations Manager at Lyft
Nicole's session will cover how her experience in strategy and project management led to a role in operations at Lyft, and how Ops teams at Lyft are optimized for growth
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How to Launch a Career in Customer Success Before Graduating
Megan Taylor
Customer Success Manager at Uber
Megan will talk about how she got involved with Uber Eats on the partnership side while still in college, and how her career in Customer Success has evolved over the last four years
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How to Pivot Your Career to Tech Sales
Brett Michaels
Head of Sales at Google Cloud
Brett will be leading a conversation about his trajectory from engineering to tech sales, starting with his background in working with the federal government before moving to commercial
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Becoming a Data-Driven Product Manager in Tech
Keisha Johnson
Product Operations Manager at Pluralsight
Keisha will discuss how her role utilizes both technical and non-technical skillsets to make informed product decisions and how she transitioned into Product from a Business Analyst role.
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How Complex Marketing Initiatives Are Executed at a Global Tech Firm
Rose Spicer
Global Sr. Dir. Oracle Retail Marketing
Rose will be leading a discussion on how she develops and implements strategic marketing plans involving advertising, demand generation, events, content marketing, etc.
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How This Tech Entrepreneur Hired Her First 100 Employees
Mona Bijoor
Investor and Founding CEO of JOOR
Mona will be leading a discussion on building a fashion brand to process over $7 billion in transactions and growing a team from 0 to 100 employees with her first technology business.

Featured Articles

School16 founders Vadim and Sergei Revzin regularly contribute to publications like Forbes—read their recent takes on trends in tech and entrepreneurship.

The Mentors Podcast

Join School16 founders Vadim and Sergei Revzin on the Mentors Podcast as they uncover the truth behind how people build things. Listen to recorded episodes below and tune in every Monday and Wednesday for new episodes.

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Can Entrepreneurship Be Learned?
Vadim & Sergei
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Can Empathy Be Learned?
Vadim & Sergei
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Building A Successful Travel App In A Competitive Market With Gillian Morris Of Hitlist – Part II
Vadim & Sergei
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Building A Successful Travel App In A Competitive Market With Gillian Morris Of Hitlist - Part I
Vadim & Sergei
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Building a National Food Brand With No Investors, with Michael Levine
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Better Late Than Never
Vadim & Sergei
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Behind The Scenes Of The Mentors - Getting Great Guests
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Becoming Unstuck - How To Finally Get Started
Vadim & Sergei
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Becoming A Venture Capitalist with Diego Berrio
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Becoming A Top 100 Comedy Podcaster With Jared Freid
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5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Uber Driver Entrepreneur With A Fleet Of 12 Cars
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - Update to Testing A New Idea Episode
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - The Shark Tank Episode That Almost Never Aired
Vadim & Sergei
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - The Making of Jackie Chan
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - The Email That Got Us The Meeting
Vadim & Sergei
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - The Case For Doing Door To Door Sales
Vadim & Sergei
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - The $30,000 Side Hustle
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - Testing A New Idea Part 1
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - Superior Auto Steam (Mack)
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - Starting a Revenue Generating Training Business in 3 Weeks
Vadim & Sergei
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - Sell Before You Build
Vadim & Sergei
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - How You Can Build Entrepreneurial Skills Through Community Work
Vadim & Sergei
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - How To Make Decisions Like A Fortune 500 CEO
Vadim & Sergei
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5 Minute Pick Me Up - How I Met Daymond John
Vadim & Sergei

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