So long, and thanks for all the fish.
They say that all good things must come to an end. Today we’re announcing that after six wonderful years, Jam is closing down.
To this day, we have thoroughly enjoyed everything we’ve done together. Our events were fun, different, and a pleasure to organise and run. You brought them to life and we couldn't be more grateful for all the great moments we enjoyed in your company.
In this announcement, we’d like to share the rationale behind this decision.
2020 has had a disastrous impact on society and the economy as a whole. From a business standpoint, companies operating in the events industry have been hit particularly hard.
Our revenues crashed, and we lost a considerable amount of money in deposits paid to venues – including Hawker House, who we were saddened to hear, are also in the process of closing down.
We successfully ran several online events throughout the year, but it quickly became clear to us that it was going to be impossible to recreate the experiences we'd created in the past, online.
But we didn't throw in the towel. At the end of the year, we attempted a pivot, and launched – Jam Club – an online community for our most committed members.
Our vision was to build a thriving space for growth-minded product leaders, offering intimate virtual workshops every month.
Pivoting from an in-person events company to an online community has proven significantly harder than we’d originally hoped, and the losses we accumulated in 2020 have proven too significant for us to overcome. And so now we’d rather stop here, celebrate the journey, and say a proper goodbye.
What now?
We’ll keep Jam Club open for the next six months. We won’t be moderating it or running any workshops, but you'll be able to access all workshop recordings, discussions, and member profiles. We hope you’ll be able to use it to reconnect with friends made at past events.
To claim your free invite just drop us a note at hello@makingjam.io.
You can also find all past talk videos on our YouTube channel.
Thank you
A huge thank you to our amazing team of staff and volunteers; Marta, Sunil, Jessie, Maria, Francesca, Stephen, Joan, Monica, Ecem, Steve, David, Michael, Mahtab, Eva, Gizem, Antoine, Jeff and all those that helped run our events every year. We’re deeply grateful for the friendship, shared memories, and support you’ve shown us over the years. We couldn’t have achieved everything we did without you.
Thank you to Doug and Chris at Intelligent People. You supported us from day one, and have always been a pleasure to work with.
Thank you to all our speakers and workshop instructors for all the brilliant content you’ve delivered over the years.
And thank you, for the good times we created together.
Seb & Mathilde
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Focus on impact: growing your product, business and teammates
How do you define what’s impactful for your product or business? How do you measure impact? How do the best products we all love and use daily - from Facebook to Airbnb, Google to Amazon - get built by separate teams, totaling thousands of people? And how do these organisations scale efficiently while moving fast, accelerating growth and increasing their impact?
Summary
How do you define what's impactful for your product or business? How do you measure impact? How do the best products we all love and use daily - from Facebook to Airbnb, Google to Amazon - get built by separate teams, totaling thousands of people? And how do these organisations scale efficiently while moving fast, accelerating growth and increasing their impact?
Learn the tactics of building outcome-oriented teams filled with independent product thinkers, including:
- What are the five ways to decompose your KPIs to find the best lever to move them?
- How to set goals on these KPIs?
- How to instill a focus on impact that moves team members from 'counting story points' to independently showing initiative and executing on the product's mission?
For startups big and small, Nimrod shares the best-in-class frameworks for data-driven product development with a mix of fun hands-on exercises and quick take talks.
Who it's for
Product managers in growing organizations, moving to managing other PMs or in orgs moving from finding product-market fit to scaling up efficiently. Also for PMs in dysfunctional orgs who want to understand what can they do to change the culture and code of the company to be more productive!
About the instructor
Nimrod Priell is advising the heads of product of $1B+-valued startups in fintech, cybersecurity and adtech, as well as investing in and advising seed-stage startups ranging across B2C, SaaS and marketplaces. He's been a product manager at Facebook after being acquired into the company.