Rocky - ProductLedCEO

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<ol><li>What: 'Real life application' of AI product management &amp; judgement </li><li>How: 60 second video published every weekday using current news</li><li>Why: This helps in building Product judgement on which AI Products to build and why.</li></ol>

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Learn how to become an entrepreneur by acquiring a small business & achieve financial independence.

PM → CEO. Bought a 45-year-old business.

The Home Depot

U.S. Army

Cadence

Unilever

Stanford University

Rocky Sharma

Bought a 45-year-old business. Ran $1.3Bn P&L at Home Depot. CEO at 3 companies.

Most PMs are taught one job: ship what the customer asked for. Owning a business asks for three.Deal fit — the business has real customers, real margins, and a seller ready to walk. Capital fit — the structure works for your savings, your risk tolerance, your timeline. Operator fit — you can run it after close without burning out.Most searchers solve one fit and discover the other two on the hard side of close.Rocky bought a 45-year-old business with no personal savings, ran a $1.3B Product P&amp;L at Home Depot, and has been CEO at three companies. He teaches all three fits because he's lived all three. The capstone is a bankable deal memo on a real business — yours, not a case study — ready to take to a banker the week the cohort ends.You've already done the cheap homework — the books, the podcasts, the Reddit threads. The gap isn't more theory. It's a 4-week structured sprint with someone who has actually closed a deal walking you from sourcing to signed LOI.$2,500 buys access to the playbook and to Rocky during the cohort. For context: that's roughly 1% of the smallest deal you'll close, and less than the legal fees on the LOI you walk away from.

The 15-hour playbook for PMs who want a cash-flowing business — not another job

Find and close a real deal in 8 weeks — without quitting your day job (ACQUIRE)

Run the business leaner than the previous owner ever did (OPTIMIZE)

Open the growth levers the previous owner ignored (GROW)

Build the moat using the product judgment you already have (INNOVATE)

Walk out with a bankable deal memo on a business you actually want (CAPSTONE)

This course moves fast. A business background means you'll apply frameworks immediately instead of learning basic concepts from scratch.

You can read a P&L well enough to spot a margin trend.

Small business ownership requires influence and accountability. If you've done this at work, you're already ahead of most first-time buyers.

You have 6+ months of runway to spend on sourcing without panicking.

This course is built for the AI era. Owners who adapt fast win. A low ego and curiosity for new technology will determine your success.

You're willing to sit across from a 60-year-old seller and listen for 90 minutes

Sunday night. Tuesday's reorg is the third in eight months. Your spouse asks when you stop being one email from a job search.

Two ex-colleagues just closed SBA deals. You waited for the right startup idea. The waiting cost you three years of equity.

For US/Canada PMs with $50K–$250K saved and a 6–18 month searching window. Built for buyers who intend to BE the operator.

Built on a $1.3B P&L and a U.S. Army mission. For PMs whose CEO measures them on the metric.

$1.3B P&L@Home Depot · CEO · U.S. Army

$1.3 Bn P&L at Home Depot. Iron Man's helmet for U.S. Army. CEO at 3 companies


Three quarters in, the VP stops asking what shipped and starts asking which decisions moved the metric. At the senior altitude, what survives is the work tied to the outcome the executive owns. Different bar. Same PM.Most PMs are taught one fit: does the product solve the customer's problem. That's the floor. The PM your C-suite fights to keep solves three: product fit, executive fit, mission fit. They think like an owner because someone trusted them to act like one.This course teaches the operating standard from a place most PMs have never worked. A $1.3 billion P&amp;L at Home Depot. The U.S. Army bomb-disposal suit. Technology that defused IEDs. The technician inside was the alternative. Single-threaded leader for the founders of Amazon Business. CEO and CPO at three companies today.That standard is the Product Explorer™ Methodology. Test before you invest. Executive judgment. Inventor craft. Operator language. Then the Mission Steward, the PM your CEO refuses to cut. Four Fridays. 15 live hours. You walk out with a vetted AI business case Rocky reviews live, plus a three-hour Silicon-Valley session with a Fortune 10 AI leader. Ready for your CEO's calendar on Monday.

Operate at executive and mission altitude. The outcome the CEO funds.

Move from feature-factory PM to the outcome-driven PM your VP funds.

Pitch an AI investment your CEO approves on the spot.

Set AI strategy tied to the metric your executive is on the hook for.

Build the judgement that makes every product decision a strategic call.

Run discovery that proves the solution — before any code ships.

Frame ROI and risk in the language a CFO will actually fund.

You've shipped at least one product or feature — this course builds on that foundation, not from scratch.

3–7+ years of Product Management experience

You've used ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini at work or personally — so we can skip the basics and go deeper.

Familiarity with at least one AI tool

Week 2 discovery prototyping sessions run on Claude (claude.ai — Pro plan, USD 20/month). You will need the paid plan to build and test it

Access to Claude's paid plan (USD 20/month)

Senior PM at altitude. The VP funds the decision that moved the metric. Different bar at the next rung.

Invisible Operator. Eng trusts you. Design likes you. At the next altitude, the CEO funds the outcome the PM owned.

High-Stakes PM. Public-company or regulated products. A wrong call costs millions or a quarter. The CEO answers every 90 days.

Rocky

Alternate career paths for Product Managers in AI era

Two PMs. One Got Laid Off. One Owned a Laundromat.

Two AI Product Managers Hired. One Promoted. One Fired.

Live interview with AI-Native Product Lead at Walmart

Discover how Product Managers build AI Products at Quora

Discover A.I Product methodology practiced in Silicon Valley

'Real world application' of AI Product judgement

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Courses

Own a Cash-Flowing Business: The PM's Path Beyond the Reorg

Become the PM Execs Fight to Keep: Solve Problems that Matter

Lightning Lessons

Alternate career paths for Product Managers in AI era

Two PMs. One Got Laid Off. One Owned a Laundromat.

Two AI Product Managers Hired. One Promoted. One Fired.

Live interview with AI-Native Product Lead at Walmart

Discover how Product Managers build AI Products at Quora

Discover A.I Product methodology practiced in Silicon Valley

Resources

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