Have been hearing from many Product aspirants that certain famous Product Influencers have scammed them with promising referrals, jobs and mentorship via their Topmate links or courses. This appears to be true across the board including Product communities that prey on these people.
What is even happening?
Controversial opinion: No quality respectable PM is going to be on TopMate. I recently saw an ex PM colleague, who was really bad at his job and had a really tough time doing basic things- call himself a product leader and post on LinkedIn about his topmate sessions. My eyes were burning.
This is happening because people are just too enthralled to get into PM because they think it is a high paying job with low effort.
Most won’t get in. And that’s how the business is set up.
TopMate is trying to be Intro like Sony Liv trying to be Netflix
I did not know about this at all.
I see so many LinkedIn Tech influencers selling mentorships on topmate. While this is certainly not wrong. But some are charging 6k for 30 min or so, which is insane. Usually people under 2 years of exp are falling for this. Funny thing ...
Few weeks watched a reel from a famous influencer about this app where he shared the benefits one can gain from it and i did download the app and tried to open it and yet the app didn’t open even after my multiple tries so I uninstalled ...
I've seen that most folks promoting Upraised have a very clever & subtle way of doing it instead of going bold like a lot of CS/DS didi, bhaiyyas promoting websites/courses out there.
