Ken Norton
Executive coach for product leaders; led product at Google for over 14 years.
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- Ken Norton is an executive coach in San Francisco who works with senior product and technology leaders.
- He spent more than 14 years at Google leading product work on Google Docs, Calendar and Mobile Maps, and coached startup founders at GV.
- Before Google he was VP of Product at JotSpot, led product teams at Yahoo and was one of the earliest employees of CNET.
- He started blogging about product management in 2005 on Bring the Donuts, where his essay How To Hire a Product Manager appears.
Key facts
- More than 14 years, leading product for Google Docs, Calendar and Mobile Maps; coached founders at GV (Google Ventures)1
- Before Google
- VP of Product at JotSpot (acquired by Google); product teams at Yahoo; one of the earliest employees of CNET and founding CTO of its spinoff Snap (later NBC Internet)1
- Coaching
- Executive coach for product leaders; Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation) and Certified Professional Co-Active Coach1
- Education
- BA, Boston University; MS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute1
- Patents
- Listed inventor of more than forty issued patents1
- Bring the Donuts
- Blogging about product management from 2005; includes How To Hire a Product Manager1
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