Product gym/Richard Chen scam

I went to an in-person networking event hosted by Richard Chen because he kept advertising it as a place to learn how to break into product management. He said there would be 8 speakers sharing how they got hired. Only 4 actually showed up.

And honestly the whole event felt like a giant sales pitch for his course. Every answer somehow turned into “this is why my program gets people hired.” No real insight, no actual breakdown of PM skills, nothing practical. Just one long upsell.

On top of that he kept making weird Asian jokes and none of them landed. The room was dead silent every time. It was uncomfortable and super unprofessional.

Stay away from this kind of scammer. The whole thing felt like a funnel to push his overpriced course