Who is Ant Murphy? Background, Newsletter, Podcasts, and More

Ant Murphy is a globally recognized product expert, best known for founding Product Pathways, an online learning platform, and a podcast.

In this blog post, we’ll dive into his background and highlight some of the top resources he’s developed to help businesses drive product-led growth.

Who is Ant Murphy?

Ant Murphy is an entrepreneur, product coach, keynote speaker, and the founder of Product Pathways.

Ant Murphy also has a substantial following on LinkedIn, where he often engages with the product management community and contributes to discussions about best practices in the industry.

How did Ant Murphy get started in product management?

Ant Murphy started his career by getting a Bachelor of Information Technology degree from the University of Technology Sydney. After graduation, he worked as a software engineer for around 3 years at different companies such as IMC Pacific and Macquarie Group.

Following his brief career as a software engineer, he transitioned into a Business Analyst and worked in this role at the Reserve Bank of Australia, and then the Australian Securities Exchange.

He then went on to pursue his first product management role at the Australian Mutual Provident Society. He started off as a Scrum Master and then progressed to an Agile Coach, thanks to his impressive achievements in the role.

His journey then led him to ustwo, a global digital product studio, where he helped companies like the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Visa implement a product-led growth strategy.

Currently, Ant Murphy focuses on helping product managers and founders grow their craft and become more product-centric.

Top newsletters of Ant Murphy

Ant Murphy runs a newsletter where he regularly shares insights on product, business, and leadership with his nearly 25K followers.

Here are 3 newsletters we recommend you read:

• 25k Q&A: Advice on Strategy, Influence, and Prioritization: This issue discusses ways to implement product strategy in a sales-led company. It touches on topics like building alignment on product vision and balancing commercial, customer, and tech goals.
• 4 Common Product Discovery Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them): The newsletter offers actionable steps for product teams to prevent these issues and optimize their discovery phases.
• Building Effective Product Roadmaps: This newsletter focuses on clarifying the difference between product roadmaps and plans, stressing the strategic nature of roadmaps, versus the tactical, short-term focus of plans in product development.

Top blog posts of Ant Murphy

Ant Murphy also shares insights through his Medium profile and personal website.

If blogs are your preferred way of digesting information, here are our three recommended posts to read:

• Asking Better User Interview Questions: In this blog post, Ant Murphy dives into how to structure a user interview for maximum impact and design questions that elicit high-quality responses.
• How to Build a Stakeholder Engagement Strategy: Ant Murphy’s blog post outlines a strategic approach to stakeholder engagement by categorizing stakeholders into three groups( Core, Direct, and Indirect) and implementing tailored strategies.
• The Rise of Product-led Transformations: Ant critiques the widespread inefficiencies in traditional agile transformations and notes that PLG companies like Canva or Google favor approaches that focus on product outcomes over strict adherence to agile methodologies.

Top webinars of Ant Murphy

Alongside running his own series on YouTube, Ant has also appeared as a guest speaker on multiple webinars to share his knowledge with the world.

Check out some of his best talks below:

• 8 Different Ways to Organize Your Product Backlog: Ant walks listeners through Product Backlog Formats (e.g. User Story Mapping, Opportunity Backlog, Classes of Work, etc.) and several advanced backlog management techniques to help them drive better outcomes.

• You Don’t Have a Prioritization Problem, You Have a Strategy Problem: In this upcoming talk, Ant will challenge the notion that prioritization is difficult, and he’ll show you how a well-aligned product strategy can transform prioritization from a headache into a straightforward process.
• Strategy vs Roadmap: What’s the Difference? In this webinar, Ant further explains that the strategy is how you’re going to realize your vision; it’s the details and context that inform your roadmap, which is a visualization of that into an actionable sequence of events.
• Positioning vs Differentiation: How to find your ideal Product Positioning: This webinar focuses on how product positioning can be a winning strategy in a crowded market and how you can use tools like Perceptual Mapping to find your ideal product positioning.

Top courses developed by Ant Murphy

Ant Murphy has developed a series of impactful courses designed to equip product managers with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in their roles.

Ant’s courses provide practical, actionable insights that cater to both beginners and seasoned professionals.

Below are some of his top courses, each tailored to address specific challenges faced by product professionals.

• New Role: A Product Manager’s First 90 Days: This course guides new product managers through setting themselves up for long-term success in the First 90 Days by establishing strong relationships, setting clear goals, and identifying quick product wins. The course costs US$249.
• Product Strategy Demystified: This course walks participants through the step-by-step process of creating a product strategy. It’s packed with case studies, valuable templates, and guest sessions. The course costs US$249.
• Stakeholder Management Essentials: The course teaches how to effectively communicate with stakeholders, deal with challenges, and create alignment. It’s priced at US$199.

Conclusion

Ant Murphy has truly made his mark on product management. His blogs, courses, and webinars have become go-to resources, helping teams build effective strategies and drive success in the tech industry.

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