1. Why Harry Stayed (Long After He Should Have Left)

By any conventional measure, Harry had already done his part. He co-founded the club, served as its first president, and graduated. But here he is, three years in, still showing up.

His reasons for staying aren't strategic — they're personal. Photography was something he'd always wanted to explore, and the podcast gave him a reason to finally pick up a camera. Workshops let him try conducting technical sessions as a self-described introvert who doesn't naturally like "yapping non-stop." And watching a new generation of members — particularly Jack, the current president — convinced him the club was in hands worth supporting.

2. How the Club Is Actually Structured

For anyone who has ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes, Harry breaks it down clearly. NUS Product Club runs on four main teams, which he splits into two wings.

The administrative wing — publicity and operations — is the back end. Operations handles venue bookings, registration links, and liaising with NUS Student Union for credits. 

Publicity creates everything the audience sees: social media content, blog articles, and the podcast itself, which Harry calls operationally the most demanding sub-team due to the time and money involved.

The outreach wing — curriculum and partnerships — is the front end. Curriculum runs workshops (analytics, UI/UX, Figma, system design, resume-building) and the flagship six-week Product Launchpad (PLP) programme. 

Partnerships handles fireside chats, networking sessions, panel discussions, and securing speakers — and was also responsible for the club's Industrial Attachments (IA) programme, which this cycle connected students with nine companies.

One number that surprised even Harry: publicity alone accounts for over 20 members — roughly 40% of a 50-plus person exco.

"I don't think I've seen a student club with so many people doing publicity or marketing outside maybe like photography society — because at the end of the day, they all take photos."

A newer addition is the senior advisor team, quietly launched this academic year on the initiative of Henry, one of the club's longest-serving members. Five alumni — each covering one team — offered mentorship to current exco members. Nearly 20 people signed up, which genuinely caught everyone off guard.

3. What It Took to Build Across Three Universities

The club's relationship with SMU Product Club goes back to the very beginning — SMU was a direct inspiration for how NUS Product Club was structured. Over time, that admiration turned into collaboration: joint PM Career Series, combined Product Management Experience sessions, and eventually the Product Networking Night, now in its second iteration.

NTU Product Club, founded by Tasha and Jocelyn, came into the picture more recently. Harry admits he was the one who pushed to include NTU in what was originally a two-university collaboration for the first Product Networking Night — partly to help a newer club build its foundation.

"I was the one who drove the decision to invite NTU also, because we wanted to be more inclusive and maybe help NTU lay their foundation somewhat."

Marcus picked up the thread this year, noting that the Microsoft collaboration currently in the works actually originated with NTU, who then referred it to both SMU and NUS. Cross-university reciprocity in practice.

4. Rethinking Product Launchpad (PLP)

The most recent iteration of Product Launchpad — the club's flagship six-week programme — was held at PayPal's office, where Harry works. He admits, somewhat sheepishly, that he was initially against it.

"I didn't know how troublesome it was to really liaise with the people and align myself. So I was a relatively new employee at PayPal."

But the result was worth it. Working with Sukrit, PayPal's lead PM instructor, Harry, Kai Rong and Yi Ting (Co-Heads of Curriculum) drafted the case study that students tackled over six weeks. What Harry appreciated most about Sukrit's approach was the creative freedom he extended to the curriculum team: he provided the case study and the guidelines, but left the actual teaching content entirely up to the students.

Two things stood out as genuinely new this cycle. Kai Rong and Yi Ting made a concerted push to involve industry professionals in every workshop — not just as guest speakers, but as co-facilitators — which measurably improved sign-up numbers. And for the first time, a faculty professor was brought in to teach within PLP, which Harry sees as a model worth continuing.

6. The Guests Who Stuck

Asked to name the guests who left the deepest impression, both Harry and Marcus go straight to specifics — no hedging.

Harry's pick is Charles from Season 2, a former YouTrip PM who Harry first connected with through a student tech community. What stuck wasn't the credentials but a single piece of advice about understanding your key stakeholders when you first join an organisation — something Harry didn't fully appreciate until he was working full-time himself.

"I never thought how much it really resonated with me until I started working."

Marcus points to a roundtable event rather than a podcast episode: a senior PM from Open Government Products named Jan, who talked about how his work directly improved the services the Singapore government delivers to the public.

"He was able to provide an impact because through his initiative, through the projects he did, he really was able to help people improve the workflow and processes and the services that the government provides."

Other shoutouts include Andrea from Heineken — featuring our only podcast episode ever filmed outside NUS by far — and a startup founder named Jialu from Heymax, who spoke at the recent Product Perspectives event and was notably generous sharing internal processes even with competitors in the room.

7. What's In The Kit

The episode includes a walk through the physical artefacts of three years of club-building — certificates, coasters, banners, merch, and cameras that have quietly been present throughout every season of the podcast.

Highlights include: a mock "certificate of attendance" Harry created as a meme to hand out at PLP icebreaker sessions; custom coasters given to PLP participants and Product Perspectives guests; four different banner designs from an internal design competition, only one of which most people have seen; and the club mascot t-shirt — four characters representing each team — whose designer is Jing Xuan and whose names remain officially undecided.

Watch the Full Episode

Click below to watch the Season 5 finale of "Lorong Product".