Discover new books on Goodreads

See if your friends have read any of David Fradin's books

13 ratings | 1 review | avg rating:5.00

David Fradin’s Followers (15)

David’s Bookshelves

to-read (6)
currently-reading (0)
read (8)
did-not-finish (0)

David’s Friends (6)

Otis Chandler

1,657 books | 2,010 friends

Michael Economy

760 books | 287 friends

Vanessa Ella

1 book | 3 friends

Ray Via

73 books | 2 friends

Don McEntire

44 books | 3 friends

Einsteinium

511 books | 783 friends

David Fradin

Goodreads Author

Born

Detroit, The United States

Website

https://davidfradin.com

Genre

History, Business, Nonfiction

Member Since

December 2007

edit data

David Fradin is the proud son of Hymie Fradin a very good humorist but grew up to be a Master Plumber. Being of French aristocracy descendence, Duke David somehow got letters his Dad wrote to his brother Morris during and after World War II. Hymie always wanted to be published and here Duke David is granting Hymie his wish.

David Fradin was a classically trained product manager at Hewlett-Packard during the 50 years that HP grew 20% a year. Apple recruited him to bring the first hard disk drive on a personal computer to market. He soon rose in Apple’s management ranks to the same level as Steve Jobs by heading the Apple /// product line and providing the profits that helped fund the development of the Macintosh. Since 1969 he has worked on ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask David Fradin questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
David Fradin’s books

Average rating: 4.44 · 96 ratings · 46 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Letters from My Hymie: A Jewish-American Soldier's WWII Letters Home, One Family's Immigrant Journey from Ukraine to America, Disneyland, and Beyond 4.90 avg rating — 49 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Building Insanely Great Products: Some Products Fail, Many Succeed… This is their Story: Lessons from 47 years of experience including Hewlett-Packard, Apple, 75 products, and 11 startups later 3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Do, Innovation, Design Thinking and Value Proposition Workbook it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Product Market Strategy Workbook 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Building Insanely Great Products Workbook it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Organizing and Managing Insanely Great Products by David Fradin (Goodreads Author), R.N. Prasad it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Successful Product Design and Management Toolkit really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Facilitate Work on Product Teams Workbook it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	U.S. Desktop Video Product Markets: The first definitive business and technology assessment 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by David Fradin…

13 posts
David Fradin's Blog: Product management and Product Marketing Training

Organizational Structure Considerations

The key to overall company and product success is focusing the entire business on the customer and the customer’s experience. If done well, the profits will follow. How the organization is structured is key to that success.

In this section I will look into customer satisfaction, big data and analytics, understanding what the customer wants to “do”, organizational structure, metrics, data, process, Read more of this blog post »

Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on August 02, 2020 14:08 • Tags: organizational-structure

View all 13 posts »

David’s Recent Updates

David Fradin joined the groups M.K BOOK COMMUNITY READERS 📚 and Authors & Reviewers
4 hours, 26 min ago
David Fradin and 7 other people liked Barry Turner's review of Letters from My Hymie: A Jewish-American Soldier's WWII Letters Home, One Family's Immigrant Journey from Ukraine to America, Disneyland, and Beyond: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Oct 13, 2026 01:01PM · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Letters from My Hymie by David Fradin. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Letters from My Hymie by David Fradin <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
David Fradin and 6 other people liked Ann Coleman's review of Letters from My Hymie: A Jewish-American Soldier's WWII Letters Home, One Family's Immigrant Journey from Ukraine to America, Disneyland, and Beyond: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Oct 13, 2026 01:01PM · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Letters from My Hymie by David Fradin. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Letters from My Hymie by David Fradin <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
David Fradin and 5 other people liked Velma Moore's review of Letters from My Hymie: A Jewish-American Soldier's WWII Letters Home, One Family's Immigrant Journey from Ukraine to America, Disneyland, and Beyond: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Oct 13, 2026 01:01PM · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Letters from My Hymie by David Fradin. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Letters from My Hymie by David Fradin <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
David Fradin answered A Goodreads user's question: Hate to break it to you but the promotion running around the book is being led by a con artist. The "discussion" is full of bot accounts. Google "book club" scams. Required question mark to submit: ? which book are you referring to?
Sep 19, 2026 10:31AM · like Liz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... There's also a bunch of fake accounts leaving reviews. ...more Sep 19, 2026 10:34AM · flag
David Fradin made a comment in the group Authors & Reviewers — Say Hello! [Introductions] topic " Hi everyone, David Fradin here. I wrote Letters from My Hymie, a WWII era family memoir built from my father's real wartime letters home and my grandf ...more "
Aug 10, 2026 12:00PM
David Fradin made a comment in the group Read to Win the War — Welcome and Member Introductions topic " Hi, my name is David Fradin. I wrote Letters from My Hymie, a book built from my father Hymie's actual World War II letters home, combined with my gra ...more "
Aug 10, 2026 11:58AM
David Fradin made a comment in the group Jewish Book Club — Welcome: Introduce Yourself Here topic " Hi everyone, David Fradin here. I wanted to join because Letters from My Hymie, the book I wrote, is very much rooted in Jewish family history. It fol ...more "
Aug 10, 2026 11:49AM

More of David's books…

David’s Quotes

“You get things done by doing.”
― Duke David Fradin, Letters from My Hymie: A Jewish-American Soldier's WWII Letters Home, One Family's Immigrant Journey from Ukraine to America, Disneyland, and Beyond

tags: humor

0 likes

recent posts
David’s Groups

The History Book Club — 26634 members — last activity 7 hours, 17 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP — 2764 members — last activity 12 hours, 6 min ago
A chance to discuss books covering the Second World War, the battles, campaigns, leaders and weapons. Tantum librorum, tam brevi tempore (So many ...more

Biography, Autobiography, Memoir — 2798 members — last activity 4 hours, 33 min ago
Everyone has a story to tell. This is a group to discuss the many types of biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. If it's a true life story, it bel ...more

Jewish Book Club — 1510 members — last activity 1 hour, 37 min ago
For those who share an interest in reading and discussing Jewish books of all sorts. The basic requirement for the books is that they have a Jewish th ...more

Read to Win the War — 188 members — last activity Aug 27, 2026 10:48AM
Welcome to "Read to Win the War," a book club for readers of World War II history and fiction, brought to you by The National WWII Museum in New Orlea ...more

Authors & Reviewers — 12365 members — last activity 33 minutes ago
A&R is about helping authors promote their books. If you are a reviewer or a blogger, and you don't mind writing a honest review, then come and join u ...more

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious club — 87 members — last activity Nov 19, 2020 11:21AM
This club is just for some riddles, regular ones more like polls. Shops are open from January 1st, 2021. 10 xp = 1 gold, while 1 gold = any amount of ...more

Jewish Book Carnival — 1645 members — last activity Oct 17, 2026 02:08AM
This is the GoodReads group for the Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly forum for sharing links and information on Jewish books and the blogs that cover t ...more

Immigration Book Club — 83 members — last activity Nov 02, 2026 11:21PM
Join us as we explore the many stories and ideas around immigration. This group is all about curiosity, compassion, and thoughtful conversations, with ...more

M.K BOOK COMMUNITY READERS 📚 — 79 members — last activity Oct 21, 2026 03:05PM
Where Readers Connect, Discover, and Grow Together M.K Book Community Readers is a welcoming and engaging community created for book lovers, passiona ...more

More of David’s groups…