In the new world of data-driven products, being able to mine your own insights and information can be incredibly valuable. Having the right knowledge and ability to gather your own insights will certainly up your game as you advance your career in product management and design. Likewise, a strong baseline understanding of APIs will make you as a product manager or product designer better at vetting feature sets of other SaaS products, allow you to have better conversations with your development partners, be more efficient when testing your products, and better understand how software works.