korrents

Our readingWhat is a korrent?

A company should hire a product manager only against a specific need, never by default.

Drawn from what Tom Verrilli said

What these subjects mean

product management What a product manager is for, who decides what gets built, and what happens to that job once delivery is cheap.

hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

What is a PM for, now that building is cheap?under our view: A team needs fewer product managers, or none, because the people who build can make the product calls themselves

What Tom Verrilli actually said

  1. Tom Verrilli Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot
    we articulate it that way to kind of force ourselves to remember that you don't hire a PM just for the sake of hiring one, you hire one with a really specific need.

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