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Our readingWhat is a korrent?

A whole class of product managers built a career on politics rather than on technical or customer skill, and that skill is now worth nothing.

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.

politics How people actually hold political views: tribes, partisanship, and whether anybody reasons their way in.

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
    there's definitely a group of PMs and I certainly used to be one of them earlier in my career whose specialty wasn't technical or customer-oriented, it was politics.

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