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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

Subjectsmanagementpolitics
What these subjects mean

management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.

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

Interesting
A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

What Tom Verrilli actually said

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  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.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:18:14 plays here

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com

    video · 1h 24m · spoken · machine transcript

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