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Putting a product manager on a team invites everyone else to delegate the product thinking away, which is why she does not hire them.

Drawn from what Julie Zhuo said

What these subjects mean

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

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

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 Julie Zhuo actually said

  1. Julie Zhuo Co-founder of Sundial; former vice president of product…
    I find that sometimes when you have like a designer or product manager and let's say I'm an engineer, then when I have a problem like, oh, I need to figure out the product definition, my default will be, well, I've got these people and that's kind of their job description, so I'm just going to delegate that to them.

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