What Bill Gurley thinks about product management
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Bill Gurley has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingSomeone who is not already product-first almost never becomes good at product afterwards.
Their wordsit probably took my whole career for me to fully understand how hard it is to hire someone who's not a product first individual and then get them to be good at it. I'm sure there there are examples, but it's got to be 5% or less of the use case.
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