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Tom Verrilli

Tom Verrilli

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Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.

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4 of Tom Verrilli's claims fit 3 mental models. Most often: Leverage, Cheaper means more, not less, Specialise and trade.

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Leverage

Tools, code, capital and debt multiply what one person can do, in both directions.

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AI gives an individual contributor so much leverage that one very senior product manager beats three entry-level ones.

  1. Tom Verrilli Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot you can have one very senior PM across more things and they can be more efficient than having, you know, three relatively entry-level PMs. This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com · 2 Aug 2026 · 0:14:22 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsyou can have one very senior PM across more things and they can be more efficient than having, you know, three relatively entry-level PMs.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:14:22 plays here

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

    2 Aug 2026 · video · 1h 24m · spoken · machine transcript

AI data tooling has cut the product manager's need for data scientists while multiplying the time they spend in the data themselves.

  1. Tom Verrilli Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot as a product manager, I've spent less time in the last year talking to a data scientist than I ever have in my career, even though I've probably spent 10 times more time in data and understanding actually how the product's working than I have ever have in my career. This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com · 2 Aug 2026 · 0:36:52 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsas a product manager, I've spent less time in the last year talking to a data scientist than I ever have in my career, even though I've probably spent 10 times more time in data and understanding actually how the product's working than I have ever have in my career.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:36:52 plays here

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

    2 Aug 2026 · video · 1h 24m · spoken · machine transcript

Cheaper means more, not less

Make something cheaper to use and people use so much more of it that the total goes up (Jevons paradox).

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Needing fewer people per unit of output does not mean a company ends up employing fewer people.

  1. Tom Verrilli Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot if you are using these systems right you can just grow more quickly you can build more things you can take on more stuff so you know I would be surprised actually if we ended up with like net fewer This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com · 2 Aug 2026 · 0:43:30 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordsif you are using these systems right you can just grow more quickly you can build more things you can take on more stuff so you know I would be surprised actually if we ended up with like net fewer

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:43:30 plays here

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

    2 Aug 2026 · video · 1h 24m · spoken · machine transcript

Specialise and trade

Do what you are relatively best at and trade for the rest (comparative advantage); it holds until power or change breaks it.

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A product leader writing production code is not the best use of their time, even though they should be able to read the codebase.

  1. Tom Verrilli Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot have I personally shipped some production code and whatnot? Yes. Uh do I think that's really the best use of my time? Not really. This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com · 2 Aug 2026 · 0:26:08 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Their wordshave I personally shipped some production code and whatnot? Yes. Uh do I think that's really the best use of my time? Not really.

    Where this was said

    Watch from 0:26:08 plays here

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

    2 Aug 2026 · video · 1h 24m · spoken · machine transcript