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What Tom Verrilli thinks about AI and jobs

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

    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.

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com 6th of 24 in this recording

    product management

    Interesting

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

    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.

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com 12th of 24 in this recording

    product management

    Interesting

  5. Our readingNeeding fewer people per unit of output does not mean a company ends up employing fewer people.

    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

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com 13th of 24 in this recording

    Interesting

  7. Our readingCore product skills are the most durable in an AI world, but many people holding the PM title spent five years building the wrong ones.

    Their wordsabsolutely agree that product skills are probably the most durable. My build would just be there's a lot of people who have the title PM who haven't spent a lot of time building those skills in the last 5 years, but have gotten really good at communicating frameworks to leadership.

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com 14th of 24 in this recording

    Interesting