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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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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Tom Verrilli has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingThe engineer-designer-PM pod ratio was an HR artifact of scaling, not something anyone showed a product needed.

    Their wordssomewhere along the line this kind of HR ratio of like a pod popped into being. You know, every time you hire six engineers, you add a designer or you add a PM, you add an EM

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com 2nd of 24 in this recording

  3. Our readingHiring product managers by ratio infantilizes engineers and designers who were perfectly capable of deciding for themselves.

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    Their wordshiring so many PMs infantilizes the engineers and the designers who are perfectly capable of making good decisions, but just never had to because there was always a PM to babysit them.

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com 3rd of 24 in this recording

  5. Our readingYou cannot make good macro decisions without the micro, which means a leader has to sit alongside the individual contributors.

    Their wordsif you don't actually push yourself down to sit alongside your IC engineers and your IC designers and your IC PMs, you don't actually know that stuff. So you can't make good macro decisions without the micro.

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com 17th of 24 in this recording