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What Tom Verrilli thinks about hiring

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

    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

    designproduct management

    Interesting

  3. Our readingA company should hire a product manager only against a specific need, never by default.

    Their wordswe articulate it that way to kind of force ourselves to remember that you don't hire a PM just for the sake of hiring one, you hire one with a really specific need.

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com 4th of 24 in this recording

    product management

    Interesting

  5. Our readingInterviews reward presentation; only a hands-on case study shows how fast a candidate's thinking decays.

    Their wordsthe number of people who present incredibly well, and then you give them a prompt and some data and ask them to come back with a PRD on something, and then we make them verbally defend it, how quickly the thinking decays from folks who are good at the theater, but not the specifics, uh is kind of really telling, I think.

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com 15th of 24 in this recording

    Interesting