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What Tom Verrilli thinks about team size

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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 readingA few senior individual contributors can be paid VP money and still cost less than the layered product org they replace.

    Their wordsgo and take the comp required to have five L5s reporting to one L7 and then four L7s reporting to one VP and now total the comp of that product org and turn around and say, what if I had three people?

    ↗This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)youtube.com 11th of 24 in this recording

    Interesting