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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product management 8

The only real case for product management as a specialist function is that it is a trade, not a qualification — something you get good at by doing.
Hiring product managers by ratio infantilizes engineers and designers who were perfectly capable of deciding for themselves.

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management 6

When nobody in the room has data, the chief executive's opinion should win, and that is fine.
Top-down product leadership works when the leader is in the weeds; what people call micromanagement is a leader directing work without knowing ground truth.

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AI and jobs 4

Core product skills are the most durable in an AI world, but many people holding the PM title spent five years building the wrong ones.
Needing fewer people per unit of output does not mean a company ends up employing fewer people.

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design 3

Hiring product managers by ratio infantilizes engineers and designers who were perfectly capable of deciding for themselves.
The engineer-designer-PM pod ratio was an HR artifact of scaling, not something anyone showed a product needed.

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hiring 3

Interviews reward presentation; only a hands-on case study shows how fast a candidate's thinking decays.
Hiring product managers by ratio infantilizes engineers and designers who were perfectly capable of deciding for themselves.

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team size 2

A few senior individual contributors can be paid VP money and still cost less than the layered product org they replace.
AI gives an individual contributor so much leverage that one very senior product manager beats three entry-level ones.

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