Rachitsky: Big Tech PMs often fail when transitioning to startups
Lenny Rachitsky · 20 Product: Lenny Rachitsky on The 3 Key Roles of the Product Manager, 5 Skills All The Best PMs Have, When To Hire Your First PM, How to Structure the Hiring Process for PMs & What Leaders Can Do to Make Their PMs Successful · Mar 16, 2022 · at 21:04
Lenny Rachitsky explains why hiring product managers directly from Big Tech giants like Google and Facebook can backfire for early-stage startups.
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“And similarly, if your PM's been a PM at like Google or Facebook, they're just like really good at PMing at Google and Facebook. There's like a very specific way of building product at these big companies, and you shouldn't assume that they're going to be good at a startup.”
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