Meyer: Product managers waste 60% of their time on administrative tasks
David Meyer · David Meyer: Why You Should Hire People Who Aren’t In Product Already | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Nov 1, 2023 · at 59:41
David Meyer, SVP of Product at Databricks, discusses time allocation and administrative friction for product managers as product organizations scale.
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“Like, a third of their time should be talking to customers. A third of their time should be using the product and working with engineering. And a third of their time should be thinking properly, you know? But it never works out that way, because usually, 60% of their time is filling up bullshit.”
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