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Whatnot Operates Without Product Managers, Jira, or Ticketing Systems
“Because we're in a world where we basically don't have PMs, there's so many decisions and bits of ownership that engineering is required to take control of. We don't have JIRA. No one writes tickets.”
Whatnot recently raised $500 million at a $20 billion valuation
“Background for people, Whatnot raised about half a billion at twenty billion in valuation, right?”
Whatnot's Live Shopping Feature Was Built by One Co-Founder in Six Weeks
“Live shopping on whatnot was built by my co-founder in six weeks by himself”
Whatnot Requires All Engineering Candidates to Pass a Product Interview
“All of our engineers actually go through a product interview so that they can make sound product decisions and judgments.”
Whatnot Plans to Maintain Unusually High Engineer-to-PM Ratios Long Term
“We'll probably always keep the ratios very high relative to standard companies because we want to optimize for speed.”