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“Now what we're essentially saying is the information mover is essentially going to become a dinosaur. And I think about half of the product people that were kind of, that grew into the industry, you know, have that skill and superpower.”

“Sadly, I think that geography and actually diversity is going to take a step back. I think that we were very good about driving more breath. As we grew the industry, we started looking at people who were from different backgrounds to populate it, including dif…”

“Product leaders will increasingly get paid and be asked to drive judgment and then be the tip of the sphere on trying to essentially obsolete everything else through software, through AI, through agents.”

“Within two years, I think most of these companies will obsolete all the mechanical parts of building product.”

“I predict in the next 12 to 24 months, we're going to see massive shedding of staffs and then massive rehiring. But the re you might see a company shed 30,000 and hire 8000, but the 8000 people they're going to hire are going to all be AI first.”

“My prediction is the vast majority of people that are listening to this will be in a different job in the next five years, because they will either choose to move to something. Because they will, that company will struggle to stay modern. Just like we're descr…”

“So I'm like really bullish that product leaders are going to be like, you know, like those like dandelion, whatever you call it seeds when you blow it and they just go everywhere.”

“And my sense is we're going to see, even in the second half of this year, Lots of boards pulling back, taking their capital back, companies essentially saying, hey, we're capitalized like we're a scaled ocean liner, and now we need to go find product market fi…”

“For a lot of the strongest builders in the group that I'm associated with, compensation is an all time high. They have more offers than they've ever seen.”

“There's gonna be like some super skill that's gonna run against every piece of software that's in, in the app store. And it's gonna basically go in and it's gonna fix them all. And then they're gonna get released. They're gonna be like, oh, this sucks. It's ju…”

“Those tracks from a promotion and from a industry, how we perceive it. Are hard to, they're not in cement yet. They're tender. You wait six months, you wait, you know, nine months, they'll become very, very strong and solid. And I think then we'll be able to l…”

“I think that there will be 10 to a hundred times more changes that will be presented to products than ever before, because now There, the cost of testing something, the cost of changing is going to be much, much low.”

“Meanwhile, I think a lot of people going into product might be coming from design, might be coming from data science, might be coming from engineering because the ones that have judgment, the ones that can talk, the ones that want to stay current, they might b…”

“So alignment won't go away. It's just, it's not going to have as much theatrics. And I think a lot of companies that are larger do have theatrics that I think the eyes are going to remove.”

“Most tech jobs actually last fewer number of years than you may think. Two to three versus five to 10. So if you put the math together, we're looking at easily dozens of jobs.”

“The sad truth is that many of their contemporary companies that went public are worth 10% or less. Than what they were worth back then.”