Chief Product Officer

“Tomo, our CPO, is on all of my executive loops because he's got to be as excited about this person as I am, so that's meant to correct for that one.”

“I think when I got this role as my first chief product officer role, I talked to a bunch of my friends that were founders and I was like, Hey, what's the biggest mistake that I would likely make in this role? And they were like, you just focus on engineering p…”

“A difference in the CPO role when how you think about the product versus some of the other team members is just, you're probably spending a lot more time with customers than some of the other people are like, we have amazing go-to-market leaders at GitHub, but…”

“The more disconnected you get from those, like when you start to become more of like a professional manager, I'm just guiding the team, giving strategy and things. I think you lose a lot in making sure you're building the right thing for customers. Cause if yo…”

“The difference is you have to be willing to give up some level of autonomy when thinking about the product. In a founder-like company. And you have to be willing to, you have to know how to influence really well, and you have to be able to understand what infl…”

“The key job of a great chief product officer is essentially setting the direction, not worrying about every single feature, not worrying about even big, even reasonably, reasonable sized products down to every feature level. But setting the vision and the dire…”

“The other thing everybody thinks is like PMs or CPOs are supposed to come up with The vision, like, honestly, like, a vision is a collection of people coming together and understanding customers deeply enough and stitch, and then, yes, usually a CPO will stitc…”