Tom Verrilli
14 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 2, 2026 by Tom Verrilli · across every show →
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Aug 2, 2026
Verrilli steps out of product areas when Whatnot's founders are involved
“If Grant or Logan are on it, I check that they're watching it.
They're accountable for it.
And I step out.
So there'll be long periods of time where like fully half my team could be working on something.
And I couldn't tell you day to day where it is because y…”
Aug 2, 2026 negative
Hiring PMs who index on stakeholder alignment is an anti-pattern
“Folks who spend a lot of the time in their interviews talking about those like alignment meetings and driving alignment and stakeholder management and those pieces, because There's definitely a group of PMs and I certainly used to be one of them earlier in my …”
Aug 2, 2026 positive
Aug 2, 2026 neutral
Aug 2, 2026 positive
PMs should query Claude about codebases instead of bothering engineers
“Second one I've already mentioned, which is like stop bothering engineers with how does the code base work and actually just go and talk to Claude and understand it, which is really helpful.
You know, I used to say early on in my career that the goal was alway…”
Aug 2, 2026 bullish
AI will not cause net headcount drops in PM or data science
“I also think one of the flip sides of we say we need fewer, it's like fewer of for the same output. Doesn't necessarily mean fewer of in macro, because if you are using these systems right, you can just grow more quickly. You can build more things. You can tak…”
Aug 2, 2026 positive
Companies can pay ICs VP money by cutting middle management layers
“Go and take the comp required to have five L fives reporting to one L seven and then four L sevens reporting to one VP. And now total the comp of that product org and turn around and say, what if I had three people? Why can't I pay them all? You know, D two VP…”
Aug 2, 2026 neutral
Aug 2, 2026 bullish
Verrilli: Tech will see more 'EM light' hybrid tech lead roles
“So the idea of like engineering manager light For want of a better term is the thing that I'm definitely think that we'll see more and more of. It's like not quite the technical member of staff, although that must be lovely. But certainly not the kind of like …”
Aug 2, 2026 positive
'Know then go' systems thinking preempts scale failures without slowing execution
“One of the monikers we use internally is no, then go as in just like think through all the things that could go wrong, understand where scale will break, understand the things that might happen and then make the like move on anyway, because if you've thought t…”
Aug 2, 2026 positive
Aug 2, 2026
Verrilli spends 10x more time in data, talks less to data scientists
“So I don't know what the future of data science looks like, but I think as a product manager, I've spent less time in the last year talking to a data scientist than I ever have in my career, even though I've probably spent 10 times more time in data and unders…”
Aug 2, 2026 positive
Verrilli: Keeping senior talent in operational weeds increases overall efficiency
“Push your best people to be really in the weeds of stuff. And actually what you find over time is you end up being more efficient by doing that because you actually understand how things work the first time and you make the best decisions.”
Aug 2, 2026 negative
Deprecating low-adoption features often destroys critical workflows for core subgroups
“Averages mean nothing to the individual is probably the thing that I've like really scarred by in any sizable population, it's really attractive to go and look at like average utility or average adoption of something. And then you find that like, you know, Onl…”