Weiss: Joining a CEO with your functional background maximizes learning and frustration
Noah Weiss · The 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product | Noah Weiss (Slack, Google) · Jul 23, 2023 · at 12:14
Noah Weiss (CPO at Slack) reflects on the trade-offs of product managers working under product-focused founder-CEOs like Stewart Butterfield and Dennis Crowley.
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“If you're joining a company and the CEO does the role that is your functional area of expertise, it's probably the area where you'll learn the most because they're hopefully world-class at it, but also when will you, you'll be the most frustrated at times because you're going to feel like you have less agency.”
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