product manager

“The hack for finding a great VP of product is to talk to product managers, because great VPs of product have Teams that will work with them over and over and over again.”

“We ask of designers to see their portfolio. We ask of engineers to do a code exercise, but we don't really ask anything of product managers. And so, you know, I think asking to see a requirements document or any, you know, if they're, you know, senior person p…”

“Great product manager is like the oil that makes everything go well. And bad product management is the sand that makes everything stop.”

“We do do a project with them, where we say, like, I'm looking for the kind of product sense, so we'll say, take some product that you use that's not ours, and have some complaint with it, and spec a feature to improve it. And then tell me why they haven't buil…”

“And 98% of you, 96% of you, I think, make the same mistake. You hire a junior person. Ok, I'm gonna go hire a product manager that worked on one pixel at Twilio, or worked on one little thing at some great company. They don't know how to ship products into pro…”