Stross: VP of Product must say no while maintaining team belief
John Strauss · What a Great VP of Product Really Does | SaaStr · Nov 1, 2017 · at 1:57
Jon Stross, Co-Founder of Greenhouse, discusses the difficult prioritization and alignment balance required of product leaders on a SaaStr panel.
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“The VP of product is the choke point in a lot of ways for the whole company, where you're listening to all the different things coming in, whether it's requests from customers, or future customers, or what your engineering team thinks that needs to be done, or your kind of vision that you're doing, and inevitably, like, you can't do all of it, and you're the one trying to decide which stuff you're gonna do and what you're not gonna do, and inevitably means you're saying no to a lot of stuff. And so a lot of times you're the person saying no, but also you're the person who has to make everyone believe.”
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