product manager

also referred to as: product managers

6 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 9, 2020 by James Mays · across every show →

Everything said about product manager, oldest first

Oct 9, 2020 positive
Insight
Mayes: $300-$800 PM memberships work because salaries and employers cover them
“In the Western world, product management salaries are pretty damn decent. You can easily be talking 6080, a hundred grand a year, those kinds of numbers. So if we can put a membership model together, there's maybe 300 bucks a year for a mid-level person and 80…”
James Mays Oct 9, 2020 ▶ 24:36 The $300 Membership Model That Replaced 5 Conferences
Jun 8, 2021 negative
Insight
Barnett: Startups should not make a product manager their first hire
“Don't go build all the processes in day one. Don't make your product manager your first hire, muddle through. It's like, you don't make your sales go into the first hire.”
Matt Barnett Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 13:16 Why We Don't Release Features That Don't Get Used Anymore
Jun 8, 2021 positive
Insight
Barnett: Hire first product manager at 5 to 6 team members
“Product management probably starts to come in when your whole product team starts to get to five plus, six plus. Starts to be a good idea to start to think about this.”
Matt Barnett Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 30:06 Why We Don't Release Features That Don't Get Used Anymore
Oct 12, 2021
Insight
Founders mistakenly assume their products are obvious to outside users
“As a founder and also as a product manager, you are so ingrained in your products and that's all you see. So you think that everything's obvious to everyone else.”
Lindsay Allard Oct 12, 2021 ▶ 26:12 She Thought Her Product Was Obvious - Then Watched 10 Strangers Struggle
Jul 20, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Foster: Human product managers would severely outperform AI in feature A/B tests
“I'd be really interested to see if you like did, you know, the ultimate AB test here and you generated a hundred new features for different products that were all kind of like AI generated as opposed to like good product manager generated who would outperform …”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 21:16 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Jul 20, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Foster: Product managers should not worry about AI replacing them anytime soon
“I think that there's a situation in which the, you know, best product managers could ultimately be beaten once there's actually an underlying model behind these things down the road. But we're talking way in the future at this point, and I don't think that any…”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 21:37 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
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