product manager
also referred to as: product managers
5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 29, 2024 by Dalton Caldwell · across every show →
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Feb 29, 2024 negative
Former PMs fail at early sales by relying on user research tactics
“I think that a lot of people are trained as PMs and they're trained to do user research. And being trained to do user research, I remember taking a user research course in college, is you're trained to sort of like interview people rather than sell products to…”
Nov 21, 2024 negative
Blomfield: Optimizing for dwell time ignores product quality and taste
“When a team and a product manager has a number to work towards, and in this case, like dwell time or engagement or number of minutes each user uses a service, like a well-meaning product team, in my experience, like tends to optimize and optimize and optimize …”
Jul 10, 2025
Ng: One project team proposed staffing twice as many PMs as engineers
“So literally yesterday, one of my teams came to me, and for the first time, when we're planning a head comfort project, this team proposed to me not to have one PM to four engineers, but to have one PM to 0.5 engineers. So the team actually proposed to me. I s…”
Sep 8, 2025 negative
McGrew: Palantir avoided hiring traditional PMs who lacked abstraction skills
“We didn't hire product managers for a long time. And when it did come time for me to hire product managers, I would interview people who were amazing product managers at, you know, other companies. And I would ask them to think at this level of abstraction. Th…”
Apr 25, 2026 positive
Massad: Tech-adjacent creators get the most value from Replit, not engineers
“And what we've noticed is that people that are getting the most value out of our product, Tend to be the more tech-adjacent ones. Maybe people, product managers have written code many years ago, but don't worry about the development environment setup. Don't wa…”