Product manager might be one of the most grey roles within a startup. However, as a company progresses and the team grows, there comes a time when a founder needs to carve out dedicated roles. Of these positions, product management might be one of the most elusive and key roles to fill.
Ken Norton, who recently left his job as director of product at Figma to consult rising PMs, thinks it’s easier to start with defining what they aren’t: the CEO of the product.
“Product managers need to realize that there is a lot of janitorial work that gets done in product management,” he said. “It’s not fun or glamorous, and it’s certainly not being the CEO of the product. It’s just stuff that needs to get done.” I wrote up a guide on how and when to hire your first product manager that expands on some of these insights, including how focus might be the biggest trait to interview for:
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How Zoox turned a failed Series C into the future
I often begin calls with founders by asking why they’re willing to bet their livelihoods on an idea that will most likely fail. It’s a small hack that lets me see how vulnerable a founder is, and how much conviction they have behind their ideas. Sometimes, if they answer, it’s the lede of my story. And sometimes, if they don’t answer, it’s the reason I don’t write the story.
As blunt as the question sounds, it can spark the best answers especially when the founder is working on an idea that is a moonshot in and of itself.
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I often begin calls with founders by asking why they’re willing to bet their livelihoods on an idea that will most likely fail. It’s a small hack that lets me see how vulnerable a founder is, and how much conviction they have behind their ideas. Sometimes, if they answer, it’s the lede of my story. And sometimes, if they don’t answer, it’s the reason I don’t write the story.
As blunt as the question sounds, it can spark the best answers especially when the founder is working on an idea that is a moonshot in and of itself.
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For the first time in donkey’s years, we didn’t have our full crew this week. Instead, we had just Natasha and Chris and myself we had to survive without Danny while he took the week “off” to “relax.”
But our depleted ranks did not mean that news was waiting for us to reassemble. Indeed, there was a mass of stuff to get through:
Atlanta-based Presso raised $1.6 million for its in-unit dry cleaning tech, which we thought was neat.
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