Tom Verrilli
Person on 4 sites
Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot, previously chief product officer at Twitch and a product lead on growth at Twitter.
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24 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A company should hire a product manager only against a specific need, never by default. (opens korrents.com)
“we articulate it that way to kind of force ourselves to remember that you don't hire a PM just for the sake of hiring one, you hire one with a really specific need.”
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The only real case for product management as a specialist function is that it is a trade, not a qualification — something you get good at by doing. (opens korrents.com)
“The only argument as far as I'm aware for why you would want product management to be a specialist function is really it's a trade, not a qualification.”
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Hiring product managers by ratio infantilizes engineers and designers who were perfectly capable of deciding for themselves. (opens korrents.com)
“hiring so many PMs infantilizes the engineers and the designers who are perfectly capable of making good decisions, but just never had to because there was always a PM to babysit them.”
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A company should hire a product manager only against a specific need, never by default. (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Hard Thing About Hard Things I still think is the best book written about product management.”
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The Purpose Driven Church (opens rcmnd.app)
“the best book anyone's ever recommended to me to read which I now recommend to others, um, is The Purpose Driven Church by a pastor called Rick Warren.”
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Babel (opens rcmnd.app)
“Uh and the last one is if you're looking for kind of like fiction or fantasy, which is where I tend to go in the evening, Babel by R.F. Kuang.”
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things (opens rcmnd.app)