Did the product manager do their job? Where does their role begin and end?
the product manager is responsible for the product's success...
simple. But....wait....
1/n There are many $ successful products that are terrible for humans (both inside/outside a company). Is that success?
Did the product manager do their job? Where does their role begin and end?
There are many ways that short term success can come at the expense of mid/long term impact
In an early startup, company/product are inexorably linked. In a more established company "the product" may be one of a dozen bets, most which will fail.
What if it doesn't believe that their products can be a source of differentiated, sustainable mid/long term growth?
Is the role responsible for success *insofar as success is defined*? Something else? Who decides/defines?
...while others believe that the PdM should frame context/opportunities and let passionate problem solvers do the rest.
There are examples of both doing well in context.
Is one "right"?
...while others are about spreading the "responsibility for product success" to everyone.
There are examples of both doing well in context.
Is one "right"?
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This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
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— Greg Wester (@gwestr) November 25, 2018
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.