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I think point four is true but difficult to achieve. Most CEOs I work with, who also act as the product manager/owner, have a hard time keeping up with the role
by ericHosick 16y ago
I think point four is true but difficult to achieve. Most CEOs I work with, who also act as the product manager/owner, have a hard time keeping up with the role of product manager: especially when there are two or more pairs working on their product.
Having someone who can share that product vision with you is, in my opinion, really important. This frees up the CEO to focus on other aspects of the business like customer development, funding, etc.
- betashop 16y agoThis is a tough one. On Jobster I made 2 big mistakes with regard to this. (1) I gave up the chief product role too early in terms of getting too busy with other aspects of running the business to really guide and impact the product. (2) I made the mistake of thinking i could still guide the product when i was actually too busy doing other stuff, and then I failed to give full day-to-day control of the product to Ethan Lowry when he volunteered to help with it. I was too foolish to realize that i had already given up product control but yet unwilling to allow someone else to help me with it. Ethan went on to be the founder of Urban Spoon.