Yep... Maybe they are new to the last 10 years of startup product management? 'operator' makes it sound like they are coming from the investor world, where all

Yep... Maybe they are new to the last 10 years of startup product management? 'operator' makes it sound like they are coming from the investor world, where all you see is hoodies, flashy demos, PowerPoints will YoY growth numbers, and little of the day-to-day behind them A lot of people in tech haven't collaborated with experienced product managers either, or owned little of the financial/growth side of launching something, where these kinds of questions get ingrained into you pretty fast. Much more of a dark art imo is how to act on them without giving your team whiplash and crushing stress (beyond their comment of 'keep innovation teams small', which means fewer people will still suffer the same problem)