I know of several companies over the years started by former Product Managers for teams I have worked for in the past. For the most part they were very successf

I know of several companies over the years started by former Product Managers for teams I have worked for in the past. For the most part they were very successful and were the CEOs of their startups. Percentage wise they were more successful than my peer engineers at the time. Most of them worked on failed projects within a much larger company. The failure was due more to bad management of large Corp rather than them. One is a VP at Apple today. Gotta say my career hasn't really shot to the moon by staying in Engineering. Food for thought.