The problem isn’t that a single CEO exists who is ultimately making the final decision. The problem is when companies try to create scores of “mini CEOs” (this

The problem isn’t that a single CEO exists who is ultimately making the final decision. The problem is when companies try to create scores of “mini CEOs” (this is actually how PMs were explained when they started popping up) to oversee every aspect of every product. A CEO of any but the smallest companies will have many other responsibilities, so they’ll have no choice but to delegate the majority of the decision making to the people actually building the product. A PM running the search feature or the user onboarding experience or the notification system doesn’t have this limitation. Also don’t get me wrong, I’ve worked with some fantastic PMs, but they were fantastic despite the role not because of it. Every good PM I’ve ever worked with had the capacity to be a good engineer even if they didn’t have the experience.