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Product CEOs are intimately familiar with their products including design decisions, code quality etc. This creates an attachment to get a little too involved i
by rdudekul 13y ago
Product CEOs are intimately familiar with their products including design decisions, code quality etc. This creates an attachment to get a little too involved in implementation details even as the company is growing beyond say 100 people. One way to get a bit detached is to be deeply involved in hiring people and coaching technical leadership. By thinking at a meta-level it is not hard to arrive at some process that can be documented that teams can self-manage well enough for product CEO to let go.
- RyanZAG 13y agoI'd say this is exactly what the article is arguing against. A product CEO is not necessarily going to be any good at hiring people or coaching leadership. The product CEO letting go is often the very worst thing that can happen, since the product CEO is the one who provided the framework that all of the products are succeeding on.