PMs don’t just ship features. They kill them. Shipping isn’t the job. Shipping the right product is. A great PM doesn’t fall in love with the roadmap. They fall in love with the problem and have the guts to say: This isn’t solving it. This adds complexity. This doesn’t matter. Every feature, setting, UI, element should fight to exist.
At Nest, we had one rule:
If you can’t explain why it matters, it doesn’t ship.
You had to tell us the why.
The reason a real person would care.
That one rule killed dozens of features.
Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make.
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's blunt advice to founders:
"You're way overthinking it. Start narrow, validate product-market fit, and adapt as you go." @dkhos