The job description is the same. The context is completely different. At a large company, product management is about navigating process. There's a structure, a roadmap cadence,...
Read enough product post-mortems and the same pattern starts showing up. The vocabulary changes — "ahead of its time", "wrong execution", "team didn't sell it well", "bad market...
Most of the things that go wrong in startup product look like complicated problems with clever solutions. They almost never are. Underneath, they're resource problems. Not enoug...
The job description for an early-stage PM and a late-stage PM looks the same on paper. Both define the roadmap, work with engineering, talk to users, ship product. The day-to-da...