11Tenets Of A Good Product Manager
Most product managers don’t fail because they lack ideas; they fail because they don’t make the right trade-offs. Over the course of my career, I’ve led product organizations building everything from 0→1 products to businesses generating over $600M in revenue spanning hardware, software, AI, and crypto. What I’ve found is that while the domains evolve, the craft of product management remains fundamentally the same. In the fast-paced world of product development, the job of a product manager is not to optimize for a single objective but to balance competing forces. I’ve found that good product managers consistently operate across four objectives: A. User Experience B. Profit (Unit Economics) C. Competitive Advantage D. Technology Advancement Read more about the four objectives here . The most common mistake product managers make is optimizing for one objective at the expense of the others. These objecti...