Tom Verrilli
Tom Verrilli is the Chief Product Officer at Whatnot, a live shopping marketplace platform, where he has held the role since October 2023. He leads product and design for the company and is known for advocating a lean product management philosophy in which PMs are hired sparingly and are expected to ship features directly alongside engineers and designers. Prior to Whatnot, he held product leadership roles at Twitch. He is recognized in product management circles for his perspectives on building product teams oriented around hands-on execution rather than procedural gatekeeping.
“We articulate it that way to force ourselves to remember that you don't hire a PM just for the sake of hiring one, you hire one where there's really specific need. It is better to not assume we need a PM in every place.”
Source→“We often hear people at eng-oriented products talk like this, like developer tools where we don't need PMs. It's really interesting to hear from your perspective because you've built very consumery products.”
Source→“Marty Cagan calls it product theater. A lot of people just do the things that PM should be doing.”
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