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Melissa Perri Profile picture
@lissijean
Jul 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I’ll caveat this for #prodmgmt.

If you are brand new to the field and the first PM, it’s hard to grow as fast compared to those who have someone to learn from.

Being a PM at a startup accelerated my career, but I had a great VP of Product to learn from.
If you do have a bit of experience in PM or someone to learn from there, I think startups are great. I had an opportunity to be employee 40ish at OpenSky or go to Amazon. I would have made a lot of money if I went to Amazon. My career would have never been the same.
Also I know there’s privilege in these choices, and I’ll say this- if you can negotiate a pay that’s comfortable, I’d recommend a startup. I had to do this to pass on Amazon (OS matched their base). I lost out on stock, but 10 years later my career has more than made up for it.
So if you’ve got two fairly equal choices in front of you, one is with a startup, one is with a large company, and you’re ready to learn and set up to learn, I’d go with the startup every time.

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Jun 26, 2023
There's been a lot of talk about #Airbnb "getting rid" of the #prodmgmt role. From what I can tell, they are morphing this into a more business related role, rather than purely tech. I don't think this is a bad thing. /1
PM has always firmly sat between business, tech, and the user/customer. In SAAS companies, the Product Management role has always been about figuring out how to grow the business by solving customer problems with the right software. /2
In other companies that are not software-native, you saw this being done by GMs of the business, but with the tools available to drive business at the time - sales, marketing, and human operations. /3
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Nov 22, 2022
When building a product, remember not all of your users are experts in the domain, but that opens up a golden opportunity for you /1🧵
It’s important to gauge the level of competence in the domain with the users, especially if you’re an expert in the area /2
People buy products because it fulfills a job-to-be-done, but that doesn’t mean everyone knows *how* to do that job. /3
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Oct 22, 2022
I find it funny how many people are asking me what the alternative to SAFe is, like there aren’t thousands of successful companies out there building products without it…
Those who are asking this don’t want to hear the truth, and the truth is context matters for what you implement for each company. So there’s no “one framework to rule them all”. It’s incredibly hard work to set this up in companies BUT there are principles which remain constant.
And that was the point of @cagan’s talk and what I talk about in the Build Trap, etc.

So no, I can’t give you a pretty little diagram where everyone has a box and it defines specifically what to do. I honestly wish I could!
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Aug 18, 2022
Five things I wish I could go back and tell myself when I was starting in #prodmgmt 🧵/1
You don't have to come up with all the ideas. Ideas can come from anywhere. It's your job to make sure they are the right ideas for the business and the customer /2
Check your ego. While being confident when communicating is important as a Product Manager, you do not want to be perceived as an asshole. #prodmgmt is about influence, not authority. /3
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Aug 8, 2022
First time Product Leader? Congrats! It's hard to make the leap, but once you're there, now you got to keep the position.

Here's the most common mistakes I see first time product leaders make so you can avoid them. /1 🧵

#prodmgmt
1. Focusing too much on processes and ignoring the roadmap.

While you have to implement the process and structure for the organization, remember you're also the person responsible for vision and direction. You need to balance working on both of these things.
2. Blaming others

"I can't do this because the CXO won't let me." You're now a leader, it's up to you to usher things through. You shouldn't be asking permission of the other leaders, you should be working with them.

No one is coming to save you. You got to take initiative.
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May 12, 2022
Ah airport layovers, time for a thread that keeps coming up.

How do I convince my executives to change/ do things I’d like them to do as good #prodmgmt. Here’s my tips. 🧵 /1
The thing I see people do most often that doesn’t work is not taking the time to understand how other people are being judged for success and what matters to them.

You have to learn to put your proposal in terms that will help the other person. /2
For example, say you have a problem with the Head of Sales. How are they judged for success?

Bookings, new sales, new logos, revenue growth.

Their comp is tied to it. How do you think they feel when you say you need to deprioritize something that they *think* will make $$? /3
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