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Manik Gupta
Manik Gupta@manik-gupta

The PM is the CEO of the product is one of the most incorrect things in the world. The PM is an enabler. Your job is to make the team successful, not to be the center of everything.

Mar 27Mar 27, 2026
Matt MacInnis
Matt MacInnisMar 28

The "CEO of the product" framing does real damage — it attracts exactly the wrong people into the role and then surprises everyone when they try to boss engineers around instead of earning influence. That said, "enabler" undersells it too; the best PMs I've worked with drive outcomes relentlessly, they just do it without the title-wielding.

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