27. Good Product Manager Vs Bad Product Manager According To Ben Horowitz

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Learnings notes from this episode:

Good product managers

• Know the market, the product and the competition
• Take full responsibility for the success of the product
• Marketing counterparts to the engineering manager
• Feel good when they figure out WHAT, i.e. what problem they are solving for the user

Bad product managers

• Have lots of excuses
• Feel good when they figure out HOW, i.e. how to build the product. That's not the PM's job, it's the engineers'

Here are the books Sophia mentions in this episode:

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

• The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman

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