Founder is ‘PM on steroids’

dandellion a year ago | parent | next [-]

Not if the "founder" experience as a founder was micromanaging a startup of 10 people. I had a PM like that once and he was one of the worse PMs I've had.

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bsaul a year ago | parent [-]

curious to know more : what about him / her made it that bad ?

	▲	dandellion a year ago \| parent [-]
		I personally disliked being micromanaged. But even trying to leave personal feeling aside, I don't think he knew the team or the product well enough to micromanage the work effectively. It just made everybody more frustrated with him and work. Well, maybe not everybody, but the others on the team that I talked with. As far as I know after only 9 months 75% of the team had been fired or left.

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SketchySeaBeast a year ago | parent | prev [-]

Founder implies wearing a lot of different hats all at once but also the power to make choices, including defining bureaucracy and processes. Senior PM implies a much more limited silo of skills but also limited powers and a need to be able to fit in with existing bureaucracy and processes.