Ben Horowitz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Not everybody has a ton of ideas around a new thing.
That's actually not that common.
Yeah, it was like the first thing I wrote, I think.
And you didn't work for me.
I don't know who required that.
I literally wrote it for seven people.
That was the audience, the people, seven people, product managers who worked for me.
I was so fucking mad at them because I was like, you people are doing everything but your job.
You're writing these requirements.
You're running around pitching customers, this and that.
You're doing all this stuff.
It's a lot of work.
But your job is right product, right time.
And if you don't give me the right product at the right time, I don't give a fuck what you do.
I need you to do that.
And so that was why good product manager, Brad, that was the whole idea.
It wasn't anything.
It was just like that simple, this is the job.
All these things that you're running around doing are not the job.
This is the job.