Nikhyl Singhal

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) · 19 Apr 2026 podcast

14 people essentially have decided that their next job was not to take another product executive role, but to found.

Founding CEO is now open to us.

I have one person, very senior person in my group, who interviewed for a CHRO position.

because they wanted a product manager background for the CHRO position.

What is CHRO?

That's the chief HR person in the company, right?

So you would never think that an HR person would be a former product manager.

But now forward-leaning companies are starting to say, hey, we need someone who can bring this obsolescence skill, this judgment skill, this empowerment skill, this builder skill to the function.

In fact, the function might be easier to learn than the other parts of the job.

And, you know, we're seeing that trend that product builders are going to have, you know, both a broader range of opportunities up and down the stack, and it won't be product managers and engineers can become product leaders and product builders.

And all of this blurring of the lines is going to take place.

I think that unfortunately the flip side has to be mentioned.

I think that non-builders,

And I think that anyone who sort of sees themselves as not loving, like sitting down and building something, and there may be reasons why we'll get into why you may not be in a position to find the time, let's say.

But if you're not a builder, if you're like, look, my skill was never to, I'm not really into tech.

Like people say this all the time.

I'm not really into tech.

I just really found it to be a lucrative job.

It's a, you know, it's a role where my ability to communicate, my ability to move information was, you know, where I ended up enjoying it.

I love team building, you know, those kinds of notes, which by the way, I love all those things.

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