Tom Verrilli
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first heard Aug 2026
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You just tend to go.
So that's wonderful.
I think the second thing is.
there's two ways that that ends up driving leverage.
One is a VP in theory can handle the workload of multiple kind of like more junior PMs, just because as I said, they're more efficient.
And that means that you see more of the board at any given point in time.
And so you're far more likely to make the intuitively correct decision for
How should we tune the discovery algorithm vis-a-vis people who ship slowly, which is an evergreen thing in e-com?
Well, if you're thinking about how we manage sellers who ship slowly and you know about the power of discovery, you can, in either case, make the correct decision.
One of the things that I remember plaguing Twitch for a long time, and I was probably one of the people more at fault of it than ever, was discovery team and the ads team were always at war for impressions, right?
Like where do ads go in the feed?
What's the impact to discovery metrics?
What's the impact to kind of ad dollars?
One of the first things I did when I got to Twitch was just put ads in discovery and make sure that there's the same PM who's accountable for both.
they're going to make the natural trade-off that say the goal is gmv generated from the feed one of them is through organic one of them is through kind of like a paid substitution solve and when you put the same person across multiple things they tend to organically align those things and you just cut out months and months and months of back and forth and the politics that tends to kind of take it from being company first to career first
And so having VPs mostly in IC land, having directors mostly doing IC work, even having me having to grapple with IC work keeps everybody connected to the ground floor of what's actually true as opposed to what seems true in a review, but also means that you're more likely to make the kind of intuitively correct decision early.
just because why wouldn't you want, you know, Messi playing for your team when you, rather than trying to kind of have the academy coming along all the time.
Whatever is required to kind of like most effectively ship is the short answer.
Have I personally shipped some production code at whatnot?
Yes.
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