HeyJaredFireside Product Management by Tom Leung
Product leader from Google, Microsoft, multiple startups. I talk about product management, leadership, and entrepreneurship using a combination of amazing guests & my 2 decades in product management. Follow me on Linkedin.com/in/toml
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If AI Eats the Entry-Level Job, Where Do Leaders Come From? (opens the original)
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I sat down recently with Chris Berta, an executive search partner, to talk about a question he has been chewing on for two and a half years: if AI takes away entry-level jobs, where do people learn their craft, and how do they ever become leaders?It is the kind of question that sounds abstract until you realize nobody has a good answer. Chris has been asking people leaders for years. No one does.His starting point is the old 70-20-10 rule of thumb: roughly 70% of what you learn comes from doing
Work for Fireside PM guy (opens the original)
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Here's why this might be a cool job for an experienced PM who has previously built products for content creators.Last month we launched the Creator Studio AI app, an AI-native companion for Facebook creators. It's sitting at 4.7 stars, and it's the most AI-forward creator studio app any major platform has shipped so far. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V76U!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.ama
What Actually Gets PMs Promoted in 2026 (opens the original)
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If you had asked me two years ago what promotion packets would look like in 2026, I would have guessed that some new axis had been added to the ladder, something about AI fluency or leverage or agent orchestration, and that the PMs who had gone deepest on tooling would be pulling ahead of the ones who hadn’t. That was certainly the conversation happening in hiring, where for a while it felt like every loop had a question about how you use AI in your workflow, and it seemed reasonable to assume p
What Actually Gets PMs Promoted in 2026 (opens the original)
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If you had asked me two years ago what promotion packets would look like in 2026, I would have guessed that some new axis had been added to the ladder, something about AI fluency or leverage or agent orchestration, and that the PMs who had gone deepest on tooling would be pulling ahead of the ones who hadn’t. That was certainly the conversation happening in hiring, where for a while it felt like every loop had a question about how you use AI in your workflow, and it seemed reasonable to assume p
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