I do. I was a product manager for about a year, then founder for a while, and am now manager for a data science team, where part of my responsibilities are basically product management for the things related to the team.
That said, I don’t think I was great at it, and suspect most of the lessons I learned are easily transferred.
Edit: I actually suspect that I’ve learned more from working with really good product managers than I have from doing any part of the job myself. It really seems to be a job where experience is relatively unimportant, but a certain set of general cognitive patterns is extremely important.
I do. I was a product manager for about a year, then founder for a while, and am now manager for a data science team, where part of my responsibilities are basically product management for the things related to the team.
That said, I don’t think I was great at it, and suspect most of the lessons I learned are easily transferred.
Edit: I actually suspect that I’ve learned more from working with really good product managers than I have from doing any part of the job myself. It really seems to be a job where experience is relatively unimportant, but a certain set of general cognitive patterns is extremely important.
OK, I vote for Satvik as the person to choose who the BDFL is :D