Inside PM at Stripe: What Comes After "Become a Builder"?
Kevin Yien is the Head of Product for Merchant Experiences at Stripe. Before that he led Product at Mutiny and Square. In this episode, Kevin and I discuss how to keep AI from becoming theater, why a PM shipping to production can be a red flag, and why AI is pulling product management back to its fundamentals of strategy, opinion, and judgment.
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Key topics:
• Why "PM is dead" is the wrong frame, and every function is "shifting left"
• The three PM archetypes, and how zero-to-one changed most
"Killing your darlings" and keeping the blast radius small
• From a personal knowledge corpus to a…
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