I like to divide it to six types of passions: Technical, User experience, User psychology, Data, Project management and Wackiness. I try to look at the person and understand their passion, regardless of their background (which mig…

What you should be looking for in a product person
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Uri Haramati
Mike Lyngaas
Feb 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Really like these passions, especially the Wackiness part :). Curious how you think the following skills fit into this framework:

  1. Vision: in addition to shipping stuff now, can the PM formulate a 2/5/10/25 year vision of their product, and lay the foundation to get there? This might map closest to the ‘User Psychology’ passion — what will users want in future?
  2. Economics: pricing, margins, etc. More important for mature products and product orgs.

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