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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: recommendation
12 Mar 2026 Lenny's Podcast How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky
“I think the way I describe it is your job as a product manager is to deliver business impact by prioritizing and solving the most impactful business problems.”
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- Speaker
- Lenny Rachitsky
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- recommendation
- Recorded
- 12 Mar 2026
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…Yeah, you can't say not a project manager. Yeah, not a project manager. That's right. I think the way I describe it is your job as a product manager is to deliver business impact by prioritizing and solving the most impactful business problems. Something like that. That's many words. You're like, "This is why I never know what it is. It's so boring. What are you even talking about?" This comes back to the mini CEO thing, just to close that thread. I feel like the PM on the team basically should be thinking the way the CEO thinks. Their job is to think, what would the CEO do on this specific product or feature? Because the CEO's job is to make this successful, make this business grow. And so your job as a PM is to channel that. What will allow this team and product to help the business be more successful? Do you feel like you're doing that as the... I guess you are.…
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