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>>staran+(OP)
The media and the VCs are treating Sam like some hero and savior of AI. I’m not getting it. What has he done in life and/or AI to deserve so much respect and admiration? Why don’t top researchers and scientists get equivalent (if not more) respect, admiration and support? It looks like one should strive to become product manager, not an engineer or a scientist.

>>eclect+79
> It looks like one should strive to become product manager, not an engineer or a scientist.

In my experience, product people who know what they are doing have a huge impact on the success of a company, product, or service. They also point engineering efforts in the right direction, which in turn also motivate engineers.

I saw good product people leaving completely destroy a team, never seen that happen with a good engineer or individual contributor, no matter how great they were.

>>serial+Ev
Interesting. I had the opposite experience. All of the product suite having no idea about what the product even is, where it should go, making bad decisions over and over, excusing their bad choices behind "data" and finally, as usual, failing upwards eventually moving to bigger startups.

I have yet to find a product person that was not involved in the inception of the idea that is actually good (hell, even some founders fail spectacularly here).

Perhaps I'm simply unlucky.

>>Draike+GG
In my comment, the emphasis is definitely on the "product people who know what they are doing" and "good product people".

Of course, if the product suite is clueless, nobody is going to miss them, usually it's better the have no dedicated product people, than having clueless product people.