Strong opinion, strongly held: If you're a pre-product market fit startup hiring product people, you're doing it wrong.

Product people have a time and place. Just not before PMF.

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Yea this changes my view, I agree with OP then. My initial assumption was product people: devs who focuses on the product and shipping the product with only-essential features rather than focusing on code quality and perfection.

Product people = don’t code or design or sell

Founders with less responsibility but also less freedom/problem surface area to tackle. Also less equity.

those who ensure "that what gets built is both valuable and viable"

those who ensure "that what gets built is both valuable and viable"
https://www.svpg.com/product-management-start-here/

working on farcaster infrastructure @ /neynar, neynar.com  🪐   /rish 

Consulting and advising for crypto protocols and projects like FastLane and Privy. Prev product @rainbow, work for Uniswap Fdn, Biconomy, Socket and others 

Among other things, the product person is the voice of the user. Agree with Dan, this should be the founder pre-pmf