[laurex]

I'm curious what this will look like in a year since I think the overall trend in product management is orthogonal to the idea "persuasion and coordination have been core to the web2 PM job. Those skills don’t matter as much here."

It seems to imply that web3 is kind of like a certain era of 'web 2' startups where engineers were king and there was a "if you build it they will come' mentality. In other words, customer-second.

My hunch is that web3 will actually need to go in the opposite direction. The value of products has ALWAYS been what customers think of it; web3 just makes that even more direct. Right now there's a kind of 'if it's cool' aspect to web3 projects but to cross the chasm to wider adoption, we'll need to see more human pain points being effectively addressed and communicated and the PM should be the point person in discovering what to build and how to create value for customers.