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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Monday, July 13, 2026

Startup Eliminates Product Managers, Relies on AI for Product Development

A rapidly growing tech company has eliminated the role of product managers, opting instead to leverage AI to summarize calls, create action items, and manage Kanban boards. The company believes this structure, combined with cross-functional teams and embedded engineers, optimizes product development.

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And now how do you think about product managers and management as the CEO and as the co-founder?
Yeah, we we, so, we don't we don't have any PMs.
It's a little bit of what you mentioned, that was also before the true AI impact started, which was ideal, ideal person in that role can code, can understand the customer, can design.
Heard on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg — “The Trillion-Dollar Industries AI Is Disrupting: Voice, Law & the End of the Billable Hour, published Monday, July 13, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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