Another signal of the breadth of product responsibility will take place in the product roadmap meeting: Do we put feature A in or feature B? Do we put feature B in this quarter or next quarter? Who gets to say what feature C should look like exactly? If you feel like the founders are looking over your shoulder and making those decisions, or are in the room when those decisions are being made, it means the founders are still taking a very active role. If they’re not in the room at all and just ask to be debriefed later—Let me weigh in on that one thing that I really care about; I don’t care
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