The person who happens to be the product manager of the most explosive new product category will think they're a genius.
- The person who happens to be the product manager of the most explosive new product category will think they're a genius.
- When in reality the demand for the product is so great it's hard to have messed it up.
- When Google Maps launched its massive UI revamp more than a decade ago, the main user success metrics barely budged.
- People used Google Maps to accomplish tasks that they needed to do, so no matter what the UI was like, they'd power through.
- Anything minimally competent would have had a similarly great outcome.
- The skill of the PM only matters that much in middling ideas, not in fundamentally great ones.