Director of Product: I was pushed out after building a startup to what it was over 7 years. Equity went from $10M+ to <$1M.

The advise seem pretty good. Also hiring the right person who understands the vision is more important as well. Trust and a common goal is very important for a startup in early stages

I really hate the last line of annoying non-tech stakeholders. I dont understand why so many good product/engineering folks refuse to acknowledge that without sales doing their jobs, none of them will have a long term career in their company. And sales team will always have a pulse on what is being demanded by customers for their needs. Nothing wrong in catering to those demands. ( not all the time though)

As you grow senior in an org you also need to establish your value prop to the higher management or else you are just one of them easily replaceable no name faces to them.

He showed delusion the moment he said I built startup to what it was. A PM is almost a nobody apart from sweet talker.

He feels EM overstepped by speaking to customers?😂 Kya level ka chutiya hai?

As a data scientist I love to speak with my customers. Understand their issues. And ofcourse it's my product if I have an idea I will fucking build it. PMs can give their ideas most of which will be half baked anyway but I don't need any know nothing PMs to tell me to do something or not.

And WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I include non engineering in engineering daily stand up? Once a week or once in 2 weeks is enough.

You only called ur self a PM. On reality you were a nobody. Only one that actually builds value to the company matters. PMs do add value but they are small. So this is bang on.