Peter Sellis says the strongest product managers often move on to founding or executive roles

What was said

"If you're very good at it, the skills you develop as a product leader are are almost perfect for either other executive roles just like overall leadership roles or starting your own company. So you're on the right hand side of the distribution like the great product managers are exiting the system. Um they're becoming founders, they're becoming executives etc."

Peter Sellis argues that product management can resemble a power distribution in which the median performer is weaker than the mean. He says that if someone is very good at product leadership, their skills translate well into broader executive roles or starting a company, so “great” PMs often “exit the system,” while others have incentives to remain in the role.