Tom Verrilli, CPO at Whatnot (fastest-growing U.S. marketplace with $8B GMV), argues that product management shouldn't exist as a specialist function—instead, engineers and designers should own product decisions, freeing PMs to focus on high-leverage problems where they're truly needed. He reveals hiring only 1 PM from 31,832 applicants by prioritizing systems thinking and execution over alignment skills. Hiring too many PMs infantilizes engineers and designers by removing their decision-making muscle; instead, map PMs to critical problems rather than to teams.