Why Product Management Has Become So Important

European Straits #116

Dear all,

I’m in California for 12 days—part meetings and talks, part vacationing with my daughter Béatrice. Here are three things I wanted to highlight.

1/ If you’re in San Francisco, you should attend the discussion on technology and the Safety Net I’ll be having with Rey Faustino of One Degree tomorrow (Thursday) at 12pm. The talk is being held in partnership with New America CA and is hosted by the James Irvine Foundation. Here are the details: LINK.

2/ Everyone I’ve been meeting so far—and I mean everyone—has discussed the fact that San Francisco has become unaffordable and unbearable. More and more tech companies are trying to figure out how to redistribute their operations in nicer and cheaper cities. At some point, one of them will crack that code and change Silicon Valley forever! In the meantime, you should read these two articles:

• One written in March 2002 by Nick Denton (who then went on to founding Gawker): E-mail from the Valley.

• The other just published by Michael Gibson in …