Matt LeMay

Great PMs present clear options with trade-offs instead of simply agreeing or refusing requests.

Matt argues the real magic in music and product comes from diverse people building something greater than their individual parts, a value that will grow as AI advances.

Ask each team member what single sentence they’d love to tell the CEO at year-end to clarify expectations and desired outcomes.

Alongside multiple options you must state a recommendation to avoid endless hole-poking and build momentum.

Ensure a single 'why' statement or simple formula links a team metric directly to the company target.

Matt warns that obsessing over OKRs, objectives and other middle layers distances teams from actual business impact.

Target converting single-product users to multiproduct users to capture higher customer lifetime value and hit revenue goals.

He recommends asking, 'If you were the CEO, would you fully fund your own team?' to stress-test whether your work truly merits continued investment.

Citing Alan Watts, Matt explains that pushing harder often backfires, so avoid over-complicating goals and OKRs.

Prioritise work by estimating impact using the exact metric your goal is measured in rather than abstract scores.

Understanding how the business model actually makes money reveals true company priorities and ethical fit for employees.

Matt outlines setting team-level goals tied to company goals, keeping impact visible throughout development, and reconnecting every task back to that impact.

Matt repeats a line from Alan Watts to emphasise its impact on his thinking about control.

Matt argues the PM's job is to ensure the whole team thinks like a CEO rather than acting as a lone mini CEO.

Matt highlights that the best PMs stay deeply curious about what success means for their specific business context.

When things are going well, stay curious, learn from other teams, and build connections before inevitable plateaus.

A PM’s ICE matrix was re-grounded in actual user conversion numbers, revealing a high-effort onboarding overhaul was the only path to goal.

A growth team replaced bloated OKRs with a single timeline toward one million users, restoring focus and sharper decision-making.

Given a precise conversion goal, a hesitant team accelerated shipping, validation, and discovery, demonstrating clarity drives proactive execution.

Treat regulatory, B2B or financial constraints as guiding parameters rather than excuses, letting them shape commercially sound product decisions.