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CalmInterview · 2026-01-11T03:08:26.098998+00:00

Topic: Panel review of Are Right A Lot response. Panel Consensus: The panel unanimously agrees that the candidate demonstrates promising instincts, such as customer empathy, ownership, proactive adoption thinking, and funnel awareness, which are green flags across their lenses. They consistently highlight shared concerns about the lack of structured validation through data, trade-offs, experiments, systems thinking, and customer relationships, emphasizing that gut decisions do not scale for a senior PM role. While there are no major disagreements, they build on each other - e.g., extending experiments to engineering feasibility and tying relationships to technical constraints - to reinforce the need for full-stack, hypothesis-driven ownership.

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