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Explore how product management skills are evolving in the AI era through this 59-minute interview with Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear. Discover how Linear has achieved billion-dollar company status with only 2 product managers while scaling to over 15,000 companies including OpenAI and Ramp. Learn through a comprehensive ranking exercise which PM skills will survive AI disruption and which will become obsolete, including surprising insights about how AI is disrupting traditional strategy work. Understand the new essential skills product managers must develop, particularly context management and AI agent coordination. Examine Linear's "10% rule" philosophy that balances craft with shipping speed, and witness live demonstrations of AI agents that can write code, triage tickets, and analyze customer feedback instantly using MCP (Model Context Protocol). See how entire product backlogs can be delegated to AI agents with single commands, and gain insights into Linear's vision as an operating system for human-AI collaboration in product development.
Syllabus
00:00 Why Linear is a billion dollar company with just 2 PMs
03:22 Ranking PM skills: What survives vs gets disrupted by AI
11:10 Why strategy is actually being disrupted by AI
21:51 The new skills PMs must build: context and agent management
26:57 Craft vs speed: Linear's 10% rule for shipping fast
38:09 Live demo: Using MCP to analyze customer feedback instantly
53:04 Delegating entire backlogs to AI agents with one command
57:12 Linear's future as an operating system for human-AI collaboration
Taught by
Peter Yang