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Ranking 15 PM Skills: What Survives vs. Gets Disrupted by AI | Nan Yu (Linear)

Ranking 15 PM Skills: What Survives vs. Gets Disrupted by AI | Nan Yu (Linear)

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Today, I want to share a new episode with Nan Yu (Linear’s Head of Product).Despite only having 2 PMs, Linear has scaled to over 15,000 companies including OpenAI and Ramp. In our chat, Nan and I did a fun exercise to rank what PM skills still matter in the AI era and he also demoed Linear’s new AI agents that can write code, triage tickets, and analyze customer feedback.Nan and I talked about:

(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 collaborationGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/ranking-every-pm-skill-what-still-matters-gets-disrupted-by-ai-nan-yu-linearWhere to find Nan:

X: https://x.com/thenanyu

Website: https://linear.app/📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

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