Thought bite: the unspoken truth about visionary vs. optimization-driven Product Management

Thomas Ziegelbecker
4 min readDec 19, 2022

After reading Steve Jobs’s autobiography I had an epiphany. Why do Product discovery and customer interviews exist? Is it needed? All the time? It’s a discussion we had at our monthly PM gathering. So I naively separate PMs or companies into two buckets:

  • The visionaries (aka hedgehogs)

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Thomas Ziegelbecker

Hi, I’m a Product Management enthusiast at Dynatrace, a dad, a husband, and an idealist who believes that we can make the world a better place.