Lenny’s Podcast72 min
How Revolut trains world-class product managers: The “local CEO” model, raw intellect over experience, and a cultural obsession with building wow products
Dmitry Zlokazov · May 15, 2025
Key learnings
- Treat product managers as end-to-end owners of their area, closer to local CEOs, with authority over the roadmap, team direction…
- Hire for raw intellect and an unquenched hunger to build things, rather than for years of experience, since experienced hires…
- Look for people who have founded startups or worked as tech co-founders, since they tend to be hands-on across many areas and…