How Meta Is Reinventing Product Management

Meta is one of the biggest dinosaurs in the park, yet in a matter of months it rebuilt PM top to bottom, and almost none of it was bought. My guest is Jagjit Chawla, a VP of Product at Meta who’s running a growing share of the Facebook app: Feed, Reels, and more recently Search. I worked alongside Jagjit for nearly ten years across Google, Credit Karma, and Meta, and almost nothing is as I remember it. These systems were built by the teams themselves, sometimes in a single evening, on tools you already have. Jagjit walks me through how a product org of a few thousand people learned to move like a startup again.

Key topics:

• Inside Meta’s “no-meeting week” that set the org loose on the tools

• The one job AI can't take: influencing other humans

• Why the PMs winning on Jagjit’s team aren't engineers

• What to do when you’re the bottleneck

• How to become an "AI captain"

• Triaging tens of thousands of bug reports with agents that validate and pre-write the fix

• Why letting AI write code made site incidents spike, and how Meta clamped down

• Building a morning brief that flags the decisions only you can make

• Why the management "compression algorithm" is dead and what replaced it

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