TUSHAR  JAIN

Before I formally entered product management, I did not announce to myself or to anyone that I was “transitioning into product.” In fact, for a very long time, I resisted even calling it a transition. I was coming from a world where decisions were immediate, consequences were direct, and ownership was absolute. As a founder, if something worked, it worked because I made it so. If something failed, the responsibility ended with me. There was a certain raw honesty in that life.

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y first 90 days as a Product Manager broke every assumption I had, from influence without authority to documentation shock and stakeholder pressure. These are the real lessons no job description prepares you for.

For a long time, I believed that if you are intelligent, hardworking, and deeply involved in execution, you will automatically end up solving the right problems. I was wrong. Some of the costliest mistakes of my career did not come from lack of effort or poor intent. They came from solving the wrong problem with full conviction. This realisation did not come from a book or a framework. It came from watching good ideas fail quietly, and flawed assumptions reveal themselves onl

When I entered my first product role, I did not struggle with effort. I struggled with my own certainty. For years, I had taken decisions as a business owner. I was used to spotting gaps, acting quickly, and trusting my judgement. That instinct had protected me in the world of business and e-commerce. But inside a product organisation, the same instinct quietly started hurting the quality of my decisions. I was still sharp.  I was still hardworking.  But I was biased in a ver

I never planned to become a Product Manager. This is the true story of how curiosity, observation, and real-world problem solving revealed that product management was the right career path for me.