18 June 2026 09:15 - 09:45
PM 2029: Not the CEO, but a Solopreneur
The "CEO of the product" was always a comfortable lie. CEOs have authority, budget, and ownership. Product managers have responsibility without any of the three. The role was designed for coordination — not creation. And the best PMs have always known it.
That changes by 2029. AI is collapsing the distance between product thinking and product reality. One person with the right skills and an AI stack can now do what once required an entire funded team — research, design, build, ship, and iterate — at a speed and cost that would have been unimaginable five years ago. The solopreneur PM isn't a side hustle or a startup fantasy. It's the next evolutionary form of the role — and it's already here.