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Hands-on AI side projects and demonstrated autonomy now outweigh pedigree and cross-functional management experience in senior PM hiring.

• Frontier over scale: Anthony Maggio left Airtable for 200-person Runway over Frontier Labs like OpenAI/Anthropic because those labs now 'operate like many large companies,' while Runway (maker of Solaris, a real-time interactive video model) let him help define new ways of working.
• Lilly's 150-year data moat: Gadi Ben-Zvi joined Eli Lilly's AI platform team despite no pharma background, drawn by internal AI models already predicting drug toxicity early and a biotech-feedback data loop, in an industry willing to bet on years-long timelines.

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