Apr 9, 2025

What Some Execs Get Wrong About Product-Led Growth

Some execs get product-led growth wrong.

They confuse it for a team chart shift. Treat the product team like glorified BAs. Let sales keep owning the funnel.

But product-led growth isn't a structural tweak. It's a go-to-market motion. Product isn't there to “gather requirements” - it drives the entire engine. From first click to expansion. Sales doesn't disappear but it stops being the gate. It becomes a guide.

Leave product out of the funnel and you're not doing PLG. Putting lipstick on a sales funnel.

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About Max Antonov

I'm a father of 3 from Sydney, a Product Director and a Product Coach. I write about leadership, product management and the messy reality of making work work.

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