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Quora didn't change your question.Another user changed your question, apparently because he wanted to write a specific kind of answer which wasn't what you were looking for.Then a Quora employee changed it back.Then the user changed it again.Then I changed it back once more to its original form.If the user changes your question again, report it.In the meanwhile you should stay away from tossing around words like "Retard" because here on Quora we have a policy called "Be Nice Be Respectful" and that's a pretty disrespectful name to call someone. I have deleted that topic from your restated question and urge you not to try putting it back.

Some of my suggestions have been mentioned already, but I believe these are some of the most important practices to approach for PM:Getting a Product Management certificate in order to have a higher level of understanding.Practicing empathy for customers, colleagues, and executivesFighting complacency → staying extremely hungry for knowledgeLeading by example → this can’t be stressed enough; there is very few things that will other employees more than a manager who does not practice what they preach.Learning the key elements of neighboring departments’ tasks. Being able to speak a common language can be hugely helpful when developing a product.Product Management is a discipline that requires adaptation and focus. The work is constantly changing forms, and there is always new innovation that comes into the role. You as a PM should always be aware of this, and you should be constantly searching for these new trends and practices.

99%+ of the time the returning of founder as CEO to a post IPO company is an act of useless desperation. It is known to fail but when you are facing certain death one takes even slim chances betting on hope.Once companies grow and go public with an IPO, founders leave one by one in the subsequent years, gradually disengaging and disconnecting from the public company in most every respect. A mass turnover of rich pre IPO employees replaced by ordinary corporate employees. Strategy and day to day operations fall entirely to the post IPO employees. Out with the old, in with the new.The influence of a founder only works in the pre IPO atmosphere of a small dynamic startup. Once a company goes public the employees change along with their expectations and willingness to sacrifice personal time for corporate priorities. The company is no longer a pre IPO dynamic startup. It is just another newly minted public company many of which subsequently flounder and fail. The influence and skillset of a founder is typically a net negative in the post IPO company as what works in a small company fails in a medium sized company.So Wall Street accurately assesses this action for what it is - a last ditch Hail Mary attempt that will likely fail. This drama has played out many times before as we all know the probabie ending which is the dashing of hope. Therefore the private internal situation at Pandora must be far worse that the current public perception which implies a lower stock price. The other case is that the Pandora situation is not dire but the management is signaling incompetence with a ham fisted move. The best move for Panadora would be an acquisition by a larger company.I have seen what seems to be a countless number of Silicon Valley IPOs occur in over 3 decades. The only glaring exception to the founder returning in desperation rule is Apple Computer (I knew Apple pre IPO employees #10 and #20) as it also suffered when Wozniak and Jobs checked out in the mid 80's. Jobs then mistakenly gave the reins over to John Sculley because that is what he thought Wall Street wanted. It was the misfortune of this move that eventually drove Jobs to retake control to resurrect Apple from the brink. This success of this move involved an enormous amount of luck and skill doubtless fueled by the special arrogance, relentless drive and illogical obsession to detail that formed the being known as Steve Jobs. It is safe to posit that Pandora will not repeat the path of Apple as the exceptions to this rule are highly improbable.