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# PM ranking

2026-09-14

No. 15 on the greatest product managers list: Lei Jun — he never invented a single category

In 2025 Xiaomi delivered 411,082 electric vehicles; the auto segment booked RMB 106.1 billion in revenue, up 223.8% year on year, and RMB 0.9 billion in operating profit — positive for the first time. Group revenue was RMB 457.3 billion and adjusted net profit RMB 39.2 billion. Lei Jun ranks 15th at 92.70, and originality 89 is the lowest of his six scores. This explains that number: every category he entered already existed, and his real skill is the speed with which he copies one playbook into the next.

2026-09-10

No. 14 on the greatest product managers list: Jack Ma — how a man who says he can’t write code made the top 15

Alipay launched on 15 October 2003. Its first transaction: Cui Weiping, studying in Japan, sold a used Fuji camera for 750 yuan; Jiao Zhenzhong in Xi’an bought it; it cleared two hours later. That year eBay’s EachNet held 72.4% of China’s C2C market — two years later that exact number belonged to Taobao. Jack Ma ranks 14th at 93.20, with taste at 80, his lowest, 19 points below Zhang Xiaolong at No. 3.

2026-09-08

No. 12 on the greatest product managers list: Henry Ford — he never said the “faster horses” line, and it gets him backwards

In 1913 Ford hired 50,448 people to hold a workforce of 13,623 — 370% turnover. That same year, build time for a Model T fell from 12 hours 30 minutes to 93 minutes. Those two numbers are the same fact. Ford ranks 12th at 93.80: originality 99 and scale 99 both maxed, taste only 80 — the widest split on the board.