Guns, Ammo, and Product Managers

So there you are: the product manager for a boringHow One Goes About Buying Bullets
product. How often have you caught yourself gazingI'm sure that there are some of you out there that
longingly over at one of those iPhones, Kindles, orhave very strong feelings about guns and such. Let's
some other such highly desirable product and thoughput those feelings aside for a few minutes and take
to yourself "Now why couldn't I be the Producta closer look at the issue of, what else, bullets. If you
Manager for a cool product like that?" I have oneare not an avid survivalist or hunter, you probably
message for you - get over it. It turns out thathaven't purchased bullets before.
there are other product manager who are responsibleIt turns out that people really care about what gun
for products that are even less cool than yours andthey buy. However, bullets are almost an
they are doing some pretty amazing things to makeafterthought purchase. Sorry about that bullet
their products successful...product managers.