Episodes

March 13, 2024

Marty Cagan: Moving to the product model

Marty Cagan joins me for real talk about transforming into a strong product company.

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Jan. 23, 2024

Randy Silver: The conversations that create impactful products

Randy Silver is a product leadership advisor, podcast host, and global product community weaver. We explore the conversations needed to drive impact and perception of value. You can also read this episode here. — Topics discu...

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Dec. 12, 2023

(Bonus) Chris Smith: Simple guidelines for AI investment sizing

Chris Smith is a longtime engineering leader who has been in the trenches of building with AI & machine learning for years. This is a short, bonus episode to go along with our main conversation : https://pod.fo/e/20a5ef

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Dec. 12, 2023

Chris Smith: How to think about adding AI to your product

Chris Smith is a longtime engineering leader who has been in the trenches of building with AI & machine learning for years. He’s led the development of data systems & strategies at tech giants like early Google, Yahoo, and Su...

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Nov. 1, 2023

Nacho Bassino: How to build your first product strategy

Nacho Bassino is a veteran product leader and the author of Product Direction, one of my go-to books on how to actually generate a product strategy. There are many excellent books out there on strategy as a whole, but surpris...

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Oct. 10, 2023

Pam Fox Rollin: Growing Groups Into Teams

Pam Fox Rollin is an executive coach and strategist. This is a conversation about the conversations that leaders are not having. These are THE difference between building a truly committed team that delivers the future you ca...

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Sept. 27, 2023

Eisha Armstrong: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing Change

Zooming in on three common change management issues: forecasting, role transitions, and departmental power dynamics. — Topics discussed (00:03:01) Companies transforming into product organizations (00:05:01) Revenue shift: sm...

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Aug. 9, 2023

MJ Jastrebski: How to build resilience and stay buoyant as a CPO

MJ Jastrebski is the CPO of Stylitics, a rapidly scaling retail technology company that helps retail websites automate styling and bundling for their consumers.

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July 19, 2023

Thank you, and a brief update

It's been quiet around here because I'm in deep in the creative process of reimagining this show, and I need your help. Podcast analytics are terrible, and I want to know more about YOU. Please fill out this short, 5-ish …

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May 30, 2023

Donna Lichaw: The leader's journey

Donna Lichaw is an executive coach for unconventional leaders, and the author of the newly-released book The Leader’s Journey . Donna brings a background in design and product to her executive coaching and helps unconventiona...

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May 17, 2023

Adam Thomas: Operationalizing product strategy

Adam Thomas is a coach that helps product teams operationalize strategy so they spend more time focused on building the right products and less time fighting fires. In this conversation, we discuss Adam's decision making fram...

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April 11, 2023

Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu

Mike Saloio is the CEO and cofounder of Huddle, a startup that brings together fractional swat teams of expert builders to help startups generate real momentum on their most important projects within a week. This is a candid ...

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March 27, 2023

Rob Walling: The SaaS playbook and gut intuition

Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur and the internet godfather of indie SaaS businesses who has built six companies and has been a long-standing voice in creative, independent paths into product building and entrepreneurship since 2010.

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March 7, 2023

Double click on the love

What do you do when one of your top three KPIs is stagnant, and the product isn't growing? A micro case study in debugging retention and unlocking growth.

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Feb. 28, 2023

Petra Wille: Building a community of practice

Petra Wille is a product leadership coach and the author of Strong Product People, which is my go-to book for the people development side of being a product leader. In this conversation, we dive deep into: * why and how …

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Feb. 7, 2023

Bob Moesta: Prototyping to learn & applying JTBD theory

Bob Moesta is one of the pioneers of Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) theory, which has fundamentally changed the way we think about building products and discovering what progress people actually need and want from the products they h...

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Jan. 25, 2023

Sahil Lavingia: Independent Thinking + Pricing Changes at Gumroad

Sahil Lavingia has had an epic journey as an entrepreneur: he dropped out of college to become employee #2 at Pinterest and then went on to found Gumroad, one of the largest platforms for creators to sell their work and …

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Jan. 10, 2023

5 Takeaways from a week with some of the world's best product coaches

Five things I (re)learned from spending a week with SVPG + some of the best product coaches in the world. ===== You can read this episode here. Sign up here to get upcoming audio essays emailed to you Follow the …

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Dec. 27, 2022

#60 DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks

DJ DiDonna helps us approach taking REAL time off and evolving our identity along with our career. Whether you’re feeling like you need to take time off, or if you’re curious about what sabbaticals are and why they might be …

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Nov. 1, 2022

#59 Kenny Borg: Identity transformation + embodying fulfillment

Kenny Borg helps us explore the ongoing evolution of our identity, deal with imposter syndrome, and embody fulfillment throughout the journey instead of putting it off to the end.

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June 28, 2022

#58 Scott Young: Learning for Real Life

Scott Young is an expert on rapid, effective learning. This ep will help you learn new skills effectively and quickly amidst the chaos of real life.

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May 31, 2022

#57 Rob Fitzpatrick: Shaping an Entrepreneurial Career

Rob Fitzpatrick is the author of The Mom Test, and he'll help you fight the good fight to bring your ideas into the world.

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April 7, 2022

#56 Ash Maurya: The Innovator's Gift

Ash Maurya introduces "The Innovator's Gift" to help you find problems worth solving, and navigate the uncertainty of new product ideas.

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March 1, 2022

How do I do continuous discovery for a new product, pre-PMF?

How to apply continuous discovery techniques to a nascent, early stage product that doesn't yet have product-market fit.

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