Videos

March 13, 2024

Marty Cagan: Moving to the product model

Marty Cagan joins me for real talk about what it takes to transform into a strong product company. Transcript & full show notes available here: https://pod.fo/e/226791

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Jan. 23, 2024

#76 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 in product management. Full transcript and show notes here: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/p/randy-silver-conversations-create-impact

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Dec. 12, 2023

#74 Chris Smith: Mental models to add AI into 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 Sun; S&P 500's like Live Nation; and a wide variety of…

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Dec. 12, 2023

#75 Chris Smith (bonus): 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 (#74). For transcript & resource links, see: https://podcast.makethingsthatmatter.com/simple-guidelines-for-ai-investment-planning

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Oct. 31, 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 surprisingly few that specifically cover product strategy, and Nacho’s work fills…

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Oct. 9, 2023

#72 Pam Fox Rollin: Growing Groups Into Teams

This is a conversation about the conversations that leaders are NOT having, that are THE difference between building a truly committed team that delivers the future you care about… and having a group which is a team in name only. Full show notes & transcript here: https://podcast.makethingsthatmatter.com/pam-fox-rollin-growing-groups-into-teams/

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Sept. 26, 2023

#71 Eisha Armstrong: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing Change

Eisha Armstrong. Eisha has long experience in building and launching new data businesses, and in helping service companies to transition to selling products instead of time. In this conversation, we dive into the lessons she's learned in the trenches of helping transform, and look into three specific sticking points when…

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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. Full show notes & transcript here: https://podcast.makethingsthatmatter.com/mj-jastrebski-how-to-build-resilience-and-stay-buoyant-as-a-leader/

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May 29, 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. Full show notes (links & resources) here: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/p/donna-lichaw-the-leaders-journey

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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. We discuss Adam's decision making framework, Survival Metrics, which helps product teams make better decisions and avoid both sunk costs and loss aversion.…

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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. Full show notes (links & resources) here: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/p/mike-saloio-leadership-ubuntu

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March 27, 2023

Rob Walling: The SaaS playbook and gut intuition

The SaaS Playbook will shave years off your learning curve if you want to build a SaaS. Rob Walling is a 6x serial entrepreneur and the internet godfather of indie SaaS. For links and show notes, go to: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/rob-walling-saas-playbook-founder-gut-intuition

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March 14, 2023

Double Click on the Love: debugging retention and unlocking growth

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. Read the original article here: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/p/double-click-on-the-love

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Feb. 28, 2023

Petra Wille: Product leadership and 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 a community of practice can level up your team and…

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Feb. 6, 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 hire. Show notes here: https://blog.makethingsthatmatter.com/p/bob-moesta-prototyping-to-learn-applying-jtbd

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Feb. 3, 2023

Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating optimal experience of life (part 1)

Flow dramatically increases every measure of performance you can imagine, as well as your subjective quality of life experience. It’s defined as an optimal state of consciousness. This will help you understand and increase your time in flow so you can get the most out of every aspect of your…

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Feb. 3, 2023

Rian Doris & Conor Murphy: Flow — Cultivating optimal life experience of life (part 2)

Flow dramatically increases every measure of performance you can imagine, as well as your subjective quality of life experience. It’s defined as an optimal state of consciousness. This will help you understand and increase your time in flow so you can get the most out of every aspect of your…

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Feb. 2, 2023

May Lindstrom: The power of having a North Star

In this episode, we meet May Lindstrom, the founder of May Lindstrom Skin. She shares her incredible story of creating a beloved company that is transforming the skincare industry and creating a thriving life for herself and her employees. And how she's delivered love with unwavering integrity. See all links…

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Feb. 2, 2023

Marshall Mosher: tough product calls & acclimating to fear

Marshall Mosher is the cofounder and CEO of Vestigo, a company that uses outdoor adventure experiences to help people push outside their comfort zones, get comfortable being uncomfortable, and build deep trust with their teammates. Marshall caught the entrepreneurial bug at the tail end of his masters program, and hasn't…

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Feb. 2, 2023

Barry O'Reilly: Unlearning and creating culture change

Barry O'Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who helps people invent their future instead of fearing it. We start by dropping right into a powerful moment in Barry's career as an entrepreneur, and go on to cover everything from deliberate practice, to culture change within an organization, to…

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Feb. 2, 2023

Christina Wodtke: Unleashing potential with extraordinary teams

Christina Wodtke is an author, professor and speaker who helps groups turn into high performing teams. She is a lecturer at Stanford, advisor to many startups, and is the author of 5 books, including Radical Focus, a bestseller about the Objectives and Key Results , or OKRs, approach to goal…

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Feb. 2, 2023

Rich Mironov: Building a thriving product organization

My guest in this conversation is Rich Mironov, who is known as the "product mensch" in Silicon Valley, and for good reason. Rich is a 30-year veteran of product management at multiple enterprises and startups that have gone public who now consults as an interim VP of Product helping companies…

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Feb. 2, 2023

Barry Brown: Shaping the shapers

Barry Brown helps leaders be more of who they are and be more effective in bringing forth the change they seek to make in the world. He's someone I call a "shaper of shapers," and by the end of this conversation, you'll understand why. See all links & show notes…

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Feb. 2, 2023

Becky Baybrook: culture, candor, and how Millenials are changing management

Becky Baybrook's work starts from the belief that organizations reveal who they are in the ways they respond to setbacks and tests of integrity, and that the same is true for individuals—especially leaders—in companies of any size. Becky has spent decades now going deep on and helping companies and their…

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