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#114: Why I quit my high-paying PM job to go all in as a solopreneur builder | Peter Yang (ex-Roblox, Reddit, Twitter)
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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#113: Why free-range AI consulting is the best job in tech right now | Noah Levin (Founder @ Serious People, ex- Amazon & Honor)
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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#112: How to Self-Promote Without Burning Trust | Mallory Contois & Hilary Gridley
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May 25, 2026 |
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#111: Why bootstrapping forces you to get better | Marc Baselga & Ben Erez
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May 18, 2026 |
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#110: Why AI makes systems thinking the most valuable skill for PMs | Apurva Garware (ex-VP Product at Upwork, ex-Amazon)
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May 11, 2026 |
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#109: Inside Maven's shift from EPD specialists to flexible builders | Rishin Banker (VP Product @ Maven)
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May 04, 2026 |
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#108: How to find clarity when your career path keeps shifting | Molly Siemers (Coach + Advisor for Senior Product Leaders, ex-Kiva, Change.org)
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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#107: How synthetic users are changing product decision making | Tom Charman (Co-founder @ Blok)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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#106: The rise of the full stack builder | Tomer Cohen (Former Chief Product Officer @ LinkedIn)
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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#105: How I built my AI “chief of staff” | Michael Leibovich (GM, Behance + Adobe Portfolio @ Adobe)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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#104: Why the best talent fails in the wrong environment | Hiten Shah (CEO @ Crazy Egg, ex- Dropbox)
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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#103: What senior product people should know about fractional work | Ben Erez
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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#102: How to stand out in a crowded space | Elan Miller (Founder @ Off-Menu)
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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#101: Why everyone should have an AI-powered cloud computer | Ben Guo (Cofounder @ Zo)
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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#100: Reflecting on two years and 100 podcast episodes | Marc Baselga & Ben Erez
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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#99: How the air force prepared me for product management | Yaniv Fatal (Founding PM @ Blast Security, formerly @ Wiz)
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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#98: Why mid-career people are doubling down on self-learning | Gagan Biyani (CEO and Co-Founder @ Maven)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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#97: What it means to be a forward-deployed product leader | Chase Schwalbach (SVP Product & Technology @ Millie)
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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#96: Inside Magic Patterns: Why frontend focus helps win over product teams | Alexander Danilowicz (CEO & Co-founder @ Magic Patterns)
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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#95: How to find your authentic voice online without faking it | Mallory Contois (VP Growth @ Maven, Ex-Pinterest)
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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#94: How AI is enabling top operators to open-source their expertise | Casey Winters (Co-founder & CEO @ SuperMe, ex-Eventbrite & Pinterest)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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#93: Why a product marketing background is a PM superpower | Michael Chen (Product @ DoorDash, ex-Asana, Slack, LinkedIn)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#92: Are universities failing to prepare students for jobs? | Stephen Cognetta (Co-founder @ Exponent, ex-Google)
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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#91: How pre-seed investors evaluate startup moats in the AI era | Itamar Novick (Founder & General Partner @ Recursive Ventures)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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#90: How top PM candidates leverage recruiters to their advantage | Anneli Scopazzi (Founder @ Boulevard Recruiting, ex - Figma, Palantir, Notion)
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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#89: The hidden role of rituals in Duolingo's product culture | Nickey Skarstad (Director of Product @ Duolingo, ex-Airbnb, Etsy)
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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#88: How to accelerate your company's AI adoption with a 5-day hackathon | Gaurav Hardikar (VP Product & Growth @ HomeLight)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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#87: WTF is "Product Taste" and unpacking the PM hype around it | Sachin Rekhi (AI course creator, founder, ex-LinkedIn product leader)
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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#86: How senior PMs get 10x leverage by “hiring” AI agents | Jacob Bank (Founder/CEO @ Relay.app)
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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#85: How to decide whether to start a course | Claire Chen (Growth @ Maven)
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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#84: How Reforge launched 5 AI products in 9 months with just 25 people | Brian Balfour (Founder/CEO @ Reforge)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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#83: The scariest episode we’ve ever recorded: Marc & Ben’s live coaching session with Josh Herzig-Marx
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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#82: Inside the new recruiting reality: fewer hires, higher bars | Anneli Scopazzi (Founder @ Boulevard Recruiting, ex - Figma & Notion)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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#81: I spent 3 months at an AI-native startup where every role ships code | James Dillard (Product Leader, ex-Stripe & YouTube)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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#80: Becoming an IC again is how products leaders will stay relevant in the AI era | Gokul Rajaram (Investor and Company Helper; ex-Google, ex-Facebook)
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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#79: The art of disagreeing with your CEO without putting your career at risk | Elena Luneva (CPO & Advisor, Ex-Braintrust, Nextdoor)
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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#78: How to package and monetize your expertise with AI | Ben breaks down the complete workflow creating his interview prep copilot
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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#77: How AI is eliminating the PM handoff tax | Adam Fishman (Product & Growth Advisor)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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#76: What we learned about PM interviews at Stripe, Uber, and Figma | A special look at Insider Loops
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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#75: Aligning personal finance with your values and life satisfaction | Zach Teutsch (Founder @ Values Added Financial)
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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#74: How experienced engineers actually use AI coding tools | Nick Meehan (Senior Software Engineer @ Ontra)
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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#73: The Portfolio Career That Made Him a Better Parent | Ben's Episode on the Startup Dad Podcast
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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#72: How to scale your team's intuition with AI-powered research | Aaron Cannon (Cofounder & CEO @ Outset)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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#71: How PMs can get leverage via agents and MCPs in Cursor | Amir M (Cofounder @ Humblytics)
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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#70: How to capture the AI integration opportunity with MCP | Reid Robinson (Lead AI Product Manager @ Zapier)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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#69: Why product leaders should embrace politics instead of avoiding it | Rich Mironov (Product Management Veteran & Coach)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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#68: Why authentic storytelling beats credentials | Charles Ruiz (Keynote Speaker, Founder & Executive Coach)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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#67: Untangling identity from job title | Jori Bell (VP Core Experience @ Hampton, ex-Spotify, SoundCloud, Audible)
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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#66: How MCP enables AI to know you better | Mike Bal (Head of Product and AI @ David’s Bridal)
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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#65: How to build an AI career coach in 90 minutes | Kavita Anand (VP, Product & Design @ NewtonX)
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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#64: How top companies evaluate PM candidates in 2025 | Nickey Skarstad (Duolingo), Stephanie J. Neill (Stripe), and Chantal Cox (LTK)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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#63: How PMs can bring predictability to AI products | Aman Khan (Head of Product @ Arize AI, ex-Spotify, ex-Apple)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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#62: Why the future belongs to spiky PMs who use AI to magnify their strengths | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product @ WHOOP)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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#61: How jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) nearly killed our startup | Troy Sultan and Austin Cooley (Co-founders @ Guide)
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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#60: What PM candidates get wrong about behavioral interviews | Robert Hamilton (PM interview coach, ex-Meta, ex-Google)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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#59: How this AI-powered duo found PMF by building 3 products in 9 months | Andy Keil & Kyle Ledbetter
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May 26, 2025 |
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#58: Why PM hiring is broken (and how to fix it) | Mike Curti & Joshua Herzig-Marx
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May 19, 2025 |
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#57: What product leaders get wrong about strategy | Melissa Perri (board member, author of Escaping The Build Trap)
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May 12, 2025 |
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#56: How to find work you love | Troy Sultan (Co-Founder & CEO @ Guide)
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May 05, 2025 |
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#55: How v0 has changed the way we build product | Sanket Kavishwar (Director of Product @ Relyance AI)
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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#54: How leading designers are riding the AI prototyping wave | Will Newton (Principal Product Architect @ Amplitude)
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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#53: The state of AI prototyping for product managers | Colin Matthews & Tal Raviv
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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#52: The beautiful mess of organizational context | John Cutler & Joshua Herzig-Marx
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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#51: The future of in-product collaboration between AI and humans | Steven Fabre (Founder @ Liveblocks)
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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#50: Nailing GTM in the age of AI-first startups | Phil Ou (Founder @ Blossomer, Ex-Google & YouTube PM)
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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#49: How Asana builds AI products | Rodrigo Davies (Director of Product @ Asana)
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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#48: The art of listening | Randhir Vieira (Chief Product Officer @ Omada Health)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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#47: How AI agents are supercharging PMs | Jacob Bank (Founder & CEO @ Relay.app, prev Director of PM @ Google)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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#46: How AI is blurring the line between Design and PM | Will Newton (Principal Product Architect @ Amplitude)
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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#45: How top PMs leverage AI-powered prototyping tools | Colin Matthews (Founder & Author @ Tech For Product)
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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#44: The journey from product leader to coach | Yue Zhao (Founder @ The Uncommon Exec, Ex-Meta)
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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#43: How AI is impacting the PM - engineer relationship | Irene Yu (Founder & CEO @ Skiplevel)
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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#42: How AI is changing the way product teams work | Tal Raviv & Joshua Herzig-Marx
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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#41: Reflections from 40 episodes and plans for 2025 | Ben Erez & Marc Baselga
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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#40: How Pie Insurance Implemented the Product Operating Model | Brenton Sellati (VP of Product @ Pie Insurance)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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#39: How PM compensation has changed in the last two years | Peter Walker (Head of Insights @ Carta)
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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#38: Where software pricing is heading in an AI world | Alvaro Morales (Co-founder & CEO @ Orb)
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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#37: How AI is impacting Product Discovery and User Research | Teresa Torres (Author, Speaker, Product Discovery Coach)
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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#36: How AI is making product management fun again | Tal Raviv (Ex-Riverside, AppsFlyer, Patreon)
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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#35: Unpacking the Current Job Market for Product Leaders | Sunil Chaudhary (Director @ Riviera Partners)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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#34: Scaling Impact Off the Beaten Path | Gibson Biddle (Netflix, Chegg)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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#2 Re-Post: Fearless Salary Negotiation | Josh Doody (Author)
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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#33: The nuanced reality of the product leadership job market | John Cutler & Josh Herzig-Marx
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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#32: Escaping the AI Demo Trap | Ben Sprecher (CPO @ bookend.ai)
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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#31: What Product Teams Get Wrong about User Research | Alexander Hanthorn (Staff PM @ Drift)
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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#30: Leaving Google X to build Yoodli aka Grammarly for Speech | Varun Puri (CEO and Co-Founder @ Yoodli, ex-Google X)
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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#29: From Product Leader to COO: Driving Impact in an Ops-heavy Company | Melissa Chi (COO @ Pathpoint)
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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#28: From childhood besties to Google acquisition | Joshua Herzig-Marx & Ben Sprecher (Co-founders @ Incentive Targeting)
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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#27: How managing PMs has made me a better IC | Katie Kent (Staff PM @ Semgrep, Ex-Panther, Flexport)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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#26: Why "Founder Mode" isn't black and white | Josh Brewer (Partner @ Enjoy The Work, previously co-founder & CEO @ Abstract, Principal Designer @ Twitter)
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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#25: The benefits and challenges of time off
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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#24: The Foundations for Exponential Growth | Brenton Sellati (VP/Head of Product at Pie Insurance)
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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#23: Real talk about B2B product management with Rich Mironov
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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#22: What founders get wrong about marketing with Allison Braley
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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#21: How Life360's product org evolved from Series A to IPO with Chris Hulls
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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#20: Open source learnings from launching a Maven course
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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#19: Exploring fractional product management with Estee Goldschmidt
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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#18: How to scaffold founders with Josh Herzig-Marx
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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#17: Why Products That Sing Are Good for Business with Heather Phillips
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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#16: Coaching early product hires and founders with Josh Herzig-Marx
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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#15: How we landed our first jobs in tech
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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#14: Building Volunteer Armies with Kelly O'Shaughnessy (Airtable, Uber)
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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#13: Can Product Managers Thrive in Feature Factories?
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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#12: Early learnings from the pod
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May 28, 2024 |
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#11: Jeff Whitlock (CEO @ Grain)
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May 20, 2024 |
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#10: Marc Baselga (Founder of Supra)
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May 14, 2024 |
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#9: Nan Yu (Head of Product at Linear)
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May 06, 2024 |
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#8: The Product Leadership Job Search with Aakash Gupta
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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#7: Digesting the Product Narrative Soup with John Cutler
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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#6: A Masterclass on Scaling as a Product Leader with Brenton Sellati
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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#5: Lessons from a Liberal Arts Major Turned Product Leader & VC - Diana Berlin (Partner @ Matrix)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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#4: A Recruiter's Guide to Thriving in the Current PM Market with James Jordan
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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#3: Navigating the Current Product Leadership Job Market
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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#2: Fearless Salary Negotiation with Josh Doody
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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#1: Should I join an early stage startup as the first PM?
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Mar 12, 2024 |