Product Management Episodes
Feb. 4, 2024
#37 Mountain climbing to product building—Endurance, Empathy & Rituals ft. Lane Shackleton (CPO, Coda | Athlete)
00:00 Introduction to Lane 01:14 Lane's Nonlinear Career Path 04:09 How Endurance Helps With Success 12:51 Importance of Mindset in Product Building 23:19 Power of Shipping and Learning by Making 26:49 The Origin of the 'Rit…
Oct. 4, 2023
#32 Product thinking, creative resistance, & evaluating growth ft. Shreyas Doshi, Product Advisor (Ex- Stripe, Google, Yahoo, Twitter)
Being a founder or product person calls for enjoying the ride even when things are uncertain. While grit and passion are the regulars, it takes a few more skills like competence, agency, clarity of thought, to be able to nav…
Nov. 25, 2022
User experience, design strategy, tipping point, and success metrics ft. Jared Spool, Center Centre
User experience is a huge part of ideating, building, and shipping products. Usability defines not just the value of a software but the way teams and companies are going towards the vision they want to achieve. How do you al…
Nov. 12, 2022
Building better software, running experiments, 'agile' mindset ft. Allen Holub, Software Architect
Building products is so much fun—at the same time, it’s equally exhausting and challenging with so many peers to work with, the market needs to look into, and a lot of processes to go by. While frameworks and techniques can …
Aug. 26, 2022
Product–founder–channel market fit, launching 0–1 products ft. Emily Tate, Mind the Product
Launching the product you build involves massive effort—not just in terms of shipping, but also figuring out the ways in which your audience finds satisfaction with your product. Do they find value? Of course, it’s important…
Aug. 13, 2022
Product management skills, personal productivity & founder career ft. Shyvee Shi, LinkedIn
Building and shipping impactful products is definitely the enjoyable part of a product manager’s journey. It’s fun to think about what problems to work on, putting on the founder’s mindset from time to time or working with f…
July 29, 2022
Product growth and scaling for founders/builders ft. Casey Winters, Eventbrite (Ex- Pinterest & GrubHub)
As soon as you put your product out in the market, the one major question that gets to you from literally everyone around is - how’s your product growing. “What’s your growth strategy?” “Does your product have network effect…
June 13, 2022
Discovering and validating early-stage ideas ft. Ravi Mehta, Scale
Discovering ideas is definitely an exciting phase—we wake up, walk around, and go to sleep thinking about the best ideas we can build for. But, what happens to all those ideas? Do we really have a tried and tested way to pic…