Episodes

March 30, 2025

A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator…

Ryan Singer is one of the earliest employees and the former Head of Strategy at 37signals (the makers of Basecamp), where he spent nearly two decades refining a product development approach that helped the company build super...

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March 27, 2025

How to win in the AI era: Ship a feature every week, embrace technica…

Gaurav Misra is the co-founder and CEO of Captions, an AI-powered video creation company and one of the most successful consumer AI products in the world today. Previously he was a product leader at Snap, where he created the...

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March 23, 2025

Superhuman's secret to success: Ignoring most customer feedback, manu…

Rahul Vohra is the founder and CEO of Superhuman. Prior to Superhuman, Rahul founded Rapportive, the first Gmail plug-in to scale to millions of users, which he sold to LinkedIn in 2012. He is also a prominent angel investor,...

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March 16, 2025

A field guide for introverts: How to thrive at work without changing …

Susan Cain , author of the groundbreaking bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking , shares a guide for how introverts can thrive in the workplace without sacrificing their authentic selves...

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March 13, 2025

Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fast…

Eric Simons is the founder and CEO of StackBlitz, the company behind Bolt—the #1 web-based AI coding agent and one of the fastest-growing products in history. After nearly shutting down, StackBlitz launched Bolt on Twitter an...

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March 9, 2025

Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (C…

Anton Osika is the co-founder and CEO of Lovable, which is building what they call “the last piece of software”—an AI-powered tool that turns descriptions into working products without requiring any coding knowledge. Since la...

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March 6, 2025

Notion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to…

Ivan Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Notion. Ivan shares the untold story of Notion, from nearly running out of database space during Covid to finding product-market fit after several “lost years,” and the hard-won lessons ...

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March 2, 2025

The creator of WordPress opens up about becoming an internet villain,…

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, the open source platform powering a staggering 43% of the internet. He also serves as CEO of Automattic—the parent company of brands like WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Tumblr—w...

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Feb. 27, 2025

How X built the best fact-checking system on the internet | Keith Col…

Keith Coleman , the VP of product at Twitter/X, and Jay Baxter , the founding ML engineer, are the minds behind Community Notes. Here they reveal how a small, scrappy team built the most trusted crowdsourced information syste...

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Feb. 23, 2025

How to find work you love | Bob Moesta (Jobs-to-be-Done co-creator, a…

Bob Moesta , co-creator of the Jobs to Be Done framework, recently published a new book, Job Moves . Drawing from interviews with over 1,000 people about their career transitions, it offers a practical playbook for career dev...

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Feb. 16, 2025

A founder’s guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder,…

Uri Levine is a co-founder of Waze (which was acquired by Google for $1.3 billion in 2013), along with nine other companies (including another company he sold for over $1 billion). He’s also been on 20 boards and has been an ...

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Feb. 9, 2025

OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina …

Karina Nguyen leads research at OpenAI, where she’s been pivotal in developing groundbreaking products like Canvas, Tasks, and the o1 language model. Before OpenAI, Karina was at Anthropic, where she led post-training and eva...

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Feb. 2, 2025

Tobi Lütke’s leadership playbook: Playing infinite games, operating f…

Tobi Lütke is the founder and CEO of Shopify, a $130 billion business that powers over 10% of all U.S. e-commerce. Starting as a snowboard shop in 2004, Shopify has become the leading commerce platform by consistently approac...

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Jan. 30, 2025

Linear’s secret to building beloved B2B products | Nan Yu (Head of Pr…

Nan Yu is the head of product at Linear, one of the most beloved and fastest-growing B2B SaaS products out there today, and the gold standard for high-performing tech teams. In our conversation, we discuss: • Why speed and qu...

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Jan. 26, 2025

An operator’s guide to product strategy | Chandra Janakiraman (CPO at…

Chandra Janakiraman is the chief product officer, executive vice president, and a board member at VRChat. Previously, he was a product leader at Meta, where he led Facebook’s social experience interfaces and Reality Labs’ gro...

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Jan. 19, 2025

10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dro…

Elena Verna is one of Silicon Valley’s most sought-after growth advisors and operators. She previously led growth at companies like Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, and SurveyMonkey and is currently doing full-time advising for high...

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Jan. 16, 2025

How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham W…

Graham Weaver teaches a top-rated course at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB), where he often unexpectedly ends up helping students figure out what to do with their lives. He is also the founder and CEO of Alpine I...

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Jan. 12, 2025

How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product tale…

Rohini Pandhi is a product leader at Mercury, and previously spent over seven years at Square/Block leading product work on Square payments, invoicing, and the Bitkey hardware Bitcoin wallet. She’s also the co-founder of the ...

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Jan. 9, 2025

Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)

Drew Houston is the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Under his leadership, Dropbox has grown from a simple idea to a service used by over 700 million registered users globally, with a valuation exceeding $9 billion. Drew has le...

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Jan. 5, 2025

Scripts for difficult conversations: Giving hard feedback, navigating…

Alisa Cohn is an executive coach who has worked with C-suite executives at startups like Venmo, Etsy, Wirecutter, and DraftKings, and Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Dell, and IBM. Inc. Magazine named Al...

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Jan. 2, 2025

Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure…

Eilon Reshef is the co-founder and chief product officer at Gong, one of the most ubiquitous B2B products in the world. In our conversation, we discuss: • Gong’s unique approach to working with design partners • Their unique ...

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Dec. 29, 2024

Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Conf…

Shaun Clowes is the chief product officer at Confluent and former CPO at Salesforce’s MuleSoft and at Metromile. He was also the first head of growth at Atlassian, where he led product for Jira Agile and built the first-ever ...

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Dec. 22, 2024

Behind the founder: Marc Benioff

Marc Benioff is the co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, the second-largest software company in the world. He started programming at age 15, selling his first program for $75, and went on to build Salesforce into a company worth...

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Dec. 19, 2024

How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and H…

Farhan Thawar is the head of engineering at Shopify, where he oversees more than 1,000 engineers and a platform that powers over 10% of all U.S. e-commerce. Before Shopify, he was VP of engineering at Pivotal Labs and Xtreme ...

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