Episodes

Sept. 22, 2024

Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contrib…

Tal Raviv is a product manager at Riverside, where he joined as its first PM. Over his 12-year career as an individual contributor, Tal has been an early PM at Patreon, AppsFlyer, and Wix, working in consumer growth, develope...

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Sept. 19, 2024

Rethinking SEO in the age of AI | Eli Schwartz (SEO advisor, author)

Eli Schwartz is a leading SEO consultant and the author of Product-Led SEO. He has worked with industry giants like Zapier, Tinder, Coinbase, Quora, LinkedIn, and WordPress to build and execute global SEO strategies that sign...

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Sept. 15, 2024

The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fo…

Camille Fournier is the author of The Manager’s Path, which many consider the definitive guide for navigating one’s career path in tech. Camille was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway, VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, He...

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Sept. 12, 2024

Land your dream job in today’s market: negotiation tactics, job searc…

Phyl Terry is the author of Never Search Alone, which I’ve seen so many people reference as the most impactful guide they read for finding a job. Phyl was on the founding team of the first company Amazon acquired back in the ...

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Sept. 8, 2024

How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO …

Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn, responsible for setting the company’s product strategy, leading product development, user experience design, business development, content creation, and customer operation...

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Sept. 5, 2024

The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author o…

Sean Ellis is one of the earliest and most influential thinkers and operators in growth. He coined the term “growth hacking,” invented the ICE prioritization framework, was one of the earliest people to use freemium as a grow...

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Sept. 1, 2024

Airbnb’s Vlad Loktev on embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, pokin…

Vlad Loktev spent 10 years at Airbnb, where he started as an IC PM and quickly advanced to lead the core Airbnb marketplace business and then GM the entire homes business, managing over 1,000 people and reporting directly to ...

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Aug. 25, 2024

How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at c…

Nikita Bier is one of the most in-demand consumer, social, and growth experts in the world. He’s the co-founder of TBH (sold to Meta for more than $30 million) and Gas (sold to Discord for millions more) and has helped more c...

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Aug. 22, 2024

Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and why you should …

Deb Liu is the CEO of Ancestry and former longtime VP of Product at Facebook. At Facebook, Deb led the creation of Facebook Marketplace, developed the first mobile ad product for apps, built the company’s games business, and ...

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Aug. 18, 2024

Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candida…

Kevin Yien leads product for merchant experiences at Stripe. Before that, he meandered his way from being a technical designer to a product manager, built the restaurants business and ecosystem team at Square, and most recent...

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Aug. 11, 2024

Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding you…

Evan LaPointe is the founder of CORE Sciences, which teaches companies and individuals how our brains work and how that translates to improved collaboration, better products, faster decision-making, and more growth. Previousl...

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Aug. 8, 2024

How embracing your emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson …

Joe Hudson is one of the most sought-after executive coaches in Silicon Valley. He is the founder of Art of Accomplishment, a transformational coaching program that has helped tens of thousands of people, including many tech ...

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Aug. 4, 2024

Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Produc…

Brian Tolkin is the Head of Product at Opendoor. Previously, he was one of the early employees at Uber, where he was instrumental in launching and growing UberPool, UberHop, and UberExpress and started one of the first produc...

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July 28, 2024

The ultimate guide to performance marketing | Timothy Davis (Shopify)

Timothy Davis has led performance marketing for all of Shopify for the past 2.5 years, and as a consultant has helped companies like Pinterest, LinkedIn, Redfin, and Eventbrite kickstart and scale their performance marketing ...

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July 25, 2024

5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (aut…

Roger Martin is one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and the author of Playing to Win , one of the most beloved books on strategy. He’s written extensively for the Harvard Business Review ; consulted for dozens of F...

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July 21, 2024

What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairma…

Rory Sutherland is widely regarded as one of the most influential (and most entertaining) thinkers in marketing and behavioral science. He’s the vice chairman of Ogilvy UK, the author of Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Scie...

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July 14, 2024

Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and …

Jessica Lachs is the global head of analytics and data science at DoorDash, where she’s built one of the largest and most respected data organizations in tech. In her more than 10 years at DoorDash, she has served as the firs...

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July 11, 2024

Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | …

Jeff Weinstein is a product lead at Stripe, where he helped grow their payment APIs to hundreds of billions in volume and transformed the way founders start companies into a few simple clicks with Atlas. Prior to Stripe, Jeff...

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July 7, 2024

Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Mapl…

Mike Maples, Jr. is a legendary early-stage startup investor and a co-founder and partner at Floodgate. He’s made early bets on transformative companies like Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta, Rappi, and Applied Intuition and is on...

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June 30, 2024

Dylan Field live at Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of …

Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, the collaborative design platform that has revolutionized how product teams work. In my first-ever live podcast, recorded at Figma Config, Dylan and I dig into: • How intuition ...

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June 27, 2024

The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (…

Jessica Livingston is a co-founder of Y Combinator, the first and most successful startup accelerator. Y Combinator has funded over 5,000 companies, 200 of which are now unicorns, including Airbnb, Dropbox, DoorDash, Stripe, ...

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June 23, 2024

Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO a…

Ami Vora is the Chief Product Officer of Faire, which connects independent retailers and brands around the world. Before Faire, Ami spent over 15 years at Meta, including as VP of Product and Design for WhatsApp (2B+ users), ...

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June 16, 2024

Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (H…

Tanguy Crusson is the product lead for Jira Product Discovery at Atlassian. In his more than 10 years at the company, he has been instrumental in taking several new products from zero to one, including HipChat, Statuspage, an...

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June 13, 2024

The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your caree…

Jeffrey Pfeffer teaches the single most popular (and somewhat controversial) class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business: The Paths to Power. He’s also the author of 16 books, including 7 Rules of Power: Surprising—But Tr...

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