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Product Talk
Produced by Products That Count, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps everyone build great products, this podcast is an award-winning show by and for product minds, with millions of downloads and a 5-star rating on most major platforms. Each of the 300+ episodes features a product leader interviewing another product leader and exploring what it takes to build great products. Recent ones feature the Chief Product Officers of Brex, Glassdoor, Experian and more. About Us: Products that Count is a…
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Product TalkGlean CPO on why shipping more features with AI doesn't mean you're creating more value
Emrecan Dogan is a trained industrial engineer who has spent his career applying systems thinking to product management, and as Chief Product Officer at Glean…
Product TalkWhy Webflow is betting on AI-native product teams
AI is changing the economics of building software, and that means the way product teams plan, prioritize, and build has to change too. In this episode of…
Product TalkTonal CPO on building the world's largest kinetic dataset
Jonathan Shottan began his career at the intersection of data and scale, working at Pinterest as the company was expanding internationally, and at Facebook…
Product TalkThe gap between building a demo and building something that scales to 600,000 locations | Mood Media CPO
Trey Courtney started his career as a software developer at Accenture and spent 16 years evolving into the role of Global Chief Product and Partnership Officer…
Product TalkTurning interior walls into a circular economy business
The scale and urgency of the transformation required to fight climate change has never been more clear. Building hardware and software products, acquiring the…
Product TalkHow WHOOP turned wearable data into an AI coach | WHOOP AI Product Lead
Viviano Cantu is the AI Product Lead at WHOOP, but his path there did not start in product. He joined WHOOP in 2021 as a software developer, led the storefront…
Product TalkWhy the AI era demands more from product managers, not less | Perk President of Product
Nikita Miller spent 15 years building products before becoming President of Product and Technology at Perk, an AI platform for business travel and spend…
Product TalkMidi Health CEO on building the front door to midlife women's health
Joanna Strober is the co-founder and CEO of Midi Health, a virtual menopause and perimenopause care company serving patients in all 50 states, covered by…
Product TalkDoordash PM on why your domain expertise matters more than your technical skills
Saee Pansare started her career not in software but in a lab, studying food engineering and imagining a future developing flavors and ingredients. What she…
Product TalkThe question AI still can't answer about product management | Cengage Product SVP
Ghazal Badiozamani is the SVP of Product Management at Cengage, one of the world's largest education companies with roots in publishing that go back over 100…
Product TalkWhy speed is the AI feature no one asks for but everyone needs | Fireworks AI VP of Technology and Strategy
Rob Ferguson is the VP of Technology and Strategy at Fireworks AI, a company that makes frontier AI infrastructure accessible to any organization that wants to…
Product TalkHow Brightline Brought Mental Health Care to 400,000 Kids Who Had Never Had It
Mahssa Mostajabi is the Head of Product at Brightline Health, a pediatric behavioral health company delivering therapy, psychiatry, and coaching to kids…
Product TalkThe Conviction Bet No Customer Asked For and How Asana's CPO Builds the Case for One
Arnab Bose is the Chief Product Officer at Asana and one of the most outcome-oriented product leaders in the industry. Before Asana, he spent nearly six years…
Product TalkWhat a CPBO Learned Building a Personal Fleet of AI Agents
Michael Affronti is the Chief Product and Business Officer at DriveCentric, the number one CRM and engagement platform for automotive dealerships, and one of…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: IBM CPO on Building Products for a World That's Five Years Away
How do you make product bets today for a world that will not arrive for another six years? In this episode of the CPO Rising series hosted by Products That…
Product TalkŌURA VP of Product on Building the Future of Women's Health
What does it take to build health products that truly understand women's bodies? In this podcast, Planned Parenthood Direct CPO Hannah Park sits down with ŌURA…
Product TalkLoa Carbon CEO & Co-Founder on Producing Sustainable Natural Gas in Energy Transition
What if the waste product of one industry could become the clean fuel source for another? The scale and urgency of the transformation required to fight climate…
Product TalkStack Overflow VP of Product on Why Nobody Is Building for the New Moat
Everyone says trust is the new moat in AI, but is anyone actually building for it end to end? In this podcast hosted by iDonate VP of Product and Engineering…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Paychex CPO on Reimagining The User Experience With AI
What happens when a 50-year-old software company tries to move at the speed of AI, and what does it really take to merge two very different product cultures…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Tubi CPTO on Why This Is a Golden Era for Product Management
What happens when coding stops being a constraint for product teams, and what should product leaders do right now to get ready? In this episode of the CPO…
Product TalkLiveKit Head of Product on Betting on Voice AI and Leading Without Authority
What does product leadership look like when AI makes everyone a builder? In this podcast hosted by iDonate VP of Product and Engineering Nacho Andrade, LiveKit…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Carta CPO on Why Knowing What to Build Matters More Than Ever
What does it take to stay relevant as a CPO when the very definition of the product manager role is being rewritten in real time? In this episode of the CPO…
Product TalkQueens Carbon CEO on Decarbonizing the Built Environment With Low-Carbon Cement
What does it actually take to decarbonize one of the world's most carbon-intensive industries, and how do you build, fund, and scale the company that bets on…
Product TalkThe 5 Durable Pillars Every AI Product Leader Needs
What if the biggest mistake product leaders are making right now isn't moving too slowly, it's moving fast in the wrong direction? In this episode of Product…
Product TalkCampfire AI Product Lead on Why Domain Expertise Is Your Biggest Product Advantage
What if your most unconventional career detour turned out to be your biggest product advantage? In this podcast hosted by iDonate VP of Product Nacho Andrade…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: LegalOn Technologies CPO on Customer-First Product Leadership
What does it take to go from practicing law to becoming the Chief Product Officer of a company disrupting the legal industry with AI? In this episode of the…
Product TalkSuno CPO on Why the Old Product Rules Don't Apply When You're Building on Frontier AI
What does it mean to build a truly AI-native product rather? In this episode of the CPO Rising series hosted by CentralSquare Technologies CPO Denise Hemke…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: BetterHelp CPO on Why CPOs Need to Think Like Business Operators
What does it mean for a CPO to truly own outcomes? In this episode of the CPO Rising series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Renee Niemi, BetterHelp…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: ATOSS CPTO on Why Product Managers Need to Think Like Investors
What does it mean to run product like a mini company, and how do you say no to a multi-million dollar deal when it conflicts with your strategy? In this…
Product TalkKoah CPO on Why Ads in AI Don't Have to Be Evil
What would it look like if every AI app had a sustainable way to make money without dark patterns or paywalls? In this podcast hosted by iDonate VP of Product…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Optum Fmr CCO on Building Products That Work for 150 Million People
What does it take to build products that work for 150 million people in one of the most regulated industries in the world? In this episode of the CPO Rising…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Perk CPO on Why Now Is Product's Biggest Moment
What happens to product leadership when anyone can create a product in minutes? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Axiom Law CPO Katrina…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Ingram Micro Fmr CPO on Transforming a Legacy Enterprise into an AI-Native Platform
How do you transform a 45-year-old, $52 billion enterprise into an AI-native platform business and take it public in the process? In this episode of the CPO…
Product TalkFormer eBay CPO on Building Product Teams That Win
What does it take to turn a stagnant product org into one that grows a company's stock price by 59% in three years? In this episode of the CPO Rising series…
Product TalkSpotnana CPO on Building Care as a Product
What does it mean to build care as a product? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Turo CPO Tom Wang, Spotnana CPO Sarosh Waghmar will be…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: SignalWire EVP of Product on Why the Business Model Is the Product
What if the PM-to-engineer ratio flipped and there were two product managers for every engineer? In this episode of the CPO Rising series hosted by Products…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Why Opportunity Cost Is Still the Only Thing That Matters
What does a former touring DJ who accidentally built one of the internet's first MP3 stores have to say about product leadership? In this episode of the CPO…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Pipedrive CPTO on The End of One-Size-Fits-All Software
What if your SaaS product built itself to fit every user the moment they signed up? In this episode of the CPO Rising series hosted by Products That Count…
Product TalkBrainlabs CPO on the End of the Technical Moat
What happens to product leadership when anyone in the company can build? In this episode of Product Talk hosted by Digitalzone CPO Sonjoy Ganguly, Brainlabs…
Product TalkInside AI's Transformation of the Physical Economy with Motive
What does it take to build AI when failure means someone gets hurt? In this episode of the CPO Rising series, hosted by CentralSquare Technologies CPO Denise…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Rakuten Rewards CPO on Human Judgment in the AI Era
What does it mean to govern a decision model instead of a roadmap? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Jay…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: The Product Engineer Is Coming for Every Team
What does it actually take to turn a sales-led organization into a product-led one? In this episode of the CPO Rising series hosted by Products That Count…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Cartwheel CPO on Building AI into Healthcare Without Breaking Trust
What happens to the entire product development process when creating software becomes as easy as creating a Google Doc? In this episode of the CPO Rising…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Why Remix AI's Former CPO Pressed Pause on Leadership to Build Again
What does it mean when a seasoned CPO with experience at Disney, Apple, Airbnb, and Walmart.com walks away from the C-suite to go build products by himself? In…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Vercel CPO on Why Judgment Is the Last Real Moat
What happens when the cost of building software trends toward zero? When anyone can ship anything at any time, code stops being the competitive advantage. In…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Salesforce EVP & GM on AI Adoption, Team Culture, and the New Rules of Product Leadership
What happens when the pace of AI makes even the most recent college graduate's knowledge obsolete within six months? In this episode of the CPO Rising series…
Product TalkHow Syntheseed CPO Is Rethinking Product Leadership in Real Time
What if the strategy you just shipped is already obsolete? In this episode of Product Talk hosted by Digitalzone CPO Sonjoy Ganguly, Syntheseed CPO Sam…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: Comcast Product SVP on Rewiring the Entire Product Lifecycle for AI
What happens when software powers every customer-facing interaction a business has, from the app to the agent interface to the care experience? Everything…
Product TalkOpenTable Product SVP on The Three Things Great PMs Have That You Cannot Coach
What separates a good product manager from a great one, and can you actually spot it in an interview? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Axiom…
Product TalkKit Switch CEO on Productizing Sustainable Housing with Low-Carbon Interior Design
What does it actually take to decarbonize the built environment, and can construction be reimagined fast enough to matter? The scale and urgency of the…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: How Planned Parenthood Direct CPO Builds Products Under Pressure
What does it mean to ship products when a wrong decision does not just hurt conversion rates but puts patients at risk? In this episode of the CPO Rising…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: How Treasure AI CPO Is Rewriting the Rules of Product Leadership
What if the biggest bottleneck in your product organization is no longer engineering capacity or even go to market speed, but change management? In this…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: How Aliaswire CPO Is Betting on the Future of Payments
What if the biggest constraint on your product organization is no longer engineering capacity but the speed and quality of your decisions? In this episode of…
Product TalkCPO Rising Series: The Product Manager Will Cease to Exist by 2030
What if the role that has defined a generation of tech careers disappears within five years? In this inaugural episode of the fifth year of the CPO Rising…
Product TalkHow AI Is Reshaping Enterprise Product Leadership
Is your organization losing 7% of its annual revenue to complexity? In this podcast hosted by Boston New Technology CPO Shweta Agrawal, Freshworks Chief…
Product TalkAre You Actually Getting Better at AI? Talent.com CPTO Built a System That Tells You the Truth
Everyone is using AI, but almost no one can tell you if they are actually getting better at it. In this episode of Product Talk hosted by Hoda Mehr, Co-founder…
Product TalkSpeed Without Breaking Trust: AI Transformation at Scale
What happens when speed and trust collide in fintech? In this episode of Product Talk, hosted by CentralSquare Technologies CPO Denise Hemke, Intuit Director…
Product TalkHow AI Super Analysts Are Changing the Way Product Leaders Think
Are your dashboards giving you visibility or understanding? In this episode of Product Talk hosted by Digitalzone CPO Sonjoy Ganguly, AskEnola CEO Piyanka Jain…
Product TalkFrom Game Dev to Google: Agentic AI, Zero to One, and the Future of Product Management
What does it actually take to build a product when no one believes it's possible? In this episode of Product Talk, hosted by Thomson Reuters Director of…
Product TalkDeploying Nuclear at Software Speed to Achieve Energy Abundance
How can nuclear energy be deployed at software speed to meet the urgency of climate change? The scale and urgency of the transformation required to fight…