Best Pendo Podcasts (2026)

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How to get your whole team excited about AI (and actually using it) | Brian Greenbaum (product designer at Pendo) 47:53

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Brian Greenbaum is a Senior Staff Product Designer at Pendo who led a company-wide AI transformation after a personal epiphany while on paternity leave. After experiencing the power of AI coding tools firsthand, he created a structured approach to help his entire product organization adopt AI. In this episode, Brian shares his complete playbook for…

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Pendo CEO on category creation, differentiated platforms, pricing MAUs, and more | Todd Olson 48:40

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In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Todd Olson, CEO and Founder of Pendo. Todd talks about: why investors pushed him to sell to marketers in 2013 but he stubbornly built for product managers instead (a persona without a proven budget line), the decade-long journey of creating a new category from scratch, why raising minimum price fro…

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Pendo CPO on What the Best CPOs Get Right When Scaling Enterprise Software 50:39

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What separates the CPOs who scale with confidence from those who get stuck? In this podcast hosted by Sid Shaik, Pendo Chief Product Officer Trisha Price breaks down how top product leaders think, operate, and make decisions that move entire organizations forward. She shares hard-earned lessons from scaling complex enterprise software, leading both…

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Cognizant Senior Director on Building Responsible AI Gateways for Healthcare at Scale 38:22

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How do you scale generative AI in healthcare without sacrificing trust, transparency, or governance? In this podcast hosted by Mphasis Vice President of Products Chenny Solaiyappan, Cognizant Senior Director Elliot Papadakis shares how Cognizant is building and operationalizing an AI gateway that sits at the center of its responsible AI strategy. E…

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Lexy Franklin and Surbhi Gupta Stop Waiting for Lightning: BUILD Visibility While You’re Still Figuring It Out 55:41

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Visibility is a superpower for leaders—but building it authentically can feel challenging. On this episode, Surbhi Gupta, host of The Visibility Equation and seasoned product leader, sits down with Lexy Franklin, CEO & Founder of Sidebar, to explore how leaders can own their narrative, amplify their impact, and connect with their authentic selves. …

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The Three Types of Hard Calls Every Product Leader Faces 28:57

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It's the first week of a new year. You're looking at your roadmap, your team, your strategy - and you're realizing something: You need to make some hard decisions. The thing is, the hardest calls aren’t deciding what features to build. Rather, it's likely determining who on the team comes with you on the journey. Or deciding which products to sunse…

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The 3-Part Framework That Made Grammarly a Great Product | Grammarly & Superhuman CPO 57:20

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What does it take to create an AI product that becomes part of someone's workflow for good? In this podcast hosted by Products That Count CEO Hoda Mehr, Grammarly/Superhuman Chief Product Officer Noam Lovinsky breaks down the company's bold shift from a writing assistant to a multi-product ecosystem spanning agents, email, documents, and more. He s…

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Zapier’s CEO shares his personal AI stack | Wade Foster 41:27

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Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier. In this episode, Wade shows how he uses meeting transcripts, Zapier agents, and even Grok to analyze company culture, evaluate interview candidates, and source talent from unexpected places. He explains why CEOs need to lead by example when it comes to AI adoption and shares practical workflows that …

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Walmart Fmr CPO on Transforming Retail with AI 38:38

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How do product leaders think big enough to compete in an AI-native world? In this podcast hosted by Sid Shaik, Walmart U.S. former Chief Product Officer John Alferness joins us again and speaks on scaling AI at retail and enterprise scale. He breaks down how CPOs can separate core AI capabilities from applications, choose the right moonshots, and u…

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Unlocking Product Potential: Teresa Torres with a Learning and Development Lens 46:19

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In this episode, we got some straight talk from Teresa Torres, learning how she incorporates her masters in Learning & Development from Northwestern into her design of product learning experiences. Teresa shares invaluable insights about when blogs and podcasts might be enough for your growth—and when training courses may really be what's needed to…

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Walmart Fmr CPO on Thinking Big in the AI Era 49:30

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What does it take to think bigger when your products already operate at massive scale? In this podcast hosted by Sid Shaik, Walmart U.S. former Chief Product Officer John Alferness breaks down how product leaders can push beyond incremental gains to unlock true step-change growth. He explores the mental models behind moonshots, the discipline requi…

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Nutanix VP & GM on Building Differentiated Infrastructure Products 38:24

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What does it take to build products that stand out in one of the most technical spaces in the industry? In this podcast hosted by Cassio Sampaio, Nutanix Vice President & General Manager Dan Ciruli speaks on how product leaders can guide customers through complex infrastructure decisions and stand out in ecosystems dominated by hyperscalers. He exp…

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How Webflow’s CPO built an AI chief of staff to manage her calendar, prep for meetings, and drive AI adoption | Rachel Wolan 43:43

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Rachel Wolan, the chief product officer at Webflow, has embraced AI not just as a product leader but as a hands-on builder. A coder since age 16, Rachel has returned to her technical roots by creating a custom AI chief-of-staff application that helps manage her executive workload. In this episode, she demonstrates how she uses personal AI software …

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Navigating Leadership with Confidence and Curiosity with Bosky Mukherjee 45:12

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In this episode, Cassie welcomes Bosky Mukherjee, the prolific founder of PM Dojo and SheTrailblazes, and a veteran product advisor, leadership coach, and trainer. Bosky discusses her journey into product leadership, the formation of PM Dojo, and her mission to support women in product management. The conversation delves into the nuances of product…

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Walmart Sr Product Lead on Transforming Enterprise Portfolio Systems 34:58

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What happens when a fragmented internal tool becomes the strategic backbone of a multibillion-dollar enterprise? In this podcast hosted by EY Platform Operations Lead Justin Leibow, Walmart Sr Product Lead Sangita Raj shares how she rebuilt an overlooked portfolio system into a high-impact engine for clarity, alignment, and productivity. She traces…

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Google Product Lead on Building AI Products That Actually Work 38:37

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How do you build an AI product that's powerful, reliable, and grounded in real user needs? In this podcast hosted by Qventus Product Director Mark Bailes, Google Product Lead Alankar Agnihotri discusses what it really takes to build impactful AI and LLM-driven products. He shares the hidden complexities behind model behavior, the shift from determi…

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UX Research Must Be Fast and Strategic to Survive 35:13

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Send us a text In this episode of UX Leadership by Design, Mark Baldino talks with Ryan Glasgow, CEO and founder of Sprig, about the future of UX research in an AI-first world. Ryan shares how Sprig was built to replace legacy survey tools like Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey by enabling real-time, in-context feedback and powerful AI-driven analysis. Th…

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The AI Resume Builder Using Burger Prompts 10:58

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You know the feeling. You open that resume you haven't touched in months or years, stare at it, and think: "How do I describe what I’ve accomplished? How do I describe that project? How do I quantify the impact I’ve made?" Here's the brutal truth: we're terrible at remembering our own achievements. We actually do amazing work, but when it's time to…

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Stop Waiting for Lightning To Strike with Lexy Franklin and Surbhi Gupta 56:02

21d ago56:02

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Visibility is a superpower for leaders—but building it authentically can feel challenging. On this episode, Surbhi Gupta, host of The Visibility Equation and seasoned product leader, sits down with Lexy Franklin, CEO & Founder of Sidebar, to explore how leaders can own their narrative, amplify their impact, and connect with their authentic selves. …

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AI Strategy Not Required and More Truths About Transformation 45:40

22d ago45:40

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"And I tell all my clients, you all are in transformation. If you are not transforming, you are dying." Gabrielle Bufrem In this episode of Hard Calls, Gabrielle Bufrem and host Trisha Price explore what transformation truly means, why trust is the currency that unlocks everything else, and how focus, fewer products, and AI work together to build p…

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Retool Head of Technical Customer Experience on Enabling Highly Complex Products and Driving Adoption and Expansion. 32:34

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What challenge separates teams that ship real customer impact from those that just ship features? In this podcast hosted by Cassio Sampaio, Retool Head of Technical Customer Experience Chris Harry explores how customer-facing teams and product teams can partner to drive meaningful adoption, credibility, and long-term trust. He shares practical insi…

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How Zapier’s EA built an army of AI interns to automate meeting prep, strengthen team culture, and scale internal alignment | Cortney Hickey 44:32

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Cortney Hickey is the executive assistant to the CEO at Zapier, where she’s leveraging AI to transform traditional EA responsibilities into scalable, organization-wide systems. In this episode, she demonstrates how she’s built AI workflows that automate meeting preparation, reinforce company culture through automated feedback, and democratize strat…

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Outshift by Cisco CPO & VP of Product on Building Breakthroughs Inside a $60B Enterprise 46:41

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What does it take to build something genuinely new inside a $60B Enterprise? In this podcast hosted by Sid Shaik, Outshift by Cisco VP & CPO Papi Menon breaks down how product leaders can drive meaningful innovation inside massive enterprises, and why the future depends on incubating bold bets like agentic AI and quantum networking. He shares how t…

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Propel VP of Product Marketing on Building Products for High-Stakes Industries 43:23

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What happens when product teams operate in markets where failure isn't an option? In this podcast hosted by iDonate VP of Product Nacho Andrade, Propel VP of Product Marketing Tom Shoemaker explores how teams build high-quality physical products in complex, high-stakes environments. He digs into the realities of PLM, quality management, commerciali…

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How to Build an AI Startup on Easy Mode (Moonshot AI's CEO Reveals How) 33:19

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What if a single platform could turn any online store into a self-optimizing growth engine? In this podcast hosted by Products That Count CEO Hoda Mehr, Moonshot AI Co-Founder and CEO Aviv Frenkel will be speaking on how AI-driven experimentation is transforming conversion optimization for ecommerce brands. Drawing from his founder journey, he expl…

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Building in Public with Shyvee Shi 50:55

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The Visibility Equation is a weekly podcast series that demystifies the art of professional visibility. It is designed to empower ambitious product leaders (and leaders across tech) to own their narratives and amplify their impact. Through in-depth conversations with accomplished leaders in product management, design, and engineering, we'll delve i…

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GoodRx Fmr VP of Product on Leading and Thriving as a Product Leader in the Age of AI 44:21

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What does it take to lead and excel as a product leader in the age of AI? In this podcast hosted by NEOGOV CPO Denise Hemke, GoodRx former VP of Product Sandy Huang speaks on people sense, discovery, execution, and the judgment required to build great products in an AI-accelerated world. She shares insights from two decades across Amazon, GoodRx, F…

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ChatGPT agent mode: The “little helper” that transformed recruiting, crafted user personas, and solved parking nightmares | Michal Peled (Honeybook) 58:45

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Michal Peled is a Technical Operations Engineer at HoneyBook who specializes in building internal tools and automations that eliminate friction for teams. In this episode, Michal demonstrates three practical AI use cases: using ChatGPT’s agent mode to automate LinkedIn recruiting, transforming customer research into interactive AI personas, and cre…

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Tenable VP of Product on Building Secure B2B SaaS Products 42:20

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What happens when building a product means outsmarting an intelligent adversary every single day? In this podcast hosted by Cassio Sampaio, Tenable Vice President of Product and Program Management Matthew Frank will be speaking on the realities of creating secure B2B SaaS products. He explores how exposure management is evolving, why identity is be…

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Gemini 3 vs. Claude Opus 4.5 vs. GPT-5.1 Codex: Which AI model is the best designer? 25:27

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I put three cutting-edge AI models to the test in a head-to-head design competition. Using the exact same prompt, I challenged Google’s Gemini 3, Anthropic’s Opus 4.5, and OpenAI’s Codex 5.1 to redesign my blog page, evaluating them on visual design quality, user experience improvements, and SEO optimization capabilities. One model produced a beaut…

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Introduction to The Visibility Equation with Surbhi Gupta 20:21

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The Visibility Equation is a weekly podcast series that demystifies the art of professional visibility. It is designed to empower ambitious product leaders (and leaders across tech) to own their narratives and amplify their impact. Through in-depth conversations with accomplished leaders in product management, design, and engineering, we'll delve i…

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Elysian Aircraft Co-Founder on Decarbonizing Aviation with EV Batteries 45:37

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How do you build products that can keep pace with the climate crisis without compromising on speed, innovation, or customer insight? The scale and urgency of the transformation required to fight climate change has never been more clear. Building hardware and software products, acquiring the funding and creating a diverse community to enhance talent…

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How Trust and Data-Driven Decisions Create Client Value at ADP 43:28

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"In AI, speed matters—but trust compounds." Naomi Lariviere, Chief Product Owner and VP of Product Management at ADP, leads product strategy for a company that processes payroll for millions of people. When even the smallest error can mean someone doesn't get paid on time, there's no room for "move fast and break things." In this episode of Hard Ca…

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“PMs who use AI will replace those who don’t”: Google’s AI product lead on the new PM toolkit | Marily Nika 40:09

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Marily Nika, AI Product Lead at Google and founder of the AI Product Academy, demonstrates how product managers can leverage AI tools to dramatically accelerate their workflow. Using a smart-fridge concept as an example, Marily walks us through the exact workflow she uses to build products faster: doing user research with Reddit debates, generating…

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CPO Rising Series: How a Government CPO is Disrupting Public Sector Tech with Product Thinking 52:18

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Can product thinking truly transform government services? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by NEOGOV CPO Denise Hemke, State of Maryland CPO Sheetul Agrawal speaks on reimagining government technology through customer-centric innovation. Sheetul shares her groundbreaking approach to bringing product management principles into public …

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Iru CTO on Building Better B2B Product Alignment 28:56

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How do you keep engineering and product aligned while scaling B2B SaaS? In this podcast hosted by Cassio Sampaio, Iru Chief Technology Officer Jimmy Acosta shares his approach to building sustainable, customer-driven roadmaps that balance innovation with reliability. He discusses how engineering leaders can strengthen trust with product teams, mana…

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Favor Delivery CPO on Building a Nonlinear Path to Product Leadership 35:57

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How can diverse career experiences shape a stronger product leader? In this podcast hosted by Rachel Owens, Favor Delivery Chief Product Officer Rachel Losh shares how her unconventional path—from academia and publishing to leading product at Texas's food delivery app—taught her the power of customer empathy, adaptability, and business acumen. Rach…

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Build an AI Prompt-Based App for Career Growth 10:47

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What if you could advance your career by building an entire application—complete with multiple modes, persistent memory, and personalized intelligence—using nothing but your voice in natural language? No code. No developers. Just words. Most teams are still treating AI like a search bar: ask a question, get an answer, start over. They're missing th…

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CPO Rising Series: ChatPRD Founder Claire Vo on Redefining Product Management in the Age of AI 48:39

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What does it take to lead product and technology teams through constant transformation? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by NEOGOV CPO Denise Hemke, ChatPRD Founder and LaunchDarkly Fmr CPTO Officer Claire Vo shares insights on the evolving role of the CPO, why speed beats perfection, and how AI is redefining experimentation and prod…

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How to create your own AI performance coach: Optimizing your unique nutrition, recovery, and injury management needs | Lucas Werthein (Cactus) 51:36

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Lucas Werthein, the COO and co-founder of Cactus, shares how he built a personalized AI wellness coach using ChatGPT to optimize his athletic performance while managing past injuries. After multiple surgeries on his knees, shoulder, and foot, Lucas created a system that synthesizes data from medical imaging, blood tests, wearable devices, and nutri…

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Reddit Director of Product on Scaling the Future of Ads with GenAI 48:57

2M ago48:57

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What happens when a product leader reimagines an entire ads ecosystem from first principles? In this podcast hosted by Sid Shaik, Reddit Director of Product Management Amit Ghorawat breaks down how he scaled multi-billion-dollar ad businesses and transformed connected TV performance. The conversation explores his pivots across industries, his appro…

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“Farm-to-table software”: How I built a Thanksgiving party hub using Lovable for managing invites, dishes, shared recipes, and photos 34:28

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In today’s pre-Thanksgiving episode, I walk you through how I vibe coded my very own “Thanksgiving party hub” using Lovable—and how I transformed it from AI-generated slop into something warm, personal, and genuinely useful. I show you exactly how I upleveled the typography, visuals, and structure using Google Fonts and Midjourney style references,…

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Atelio SVP of Product on Transforming Product Strategy with North Star Focus and AI Insight 38:27

2M ago38:27

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What changes when a product leader builds strategy around a single guiding metric and augments decision-making with AI-driven understanding? In this podcast hosted by Rachel Owens, Atelier by FIS SVP of Product Jon Eisenstein will be speaking on transforming product strategy through North Star metrics and AI-powered insights. Jon shares his entrepr…

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Do You Need a PM Center of Excellence? The Answer is Yes. 42:55

2M ago42:55

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Noa Ginsberg, SVP, Product Management Excellence at FactSet, faced a challenge that would make most product leaders nervous: transform how a 40-year-old financial data company builds products. Not a single team or feature, but the entire product organization. In this episode of Hard Calls, Noa and host Trisha Price dig into what it truly takes to i…

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Journey from PM to GM: How to Go from Running a Product to Running a Business | Inside Yahoo Mail GM's Journey from PM to GM 55:47

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Packed with actionable leadership lessons about scaling, informal authority, and shifting from execution to systems thinking, in this special episode of Product Talk, Products That Count CEO Hoda Mehr interviews Yahoo Mail General Manager Kyle Miller. It taps into a common aspiration among PMs: climbing to GM/CEO.…

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“Nobody wanted to do this work”: How Emmy Award–winning filmmakers use AI to automate the tedious parts of documentaries 47:36

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Tim McAleer is a producer at Ken Burns’s Florentine Films who is responsible for the technology and processes that power their documentary production. Rather than using AI to generate creative content, Tim has built custom AI-powered tools that automate the most tedious parts of documentary filmmaking: organizing and extracting metadata from tens o…

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The Five-Tool Product Leader: Navigating Ambiguity, Building Trust, and Driving Innovation 39:38

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What defines a truly versatile product leader? In this episode hosted by Rachel Owens, Product Leader Tulsi Dharmarajan shares how moving across industries sharpened her ability to read context, navigate ambiguity, and elevate product work from execution to strategic problem-solving. She unpacks how curiosity fuels better decisions, how empathy str…

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v0’s GM on powering the next 100m builders, monetizing infra products, and more | Zeb Hermann 49:33

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In this episode of Second Acts, Krish is joined by Zeb Hermann, General Manager of v0 at Vercel. Zeb unpacks: the biggest lessons from his time at Segment and Sequoia Capital, why he joined Vercel (makers of Next.js and AI SDK) to lead initiatives (such as pricing and packaging) with “asymmetric upside,” v0’s origins (as Vercel’s second act) and ho…

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Velox Health Metadata CEO on Transforming Healthcare Data Interoperability 40:03

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What if the key to lowering healthcare costs wasn't new treatments, but smarter data? In this podcast hosted by Cognizant Sr Product Director Chenny Solaiyappan, Velox Health Metadata Founder and CEO Michael Klotz will be speaking on transforming clinical data interoperability and reducing healthcare costs. Michael shares insights from his two-deca…

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Designing Products in the AI Era with Handshake AI 53:10

2M ago53:10

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What if you could design a product that transforms an entire industry in just 12 months? In this special episode of Product Talk hosted by Products That Count CEO Hoda Mehr, Handshake AI Head of Design Gabe Schindler speaks about the company's rapid growth from a job marketplace to a $100 million AI company. Gabe discusses the challenges of designi…