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Product Nation
by Ofer Baharav & Nir Paz
Product Nation is a weekly podcast by product managers in Silicon Valley covering how tech products get created and executed by some of the most accomplished product management superheroes in the world
Episodes
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Ilan Kasan at Exceed.ai
Ilan chats with us about Exceed.ai, a platform that helps marketing and sales teams drive more pipeline from email and website visitors. The Exceed AI Assistant works 24/7/365 alongside humans to ensures every lead is followed up with, nurtured, and qualified using two-way email conversations.…
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Ophir Sweiry at ZaiNar
Ophir establishes the importance of infrastructure, an aspect that he learned early on having lived his school town's transformation, and discusses developments in robotics, AR, and the coming IoT revolution
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Uri Lavi at Ride Vision
Deep dive into how a perfect storm brews for Uri's launch of Ride Vision in an overlooked market for rider assistance and motorbike accident prevention using computer vision and AI. Pricing, positioning, GTM, market segmentation, you're bound to find something interesting in this remarkable…
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Gadi Shamia at Replicant
Sizzling conversation with Gadi about conversation AI tech, finding market fit, focusing on core tech and carving out the target audience, and where this is going in five to 10 years
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Iddo Lev at Zebra Medical Vision
We chat with Iddo from his Tel Aviv apartment about his experience with startups in Germany and Israel, cultural differences, and how he leads product at Zebra. Iddo focuses the conversation on human-AI collaboration which is at the core of the work he does at Zebra. Notably he discusses how he...
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Nir Yahav at Applied Materials
Quantum computing is here! Nir works for the office of the CTO at AMAT where he directs a Technology and Business team exploring new opportunities in Quantum Technology and manages a portfolio of the group’s programs. In this episode, Nir shares about the tech that's going to be ubiquitous in…
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Omri Dor at Obligo
An exceptional recounting of a founder's grit on the journey to finding product-market fit at Obligo. Omri chats about his humble beginnings in a small market in Israel, switching gears to a larger international market in London, then switching gears one more time and finding his perfect fit out…
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Yuval Samet at riseup
We have an in depth conversation with Yuval about his background that led to his founding of riseup. And about processes that lead to excellent product management outcomes throughout the organization. Favorite quotes: " And I'll give you an example. We think about the discoveries, basically the...
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Eilon Reshef at Gong.io
Eilon chats with us about his evolution to building products that people truly love. He takes us through his journey to where Gong.io is today valued at $2B+, from its humble beginnings in 2015. How he hires for the best. And his relentless quest for optimizing for end user experience by dog...
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Oren Inditzky at Expedia Group
Oren has a paved a phenomenal career in product management and shares from his toolkit in this amazing episode about PM strategy, how to pick a goal for your team, how simplify and choose metrics, how to hire the best, and he shares the future he sees for the travel industry. This is an episode...
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Mickey Alon at Gainsight PX
Mickey has built and sold two companies in a relatively short amount of time, to both Marketo and Gainsight, creating phenomenal value to his shareholders. Come hear from this product management pro about iterating fast to reach product market fit, then drive growth. Mickey also ties his superior...
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Noa Ganot at CPO Bootcamp
We chat with Noa about the importance of weaving strategy into the product management role. Noa is based in Israel from where she runs a bootcamp for Chief Product Officers - yep you read that right, a bootcamp for product management execs! Noa brings a wealth of experience in product management...
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Elad Shani at Amazon
Elad shares about his career trajectory as product manager at Amazon, gives examples of how its leadership principles shape his work, and at the end shares a feature he'd like seen as a way for adding value into battered post corona mom and pop services. Join in on the lively conversation!
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Aviad Pinkovezky at Hippo Insurance
Aviad chats with us about his journey into insurtech, being the first employee at a Silicon Valley startup gone unicorn, how he built the product management team and at what point to hire additional PMs and expand the product management team, and being design centric. Towards the end we get a...
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Lior Hakim at Hour One
We chat with Lior about cutting edge machine learning use cases in product, giving us a glimpse into not only the future, but more importantly, use cases that solve real problems in the market at a fraction of the old cost. Come learn from the best in this thought provoking episode on ML meets GTM.
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Na'ama Moran at Cheetah
We chat with Na'ama about pivoting a company in a rapidly changing market post Covid while she leads to product market fit. The conversation runs like a classical MBA Harvard Business Case to the drumbeat of a very accomplished, agile, humble and empathetic product manager and CEO. Come learn…
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Tal Bar Or at Octopus
If you haven't really dug into cloud-enabled Physical Security Information Management Systems (PSIM) - you're about to! Tal Bar Or delivers like a boss, and tells it like 007. Tal tells the story of how he built Octopus by listening to customer's needs to efficiently manage all physical security...
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Reneta Jenik at Foodom
Reneta walks us through a zero to one scenario with the startup she founded, Foodom, all the way from researching to testing to finding a market fit. By the time you're done hearing her story, you'll have clarity for how she isolates the problem, and addresses it with a thrilling solution you'll…
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Lior Sion with Bringg
We have a LIVELY discussion with Lior who is founder, CTO and head of Product at logistic platform Bringg (for everyone outside of Amazon). Lior has a very special take on how to do product with the least amount of waste: They're just-in-time for paid features only basically. Fascinating and...
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Eran Agmon at Dreamed Diabetes
We chat with Eran about the many iterations he takes in the search for product-market fit, one of the toughest challenges product managers solve for, especially in a startup or entity that's going from 0-1. Listen attentively to uncover some not-so-obvious gems in his discovery process.
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Ofir Eyal at Viber
We chat with Ofir about the way he manages production teams at Viber. We chat about product management processes at scale, and how to hire the best with intentionality. Favorite quote: "The PM role is such a difficult role because you need to be a master of all. You need to be good with people,...
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Amir Fish at Facebook
We have a lively chat about product-market fit with product management veteran Amir Fish, who spends time with us on defining and owning the problem space. Favorite quote: "So you can see how, by going back to the problem and owning the problem space, you can actually generate your next set of…
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Allie Vogel at Microsoft Azure Cloud + AI
We chat with Allie about use of machine learning in product design over various product iterations, while highlighting the importance of striking a balance between personalization versus narrowing options down, all while keeping users engaged. In addition to her corporate job Allie shares about a...
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Gilad Bonjack at Platterz
We chat Gilad up about the changing landscape of employee benefits due to Corona, specifically in the way of food benefits which is what Platterz originally set out to do, but not only that. At the end Gilad points to what types of solutions he gravitates to and values in product. Favorite quote:...
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Jonathan Friedman at TripActions
We chat Jonathan Friedman up about launching products from zero to one. Jonathan describes in detail what it's like to ideate and execute a new product, and how he and his team adapted to change due to Corona. He posits that the biggest issue with new products is the "why", "why us", and "why…
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Noam Segal at Wealthfront
Noam heads user research at Wealthfront, and we had a lively conversation about ways to test for customer needs, reducing barriers, and conducting research that shapes product. Favorite quotes: "Understanding your users enables you to significantly de-risk the product decisions you're making and...
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Arnon Avitzur at Chegg
From engineering management to product management to PhD in education to lifelong love for tutoring and now running product for Chegg, we had a blast chatting with Arnon, this time with a focus on managing the PM department. Favorite quotes: "a lot of it is building that trust and building what's...
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Roi Lavan at ZipRecruiter
Roi is a product management veteran, starting his leadership career in an elite unit in the military, to software engineering, to MBA at Tel Aviv University, product management at analytics startup Convertro, through an acquisition by AOL, PM'ing at Lyft and now at ZipRecruiter, we learned a…
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Rotem Iram at At Bay
We Zoomed with Rotem Iram about building a novel product in a new world of Cyber-Insurance. Rotem starts his career at an Israeli intelligence unit, works as a software engineer, then at McKinsey, gets an MBA at Harvard, works in cybersecurity, and launches a startup in insurtech after…
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Gilad Turbahn at Apttus
From PM'ing at a special unit within 8200 to a Human-Computer Interaction undergrad at the Hebrew University and a Kellogg MBA, to Fring, Microsoft, and Apttus, we have a lively chat with another product management superhero in Silicon Valley. Gilad shares his experience building an enterprise...
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Oded Klimer at Rubrik
We chat over Zoom with Oded Klimer, a User Experience leader who has been driving UX innovation, strategy and methodology within organizations like SAP Labs, Microsoft, HPE and Micro focus for over 20 years. Currently he is the VP Head of Design for Rubrik. Oded shares a unique point of view…
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Itai Vonshak at Google
We chat with Itai Vonshak, Head of Design & Product for Material Design at Google. Itai describes how tearing apart ideas then building them back up has worked for his teams at Pebble building smartwatches, Facebook building Portal, and now at Google. He makes an excellent book referral, credits…
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Itamar Orgad at Houzz
Nir and I chat with Itamar about product management at LinkedIn and Houzz, frameworks, the impact of great design on product, and a 'how would you build xyz' ... at (surprise!)
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Roy Rapoport at Netflix
I chat with Roy Rapoport, Director of Engineering at Netflix, covering product management from an engineering perspective, how to partner or even manage it, his learnings about geographical cultures and a great book recommendation on the topic, and other invaluable insights about engineering from…
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Ido Josef at Intuit
Ido chats with Ofer Baharav and Oz Wasserman about his upbringing in the north of Israel, PMing in the military, Technion, McKinsey, startup, Facebook and Intuit. He lays out what he loves most about PM'ing, how he works cross functionally especially bringing the voice of the customer back to...
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Youli Ashkelony at Google
Youli chats with us about her thrilling career that starts with a startup, on to an acquisition by VMWare, what it's like moving offices from London to NYC to Silicon Valley, how cultures shape companies, and up to her role in product and strategy at Google, building productivity tools for...
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Oz Wasserman of FireEye
Oz chats with us about his work at startups and large companies alike, his experience in cybersecurity, shares how he juggles customers and engineering, and offers a vision for a product he would love to see built.
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Dan Barak at Stackbit
Dan talks to us about his amazing story as a product manager working at Face.com and getting acquired by Facebook, working at Lyft, and founding Stackbit. He walks us through the different aspects of managing product at startups and large companies alike, and gives an exciting example of how a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Product Nation is a weekly podcast by product managers in Silicon Valley covering how tech products get created and executed by some of the most accomplished product management superheroes in the world
HOSTED BY
Ofer Baharav & Nir Paz
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