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The Product Science Podcast
by Holly Hester-Reilly
The Product Science Podcast is for startup founders and product leaders building high-growth products, teams, and companies. Listen in on real conversations with the people who have tried it and aren’t afraid to share the lessons they’ve learned (and the mistakes they’ve made) along the way.
Episodes
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The Dina Levitan Hypothesis: Systems Thinking Scales Products and Organizations
With an impressive background in computer science from MIT and years of experience as a site reliability engineer at Google, Dina Levitan shares how she approaches the art of problem definition, and what she’s learned about the value of subject matter expertise versus disciplined product…
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The Mike Belsito Hypothesis: Evidence-Based Product Decisions Require Customer Conversations and Experiments
What happens when the product science principles are applied to a conference organization? You get Product Collective, now called Mind The Product by Pendo.io. Through events like INDUSTRY: The Product Conference, along with resources such as a member hub and over 100 hours of past conference...
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The Andy Breen Hypothesis: Testing for Value Risk is the Most Critical Yet Overlooked Piece of Product Success
Andrew Breen, CEO of Prints of Love and Partner at Buy Build Fund, a seasoned entrepreneur and educator, believes in the power of observing user interactions to uncover the subconscious value people place on products, thereby driving strategic decisions beyond mere spreadsheet analysis. His...
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The Ha Nguyen Hypothesis: Passion, Commitment, and Community will Drive Your Product Career to New Places
Ha Nguyen, a seasoned Silicon Valley product leader, then co-founding partner at Spero Ventures, Chief Experiences Officer at Swimply, and now Managing Partner at NextStep, a fractional & advisory COO consulting firm, shares her perspective, lessons learned, and journey through the ranks with us...
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The Stephanie Leue Hypothesis: Developing Product Strategy is a Critical, Ongoing Piece of the Chief Product Officer Role
How do CPOs balance keep teams engaged in meaningful work while building a product strategy from scratch? Stephanie Leue, Chief Product Officer at Doodle at the time of this recording, shares how she integrates customer feedback, collaboration with internal teams, and data-driven insights to…
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The Hubert Palan Hypothesis: Customer-Centricity and Effective Segmentation are Key to Building a Successful Product Company
Product management is a complex and multifaceted role that requires a delicate balance of strategy, organization, and communication. In order to effectively manage products from ideation to launch and beyond, product managers need the right tools at their disposal. This is where product…
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The Inessa Lurye Hypothesis: Successful Product Launches Require Systematically Building and Testing Solutions to Market Opportunities
Key aspects of product development, such as recognizing a true market opportunity, structuring teams for new market pursuits, and proving ROI when launching a new product are unpacked in this episode with Inessa Lurye as Holly Hester-Reilly's guest. Inessa Lurye, as the Senior Director of Product...
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The Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles Hypothesis: Product Operations Provide Infrastructure for High-Quality Product Decision-Making
Meet Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles, the dynamic duo behind the groundbreaking book “Product Operations: How Successful Companies Build Better Products at Scale.” Melissa's expertise spans from founding Produx Labs, a product management training and consulting company, to spearheading product...
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Season 6 Announcement & Company Update
In this mini-episode of the podcast, Holly introduces team members Dina Levitan and Mark Enache, who share some stories about working with Product Science Group clients. Holly also tells us about changes coming for Season 6 of the Product Science Podcast - video, shorter episodes, and a new Lab...
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Season 5 Highlights: The Product Discovery Loop
Holly Hester-Reilly is the Founder and CEO of H2R Product Science, a product management coaching and consulting firm that teaches the principles and practices of high-growth product development, and the host of the Product Science Podcast. Holly is a former Columbia University research scientist...
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The Jeff Patton Hypothesis: Successful Teams Focus on the Who Before the What
Jeff Patton helps companies adopt a way of working that’s focused on building great products, not just building stuff faster. Jeff blends a mixture of Agile thinking, Lean and Lean Startup Thinking, and UX Design and Design Thinking to end up with a holistic product-centric way of working. Jeff…
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The Christian Idiodi Hypothesis: Great Product Management Starts With Admitting “I Don’t Know”
Christian is a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group. Christian has been a product leader for over 15 years, building teams and developing enterprise and consumer products that have shaped companies such as CareerBuilder and Merrill Corporation as well as clients such as Microsoft, Starbucks…
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The Peter Voss Hypothesis: We Will Soon Need to Embrace AI to Be Effective in the World
Peter Voss is a Pioneer in AI who coined the term ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ and the CEO and Chief Scientist at Aigo.ai. For the past 15 years, Voss and his team at Aigo have been perfecting an industry disruptive, highly intelligent and hyper-personalized Chatbot, with a brain, for large...
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The Matt LeMay Hypothesis: Great Product Managers Never Have to Say Yes or No
Matt LeMay is the author of Product Management in Practice (now in its second edition) and product leader and consultant who has worked with companies like Google, Spotify, Mailchimp, and Audible. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we cover how constraints can be helpful in product,...
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The Risa Stein Hypothesis: Trust is a Crucial Component of a Successful Product
Risa Stein is a Director of Product, Integrity leading teams focused on protecting customer safety, privacy, and security. Risa and her team are responsible for setting and enforcing policy, investigating and stopping bad actors who try to abuse Slack, and developing new product features to…
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The Paul Orlando Hypothesis: Great Product Strategy Answers The Why Now Question
Paul Orlando helps organizations unlock new revenue and partnership opportunities, getting companies to solve problems that they couldn't in other ways. He has built startup programs around the world (Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Rome, and remote). Paul also teaches at the University of Southern...
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The Nils Davis Hypothesis: A Good Story Comes From Solving A Real Problem For Real People
Based on more than two decades of enterprise product management experience, including a stint managing a product for product managers, Nils Davis has lots of knowledge and wisdom. In his podcast, the Secrets of Product Management he shares powerful ways for product managers to create more value…
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The Andrew Skotzko Hypothesis: If You're Going to Try and Change Somebody's Behavior, You Better Understand It
Andrew Skotzko is a product discovery & strategy advisor to tech companies who has built products and led teams for 13 years. By day, he advises companies on product leadership & strategy to make products which find traction in the market and help people thrive in the process. By night, he picks…
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The Dean Peters Hypothesis: The Best Products Are Created From Problem-Focused Conversations
Driven by a passion to replace pain points with user delight, Dean Peters has provided product management expertise across a variety of domains and technologies for nearly two decades. From large enterprises such as IQVIA and Citrix to startups such as Dude Solutions and Seven Lakes Technologies,...
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The Roman Pichler Hypothesis: Establishing an Effective Agile Product Management Organization Takes Time
Roman Pichler is a leading product management expert specialized in product strategy, leadership, and agility. He has advised product leaders and he has taught product managers and product owners for more than 15 years. Roman has pioneered agile product management practices, and he has developed…
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The Andrew Michael Hypothesis: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods Leads to Better Product Decisions
Andrew Michael is an entrepreneur with 14 years of experience in digital growth companies as a founder or senior manager with a focus on customer retention, data analytics, product, and growth. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we cover the mistakes Andrew made early on in his…
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The Lisa Marie Zane Hypothesis: Conscious Product Development is Building a Better Future For Tech
Lisa is the Founder of Conscious Product Development. Her purpose is to help product teams solve the right problems for the right reasons and develop products (and careers) more consciously - in ways that are inclusive, holistic, ethical, accessible, and sustainable - and that makes people's…
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The Shane Zilinskas Hypothesis: User Research and Empathy Drive Products From 0 to 1
Shane Zilinskas has worked on many product launches for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500. He started off as an engineer before finding his way to product management, when a book and a one-way ticket to Europe led him, together with his wife Kara McGehee, to build ClearSummit, an...
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The Christina Xu Hypothesis: Accessibility is a Critical Aspect of Product Design
Christina is a product manager at Slack, focused primarily on improving the accessibility of both Slack and Quip (the collaboration tool, not the toothbrush company!) for people with disabilities.Previously to working in product, Christina was an ethnographer focused on how people incorporate...
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The Jason Keramidas Hypothesis: With Enterprise Products, the Sales Team is Your Biggest Asset
Jason Keramidas is always thinking about how to build products that will make people’s lives better. He has over 25 years experience working with a range of companies from early stage startups to driving growth at public companies. He lives just north of NYC with his wife and two children. In…
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The Tosin Onibon-oje Hypothesis: Kindness is a Strength for Product Managers
Tosin Onibon-oje is a highly skilled Product Lead with 15 years of experience in the industry. She is customer-focused and outcome-driven, with a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams in developing and launching innovative and successful products. She is an effective communicator...
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The Jackie Bavaro Hypothesis: Cracking the PM Career Means Leading With The Right Questions
Jackie Bavaro has over 15 years of product management experience, most recently as Head of PM at Asana. During her tenure, she grew the PM team to over twenty people, helped Asana's go from 0 to more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue, and launched Asana's associate product manager...
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The Dan Balcauski Hypothesis: The Most Important Part of Product Pricing is Who and How you Charge
Dan Balcauski is the founder and Chief Pricing Officer at Product Tranquility, based in Austin, TX. He focuses on helping high-volume B2B SaaS CEOs define pricing and packaging for new products. Over his career, he has worked in both B2C and B2B companies ranging from startups to publicly traded...
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The Navya Rehani Gupta Hypothesis: CPOs Should Measure Product ROI in Business Outcomes
Navya is the Chief Product Officer at Peek.com, responsible for scaling the industry-leading Peek Pro platform, known as "Shopify for the Experiences economy" with $2B+ bookings. Peek.com helps consumers book fun activities (such as boat rentals and cooking classes), and provides experience...
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The 2nd Adam Thomas Hypothesis: Survival Metrics Guide Profitable Products that Matter to People
What can we learn by following our curiosity, embracing the unknown, and creating amidst chaos? This is the question that propels Adam Thomas’s career as a technologist, product expert, and all-around thinker and creator. His answer so far? We can learn that our potential is limitless and we have...
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The JH Forster Hypothesis: The First Product Hire at a Startup Needs to Be a Player-Coach
JH Forster is a product leader with deep experience helping teams ship solutions for real user needs. As SVP of Product at User Interviews, he oversees the Product Management and Design departments—and geeks out about all things user research as the co-host of the Awkward Silences podcast. In…
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The JJ Rorie Hypothesis: The 5 Key Skills That Make a Product Manager Great Can Be Learned
JJ Rorie is faculty at Johns Hopkins University, teaching undergraduate and graduate-level product management courses. She is the author of IMMUTABLE: 5 Truths of Great Product Managers, and is Chief Executive Officer of Great Product Management. JJ is a sought-after speaker, advisor, trainer…
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The Emily Patterson Hypothesis: You're Not Really Learning Product Unless You're Doing It
Emily Patterson has been doing product management work since the '00s. As a tech grad from Boston University, she was a business analyst before moving into product management roles. She's a B2B SaaS product leader, currently focused on cybersecurity. She holds a MBA from UNC Chapel Hill. She has…
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The Pulkit Agrawal Hypothesis: Customer-Centric Teams Are Attached to Problems and Not Solutions
Pulkit Agrawal read Engineering at Cambridge and worked in non-profits, consulting, and startups before founding Chameleon because he was frustrated at the energy that both companies and users were wasting when trying to explain/learn a product. He enjoys talking and writing about user…
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The Susan Stavitzski Hypothesis: The Best Way to Get Better at Discovery is to Do It Over and Over Again
Susan Stavitzski is an experienced Product Leader with experience working in the software industry for start-ups, SMB and enterprise companies. She has a passion for taking manual, bulky processes and turning them into powerful, automated, scalable solutions to empower teams. In this episode of…
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The Ken Norton Hypothesis: Product Is Best Taught Through Apprenticeship
Before becoming a full-time executive coach to product leaders, Ken spent more than fourteen years at Google, where he led product initiatives for Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Mobile Maps, and GV (formerly Google Ventures). These products today are used by more than three billion people...
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The Dan Olsen Hypothesis: You Can't Just Take What You Learn In A Big Company And Apply It To A Startup
Dan Olsen is a product management trainer, consultant, and speaker. Dan wrote the bestseller The Lean Product Playbook. Through his interactive training workshops, Dan helps companies build great products and strong product teams. He is also the founder of the 11,000-member Lean Product Meetup...
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The Sam Haveson Hypothesis: The Artfulness of Product Management is Identifying Customer Needs
Sam Haveson is a Senior Product Lead on the Consumer Product team at Twitter. Sam has defined, launched and scaled products that help millions of people create and converse on Twitter. Prior to Twitter, Sam was a Senior Product Manager at Amazon building Amazon Photos experiences for Amazon Alexa...
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The Caroline Rose Hypothesis: Absolutely Everybody Should Be Involved In Discovery Research
Caroline is a senior product manager on the Etsy mobile apps team and previously worked at Walmart Labs. In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we cover Caroline’s career in product, how she uses story telling to align different teams, how to get buy in for continuous experimentation at...
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The Janel Wellborn Hypothesis: Teams Should Celebrate Learning Fast, Not Failing Fast
Janel embeds herself within a clients' organizations to transform their culture by shifting mindsets at all levels, helping them make many small changes in their product practices that have big impacts on their ability to meet their customer needs & deliver measurable business value. In this...
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The Karthik Suresh Hypothesis: Even Amazing Products Fail Without The Right Go-To-Market
Karthik Suresh is the Co-Founder of Ignition, a collaborative hub for Marketing & Product teams. Karthik is a product and a technology leader with experience as a founder, an early startup hire, and a key player in defining product strategy, and finding a market fit. In this episode of the…
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The Kate Leto Hypothesis: Human Skills Are Teachable
Kate Leto’s product management, org design, and marketing background spans more than 25 years. She has had a front-row seat to the evolving ways products are discovered, defined, built, and delivered and now takes her hands-on experience into organizations of all shapes and sizes as a consultant,...
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The James Mayes Hypothesis: Focus on What Drives the Audience to Curate Great Events
Cofounder of Mind the Product, now Evangelist for Pendo - James spent his first career in recruiting, his second in product and events. He's still happiest outdoors though! In this episode of the Product Science Podcast, we cover the story of Mind the Product from concept to acquisition. We also...
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The Sarah Bernard Hypothesis: Customer-centric Companies Uncover the Most Impactful Solutions
Sarah Bernard is currently the Chief Customer Officer for Greenhouse Software. She has held executive positions as COO with Crisis Text Line, VP, Officer of Product with Walmart’s Jet.com, and earlier in her career General Manager, SVP and VP of Global Product with Expedia’s Hotwire. Ms Bernard...
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The Giff Constable Hypothesis: Efficient Teams Learn Before They Build
Giff Constable is a product leader, entrepreneur, and author. He was the Chief Product Officer at Meetup.com and earlier was the CEO of Neo, a global innovation consulting company acquired by Pivotal. He has sold 3 businesses while at the helm and helped build many others. He is the author of two...
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The Stephanie Leue Hypothesis: Leaders don’t have the right answers, they have the right questions
Stephanie has designed products and led product teams in both enterprise businesses like PayPal and startups like Contentful for over 15 years. She also co-founded her own startup. Actually she is educating Product Managers to master the fundamentals of coaching. In this episode of the Product...
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The Paul Ortchanian Hypothesis: Informal conversations are key to building influence
Paul works as a consultant, coach, keynote speaker, and author with extensive experience in the world of product. Through his leadership, numerous businesses have been successful ranging from startups to high growth companies alike. He is the creator of a number of product management…
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The Victoria Kennedy Hypothesis: Your Actions Have To Match Your Words For True Diversity And Inclusion
Victoria Kennedy is driven by her core values of impact, adaptability, and discipline. These values have guided her as a product leader in early-stage startups, an advisor to early-stage founders, and now as a founder of the venture studio, Seed to Harvest. She is from Atlanta but calls NYC home....
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The Ant Murphy Hypothesis: Everyone is a Leader on High Performing Teams
Anthony is a Product Coach and Director of the Association of Product Professionals. As a coach, Anthony helps organizations succeed in product. His experience spans several industries and organizations of all shapes and sizes. He has shipped products at every stage of the product life-cycle and...
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The Janice Fraser Hypothesis: The Best Decision Is One Everyone Can Live With
Janice Fraser is an investor, speaker, and expert in emerging management practices to support innovation at scale. A Silicon Valley veteran, she’s built a storied career as a product manager, founder, facilitator, and confidant for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives alike. But her impact...
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The Product Science Podcast is for startup founders and product leaders building high-growth products, teams, and companies. Listen in on real conversations with the people who have tried it and aren’t afraid to share the lessons they’ve learned (and the mistakes they’ve made) along the way.
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