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Convergence.fm — 94 episodes

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How CEOs Can Play AI Offense (Stop Delegating Your Strategy)

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The AI Adoption Playbook Every Business Needs (From an OpenAI Partner)

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From Activity to Impact: Harnessing AI to Rebuild the Mid-Market Business Model with Ron Baker, Co-Founder, Threshold

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Stop Delegating AI: How CEOs and Founders Can Take Charge of AI Transformation

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Building REAL Business Products Using AI with Jay Singh, Casper Studios

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How to Use TRIZ to Solve Business Choke Points with AI

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Solving the Innovation Contradiction: Why More Isn't Always Better with Ivan Gekht

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Using Sales Insights to Guide High-Impact Product Decisions with April Palmer of Duckbill

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Speed to Value, Solving a $200K Warehouse Problem With AI in 3 Days

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Product Discovery, Outcome Based Delivery, And Hiring for Product Thinking with MAC of Wednesday.is

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BUILD vs. BUY: The Software Math That Saved A CEO Millions

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Why Smart Companies Fail: Information Asymmetry Explained

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From Fortune 50 Strategy to AI Coaching Tools: Ben Perreau on Leading Better

14

Stop Installing Copilot: The Real Way to Lead an AI Transformation in ANY Business

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Turning Trash into Tech: The Garbage Company Using AI to Save Millions with Ryan Collins

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Building Global Culture for Purpose and Profit: Lessons from Scaling Twitter with Maya Hari

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Top 5 Mistakes Leaders Make in AI & Data Strategy, And How to Fix Them with David Cohen

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De-risking AI-enabled Business Models with Lean Thinking

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Preparing Your Company for AI: Cultural Values and Principles You NEED Before You Make Big Changes

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How Shopify Stays on the Bleeding Edge: AI, Culture, and Operating Like You'll Be Relevant in 20 Years (with Head of Engineering, Farhan Thawar)

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Your AI Vibe Coding Side Project: Hobby or High-Growth Business? (5 Tests)

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AI Strategy That Actually Works: From Startup to Spotify to Search Fund with Tommy Högström

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Fix Your Broken Delivery Engine: A Case Study in AI Creativity, Agile and Vendor Management

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AI Governance, Product-Market Fit & the Founder Mindset — John Rood on Building, Exiting & Starting Again

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Avoiding the Tech Trap: How Two Founders Saved Their Failing AI Transformation

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How to Lead a Tech Overhaul Without a Tech Team with Andrew Stein, Children's Foundation

27

Best of Convergence: 9 Conversations You've Forgotten to Have With Your Team

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Best of Convergence: Building Customer-Centric Teams: Josh Seiden on OKRs and Agile

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Best of Convergence: How Generative AI and DORA Metrics Transform Software Development Teams with Derek Ferguson

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Best Of Convergence: Crafting "Surprisingly Great" Developer Experiences with Kenneth Auchenberg

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Best Of Convergence: How To Drive Product Development and Market Expansion with Ben Foster, Prodify

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Q&A: No One Understands Your Demo? Here's WHY | TDD Isn't Just for CODE — Use It Everywhere!

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The Dangers of Vibe Coding Addiction and Single Points of Failure - Your Product Team Questions Answered!

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The Missing Link in Hybrid Teams? A Sense of Belonging.Why It's More Strategic Than DEI

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Authenticity by Design: Building Mental Health Tools That Actually Work with Seth Micarelli of Volo Health

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Startups Are Nailing Agentic Workflows — And Why Enterprises Aren't

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Scaling Intelligently: What Intrapreneurs Can Teach Startup CEOs and Investors with Scott Jones, Realeyes

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Designing for Conflict: How Joshua Graves Builds Better Teams and Products

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Why Most Product Teams FAIL to Grow: Jayson Robinson on High-Agency PMs & Real Impact

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Malware by Prompt: How Vibe Coding and AI Assistants Can Compromise Your Codebase

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How Mission-Driven Organizations Maximize Impact with Limited Resources with Jason Fraser

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AI-Driven Development: Driving adoption on your product teams, Team Culture, and AI-Native Engineering Practices

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Building Agentic Apps With Craft: Field Stories from Austin Vance, CEO, Co-Founder of Focused

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The Power of Small Data With High Signal - A Jobs To Be Done Masterclass with Andrew Glaser

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Taking Control: How One Exec Team Reclaimed Their Tech Strategy

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Shopify's LEAKED AI Mandate Explained — 6 Takeaways for Your Product Team

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Most People Problems Are Leadership Problems – Sel Watts on Building Teams That Work

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The Science of Happiness at Work: How Brain Chemistry Impacts Agile Teams

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Building Platforms Developers Love: Lessons from Stripe, GitHub, and Netflix

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The Key to High-Performing Platforms: Product Thinking & Developer Centricity with GM Financial's Henri van den Bulk

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Delegate Effectively and Safely to AI - As an Expert Consultant or a Dutiful Intern

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Experimenting with AI to Ship More Valuable Products with Mike Gehard

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Season 2 Announcement + REPLAY: Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering at Shopify, on Culture, Leadership and Leveraging A.I. to Ship Better Software

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Best of 2024: Mastering Intentional Leadership and Building a Winning Culture in Product Teams

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Best of 2024 - Derisking and Evolving on your OKR (Objectives and Key Results) Implementation

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Best of 2024: Top Insights on Developer Tools, APIs, SDKs, and Creating Exceptional DevX

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The Future of AI in Production: Our Best Advice for Entrepreneurs and Developers

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DevOps Demystified: SLA, SLO, and Continuous Delivery Explained with Xing Zhou, Ford Credit

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How Generative AI and DORA Metrics Transform Software Development Teams

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Disciplined Creativity: Lessons from Leading Product Teams with Derek Ferguson, CSO, Fitch Group Inc.

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Transforming Customer Products and Services From Cost Centers to Profit Centers with Generative A.I.

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Empathy in Action: Douglas Kramon on Leading ESPN's Fan Support

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7/9 Critical Conversations You've Forgotten to Have With Your Team: Assumptions Part 2

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7/9 Critical Conversations You've Forgotten to Have With Your Team: What are the biggest assumptions we're making? PART 1

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Redefining Tech Careers: Data Centers, AI, and Inclusivity with Carrie Goetz, CTO, StategITcom

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6/9 Critical Convos You Forget To Have With Your Team: What are the organizational challenges?

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How Netflix Builds High-Performing Teams: Culture Lessons from Jose Moreno

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Secret Management & Safeguarding Your Product Data with Brian Vallelunga, Founder and CEO of Doppler

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Building Customer-Centric Teams: Josh Seiden on OKRs and Agile

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Unlocking the Power of Visualization to Solve Complex Product Problems with Christoph Steinlehner

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Maintaining an Opinionated Engineering Culture at Heroku with Wes Beary

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5/9 Critical Conversations You Forget To Have With Your Product Team: What's the technology landscape?

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Concept to Launch in 18 Months: Building Hardware, Software and AI at Startup Speed with Ben Brown, CTO of Canopy

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From Open Source to $200M Startup: Temporal's Journey with CTO & Co-Founder Samar Abbas

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4/9 Critical Conversations You Forget To Have With Your Product Team: Timelines, Milestones, and Deadlines. When Do We Ship?

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Disruptive Innovation inside a 187 year old organization with Janice Fraser

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3/9 Critical Conversations You Forget to Have With Your Product Team: How Do We Work as a Team?

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Failure of Coordination: How Incentives Push Technology Away From Human Flourishing and What We Can Do to Push Back with Ramsay Brown

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Transforming Startups: Cap Table Innovations with Jarrett Quan-Hin

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No Limits: Earl Newsome on Leadership, Innovation and the Power of "Human Loop" A.I.

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Startup Pricing and Product Manager Interview Strategies from Aakash Gupta, Product Growth

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Building the Future of Platforms with AI & Dev Tools, Part 2 of my Interview with Kenneth Auchenberg

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Crafting "Surprisingly Great" Developer Experiences with Kenneth Auchenberg

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Digital Transformations of Legacy Product Models with Erica Sands, Senior Director of Product Management at Sagent

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Driving Cultural Change: PepsiCo's Deepika Yerragunta on Customer Obsession and Product Mindset

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Agile and Beyond Conference 2024: The Latest in A.I. Innovations and Product Development Strategies

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2/9 Critical Conversations You Forget to Have With Your Product Team #2: How Will We Win?

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How To Drive Product Development and Market Expansion with Ben Foster, Prodify

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Define, Deliver, Defend: Exploring Product Roadmaps and Customer Delight with a Renowned Chief Product Officer

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Conversations You've Forgotten to Have With Your Product Team #1: Why Are We Doing This?

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The Critical Role of Product Management with Jim Simpson, CEO, Blumira

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9 Conversations You've Forgotten to Have With Your Team

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From Code to Culture: How Shopify Thrives Under Farhan Thawar's Thought Leadership

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This Is What Teams Are Made Of...