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LaunchPod | Product Management Podcast — 120 episodes

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How AI Helped Me Ship 9 Months of Product in 5 Days | Sriram Iyer, SVP of Product (ex-Salesforce)

2

AI Agents Fail for 2 Reasons. Crowdsourcing Solved Both. | Julia Dalton, SVP Product (Capacity)

3

April Dunford’s 1 Killer Question to Expose Weak AI Product Positioning [Repeat]

4

AI Isn't Breaking PM Teams. Overload is. Explained by Stanford PhD & CPO Jen Wang (Framework)

5

The Analytics Gap Most eCom Teams Don’t Know They Have | Raul Parquet, Dir. eCom (Princess Cruises)

6

How to Avoid AI FOMO like Patagonia | Angela Clark, VP Digital

7

The Anti-Headcount Billion-Dollar eCom Playbook | David Cost, CDO (Rainbow Shops)

8

The World’s Safest Driver Isn’t Human. Can Waymo Stop Traffic Deaths? | Chinmay Jain, Dir. Product

9

The Cortisol UI: How We Fix FinServ’s Empathy Problem | Melissa Douros, CPO (Green Dot)

10

The $500M Lesson from Amazon’s Homepage Redesign | Rahul Chaudhari (ex-Amazon, Kohl’s)

11

Smarter AI Models Won't Fix Your Deployment | Maryam Ashoori, VP PM/Eng (IBM, Watsonx)

12

Using AI to Preserve 140 Years of History at the LA Times | Deepika Manglani, VP Product (LA Times)

13

Designing for Attention: How CrossFit Builds Product for Community-Led Growth | Ben McAllister, CPTO

14

How AI Can Eliminate the “Chaos Tax” in Enterprise Software | Karthik Viswanathan (TalAiro)

15

April Dunford’s 1 Killer Question to Expose Weak AI Product Positioning

16

Is Dashboarding Dead? How AI Is Changing Analytics UX | Robert Henkhaus, VP of Product (Enverus)

17

Why AI Agents Are the Future of ERP | Bret Tushaus, VP Product (DelTek) - Repeat

18

Lessons from the Launch that Became a Silicon Valley Punchline | Berni Fisher, VP Product (Appcues)

19

Why Top-of-Funnel Traffic is Dead (& How TED is Replacing It ) | Tricia Maia, Head of Product (TED)

20

Make the C-Suite Think Like a Startup (Without Getting Fired) | West Stringfellow, VP Product (ex-Target, Blackhawk)

21

Why PMs are Leveling up into AI Product Engineers | Sarah Jacob Singh, CPTO (Medbridge)

22

A Serial Founder’s Guide to Pivots, Exits, and AI | Raj Singh, VP of Product (Mozilla)

23

When CPO Becomes CMO: The Expanding Role of Product Leaders | Karen Chao (Flowspace)

24

When AI Makes Engineering Too Fast for Product Teams | Oji Udezue (ex-Typeform & Calendly)

25

Product Lessons from a $3B Bootstrapped eCom Platform | Trevin Chow, CPO (Big Cartel)

26

How Tinder Swiped Right on Customer Experience | Curtis Stevens (ex-Tinder)

27

The Hidden AI Revolution in Construction | Rajitha Chaparala (Procore)

28

Linear’s Secret to Building Powerful AI Products | Nan Yu, VP of Product (Linear)

29

Reinventing SaaS: Zuora's AI Transformation | Karthik Chakkarapani and Shakir Karim (Zuora)

30

The Secrets Behind a 30x AI Product Team | Zac Hays, CPO (Luxury Presence)

31

Zapier’s AI Transformation Playbook with Phil Lakin (Zapier)

32

Copilot, Claude, & OptiGPT: The AI Stack Driving Optimizely

33

How 1 CPO Uses AI to Deliver Like a Full Product Team | Michael Krafft, CPO (FoundersCard)

34

Top 4 AI Workflows Every PM Leader Should Know

35

Why Optimizely is Betting on Agentic AI | Cory Liebgott, VP of Product (Optimizely)

36

The Company Using AI to Change the Game for Sports Betting | Marty Styles, VP of Product (PFF)

37

The "Feature Constellation" Framework That Unlocks 10x Customer Value | Aleks Bass (CPO, Typeform) - Repeat

38

Why You Can’t Ignore AI Moving to the Edge | Joel Polanco, Senior Hardware Product Manager (Intel)

39

The AI Agent Behind 4x Productivity in Collections Teams | Dave Ruda, VP Product (Billtrust)

40

The 3 Biggest Barriers to AI Adoption Across Your Team | Derek Pharr, CPO (Sporcle)

41

The EdTech Graduating 150K by 2X’ing Completion Rates | Zach Heller, VP of Prod. (Penn Foster)

42

Agentic AI for Vertical Software | Bret Tushaus, VP Product (Deltek)

43

AI Is Killing SaaS Pricing: Lessons From 10k+ Customers | Prittam Bagani, VP of PM (Chargebee)

44

How Lattice’s PM team built an AI Slack “Intern” | Neha Monga, CPO (Ex-Lattice)

45

How Zuora is Betting on Retention-Led Growth | Ken Houseman, VP of Product (Zuora)

46

Inside Apartment List’s AI-Powered Product Team | Sierra Hahn-Ventrell, Dir. of PM (Apartment List)

47

Growing to 42 Million Users: Audiomack's Growth Playbook | Charlie Kaplan, VP of Product (Audiomack)

48

The 4 Essentials of Killer Product Storytelling | Lanie Schenkelberg, VP of Product Marketing (Inovalon) | LaunchPod

49

Designing AI for the ICP That Doesn’t Trust New Tech | Deepti Mehtani, VP, AI (NextGen) | LaunchPod| Deepti Mehtani, VP, Clinical & AI Solutions (NextGen) | LaunchPod

50

How to scale $0 to $25M ARR | Michael Park, VP of PM (Buffini & Co) | LaunchPod (Repeat)

51

Automating PRDs and Beyond with AI | Roman Gun, VP of Prod. (Zeta Global) | LaunchPod AI

52

How To Modernize Million-User Products | Kamal Srinivasan, SVP of Product (Alludo) | LaunchPod

53

Kickstarter's Comeback | Mahesh Guruswamy, CPTO (Kickstarter)

54

Inside MailChimp's PLG Engine | Lauren Schuman, VP of Prod. Growth (Bitly) | LaunchPod

55

How to compete with Apple — and win | Steve Chazin, CEO & Founder (Skytech.io) | LaunchPod (Repeat)

56

The AI Velocity Engine for Product | Jeremy Pollock VP of Product (WP Engine) | LaunchPod

57

Build product impact with LLMs and data normalization | Rajitha Chaparala VP of Product (Procore) | LaunchPod

58

How to category carve in B2B commerce | Jake Hookom, EVP of Product (Perforce) | LaunchPod

59

Building Consumer Trust for Mainstream Adoption | Sean McLeary, VP, Prod. Exp. (InTapp) | LaunchPod

60

Build Product Like Typeform | Aleks Bass, CPO (TypeForm) | LaunchPod (Pt.2)

61

Build Product Like Typeform | Aleks Bass, CPO (TypeForm) | LaunchPod (Pt.1)

62

How To Say "Not Yet" To Enterprise | Deepti Mendiratta, VP Of Products (HungerRush) | LaunchPod

63

How to unlock $50 million in revenue in one year | Vaarrun Bimbhat, Head of Product (Jiffy.com) | LaunchPod

64

Vertical shift: How to navigate new product markets | Dan McCarthy, VP of Product (Cyvl) | LaunchPod

65

A PM’s guide to mergers and acquisitions | Sowmya Sundararagavan, Sr. Dir. Product (Freshworks)

66

How to tell your CEO they’re wrong about product centricity | Steve Nash, Dir. of Product (GumGum) | LaunchPod

67

How to build for customers— not stakeholders | Jonathan Sussman, CPO (Jebbit) | LaunchPod

68

How to fail fast to unlock hypergrowth | Dane Molter, VP of Product (Navan)

69

How to A/B test your product to millions in ARR | Eric Metelka, Head of Product (Eppo)

70

(Ethically) cheat your way to $250M+ | Mikal Lewis, Product Exec. (Whole Foods, Nordstrom)

71

How to launch your ugly MVP in high-velocity markets | Kevin Wang, CPO (Braze)

72

How to build a $1M ARR startup (x3) | Adam Schoenfeld (Keyplay)

73

Anti-silver bullets: Pioneering PLG at IBM | Andy Boyd, CPO (Appfire, IBM)

74

Managing product ahead of its time | Sean Lorenz, Senior Director of Product (Altoida, LogMeIn, Neurala)

75

Navigating a digital reckoning in the art industry | Elizabeth Van Bergen, Product Experience Lead (Phillips)

76

Build product like Linear | Nan Yu, Head of Product (Linear, Everlane, BOA)

77

Unlock revenue with the zone of benefit | Oji Udezue, CPO (Typeform, Twitter, Calendly) [Repeat]

78

No BS eComm Analytics | Julie Acosta, Dir. of eComm & Analytics (NOBULL, AutoZone) [Repeat]

79

Playbook: PM like a GM | Lauren Creedon, VP of Product (Goldcast, Drift, Hudl)

80

From product leader to founder | Arman Javaherian, CEO & Co-Founder (Home AI, Shortcut, Crunchbase)

81

Manage product like P&G | Prabhath Nanisetty, Global Head of Industry for Retail Data, Technology, and Quick Commerce (Snowflake)

82

Building an award-winning ad experience at WSJ | Caroline Albanese, Product Director, Data Products & Capabilities (Dow Jones)

83

Bridging in-store and digital with analytics | Julie Acosta, Dir. of eComm & Analytics (NOBULL, AutoZone)

84

How to build product at Linear with Nan Yu (Repeat)

85

The business of re-branding poop | Isabel Petty, Head of Digital Product at TUSHY (Pattern, GritWell, Walmart)

86

Scaling zero to $25M product growth lessons | Michael Park, Product Coach & Advisor (BombBomb, Rendi)

87

Survive & thrive in the product growth revolution | Aakash Gupta, CPO, Product Growth (Apollo.io, threadUp, Epic Games)

88

Building Product School from boostrapped to 2M members | Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, Founder & CEO, Product School

89

Ditch Founder Mode, go Team Mode | David LoPresti, Dir. U-Haul Apps (U-Haul)

90

Build a company, not a T-Rex | Rich DiTieri, Sr. Dir., EF (Startup Institute, Pintley, Stack Education)

91

Transforming and modernizing brands with Scott Lux, EVP

92

Less gas, more brakes, ship fast with Ben Newell, Product Executive

93

The end of MVPs and prioritizing accountability with Jason Penkethman, CPO (Repeat)

94

How to build product like Linear with Nan Yu, Head of Product

95

Run product like sales runs sales with Justin Anovick

96

Perfect is not the answer with Shira Gershoni

97

The success of fractional leadership with Jennifer Moore

98

Paper to pixels: navigating product regulation and UX with Carolyne Moran, VP

99

Building iconic customer experiences with Susan Stavitzski, Principal PM

100

Driving B2B SaaS innovation with Josh Schoonmaker, Global VP

101

Managing product through an IPO and beyond with Charles Battle, Head of Product

102

Big bets, tech giants, and design North stars

103

The zone of benefit with Oji Udezue, Principal (Part 2)

104

The zone of benefit with Oji Udezue, Principal (Part 1)

105

Digital transformation in fleet management with Fatima Howes, VP

106

Navigating product teams and tech stacks with Nancy Wang, SVP

107

Risk-taking with tech giants with Steve Chazin, VP

108

Navigating M&A decision-making with Ben Hackett, SVP

109

Aligning the physical and digital with Christine Kuei, Dir. of Product Management

110

Navigating B2B and B2C dynamics with Matt DiBari, CPO

111

Redefining product development in SMB fintech with Alo Mukerji

112

The end of MVPs and prioritizing accountability with Jason Penkethman, CPO

113

Product success through community engagement with Michael Liss, VP

114

Product vision and alignment with Sandy Huang

115

Outcomes over outputs with Karla Fiske, VP

116

Revolutionizing small business banking with Herman Man, CPO

117

Navigating regulations with customer-centricity with Sai Vishnubhatla, CFA

118

Real-world AI products with Roman Gun, VP of Product

119

Big product bets with Kristin Dorsett, CPO

120

Accelerated product innovation with Ryan Johnson, CPO