All Episodes

#132: Inside the new breed of behavioral interviews at Anthropic and OpenAI | Austen McDonald (Behavioral Interview Coach, ex-Meta)

#131: Inside comp negotiation for PM roles at top companies like OpenAI and Anthropic | Colin Lernell (Co-founder @ Valued)

#130: Inside the current executive recruiting market | Nolan Church (Founder @ Mafia Talent, ex-Carta, DoorDash)

#129: The challenges of working with AI in single-player mode | Andrew Somervell (Co-founder @ Hamster)

#128: Inside the morning ritual that re-energized our podcast | Ben Erez & Marc Baselga (co-founders, Insider Loops)

#127: What we learned from hiring dozens of people in this market | Jori Bell (VP, Core Experience @ Hampton)

#126: How to approach PM takehomes for interviews | Ben Erez & Marc Baselga (co-founder, Insider Loops)

#125: How founders turn childhood wounds into superpowers | Dr. Gillian O'Shea Brown (Author & Psychotherapist)

#124: Inside Anthropic's culture interview | Ben Erez & Marc Baselga (co-founders, Insider Loops)

#123: How a PM recruiter reads your LinkedIn profile | Chris Lee (Founder @ Product Scout, ex- Brex, Dropbox)

#122: How to navigate team matching in big tech PM hiring | Ben Erez & Marc Baselga

#121: Why your side project should start with distribution | Colin Matthews (Head of Education @ Lenny’s Newsletter)

#120: How to stop taking rejection personally | Ben Erez & Marc Baselga

#119: How I landed a director role in six weeks | Eric Posen (Director of Product @ Super.com, ex- ZeroClick, Honey)

#118: What a money coach learned from 200 conversations about wealth | Vaibhav Goel (Money Coach, ex-Doordash, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Lyft)

#117: How Gusto is turning every employee into an AI builder through hackathons | Alex Meyers (Principal Product Manager @ Gusto)

#116: Lessons learned from hiring 4 AI PMs in seven months | Chris Gomes (VP of Product @ Conveyor)

#115: This product leader built an AI brain that runs on every computer at his company | Kyler Ross (Head of Product @ Cloaked)

#114: Why I quit my high-paying PM job to go all in as a solopreneur builder | Peter Yang (ex-Roblox, Reddit, Twitter)

#113: Why free-range AI consulting is the best job in tech right now | Noah Levin (Founder @ Serious People, ex- Amazon & Honor)

#112: How to Self-Promote Without Burning Trust | Mallory Contois & Hilary Gridley

#111: Why bootstrapping forces you to get better | Marc Baselga & Ben Erez

#110: Why AI makes systems thinking the most valuable skill for PMs | Apurva Garware (ex-VP Product at Upwork, ex-Amazon)

#109: Inside Maven's shift from EPD specialists to flexible builders | Rishin Banker (VP Product @ Maven)

#108: How to find clarity when your career path keeps shifting | Molly Siemers (Coach + Advisor for Senior Product Leaders, ex-Kiva, Change.org)

#107: How synthetic users are changing product decision making | Tom Charman (Co-founder @ Blok)

#106: The rise of the full stack builder | Tomer Cohen (Former Chief Product Officer @ LinkedIn)

#105: How I built my AI “chief of staff” | Michael Leibovich (GM, Behance + Adobe Portfolio @ Adobe)

#104: Why the best talent fails in the wrong environment | Hiten Shah (CEO @ Crazy Egg, ex- Dropbox)

#103: What senior product people should know about fractional work | Ben Erez

#102: How to stand out in a crowded space | Elan Miller (Founder @ Off-Menu)

#101: Why everyone should have an AI-powered cloud computer | Ben Guo (Cofounder @ Zo)

#100: Reflecting on two years and 100 podcast episodes | Marc Baselga & Ben Erez

#99: How the air force prepared me for product management | Yaniv Fatal (Founding PM @ Blast Security, formerly @ Wiz)

#98: Why mid-career people are doubling down on self-learning | Gagan Biyani (CEO and Co-Founder @ Maven)

#97: What it means to be a forward-deployed product leader | Chase Schwalbach (SVP Product & Technology @ Millie)

#96: Inside Magic Patterns: Why frontend focus helps win over product teams | Alexander Danilowicz (CEO & Co-founder @ Magic Patterns)

#95: How to find your authentic voice online without faking it | Mallory Contois (VP Growth @ Maven, Ex-Pinterest)

#94: How AI is enabling top operators to open-source their expertise | Casey Winters (Co-founder & CEO @ SuperMe, ex-Eventbrite & Pinterest)

#93: Why a product marketing background is a PM superpower | Michael Chen (Product @ DoorDash, ex-Asana, Slack, LinkedIn)

#92: Are universities failing to prepare students for jobs? | Stephen Cognetta (Co-founder @ Exponent, ex-Google)

#91: How pre-seed investors evaluate startup moats in the AI era | Itamar Novick (Founder & General Partner @ Recursive Ventures)

#90: How top PM candidates leverage recruiters to their advantage | Anneli Scopazzi (Founder @ Boulevard Recruiting, ex - Figma, Palantir, Notion)

#89: The hidden role of rituals in Duolingo's product culture | Nickey Skarstad (Director of Product @ Duolingo, ex-Airbnb, Etsy)

#88: How to accelerate your company's AI adoption with a 5-day hackathon | Gaurav Hardikar (VP Product & Growth @ HomeLight)

#87: WTF is "Product Taste" and unpacking the PM hype around it | Sachin Rekhi (AI course creator, founder, ex-LinkedIn product leader)

#86: How senior PMs get 10x leverage by “hiring” AI agents | Jacob Bank (Founder/CEO @ Relay.app)

#85: How to decide whether to start a course | Claire Chen (Growth @ Maven)

#84: How Reforge launched 5 AI products in 9 months with just 25 people | Brian Balfour (Founder/CEO @ Reforge)

#83: The scariest episode we’ve ever recorded: Marc & Ben’s live coaching session with Josh Herzig-Marx

#82: Inside the new recruiting reality: fewer hires, higher bars | Anneli Scopazzi (Founder @ Boulevard Recruiting, ex - Figma & Notion)

#81: I spent 3 months at an AI-native startup where every role ships code | James Dillard (Product Leader, ex-Stripe & YouTube)

#80: Becoming an IC again is how products leaders will stay relevant in the AI era | Gokul Rajaram (Investor and Company Helper; ex-Google, ex-Facebook)

#79: The art of disagreeing with your CEO without putting your career at risk | Elena Luneva (CPO & Advisor, Ex-Braintrust, Nextdoor)

#78: How to package and monetize your expertise with AI | Ben breaks down the complete workflow creating his interview prep copilot

#77: How AI is eliminating the PM handoff tax | Adam Fishman (Product & Growth Advisor)

#76: A special look at Insider Loops

#75: Aligning personal finance with your values and life satisfaction | Zach Teutsch (Founder @ Values Added Financial)

#74: How experienced engineers actually use AI coding tools | Nick Meehan (Senior Software Engineer @ Ontra)

#73: The Portfolio Career That Made Him a Better Parent | Ben's Episode on the Startup Dad Podcast

#72: How to scale your team's intuition with AI-powered research | Aaron Cannon (Cofounder & CEO @ Outset)

#71: How PMs can get leverage via agents and MCPs in Cursor | Amir M (Cofounder @ Humblytics)

#70: How to capture the AI integration opportunity with MCP | Reid Robinson (Lead AI Product Manager @ Zapier)

#69: Why product leaders should embrace politics instead of avoiding it | Rich Mironov (Product Management Veteran & Coach)

#68: Why authentic storytelling beats credentials | Charles Ruiz (Keynote Speaker, Founder & Executive Coach)

#67: Untangling identity from job title | Jori Bell (VP Core Experience @ Hampton, ex-Spotify, SoundCloud, Audible)

#66: How MCP enables AI to know you better | Mike Bal (Head of Product and AI @ David’s Bridal)

#65: How to build an AI career coach in 90 minutes | Kavita Anand (VP, Product & Design @ NewtonX)

#64: How top companies evaluate PM candidates in 2025 | Nickey Skarstad (Duolingo), Stephanie J. Neill (Stripe), and Chantal Cox (LTK)

#63: How PMs can bring predictability to AI products | Aman Khan (Head of Product @ Arize AI, ex-Spotify, ex-Apple)

#62: Why the future belongs to spiky PMs who use AI to magnify their strengths | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product @ WHOOP)

#61: How jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) nearly killed our startup | Troy Sultan and Austin Cooley (Co-founders @ Guide)

#60: What PM candidates get wrong about behavioral interviews | Robert Hamilton (PM interview coach, ex-Meta, ex-Google)

#59: How this AI-powered duo found PMF by building 3 products in 9 months | Andy Keil & Kyle Ledbetter

#58: Why PM hiring is broken (and how to fix it) | Mike Curti & Joshua Herzig-Marx

#57: What product leaders get wrong about strategy | Melissa Perri (board member, author of Escaping The Build Trap)

#56: How to find work you love | Troy Sultan (Co-Founder & CEO @ Guide)

#55: How v0 has changed the way we build product | Sanket Kavishwar (Director of Product @ Relyance AI)

#54: How leading designers are riding the AI prototyping wave | Will Newton (Principal Product Architect @ Amplitude)

#53: The state of AI prototyping for product managers | Colin Matthews & Tal Raviv

#52: The beautiful mess of organizational context | John Cutler & Joshua Herzig-Marx

#51: The future of in-product collaboration between AI and humans | Steven Fabre (Founder @ Liveblocks)

#50: Nailing GTM in the age of AI-first startups | Phil Ou (Founder @ Blossomer, Ex-Google & YouTube PM)

#49: How Asana builds AI products | Rodrigo Davies (Director of Product @ Asana)

#48: The art of listening | Randhir Vieira (Chief Product Officer @ Omada Health)

#47: How AI agents are supercharging PMs | Jacob Bank (Founder & CEO @ Relay.app, prev Director of PM @ Google)

#46: How AI is blurring the line between Design and PM | Will Newton (Principal Product Architect @ Amplitude)

#45: How top PMs leverage AI-powered prototyping tools | Colin Matthews (Founder & Author @ Tech For Product)

#44: The journey from product leader to coach | Yue Zhao (Founder @ The Uncommon Exec, Ex-Meta)

#43: How AI is impacting the PM - engineer relationship | Irene Yu (Founder & CEO @ Skiplevel)

#42: How AI is changing the way product teams work | Tal Raviv & Joshua Herzig-Marx

#41: Reflections from 40 episodes and plans for 2025 | Ben Erez & Marc Baselga

#40: How Pie Insurance Implemented the Product Operating Model | Brenton Sellati (VP of Product @ Pie Insurance)

#39: How PM compensation has changed in the last two years | Peter Walker (Head of Insights @ Carta)

#38: Where software pricing is heading in an AI world | Alvaro Morales (Co-founder & CEO @ Orb)

#37: How AI is impacting Product Discovery and User Research | Teresa Torres (Author, Speaker, Product Discovery Coach)

#36: How AI is making product management fun again | Tal Raviv (Ex-Riverside, AppsFlyer, Patreon)

#35: Unpacking the Current Job Market for Product Leaders | Sunil Chaudhary (Director @ Riviera Partners)

#34: Scaling Impact Off the Beaten Path | Gibson Biddle (Netflix, Chegg)

#2 Re-Post: Fearless Salary Negotiation | Josh Doody (Author)