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46:11

AI Product Strategy FAQ, Minus the Bullsh*t

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/09/16

Our latest episode features Nicholas Holland (SVP of Product & AI at HubSpot) and explains how AI is actually changing go-to-market teams:* AI cuts rep research time and turns calls into structured insight* “AI Engine Optimization” (AEO) is becoming the new SEOThis conversation isn’t speculative—it’s a blueprint. Listen to Episode 42 on Apple Podcasts🚨 Upcoming Workshop: Sept 18 — AI Product Strategy for Realists Use promocode pod30 at checkout to get 30% off your registration!Join us for a live

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41:27

The End of Product Teams as We Know Them

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/09/09

🎙️ Listen on Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeI recently spoke with Maor Shlomo, founder of Base44—the platform that lets anyone build apps, tools, and games just by describing them to an AI. In six months, he built Base44 solo and sold it to Wix for $80M. It’s the clearest signal yet: the rules of building have changed, and most teams aren’t ready.We dug into:* Why vibe coding crushes the myth that innovation requires big teams and big funding.* How cross-domain generalists will thrive while

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47:40

From AI as Tool to AI as Teammate: Lessons from...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/08/14

🎙 Episode 40: Atlassian’s Secrets to Successful AgentsIn this episode, Jamil Valliani (VP & Head of Product AI at Atlassian) shares how they embed AI across Jira, Confluence, and Trello through intelligent agents that blend into workflows—far from mere “+AI” buttons. He emphasizes starting small with tangible prototypes to build momentum and leadership alignment, showing that AI gains stick when they're experienced, not explained.Highlights from the episode:* Hands-on AI adoption at Atlassian:

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39:19

The Risks & Research of Over Reliance on AI

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/05/05

After a frustrating week of trying to wrangle AI outputs, we decided to explore the risks of overreliance on AI. It’s good for us to question our tools. It enhances our processes and challenges us to find the right tools.Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple Podcasts | Watch on YouTubeIn this episode, we say the quiet parts out loud. Not only are LLMs often feeding us incorrect information, but over-trusting these systems poses a serious risk.We can look at this Rolling Stone article headline and

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55:07

AI Promises us More Time. What Should we do With it?

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/04/22

When reports like Adecco’s Global Workforce of the Future survey find that the average saving for workers using AI is 1 hour a day, we should question this. * What did those workers do with their time savings? * Should that time savings benefit the employer or the employee?* Can we trust such a hard-to-measure stat?Our latest episode tackles this and other disruptions happening to the creative and production processes. Matthew Krissel is the Co-Founder of the Built Environment Futures Council and a

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49:40

AI's Predictive Powers will Change how we Live & Work

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/04/08

As much as image generation is fun, the power of GenAI is prediction. The technology operates very similarly to people you might meet: * Some people have studied and are experts in a single topic for a decade. They’re experts in that topic and can easily infer, correct, and complete tasks. They’re unreliable for everything else.* Some people are generally knowledgeable and have a good understanding of many topics. They aren’t experts but can reliably assist you in many ways. But they’ll also be

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67:20

Prepare Yourself for AI to Increasingly Change Our Jobs

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/03/13

“The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed” Science fiction is inspiring, frightening, and often the best lens into the future. Many ideas about the future are b******t —just like this quote being misattributed to the ever-amazing William Gibson— but even the wildest idea shares truths worth discussing.This week’s newsletter is an exercise in imagining how AI will transform the way that we work. The future will impact us differently because some already live with a future-centred

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58:21

Implementing AI into creative workflows: How to...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/03/03

There are many reasons to debate the ethics and implications of AI. But while we do that, hundreds of the world’s biggest brands are rushing to implement the technology into creative and coding workflows. At a time when shareholders are being unforgiving and policy making is volatile, business leaders are looking to AI to gain any advantage possible.Jan Emmanuele is one of the experts that these Fortune 500 corporations rely on to identify and build GenAI creative workflow augmentations and

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85:37

How Can we Design a New Relationship with AI?

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/02/19

Whether we admit it, like it, or believe it, we’re in a relationship with AI.That’s the first of many powerful reflections made by Sara Vienna, Metalab’s Chief Design Officer, in her must-read manifesto about how design and product must evolve. Unlike the design leaders who speculate about AI's impact, Sara and her world-class team are years ahead. They are designing disruptive AI product experiences and leveraging AI to elevate their workflows. Sara’s episode is one of the most important

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53:14

AI is making Knowledge Work cheaper & easier— some...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/02/05

There’s little debate that AI will change the world. What we’re not so sure about is if AI’s expected disruptions to how we work will be outweighed by the benefits of accessing a super-intelligence.David Boyle thinks of LLMs as an electric bicycle for the mind, one that enables us to go farther than we ever imagined with much less effort. His opinion comes from being one of the first market researchers to experiment with LLMs and subsequently turn his learnings into the PROMPT series of books to

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50:42

Challenges of leveraging AI in existing products +...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2025/01/28

Up until recently Miro was the innovator’s defacto collaboration platform. In recent years a long list of apps added similar functionality to eat away at the online whiteboard segment. Our latest episode with Ioana Teleanu, Miro’s former Lead Product Designer for AI explores the challenges and opportunities of leveraging AI to enhance an existing product.Listen on Spotify | Listen on AppleKey takeaways:* When a product experience is already good, do we need to add AI?* AI makes it easier for more

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52:52

We're too obsessed with AI's potential that we forget...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2024/12/04

Healthcare is constantly highlighted as the industry that will benefit the most from AI. The prospective opportunities are endless: Improve access to services, improve quality of service, patient outcomes, and medical research. An analysis predicts that the healthcare could save up to $360B a year by implementing AI.That’s we invited an expert to discuss what other industries can learn from healthcare’s massive AI opportunity. Spencer Dorn, the Vice Chair and Professor of Medicine at the University

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52:19

AI is reshaping business & shaping a new future |...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2024/11/22

In our latest episode, Lisa Weaver-Lambert dispels the belief that is incapable of delivering impact in her book "The AI Value Playbook." She also lays out principles for succeeding in your implementation of AI:1. Your tech stack determines winners: Orgs that already were built to process and leverage data as part of core decision making are at a huge advantage. Especially those that are focused on leveraging insights to learn and iterate.2. Leadership and strategy matter: The vision, guiding

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62:39

How AI mature is your organization? And what are the...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2024/11/13

The last two years have been extremely stressful for anyone working in tech. There’s been a consistent sense that we all need to do more with less. That our jobs are on the line. And now AI is being touted as the cheat code that will unlock productivity and profit gains.In our latest podcast, Peter Merholz (add him on LinkedIn) doesn’t see AI helping much in the short-term because teams are too over-tasked to believe they have the time to try new models of working. He also believes that most

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61:59

Phillip Maggs maps the future of design + 20 lessons...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2024/10/25

Speaking to Phillip Maggs on Design of AI had so many💡 moments:1. Want to use AI to get a career advantage? Consuming AI content isn't enough to get ahead, you need to experiment with the new material. Stretch what you believed was possible and you'll gain new capabilities.2. New careers and role are being defined right nowGenAI makes it possible for anyone to quickly learn about a topic or skill. You might think you're average but can quickly put together a unique skill profile that makes you a

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68:28

Sentient Design: Should we be chasing weirdness and...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2024/10/15

GenAI’s promise is that digital experiences will become more intelligent. Big Medium Founder Josh Clark and his daughter, Veronika Kindred, are the authors of the upcoming book “Sentient Design” and the latest guests on the podcast. They see products that are radically adaptive to our situational needs and collaborate with users in ways that seemed insane a few years ago. Listen on Spotify | Listen on Apple PodcastsBut what struck me the most were three things:* Veronika, a GenZer who figuratively

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49:44

Playstation's Kristie J. Fisher + Guide to designing...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2024/09/26

In this newsletter:* Podcast episode with Kristie J. Fisher, PhD, the Sr. Director of Global User Research, PlayStation Studios.* Guide to designing a GenAI product: From vision to content strategy* Poll for the AI communityThe biggest challenge facing AI products isn’t whether they would use your product, it’s whether you’re delivering reasons to convince them to switch from their existing solution. This is extra difficult when leveraging an emerging technology, like GenAI, because of key factors:*

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59:04

Spotify’s former data alchemist: Evaluating when &...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2024/09/18

Episode 17. Our guest is Glenn MacDonald who was Spotify’s Data Alchemist, building it into an algorithmic powerhouse.We’re critically evaluating algorithms' effectiveness and why GenAI probably isn’t the best technology for many problems.Some key insights:#1. As Spotify's former data alchemist, I expected huge advocacy for hashtag#ML & hashtag#AI as a predictive technology. Instead, we must not play god with algos. They should be assistive tool to get people to where they're headed. Prediction

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51:08

Service design of AI: Designing the first Copilot w/...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2024/09/05

Our guest is Yasemin Cenberoglu, who was the first designer to work on Microsoft’s Copilot, all in secret, before the world was exposed to ChatGPT for the first time.Yasemin is a Principal Design Manager at Microsoft, leading the Copilot product for Teams Meetings, Calling, and Devices. She’s the first designer to shape what Copilot is today. Previously, she served as the Director of Design at Digitalist. Yasemin is an advisory board member at IDEA School of Design at Capilano University. She

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46:27

Futures design: Build AI products that customers want...

The AI podcast for product teams ·

2024/08/07

How should product teams be leveraging GenAI? Product teams are struggling to find the use cases which deliver the most value to customers and where the technology can be effective. And teams that have built AI products are finding that there’s often a mismatch between what customers find valuable and what the technology can do. Our guest is Arpy Dragffy Guerrero, the founder of PH1 Research where he has consulted Spotify, Microsoft, Mozilla, National Football League, to research and strategize how

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