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#203 Tom Kubiniec: He Never Owned a Gun. That’s Why His Weapon Racks Won.

“I never saw the box,” he tells me — and the line reframed how I think about beginner’s mind as a competitive advantage.
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#202 Ben Rennie: AI Didn’t Remove the Struggle. It Rescheduled It.
Where AI leaves the design profession isn’t that the "hard part" disappeared. It’s that the hard part moved to a place most of us weren’t planning to…
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#201 - Logan Yonavjak: How to use A.I. to cultivate your companies leaders
Logan Yonavjak runs a leadership analytics platform built on adult developmental psychology, and partway through our call she diagnoses Steve Jobs from…
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#199 Rob Walling: 90% of Startups Should Never Raise Venture Capital
His 1-9-90 rule says only 1% of startups should raise VC — and that the rest of us have been brainwashed by what he calls the venture industrial…
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#198 - Marcelo Calbucci: How to write compelling strategy narratives that get buy-in
AI can write your business plan in 30 seconds. Marcelo Calbucci — author of The PRFAQ Framework, six-time founder, ex-Amazon — argues that’s exactly…
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#197 Ashley Jablow: Why the world's best innovators are also the best iterators
The innovation she remembers most clearly wasn’t a system overhaul or a policy rewrite. It was a woman at a desk who figured out she could sign a PDF…
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#196 Molly Ruland: The Riverside Feature That Cost Them $6,000 of Her Money
They removed the timer from a recording app. They added balloons, then quadrupled her rate from $400 a month to $1,800. Molly walked.
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#201 - Logan Yonavjak: How to use A.I. to cultivate your companies leaders
Logan Yonavjak runs a leadership analytics platform built on adult developmental psychology, and partway through our call she diagnoses Steve Jobs from…
 • Caden Damiano
41:06
#198 - Marcelo Calbucci: How to write compelling strategy narratives that get buy-in
AI can write your business plan in 30 seconds. Marcelo Calbucci — author of The PRFAQ Framework, six-time founder, ex-Amazon — argues that’s exactly…
 • Caden Damiano
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Taste Maker #2. Marcelo Calbucci: The Document That Talked Him Out of His Own Startup
Bias to Action Is a Trap. He Measures Impact Instead.
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#195 Drew Bridewell: The Rise of the Design Operator
The Craft Got Designers Respect. The Understanding the P&L Gets Them in the Room.
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#192 Khurram Mir: If QA Is Blocking Your Launch, It Might Be Your Fault
The moment QA starts being nitpicky, most product managers assume the QA team is the problem. Khurram Mir argues it almost always means the same thing…
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#190 Michael Ferranti: the $100 million lesson in what happens when product strategy overrides engineering discipline
Sonos had excellent DevOps: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Datadog, an internal engineering blog they were proud of. Then someone decided to release new headphones…
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