The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano

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The Way of Product with Caden Damiano

The Way of Product is a philosophy magazine disguised as a podcast. Every week I publish two conversations with people who build in technology and product. Each one comes with a narrative essay that puts you inside the conversation through my eyes — what surprised me, what I kept thinking about after we hung up, where the principle actually lives once you strip away the jargon. I don't hand you the answer. I put you in the room and let you find it yourself.
2 free articles a week

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44:55
# 170 Jake Stauch, Co-Founder of Serval: Bet before the technology works, build infrastructure over raw models, and scale enterprise AI…
Watch now | The wireless communication analogy and infrastructure-first philosophy that helped Serval raise $125M at a billion-dollar valuation within…
 • Caden Damiano
50:29
#169 Radhika Dutt, Author of Radical Product Thinking & 5x Acquisition Veteran: Build puzzle-setting cultures, escape OKR perverse…
Watch now | The root cause analysis methods and narrative-driven measurement that prevent feature factories while maintaining innovation velocity.
 • Caden Damiano
57:35
#168 Saurabh Sharma—Delegate IC work to AI agents, restructure hiring criteria, and build compounding advantage
Watch now | Learn how a CPO at a billion-dollar AI company is rethinking what “good” looks like for PMs — prioritizing strategic thinking over…
 • Caden Damiano
56:06
#167 Anya Cheng, Founder & CEO of Taelor: Master Selection Criteria Over Ideas and Ship MVPs That Actually Teach You Something
Watch now | Learn the framework Meta uses in PM interviews to separate great product thinkers from idea generators
 • Caden Damiano
53:48
#166 Maxine Anderson, Co-founder & CPO at Arist: Iterate Positioning Relentlessly and Ship What the Market Needs
Watch now | Discover how Arist navigated seven years of positioning iteration in an undefined category and why shared conviction about the game you're…
 • Caden Damiano
51:31
#165 Richard Yu, CPO at LucidLink: Build Products That Disappear, Navigate High-Integrity Commitments, and Treat Strategy as a Hypothesis
Watch now | Learn how LucidLink's "invisible product" design philosophy connects to Marty Cagan's high-integrity commitments framework and why the best…
 • Caden Damiano
50:33
#164 Chris Silvestri—AI Produces Great Stuff, If You Have a Process.
Watch now | What a software engineer turned copywriter learned about positioning—and why 70% of the work happens before you write a single word.
 • Caden Damiano
46:07
#163: Mustafa Kapadia—You're Gonna Need More PMs, Not Less: The Counterintuitive Future of Product Management in The Age of AI
Watch now | Building gets easier. Deciding what to build gets harder. Here's how the top 1% are preparing.
 • Caden Damiano
53:14
#162: Matt D Smith – Your AI Edge is The Vocabulary You Already Have
Watch now | What a decade of design fundamentals taught me about delegating to Claude Code—and why Shift Nudge was secretly an AI onboarding course…
 • Caden Damiano
52:37
#161: Steph Cartwright: AI Reads Context, Not Keywords—and That Changes Everything About Your Job Search
Watch now | Why the old keyword-stuffing playbook is dead. And what job seekers should do instead.
 • Caden Damiano
53:34
#160: Kasim Aslam – Traffic First, Product Second. The founder of the #1 Google Ads agency shares why solving for traffic before building…
Watch now | Why 20 years of watching "the best product lose" led to a radically different approach to building businesses.
 • Caden Damiano
49:50
#159 Kelly Price — HR as Partners, Not Police: Control, Compliance, and Coaching Your Way to Better HR
Watch now | Return-to-office, remote work, Netflix talent philosophy: none of it matters without leadership. Here's the framework that does.
 • Caden Damiano
The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano
The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano
Every week I publish two conversations with people who build in technology and product. Each one comes with a narrative essay that puts you inside the conversation through my eyes, I don't hand you the answer. I put you in the room and let you find it.
Top posts

Execution

View all
44:55
# 170 Jake Stauch, Co-Founder of Serval: Bet before the technology works, build infrastructure over raw models, and scale enterprise AI…
Watch now | The wireless communication analogy and infrastructure-first philosophy that helped Serval raise $125M at a billion-dollar valuation within…
 • Caden Damiano
#169 Radhika Dutt, Author of Radical Product Thinking & 5x Acquisition Veteran: Build puzzle-setting cultures, escape OKR perverse…
Watch now | The root cause analysis methods and narrative-driven measurement that prevent feature factories while maintaining innovation velocity.
 • Caden Damiano
50:29
#167 Anya Cheng, Founder & CEO of Taelor: Master Selection Criteria Over Ideas and Ship MVPs That Actually Teach You Something
Watch now | Learn the framework Meta uses in PM interviews to separate great product thinkers from idea generators
 • Caden Damiano
56:06
#166 Maxine Anderson, Co-founder & CPO at Arist: Iterate Positioning Relentlessly and Ship What the Market Needs
Watch now | Discover how Arist navigated seven years of positioning iteration in an undefined category and why shared conviction about the game you're…
 • Caden Damiano
53:48
#165 Richard Yu, CPO at LucidLink: Build Products That Disappear, Navigate High-Integrity Commitments, and Treat Strategy as a Hypothesis
Watch now | Learn how LucidLink's "invisible product" design philosophy connects to Marty Cagan's high-integrity commitments framework and why the best…
 • Caden Damiano
51:31
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Strategy

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#169 Radhika Dutt, Author of Radical Product Thinking & 5x Acquisition Veteran: Build puzzle-setting cultures, escape OKR perverse…
Watch now | The root cause analysis methods and narrative-driven measurement that prevent feature factories while maintaining innovation velocity.
 • Caden Damiano
50:29
#167 Anya Cheng, Founder & CEO of Taelor: Master Selection Criteria Over Ideas and Ship MVPs That Actually Teach You Something
Watch now | Learn the framework Meta uses in PM interviews to separate great product thinkers from idea generators
 • Caden Damiano
56:06
#166 Maxine Anderson, Co-founder & CPO at Arist: Iterate Positioning Relentlessly and Ship What the Market Needs
Watch now | Discover how Arist navigated seven years of positioning iteration in an undefined category and why shared conviction about the game you're…
 • Caden Damiano
53:48
#160: Kasim Aslam – Traffic First, Product Second. The founder of the #1 Google Ads agency shares why solving for traffic before building…
Watch now | Why 20 years of watching "the best product lose" led to a radically different approach to building businesses.
 • Caden Damiano
53:34
#159 Kelly Price — HR as Partners, Not Police: Control, Compliance, and Coaching Your Way to Better HR
Watch now | Return-to-office, remote work, Netflix talent philosophy: none of it matters without leadership. Here's the framework that does.
 • Caden Damiano
49:50
#158 Makoto Kern on AI Integration Failures: unlock leadership buy-in, measure real adoption, and protect your competitive moat
Watch now | Discover what happens when companies spend 8 months integrating AI features nobody uses—and how to avoid the same trap.
 • Caden Damiano
41:23
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