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The Way of Product with Caden Damiano

A podcast on overcoming the challenges of collaboration within a product team. If you want to develop strong soft skills, product sense, and design taste, this show is for you!
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Why Brian Chesky and James Dyson Are the New Archetypes for Product Leaders
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#131 How American Express Consistently Reinvented Itself for the last 175 years w/ Ryan Cailliet—VP of Research and Design at American…
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Former Wealthfront CEO on Innovating Across Disciplines, Building Emotional Connections in Product Design, & Empowering Charitable Giving EP…
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#133 Cutting Through AI Hype: Building Effective Governance, Strategic Tech Ecosystems, and AI-Driven Decision-Making
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#141 - Why Table Stake Features Should be a "Buy" Decision, Lessons Building a Search API & The Myth of the "Lone Genius" w/ Thomas Payet…
Ep 141 w/ Thomas Payet, Co-Founder of MeiliSearch
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48:45
#140 How to Write Strategy Narratives if You're Not at Amazon w/ Marcelo Calbucci Author of "The PRFAQ Framework"
#140 w/ Marcelo Calbucci, author of "The PRFAQ Framework".
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44:48
#139 Navigating the Job Market: Communicating Value Through Unique Positioning, and Being a Category of "One" w/ John Tarnoff, former…
Ep 139 w/ former Hollywood executive and career transition coach John Tarnoff
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44:11
#138 AI's Real Impact: Redefining Workflows, Not Eliminating Jobs w/ Anshul Gupta
w/ Anshul Gupta, Product Lead at Ema Unlimited
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Caden Damiano
36:43
#137 Rethinking API Development: Handling Legacy Hurdles and Building an Agent-Based Future w/ Sagar Bachu, CEO and Co-Founder of Speakeasy
How a physics graduate found his calling in tech and built a game-changing API toolchain.
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Caden Damiano
35:46
#136 Embracing Bootstrapping, VC Funding Myths, and Achieving Financial Freedom w/ Rob Walling, Co-Founder of Drip & Tinyseed
How Hard Work, Luck, and Skills Forge a Path from Developer to Investor in SaaS
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38:12
#135 Secrets to Successful Product Pricing: Key Mistakes, and Pricing Frameworks w/ Bill Wilson, Founder of Pace Pricing
Ep 134 on B2B Product Pricing Strategy
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51:46
#134 Leading innovation without needing a huge budget; how curiosity fuels success; and why you need an unhealthy obsession with problems to…
EP 134 Michael Todasco
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44:19
#133 Cutting Through AI Hype: Building Effective Governance, Strategic Tech Ecosystems, and AI-Driven Decision-Making
Embracing AI at the Edge: A Conversation with Elizabeth Samara-Rubio
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Caden Damiano
40:47
#132 Modern API Integration Strategies, The Art of Influence, & Balancing Strategic Vision with Day-to-Day Leadership w/ Anuj Jhunjhunwala…
Insights on using tech and interpersonal skills to build a thriving API-driven business.
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45:39
#131 How American Express Consistently Reinvented Itself for the last 175 years w/ Ryan Cailliet—VP of Research and Design at American…
From humble beginnings as a freight forwarder, Amex revolutionized travel with travelers checks and now powers modern fintech experiences. How did it do…
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Caden Damiano
1:13:05
#130 On Becoming a Product Leader: Dean Phillips, Head of Product Strategy @ ClickUp
Talking Shop with ClickUp's Head of Product Strategy
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Why Brian Chesky and James Dyson Are the New Archetypes for Product Leaders
 • Caden Damiano
#131 How American Express Consistently Reinvented Itself for the last 175 years w/ Ryan Cailliet—VP of Research and Design at American…
 • Caden Damiano
Former Wealthfront CEO on Innovating Across Disciplines, Building Emotional Connections in Product Design, & Empowering Charitable Giving EP…
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#133 Cutting Through AI Hype: Building Effective Governance, Strategic Tech Ecosystems, and AI-Driven Decision-Making
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The Missing Link in Understanding Design Thinking: Abductive Reasoning
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Execution

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32:58
#141 - Why Table Stake Features Should be a "Buy" Decision, Lessons Building a Search API & The Myth of the "Lone Genius" w/ Thomas Payet…
Ep 141 w/ Thomas Payet, Co-Founder of MeiliSearch
 • 
Caden Damiano
#139 Navigating the Job Market: Communicating Value Through Unique Positioning, and Being a Category of "One" w/ John Tarnoff, former…
Ep 139 w/ former Hollywood executive and career transition coach John Tarnoff
 • 
Caden Damiano
44:48
#137 Rethinking API Development: Handling Legacy Hurdles and Building an Agent-Based Future w/ Sagar Bachu, CEO and Co-Founder of Speakeasy
How a physics graduate found his calling in tech and built a game-changing API toolchain.
 • 
Caden Damiano
36:43
#136 Embracing Bootstrapping, VC Funding Myths, and Achieving Financial Freedom w/ Rob Walling, Co-Founder of Drip & Tinyseed
How Hard Work, Luck, and Skills Forge a Path from Developer to Investor in SaaS
 • 
Caden Damiano
35:46
#133 Cutting Through AI Hype: Building Effective Governance, Strategic Tech Ecosystems, and AI-Driven Decision-Making
Embracing AI at the Edge: A Conversation with Elizabeth Samara-Rubio
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Caden Damiano
44:19

Design

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45:39
#131 How American Express Consistently Reinvented Itself for the last 175 years w/ Ryan Cailliet—VP of Research and Design at American…
From humble beginnings as a freight forwarder, Amex revolutionized travel with travelers checks and now powers modern fintech experiences. How did it do…
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Caden Damiano
Ep #127 Navigating Self-Employment and Personal Promotion with Trevor Nielsen -Founding Designer at Kleo
Case Study on building and promoting a fractional design business
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45:00
Former Wealthfront CEO on Innovating Across Disciplines, Building Emotional Connections in Product Design, & Empowering Charitable Giving EP…
Episode 123 with Adam Nash, CEO of Daffy
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46:38
From Tech Strategy to Emotional Engagement, What companies do to Gain Raving Fans, and How to Set up a Tech Stack for Acquisition.
Ep 122 w/ Bryan Farris, Owner of Goldfish Code
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46:57
Getting good at politics without selling your soul, Why UX isn't a discipline but a competency, Caden's approach to playing and winning the…
Watch now | My interview appearance on "Beyond UX Design" podcast
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Product Discovery

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45:39
#131 How American Express Consistently Reinvented Itself for the last 175 years w/ Ryan Cailliet—VP of Research and Design at American…
From humble beginnings as a freight forwarder, Amex revolutionized travel with travelers checks and now powers modern fintech experiences. How did it do…
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Caden Damiano
#125 Understanding the Common Pitfalls of Digital Transformation Projects
From 'Scooter' to 'Ferrari': Building Customer-Centric Products in FinTech w/ Seamus MacIsaac, VP Product @ Helcim | Engineer | Board Member | The Peak…
48:53
"I accidentally turned a COVID hobby into a bestseller" / How to tap into the “x factor” of every great creator / Taha Ebrahimi, Director of…
Taha Ebrahimi author of "Street Trees of Seattle, an Illustrated Walking Guide"
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49:18
The Muscle of Customer Obsession, the behaviors of customer obsessed individuals and leading by example with Allison Nulty, Head of Product…
Case study of someone who is actually customer obsessed.
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47:33
How to find underserved markets, "word-of-mouth" as a success metric, and what makes a product valuable? w/ Rob Petrozzo CPO of Rally Ep 118
People don’t collect art; they collect the story.
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Strategy

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#141 - Why Table Stake Features Should be a "Buy" Decision, Lessons Building a Search API & The Myth of the "Lone Genius" w/ Thomas Payet…
Ep 141 w/ Thomas Payet, Co-Founder of MeiliSearch
 • 
Caden Damiano
32:58
#140 How to Write Strategy Narratives if You're Not at Amazon w/ Marcelo Calbucci Author of "The PRFAQ Framework"
#140 w/ Marcelo Calbucci, author of "The PRFAQ Framework".
 • 
Caden Damiano
48:45
#138 AI's Real Impact: Redefining Workflows, Not Eliminating Jobs w/ Anshul Gupta
w/ Anshul Gupta, Product Lead at Ema Unlimited
 • 
Caden Damiano
44:11
#137 Rethinking API Development: Handling Legacy Hurdles and Building an Agent-Based Future w/ Sagar Bachu, CEO and Co-Founder of Speakeasy
How a physics graduate found his calling in tech and built a game-changing API toolchain.
 • 
Caden Damiano
36:43
#135 Secrets to Successful Product Pricing: Key Mistakes, and Pricing Frameworks w/ Bill Wilson, Founder of Pace Pricing
Ep 134 on B2B Product Pricing Strategy
 • 
Caden Damiano
38:12
#134 Leading innovation without needing a huge budget; how curiosity fuels success; and why you need an unhealthy obsession with problems to…
EP 134 Michael Todasco
 • 
Caden Damiano
51:46
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