The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano

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#181 Artem Koren: When Your Moat Becomes the Floor
Watch now | His company built transcription from scratch, and then watched LLMs commoditize the entire core product — and what he built next reframed…
 • Caden Damiano
46:58
#180 - Chris Pearcey: 250,000 Titles and Nothing to Watch, & The Intent Problem No One Is Solving
Watch now (48 mins) | Decisio founder Chris Pearcey on why entertainment recommendation engines are designed to overwhelm you & what it reveals about…
 • Caden Damiano
47:41
#179 - Gal Ko: The Founder Is the Product Now
Watch now | As AI commoditizes software faster than ever, Gal Ko on why the most durable moat a founder can build is themselves — and why podcast…
 • Caden Damiano
48:58
#178 - Tim Beattie: The Consulting Model Incentivizes Going Slower
Watch now | Tim Beattie spent 25 years inside major consulting firms and came to one uncomfortable conclusion: it's in the consultant’s financial…
 • Caden Damiano
48:29
#177 - Marlena Sarunac: The One Phrase That Ended a Startup's Six-Month Sales Plateau
Watch now | Nobody was buying. Marlena Sarunac spent weeks with a clients team before they landed on three words — and the sales conversations started…
 • Caden Damiano
43:48

April 2026

#176 - Dean Phillips: The Cold Email That Became a Head of Product Strategy Job
Watch now | He built a 25-slide deck, emailed CEO Zeb Evans, and essentially said: you should build this. Zeb's reply was a job offer.
 • Caden Damiano
1:13:05
#175 - Adam Nash: Why Great Designers Are Actually Behavioral Economists.
Watch now | Adam Nash — who built LinkedIn's first design team, led through its IPO, and ran Wealthfront as CEO — thinks giving is a design problem, not…
 • Caden Damiano
46:38
#174 Pete Hunt: He Built a Better Sales Forecast on a Plane. That’s When He Knew Salesforce Was Broken.
Watch now | Pete Hunt, CEO of Dagster Labs and an early member of the React.js team at Facebook, reframed how I think about what “real” revenue…
 • Caden Damiano
46:38
#173 - Yaron Schneider: The Most Valuable Thing an Engineer Can Do Now Isn’t to Write Code
Watch now | When AI can generate code faster than humans can review it, the bottleneck shifts to something harder to automate: thinking.
 • Caden Damiano
44:01
#172 Ben Johnson: When The Cost of Writing Code Drops to Zero, What Are Engineers Paid For?
Watch now | Ben sold his company to LegalZoom and now runs a software factory powered by AI agents. He explains what changes, and what doesn't, when AI…
 • Caden Damiano
52:11
#171 Karl Simon—What careers look like moving forward, why your data graph IS your AI competitive strategy & design AI systems that adapt to…
Watch now | How a strong data graph enables agentic decision-making, why your data graph IS your competitive strategy, and how AI is eliminating the…
 • Caden Damiano
45:24
# 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
44:55
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