Archive - The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano

#198 - Marcelo Calbucci: How to write compelling strategy narratives that get buy-in

Watch now | AI can write your business plan in 30 seconds. Marcelo Calbucci — author of The PRFAQ Framework, six-time founder, ex-Amazon — argues that’s…

Jul 16 • Caden Damiano

48:44

#197 Ashley Jablow: Why the world's best innovators are also the best iterators

Watch now | 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…

Jul 14 • Caden Damiano

46:24

#196 Molly Ruland: The Riverside Feature That Cost Them $6,000 of Her Money

Watch now | They removed the timer from a recording app. They added balloons, then quadrupled her rate from $400 a month to $1,800. Molly walked.

Jul 9 • Caden Damiano

49:41

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.

Jul 8 • Caden Damiano

#195 Drew Bridewell: The Rise of the Design Operator

Watch now | Most product leaders protect their indispensability. Drew went the other way — here's a look at a new career path for design leaders.

Jul 7 • Caden Damiano

31:23

#194 Brian Donohue: Intercom threw their playbook out the window when AI got good — A case study on questioning your mental models.

Watch now | The 11-year VP of Product for Fin on deliberately throwing out the rituals he was most certain of.

Jul 2 • Caden Damiano

48:30

June 2026

#193 Vance Morris: How Disney Parks Mastered Employee Engagement

Watch now | He spent ten years inside the machine that gets 75,000 employees singing the same song, then walked out and built three home-service…

Jun 30 • Caden Damiano

52:23

#192 Khurram Mir: If QA Is Blocking Your Launch, It Might Be Your Fault

Watch now | The moment QA starts being nitpicky, most product managers assume the QA team is the problem. Khurram Mir argues it almost always means the…

Jun 25 • Caden Damiano

56:50

#191 John Long: What Happens When Sales Stops Trusting Product

Watch now | Sales reps start inventing products, product teams retreat into silos, and the customer gets caught in the middle. The CEO of Thynk AI…

Jun 23 • Caden Damiano

42:57

#190 Michael Ferranti: the $100 million lesson in what happens when product strategy overrides engineering discipline

Watch now | Sonos had excellent DevOps: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Datadog, an internal engineering blog they were proud of. Then someone decided to release new…

Jun 18 • Caden Damiano

49:12

Taste Maker #1. Intercom: The Buttons That Survived the AI-Native Rebuild

Brian Donohue, Intercom’s VP of Product, on thinking big enough to reinvent a company.

Jun 17 • Caden Damiano

#189 Issac Hicks: The Jobs AI Takes Are the Ones Nobody Wanted

Watch now | His counter to the displacement narrative: if those workers were already profitable, imagine what they’re worth when they’re finally doing…

Jun 16 • Caden Damiano

50:33

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