The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano
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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
48:44
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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31:23
#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…
 • Caden Damiano
56:50
#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…
 • Caden Damiano
49:12
#187 Joshua Altman: Story, Narrative, Brand: the three stages of communication—and why your narrative is probably the problem.
A fractional chief communications officer who started as a multimedia news producer cutting five videos a day, explains why the AI era rewards what…
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49:01
#181 Artem Koren: When Your Moat Becomes the Floor
His company built transcription from scratch, and then watched LLMs commoditize the entire core product — and what he built next reframed how I think…
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46:58
#178 - Tim Beattie: The Consulting Model Incentivizes Going Slower
Tim Beattie spent 25 years inside major consulting firms and came to one uncomfortable conclusion: it's in the consultant’s financial interest to slow…
 • Caden Damiano
48:29
#177 - Marlena Sarunac: The One Phrase That Ended a Startup's Six-Month Sales Plateau
Nobody was buying. Marlena Sarunac spent weeks with a clients team before they landed on three words — and the sales conversations started closing.
 • Caden Damiano
43:48
#173 - Yaron Schneider: The Most Valuable Thing an Engineer Can Do Now Isn’t to Write Code
When AI can generate code faster than humans can review it, the bottleneck shifts to something harder to automate: thinking.
 • Caden Damiano
44:01
#169 Radhika Dutt, Author of Radical Product Thinking & 5x Acquisition Veteran: Build puzzle-setting cultures, escape OKR perverse…
The root cause analysis methods and narrative-driven measurement that prevent feature factories while maintaining innovation velocity.
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50:29
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