Strategy

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

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#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

#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

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#187 Joshua Altman: Story, Narrative, Brand: the three stages of communication—and why your narrative is probably the problem.

Watch now | A fractional chief communications officer who started as a multimedia news producer cutting five videos a day, explains why the AI era…

Jun 9 • Caden Damiano

49:01

#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…

May 19 • Caden Damiano

46:58

#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…

May 7 • 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…

May 4 • Caden Damiano

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#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.

Apr 20 • Caden Damiano

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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.

Apr 6 • 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

Mar 30 • Caden Damiano

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#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…

Mar 26 • Caden Damiano

53:48

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