The Way of Product w/ Caden Damiano
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#206 Ricky Ho: How Do You Know a Factory Is Any Good?
Every supplier on earth says it makes high quality, which means the claim carries no information. Ricky Ho's fix borrows from Google: rank a factory by…
 • Caden Damiano
31:31
#205 Adnan Malik: Who Actually Picks the Software Your Company Buys?
The HR manager buys the HR system, the project manager buys the project tool, and none of them were trained to evaluate technology. Adnan Malik was that…
 • Caden Damiano
38:40
#204 Ashley Aruffo: Most Big Companies Can't Name Their Own Suppliers
She told me that large enterprises routinely cannot identify their own first-tier vendors, and that the industry's answer for years was to mail the…
 • Caden Damiano
48:17
#203 Tom Kubiniec: He Never Owned a Gun. That’s Why His Weapon Racks Won.
“I never saw the box,” he tells me — and the line reframed how I think about beginner’s mind as a competitive advantage.
 • Caden Damiano
49:23
#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
#199 Rob Walling: 90% of Startups Should Never Raise Venture Capital
His 1-9-90 rule says only 1% of startups should raise VC — and that the rest of us have been brainwashed by what he calls the venture industrial…
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35:46
#196 Molly Ruland: The Riverside Feature That Cost Them $6,000 of Her Money
They removed the timer from a recording app. They added balloons, then quadrupled her rate from $400 a month to $1,800. Molly walked.
 • 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.
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#194 Brian Donohue: Intercom threw their playbook out the window when AI got good — A case study on questioning your mental models.
The 11-year VP of Product for Fin on deliberately throwing out the rituals he was most certain of.
 • Caden Damiano
48:30
#193 Vance Morris: How Disney Parks Mastered Employee Engagement
He spent ten years inside the machine that gets 75,000 employees singing the same song, then walked out and built three home-service businesses he now…
 • Caden Damiano
52:23
#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
#191 John Long: What Happens When Sales Stops Trusting Product
Sales reps start inventing products, product teams retreat into silos, and the customer gets caught in the middle. The CEO of Thynk AI explains exactly…
 • Caden Damiano
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