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Product Talk

Products That Count 672 Episodes Jul 3, 2026

Produced by Products That Count, a nonprofit that helps people build great products, this award-winning podcast features product leaders interviewing each other about what it takes to build great products. With over 300 episodes and millions of downloads, recent guests include Chief Product Officers from Brex, Glassdoor, and Experian. The show is part of a larger organization that offers free programming, awards, and insights to product managers globally.

Episodes

Inside AI's Transformation of the Physical Economy with Motive Jul 3, 2026 27:14 What does it take to build AI when failure means someone gets hurt? In this episode of the CPO Rising series, hosted by CentralSquare Technologies CPO Denise Hemke, Motive CTO Amish Babu will be speaking on the unique engineering and product challenges of building AI for the physical economy fleets, construction sites, and high-stakes environments where milliseconds matter and hallucinations aren'
CPO Rising Series: Rakuten Rewards CPO on Human Judgment in the AI Era Jul 1, 2026 30:52 What does it mean to govern a decision model instead of a roadmap? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Jay Patel, Rakuten Rewards CPO Nilesh Khandelwal will be speaking on how AI is shifting the product leader's job from execution management to decision architecture. He also shares his three-bucket prioritization framework, the concept of "glues" as
CPO Rising Series: The Product Engineer Is Coming for Every Team Jun 29, 2026 30:09 What does it actually take to turn a sales-led organization into a product-led one? In this episode of the CPO Rising series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Jay Patel, Medbridge CPTO Sarah Singh will be speaking on how AI is reshaping the product engineer role and why the CPO's job is no longer separate from engineering. She also shares how her Big Bet Framework builds organizational tr
CPO Rising Series: Cartwheel CPO on Building AI into Healthcare Without Breaking Trust Jun 26, 2026 39:00 What happens to the entire product development process when creating software becomes as easy as creating a Google Doc? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Jay Patel, Cartwheel CPO Sarah Turrin speaks on how the collapse of software costs is reshaping healthcare product leadership, why the era of CPOs as pure strategists is already over, and how she
CPO Rising Series: Why Remix AI's Former CPO Pressed Pause on Leadership to Build Again Jun 24, 2026 35:24 What does it mean when a seasoned CPO with experience at Disney, Apple, Airbnb, and Walmart.com walks away from the C-suite to go build products by himself? In this episode of the CPO Rising series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Renee Niemi, former Remix AI co-founder and CPO Kevin Swint speaks on why this moment in AI demanded that kind of move, what he learned building an agentic app
CPO Rising Series: Vercel CPO on Why Judgment Is the Last Real Moat Jun 22, 2026 39:25 What happens when the cost of building software trends toward zero? When anyone can ship anything at any time, code stops being the competitive advantage. In this episode of the CPO Rising series, hosted by CentralSquare Technologies CPO Denise Hemke, Vercel CPO Tom Occhino speaks on what the moat actually looks like in an AI native world, why he shifted from roadmap curator to market interpreter
CPO Rising Series: Salesforce EVP & GM on AI Adoption, Team Culture, and the New Rules of Product Leadership Jun 19, 2026 38:44 What happens when the pace of AI makes even the most recent college graduate's knowledge obsolete within six months? In this episode of the CPO Rising series, hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Renee Niemi, Salesforce EVP and GM of Agentforce Service Kishan Chetan speaks on what it really takes to drive AI adoption at scale, why adoption is fundamentally a social phenomenon, and how he thi
How Syntheseed CPO Is Rethinking Product Leadership in Real Time Jun 17, 2026 33:27 What if the strategy you just shipped is already obsolete? In this episode of Product Talk hosted by Digitalzone CPO Sonjoy Ganguly, Syntheseed CPO Sam Somashekar speaks on what it means to lead product in an era where the pace of change has outrun the annual planning cycle, AI is generating strategies that all sound the same, and the pressure to experiment is pulling leaders further from the stra
CPO Rising Series: Comcast Product SVP on Rewiring the Entire Product Lifecycle for AI Jun 15, 2026 37:47 What happens when software powers every customer-facing interaction a business has, from the app to the agent interface to the care experience? Everything becomes a product. In this episode of the CPO Rising series, hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Renee Niemi, Comcast SVP of Connected Living Products Randall Hounsell speaks on what it means to lead product at one of the most complex con
OpenTable Product SVP on The Three Things Great PMs Have That You Cannot Coach Jun 12, 2026 22:11 What separates a good product manager from a great one, and can you actually spot it in an interview? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Axiom Law CPO Katrina Benjamin, OpenTable SVP of Product Shayani Roy speaks on the three qualities she hires for above everything else, why the CPO role is fundamentally shifting from people management to doing, and what it means to build products
Kit Switch CEO on Productizing Sustainable Housing with Low-Carbon Interior Design Jun 10, 2026 41:28 What does it actually take to decarbonize the built environment, and can construction be reimagined fast enough to matter? The scale and urgency of the transformation required to fight climate change has never been more clear. Building hardware and software products, acquiring the funding and creating a diverse community to enhance talent capacity and to drive innovation, is essential to tackling
CPO Rising Series: How Planned Parenthood Direct CPO Builds Products Under Pressure Jun 8, 2026 32:33 What does it mean to ship products when a wrong decision does not just hurt conversion rates but puts patients at risk? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Jay Patel, Planned Parenthood Direct CPO Hannah Park speaks on what it really takes to lead product in one of the most politically volatile and privacy-sensitive environments in healthcare. Hannah

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