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Product Talk

Products That Count 672 Episodes Oct 14, 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

Turning interior walls into a circular economy business
Turning interior walls into a circular economy business Oct 14, 2026 39:37 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 this global environmental crisis. In this podcast, host Silicon Valley Bank (a division of First Citizens Bank) Climate Tec
How WHOOP turned wearable data into an AI coach | WHOOP AI Product Lead
How WHOOP turned wearable data into an AI coach | WHOOP AI Product Lead Oct 12, 2026 39:15 Viviano Cantu is the AI Product Lead at WHOOP, but his path there did not start in product. He joined WHOOP in 2021 as a software developer, led the storefront team, and then in March 2023 moved over to start a new team around coaching. That same month, he and a few colleagues started ordering pizza on Friday afternoons and hacking on whether an LLM could actually coach someone throughout their da
Why the AI era demands more from product managers, not less | Perk President of Product
Why the AI era demands more from product managers, not less | Perk President of Product Oct 7, 2026 31:44 Nikita Miller spent 15 years building products before becoming President of Product and Technology at Perk, an AI platform for business travel and spend management. She made the move from the U.S. to Barcelona about a year ago, arriving right in the middle of Perk's transition from a single travel product to a multi-product platform. The timing meant navigating that transformation while also rethi
Midi Health CEO on building the front door to midlife women's health
Midi Health CEO on building the front door to midlife women's health Oct 5, 2026 41:18 Joanna Strober is the co-founder and CEO of Midi Health, a virtual menopause and perimenopause care company serving patients in all 50 states, covered by insurance. She spent 15 years as a venture and private equity investor, then founded and sold a digital health company called Kerbo, before her own perimenopause experience made the care gap impossible to ignore. When she finally found a clinicia
Doordash PM on why your domain expertise matters more than your technical skills
Doordash PM on why your domain expertise matters more than your technical skills Oct 2, 2026 38:34 Saee Pansare started her career not in software but in a lab, studying food engineering and imagining a future developing flavors and ingredients. What she discovered instead was that she had the instincts of a product manager all along; she just happened to be building physical products. After stints at Kraft Heinz, Amazon, and Whole Foods, she landed at DoorDash where she now leads the DoorDash
The question AI still can't answer about product management | Cengage Product SVP
The question AI still can't answer about product management | Cengage Product SVP Sep 30, 2026 36:15 Ghazal Badiozamani is the SVP of Product Management at Cengage, one of the world's largest education companies with roots in publishing that go back over 100 years. Before Cengage, she spent eight years at Elsevier helping legacy businesses understand and adopt emerging technology, starting with machine learning before it was mainstream, eventually building a digital team from scratch and launchin
Why speed is the AI feature no one asks for but everyone needs | Fireworks AI VP of Technology and Strategy
Why speed is the AI feature no one asks for but everyone needs | Fireworks AI VP of Technology and Strategy Sep 28, 2026 40:29 Rob Ferguson is the VP of Technology and Strategy at Fireworks AI, a company that makes frontier AI infrastructure accessible to any organization that wants to own its own models rather than depend on someone else's. He started studying machine learning before it was called AI, worked on Pro Tools and AI systems for a music streaming service, helped design Amazon Go's grab-and-go technology, and b
How Brightline Brought Mental Health Care to 400,000 Kids Who Had Never Had It
How Brightline Brought Mental Health Care to 400,000 Kids Who Had Never Had It Sep 25, 2026 39:02 Mahssa Mostajabi is the Head of Product at Brightline Health, a pediatric behavioral health company delivering therapy, psychiatry, and coaching to kids, teens, and families across both virtual and in-person settings. She joined Brightline in April 2025, on the exact day the company's first Brooklyn clinic opened, stepping into an organization mid-pivot from virtual-first to hybrid care. Before Br
The Conviction Bet No Customer Asked For and How Asana's CPO Builds the Case for One
The Conviction Bet No Customer Asked For and How Asana's CPO Builds the Case for One Sep 23, 2026 41:59 Arnab Bose is the Chief Product Officer at Asana and one of the most outcome-oriented product leaders in the industry. Before Asana, he spent nearly six years as CPO of the Okta platform, where he led product strategy across identity and security. He joined Asana in September 2025, stepping into a company mid-transformation: the collaborative work management category must reinvent itself from a to
What a CPBO Learned Building a Personal Fleet of AI Agents
What a CPBO Learned Building a Personal Fleet of AI Agents Sep 21, 2026 30:37 Michael Affronti is the Chief Product and Business Officer at DriveCentric, the number one CRM and engagement platform for automotive dealerships, and one of the most hands-on product leaders building and using AI agents today. He spent three and a half months earlier this year back in the code, learning how agents actually work from the bottom up, memory, state management, harnesses, before retur
CPO Rising Series: IBM CPO on Building Products for a World That's Five Years Away
CPO Rising Series: IBM CPO on Building Products for a World That's Five Years Away Sep 16, 2026 30:48 How do you make product bets today for a world that will not arrive for another six years? In this episode of the CPO Rising series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Renee Niemi, IBM Z and Linux One Chief Product Officer Tina Tarquinio will be speaking on how she and her team manage hardware, firmware, and software roadmaps across multiple time horizons at once, from quantum-safe encrypti
ŌURA VP of Product on Building the Future of Women's Health
ŌURA VP of Product on Building the Future of Women's Health Sep 14, 2026 37:48 What does it take to build health products that truly understand women's bodies? In this podcast, Planned Parenthood Direct CPO Hannah Park sits down with ŌURA VP of Product Inessa Lurye to discuss how she's building science-driven products that turn wearable data into meaningful health insights and better conversations with clinicians. She shares what it takes to adapt algorithms to the complexit

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