March 17, 2024
Let's dive into the top selections.
1 — Lenny’s Product
Lenny interviews world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Host: Lenny Rachitsky, the author of the top-ranked business newsletter on Substack with over 500k subscribers. He writes a newsletter, hosts a podcast, operates a job board, and is an angel investor. Prior to this, he worked at Airbnb for more than seven years. He has invested in over 150 companies, including Figma, Linear, Substack, Vanta, Anduril, Whatnot, Webflow, Descript, Levels, Mindbloom, Reforge, Zip, Stytch, Runway, Census, Pachama, and more.
Website: www.lennyspodcast.com
Platforms: Spotify Apple YouTube
By far, the standout episode is "Building Opinionated Software," featuring none other than co-founder and CEO, Karri Saarinen. It's an absolute must-listen!
2 — ProductLed
A weekly interview series that highlights leading talent in product-led growth. It explores how exceptional product leaders leverage their products to expand their businesses.
Hosts:
Wes Bush is the founder and CEO of ProductLed. He is also the bestselling author of "Product-Led Growth: How To Build a Product That Sells Itself". Wes is passionate about collaborating with teams worldwide on transforming their product into a powerful growth engine.
Mario Araujo is the host of the PLG False Starts series. Currently a Product and Growth advisor, Mario was previously the Head of Growth at softr.io. He also worked at OutSystems, where he helped expand the developer community to hundreds of thousands of developers and spearheaded the Product-led Growth program.
Maja Voje is the host of the Growth Trends series. She is a globally recognized growth advisor and practitioner. Maja has built her career in leading technology companies such as Google and Rocket Internet. She also teaches one of the best-selling Udemy online courses, with over 50k students.
Website: www.productled.com/podcast
Listen to an episode with April Dunford, where discusses the importance of product positioning. Product positioning forms the basis of your marketing, sales, and product strategies. April, the author of "Obviously Awesome", shares her proven product positioning framework in this video.
In the episode, April talks about:
how intelligent product positioning can shape your customers' perceptions of your offerings and set your company up for success.
startups that have achieved rapid growth with their ideal customer segments through effective product positioning.
product positioning frameworks.
3 — Product Thinking
To succeed in product management, you need a broad approach and better leadership, not just training your PMs. In the Product Thinking Podcast, Melissa Perri talks with experts to improve your skills and become a better product leader.
Host: Melissa Perri is the CEO of Produx Labs, a Product Management consultancy, and the author of "Escaping the Build Trap". She advocates that cultivating excellent product leaders is the key to creating exceptional products.
Committed to that mission, she created the online school called the Product Institute., where she has shared her scientific approach to Product Management with over 3500 students. In 2019, Melissa was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Business School to teach Product Management in the MBA program.
As a consultant, Melissa works with executives worldwide to set up their product organizations, advise on product strategy, and grow product leaders into Chief Product Officers.
Website: www.produxlabs.com/product-thinking
An insightful episode, where product experts Ellen Chisa (Boldstart Ventures) and Leon Barnard (Balsamiq) discuss how wireframing is important in product development and how it can help teams work together.
4 — The Product Market Fit Show by Mistral.vc
As an early-stage founder, you have one goal: find product-market fit. This podcast is exceptional. They share the 0 to 1 journeys of the most successful startups, go deep, and provide detailed examples that you can use.
Host: Pablo Srugo is a partner at Mistral.vc and the founder of the PMF show. With his roots in co-founding Gymtrack and transitioning to venture capital, Pablo has seen or experienced many of the challenges of being a founder.
Website: www.mistral.vc/the-product-market-fit-show
I enjoyed this episode on 5 Steps to Product-Market Fit with Rob.
5 — The Product Experience
In-depth conversations with some of the best product people around the world. Every week, they chat with knowledgeable individuals and cover important topics - solving real problems, developing excellent products, building successful teams, and advancing careers.
Host: Lily Smith and Randy Silver have in-depth conversations with some of the best product people around the world. Every week they chat with people in the know and cover the topics that matter to you – solving real problems, developing awesome products, building successful teams, and developing careers.
Website: www.mindtheproduct.com/the-product-experience
Platforms: Spotify
The episode about making the move into product leadership is super insightful. Kax Uson, Head of Product tells her story of moving from IC into her product leadership role and shares the key lessons she has learned along the way.
6 — Product Marketing Life by PMA
PMA is talking to lots of product marketers from across the globe to get insider info about their journey into the world of product marketing.
Host: Mark Assini is the current host of the Product Marketing Life podcast and a PMM at Jobber. He holds Honors & Masters degrees in business from the Ivey Business School at Western University.
Website: www.productmarketingalliance.com/tag/podcasts
Platforms: Spotify
In my favourite episode of Product Marketing Life, host Mark Assini is joined by Jana Frejova, Product Marketing Lead at Spendesk, currently establishing a new marketing function at Spendesk focused on product-led growth.
They chat about the special relationship between growth and product marketing teams. They discussed how product marketing is involved in experiments and works closely with the growth team to increase customer interest at every stage. Jana gives good insights on how these two teams work together to create real results for the product and the customer.
7 — The Product Manager
Successful products don't happen in a vacuum. This show takes a 360° view of product through the perspectives of those in the inner circle, outer perimeter, and fringes of the product management process. If you manage, design, develop, or market products, expect candid and actionable insights that can guide you through every stage of the product life cycle.
Host: Hannah Clark is the Editor of The Product Manager. Following six years of experience in the tech industry, she pivoted into the content space where she's had the pleasure of working with some of the most brilliant voices in the product world. Driven by insatiable curiosity and a love of bringing people together, her mission is to foster a fun, vibrant, and inspiring community of product people.
Website: www.theproductmanager.com/podcasts
Platforms: Spotify
Loved the episode with Bijan Shahrokhi, shares his journey into the product niche and the importance of clarity within an organization.
8 — The Product Podcast
The Product Podcast is founded by Product School, the global leader in Product Management training with a community of over one million product professionals.
Host: Carlos González de Villaumbrosia has over 10 years of experience building teams and digital products in the US, Europe, and Latin America. Carlos founded Product School in San Francisco in 2014. Today, the company is the global leader in Product training with a community of over two million product professionals.
Website: www.productschool.com/resources/product-podcast
Platforms: Spotify Youtube Google Apple
I enjoyed the Season 10 for its focus on Women in Product: accomplished women who hold senior and executive roles at tech companies such as Webflow, Airbnb, and PayPal. One of the episodes with Jodi, a problem-solver who loves to bring great products to market through collaboration. She is a Vice President and General Manager of Segment. She leads the Segment Core business unit from Product Management to Engineering to Design and everything in between. She is truly a powerful voice for making change and driving progress.
9 — One Knight in Product
One Knight in Product is dedicated to sharing free knowledge and opinions from the world of product management. It also facilitates connections and supports the growth of individuals in the field. This podcast is for people interested in building or designing tech products. At least once a week, Jason speaks with product managers, product leaders, product marketers, UX professionals, and anyone else involved in product management and product delivery.
Host: Jason Knight is a B2B SaaS product consultant and fractional product leader, co-founder & CPTO at My Mentor Path, and founder at One Knight Consulting.
Website: www.oneknightinproduct.com
Platforms: Spotify Apple Youtube Google
Interesting episode 200 with Marty Cagan, a founder and partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, a leading product consultancy that aims to get companies to work "the way that the best companies work". He is the author of two desk references for product managers: "Inspired", aimed at product teams, and "Empowered", aimed at product leaders. He has since come to realise that "the way the best companies work" is too vague a term, and also that many companies have no idea where to get started. He's now back with "Transformed", a book that aims to get companies to adopt the Product Operating Model.
By Knarik Avanesyan
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