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The Product Experience: a Mind the Product podcast

by Mind the Product · English

The Product Experience features conversations with the product people of the world, focusing on real insights of how to improve your product practice. Part of the Mind the Product network, hosts Lily Smith (ProductTank organiser and Product Consultant) & Randy Silver (Head of Product and product management trainer) “go deep” with the best speakers from ProductTank meetups all over the globe, Mind the Product conferences, and the wider product community.

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A guide to building a smarter pricing strategy | Carrie Osman (Founder & CEO, Cruxy)

How to build a smarter B2B pricing strategy despite AI-driven feature copying and lower switching costs. Guest: Carrie Osman, Founder & CEO of Cruxy (B2B tech pricing and product-value consultancy).

11 Nov 2026 · 49m · 17 chapters

Why good ideas get lost between teams | Jenny Martin (The Collaboration Coach & Author of OOPSI)

Jenny Martin explains her OOPSI framework for keeping product and engineering teams aligned by focusing on outcomes and the “right amount” of iterative thinking, using concrete examples to avoid…

4 Nov 2026 · 42m · 16 chapters

How to protect your creativity when everything is speeding up | Federico Casalegno, VP of Design, Samsung

How Samsung’s Federico Casalegno says creative work can be protected as technology speeds up, by using human-centered design plus computational design (AI/ML) to make faster, data-driven product…

28 Oct 2026 · 41m · 19 chapters

How to make your customers stay when anyone can copy your product | Rob Ferguson (VP, Fireworks AI)

Building durable “moats” in the AI era when competitors can copy features quickly; differentiation via customer-specific data, end-to-end product experience, and measurable model performance.

21 Oct 2026 · 51m · 19 chapters

How Google prototypes and ships at scale — Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (Google Search)

How Google prototypes and ships AI-driven search experiences at scale, including AI Overviews/AI Mode, fast iteration, testing, team structure, and balancing speed with quality and cost.

14 Oct 2026 · 43m · 18 chapters

Evals, Analytics, and How to escape the feature factory: Francois Lopitaux (SVP Product Management, ThoughtSpot)

How AI changes the product lifecycle for “agentic” systems—faster prototyping, but harder production, evaluation, governance, and post-launch monitoring—plus how to measure success and handle B2B2C…

6 Oct 2026 · 43m · 18 chapters

Four questions to ask before building AI into your product — Kendra Vant (Chief Product Officer, Tapi)

How to decide whether and how to embed generative AI into a product by focusing on the “reliability layer” needed for production-grade, repeatable outcomes—not just whether the model can do the task…

30 Sep 2026 · 44m · 15 chapters

How to fix your product roadmap — Matt Feczko (Director of Product Ops, Ocado Technology)

How to “fix” a product roadmap at scale using product ops/product-and-engineering ops: standardizing Jira and roadmap/prioritization governance, replacing slide-based planning with data-driven apps,…

23 Sep 2026 · 35m · 23 chapters

What is AI product management, really? Jonathan Evens (AI Product Lead, Google DeepMind)

What “AI product management” really means—distinguishing modeling/ML PM work from building AI features inside real products; how to measure success; and how to maintain user trust.

16 Sep 2026 · 43m · 16 chapters

What I learned from building, and exiting a startup — Kirsten Mann (Strategic Advisor)

Kirsten Mann (Strategic Advisor) reflects on building and exiting her AI board-pack analysis startup, Visory, and shares lessons on distribution, validating demand/viability, pricing, and “time to…

9 Sep 2026 · 52m · 23 chapters

How to position your product for a future nobody can predict - April Dunford (Author of Obviously Awesome)

How to position a B2B tech product for an unpredictable future, especially during major market shifts like COVID, cloud, and AI; includes building a “point of view,” using maturity models to hype…

2 Sep 2026 · 38m · 18 chapters

Four mistakes scaling teams make - Julia Barham (Author and Product Executive)

Julia Barham discusses anti-patterns product teams make when scaling and how product managers can stay effective amid ambiguity.

26 Aug 2026 · 43m · 25 chapters

How to lead a product team through AI adoption - Tiama Hanson-Drury (CPTO, Opus 2)

Leading product teams through AI adoption—how to avoid “AI slop,” focus on outcomes, manage burnout, and scale with humans-in-the-loop.

19 Aug 2026 · 39m · 16 chapters

What OpenAI taught me to unlearn — Blaine Billingsley (OpenAI, Slack, YouTube, Airbnb)

Blaine Billingsley (OpenAI) explains OpenAI’s ChatGPT “product design plugin” for designers, focusing on what designers must unlearn and how LLMs change ideation, prototyping, auditing, and…

12 Aug 2026 · 56m · 21 chapters

What your developers aren't telling you - Cat Hicks (Psychologist)

How software teams are mismanaged when leaders treat developers as interchangeable “brains in jars,” and how psychological safety, better metrics, and learning-focused practices improve productivity,…

5 Aug 2026 · 50m · 20 chapters

The new manifesto for product builders - Faith Forster (Chief Product Officer)

Faith Forster discusses the Makers Manifesto, a “next Agile Manifesto” for product builders in the AI era.

29 Jul 2026 · 44m · 21 chapters