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Welcome to the very first episode of This New Way. We’re kicking things off by flipping the mic and letting Manuela Bárcenas interview Aydin Mirzaee, our podcast host, about why we’re retiring Supermanagers and launching this new, AI-centric show.
In this episode, Aydin describes how adopting AI feels like onboarding a new teammate, how he steered Fellow’s pivot from manual meeting workflows to an AI meeting assistant, and demos two of his favorite tactics:
- Turning a 60-second voice memo into a polished board-report section with ChatGPT
- Using Fellow’s Ask Fellow and Copilot to auto-draft mandates and PRDs straight from meetings and customer calls
You’ll also hear the cultural plays — company-wide hackathons, “show & tell” town halls, and even a ChatGPT-every-new-tab browser hack — that helped Aydin get the whole team moving faster with AI.
We wrap up with a teaser of future guests who are smashing targets and reinventing product management with AI tools.
Timestamps:
01:01 Looking back – 5 years of Supermanagers and why a change is needed
01:41 New revolution – From remote-work disruption to the AI era
02:26 Big reveal – Retiring Supermanagers and launching This New Way
03:03 Format upgrade – Video, YouTube/Spotify, and on-air show-and-tell demos
03:58 Why it matters – Managing humans and AI agents will soon be core leadership skill
05:35 About Aydin – Founder background & current role as CEO of Fellow
06:38 Fellow’s AI pivot – Turning a manual meeting tool into an AI meeting assistant
08:59 CEO advice – Hackathons and cross-functional learning to kick-start adoption
10:31 Creating AI culture – Weekly town-hall demos normalize AI-assisted work
11:31 Personal hacks – ChatGPT-on-new-tab, screenshot explainers, and habit breaking
14:44 Demo 1 – Voice memo ➜ board-report section via ChatGPT “Projects” workflow
20:38 Demo 2 – One-on-one recap ➜ company-wide mandate memo with Fellow AI
23:46 Demo 3 – Customer interview ➜ detailed PRD/requirements doc in minutes
26:46 Impact – Better communication, higher expectations, and faster output
28:35 Future outlook – Doing “1,000 % work” with 100 % resources
Resources and Tools mentioned:
- ChatGPT desktop app (voice mode) & GPT-4o-01 model
- ChatGPT “Projects” for reusable style guides
- Chrome extension that opens ChatGPT on every new tab
- Fellow AI Meeting Assistant: Ask Fellow, Copilot, Redaction features
- CrewAI – multi-agent orchestration platform (via Greg Eisenberg video)
- Slack – channel posts of AI-generated memos
- YouTube creators (e.g., Greg Eisenberg) for discovering new AI workflows
