Productized Podcast

Recently we’ve had the great pleasure of chatting with Joana Paiva, the inventor and founder of the technology behind the startup iLoF - intelligent Lab on Fiber - a Portuguese/UK startup based on Photonics and Artificial Intelligence that helps to accelerate and scale clinical trials through the development of novel tools for patients stratification and we’d like to tell you about it. Main topics covered: 👶 How the interest in technology came about 🚀 Working at a startup 🥇 Recipe to be in 30 under 30 in Forbes 🔥 AI to build a cloud-based library of disease biomarkers and biological profiles Time notes: [ 04:30 ] The story of the startup iLof began at the University [ 13:31 ] Interested in the technology world and her career path “When I was 8 years old, my dad bought the computer and I was very enthusiastic” [ 19:47 ] Working at a startup “It has pros and cons, the most important cross is the possibility of having new ideas every day” [ 22:06 ] What is a recipe to be in 30 under 30 in Forbes [ 26:39 ] AI to build a cloud-based library of disease biomarkers and biological profiles [ 33:14 ] Why the focus on Alzheimer's diseases [ 41:05 ] What is the purpose of iLoF [ 41:49 ] Which Venture capital is supporting iLoF [ 43:42 ] Skills expected from people to work at iLoF “biomedical engineers, physics engineers, software engineers (automatizations, IoT, data protection), biologists…” [ 50:05 ] Recommendations for young companies who want to start their business in biotechnology “At the end: Don't be afraid to speak out your idea” The Productized Podcast is produced by Productized — a series of interviews with product innovators, successful makers, and entrepreneurs. We hope those who listen to the ideas on this show are inspired to productize. Want to be a part of the Productized community? Sign up for our newsletter here.

Part 2 | Episode 3 | Season 8 Online Book Launch with Radhika Dutt ​About the Book 📕 ​Iteration rules product development, but it isn’t enough to produce dramatic results. This book champions Radical Product Thinking, a systematic methodology for building visionary, game-changing products. ​ Methodologies such as Lean and Agile have democratized innovation by teaching us to harness the power of iteration to innovate faster, but our ability to set a clear destination hasn't kept up with the pace. When we iterate without a clear vision or strategy our products become bloated, fragmented, and driven by irrelevant metrics. They catch “product diseases” that are often fatal to true innovation. ​ In Radical Product Thinking (RPT) product development is led by the vision for the change it’s intended to create. This methodology helps leaders reimagine their problems and align their team to find creative solutions using five elements: Vision, Strategy, Prioritization, Execution, and Culture. R. Dutt guides readers through these elements so they can develop a clear process for achieving their desired change, incorporate it into daily activities, and turn RPT skills into muscle memory. ​ This book gives organizations a repeatable model for building vision-driven products by helping us systematically translate vision and strategy into everyday actions so our product becomes a vehicle for creating the change we want to see in the world. Dutt shows us that you don’t have to be a natural-born visionary to produce extraordinary results. ​ ​About the Author 😊 ​Radhika Dutt is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions as a result of the products she built; two of these were companies she founded. She currently advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies on product thinking. She's the author of an upcoming book on Radical Product Thinking that's scheduled for launch in September 2021 with Berrett Koehler - the book gives readers a systematic approach for building successful products that bring about the change we want to see in the world. Radhika graduated from MIT with an SB and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and speaks nine languages while learning her tenth.

Part 1 | Episode 3 | Season 8 Online Book Launch with Radhika Dutt ​About the Book 📕 ​Iteration rules product development, but it isn’t enough to produce dramatic results. This book champions Radical Product Thinking, a systematic methodology for building visionary, game-changing products. ​ Methodologies such as Lean and Agile have democratized innovation by teaching us to harness the power of iteration to innovate faster, but our ability to set a clear destination hasn't kept up with the pace. When we iterate without a clear vision or strategy our products become bloated, fragmented, and driven by irrelevant metrics. They catch “product diseases” that are often fatal to true innovation. ​ In Radical Product Thinking (RPT) product development is led by the vision for the change it’s intended to create. This methodology helps leaders reimagine their problems and align their team to find creative solutions using five elements: Vision, Strategy, Prioritization, Execution, and Culture. R. Dutt guides readers through these elements so they can develop a clear process for achieving their desired change, incorporate it into daily activities, and turn RPT skills into muscle memory. ​ This book gives organizations a repeatable model for building vision-driven products by helping us systematically translate vision and strategy into everyday actions so our product becomes a vehicle for creating the change we want to see in the world. Dutt shows us that you don’t have to be a natural-born visionary to produce extraordinary results. ​ ​About the Author 😊 ​Radhika Dutt is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions as a result of the products she built; two of these were companies she founded. She currently advises organizations from high-tech startups to government agencies on product thinking. She's the author of an upcoming book on Radical Product Thinking that's scheduled for launch in September 2021 with Berrett Koehler - the book gives readers a systematic approach for building successful products that bring about the change we want to see in the world. Radhika graduated from MIT with an SB and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and speaks nine languages while learning her tenth.

Recently we’ve had the great pleasure of chatting with Agnes Casenave, the Principal Product Manager at Kpler and we’d like to tell you about it. Main topics covered: 👨‍🏫 The importance of STEAM areas in the future of tech companies 🚀 Changing from Sofware Engineering to Product Management 🚢 Kpler's impact on the commodities industry 🔥 AI as a driver for a successful future generation Time notes: [ 04:10 ] How Computer Science at University sparked tech career [ 07:45 ] What does A for Art mean for tech companies? Super important in Product Management [ 08:50 ] Steve Jobs was already saying why art is important in technology https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/05/apple-ceo-steve-jobs-technology-is-nothing-heres-what-it-takes-to-achieve-great-success.html [ 12:50 ] Transition from Software Engineering to Product Management to deliver fast solutions to customers [ 15:08 ] Work with peers to create strategy on the future [ 16:50 ] Being a Product Manager is not only about analytical thinking, but mainly about being a creative thinker “We don’t know what we don’t know.” [ 18:26 ] How to get inspiration and creativity from our colleagues “You are never bored, you learn everyday!” [ 20:15 ] What is Kpler and what do they do? [ 22:49 ] The emergence of Kpler revolutionised the commodities industry [ 24:49 ] AI is so fascinating that it's everywhere, and people don't realise it “We will need to cohabit with them…” [ 30:00 ] Children should learn what AI is and what its impact will be in the future [ 32:00 ] How can AI help other professionals like doctors or Financial Analyst “AI big value is its automated repetitive, and let human focus on deeper analysis” [ 35:00 ] The impact of IA in our daily life as PM's and at Kpler

​Together with Altice Labs, we talked about productization! The importance of productization, from lab to market and the whole journey it entails. What will be the impact on the future of education? Why should we invest more in education for a more inclusive and technological society? ​This is not an impossible mission... you can be the next winner of the Altice International Innovation Award! Check the website until 23rd September 👉https://www.alticelabs.com/site/innovationaward/ Time notes: [ 05:25 ] About Altice Innovation International Award by Nuno Seixas from Altice Labs [ 17:58 ] I-Lof using AI and photonics to build a cloud-based library of diseases biomarkers and biological profiles [ 22:00 ] The technological inspiration for the creation of I-Lof and the evolution of society [ 24:56 ] Mater Dynamics to convert non-electronic objects into smart units [ 27:05 ] The problem of choosing a PhD just to create data rather than bring value to businesses [ 27:37 ] Data libraries for knowledge in order to continue research in science and technology [ 30:04 ] The thesis award is about teaching cars to drive in extreme conditions to increase safety to passengers. How far are we from having autonomous cars? [ 38:00 ] “Mathematics should not the bogeyman: but for that to happen you can’t miss the boat.” [ 39:06 ] We live in a country that has the highest dropout rate at upper secondary and where 50% of students stop learning STEAM at age 14yo: if you were the minister of education what would you do? [ 42:50 ] Einstein only knew two equations, it is not normal that we have to memorise so many others, we need an education with practical examples for our students [ 45:12 ] Only 15% of overall engineering students are women, and even less than that corresponding to IT professionals. Should engineering universities do more to attract women? [ 50:36 ] How is 5G expected rollout later this year going to impact businesses [ 53:08 ] Medical devices are a result of research and design work carried out by partners [ 57:47 ] Apply for the Altice Innovation International Award until 23rd September 👉 www.alticelabs.com/site/innovationaward/

Recently we’ve had the great pleasure of chatting with Sebastien Prioris, the VP of Product at Unbabel and we’d like to tell you about it. Main topics covered: 👏🏻 The importance of STEAM areas in education for the future ☺️ OSI instead of OKR standing for Objectives, Strategies and Impacts 💯Strategy is about making decisions, building your roadmap and understanding how you can empower your team 🔥 Meaningful conversations mean a change to achieve our product value As a long-term technology aficionado, Sebastien enjoys building products and businesses bringing together people, technology and information. He is passionate about leveraging data insights and has hard-earned experience across a broad range of disciplines to create great value for customers and companies of all sizes. In this episode we’re going to talk about Sebastien’s interests and why he advocates that companies should review the OKR methodology to facilitate strategic discovery in order to create meaningful conversations within tech teams. Time notes: [02:35] A zoom conversation that led to joining Unbabel and a move to the city of Lisbon [17:40] If I could have 14 years next, I would have chosen… [18:43] Moving from STEM to STEAM: STEAM areas in the future of technology companies [24:20] Why the PhD choice: Turbulence measurements in transonic shock wave/boundary layer interactions using LDA [27:40] Transition to the product area and all the challenges that it brought [34:41] Language as the foundation of our civilisation [37:00] Let's look at product management as a spoon or an avocado [39:50] Unbabel technology helping to remove language barriers [43:17] What are the companies that look for Unbabel nowadays? [46:10] Where do leadership conversations usually take place, and what is their value [49:13] Why the OKR method should be reconsidered [52:56] How the OSI model can be translated into product [56:15] Create meaningful conversations within tech teams applying OSI at Unbabel ​-- The Productized Podcast is produced by Productized - a series of interviews with product innovators, successful makers, and entrepreneurs. We hope those who listen to the ideas on this show are inspired to productize. For show notes and additional resources related to the Productized Podcast visit https://medium.com/@Productized.

Recently we've had the great pleasure of chatting with Shay Howe, the VP of Platform Strategy at ActiveCampaign and we'd like to tell you about it. Main topics covered: 👏🏻 Shay's background and building teams that last within the company ✨ Mindset within a hyper-growth company 📗 Shay's 2014 book 'Learn to code HTML and CSS' ☺️ What makes a good customer experience 💯 How to build the team that delivers 🔥 AR/VR on CX 🤓 Machine learning and Automatization Currently, at ActiveCampaign Shay leads platform experience and ecosystem, strategic partnerships, and product, front-end, and communication design. He works to make the customer a hero, helping them create ideal customer experiences through intuitive products, marketing, and integrations. Prior to ActiveCampaign Shay was VP of Product at Belly and Yello, where he was responsible for product strategy and design. He has previously led product teams at multiple high-growth companies, including Groupon. He has held in-residence roles as an advisor with the Techstars, Lightbank, and Prota venture portfolios. Shay is also the proud author of "Learn to Code HTML and CSS," published by Pearson Education.

Host André Marquet will talk with Margaux Muller, who started her Product career in San Francisco after 3 years working in professional services. She went from Product Manager, to Senior Product Manager then Lead Product Manager at SmartRecruiters - working on both B2B and B2C products. She is now a Senior Product Manager at the amazing Berlin scale-up, Contentful. When she’s not solving customer problems or rockin with the engineers, you can find her making food, trying out new recipes or deepening her knowledge in wines. She’s also spending a lot of time participating on diversity and inclusion initiatives, internally in the companies or helping find people jobs, reviewing resumes, giving advice etc (the benefits of having worked for an Applicant Tracking System is that she knows the ins and outs of the recruiting trade). Time Notes [ 02:38 ] Maragux’s journey from a non-technical background to PM [ 05:00 ] Moving from eastern France to San Francisco [ 6:00 ] Recruiting experience and the McDonald’s example [ 8:30 ] Transitioning to the B2B sector [ 9:40 ] Product management in B2B vs B2C [ 13:08 ] Margaux’s perspective from inside Contentful and the company’s vision [ 15:40] Getting the new feature @Contentful out [ 18:30 ] Advice on where to start with your first software product Your product process has to be simple, lean and function like a well oiled machine. [ 22:14 ] What’s the single most important thing when it comes to a product a company can do to be successful? [ 23:32 ] How big is the team at Contentful and what are you working on? [ 26:26 ] The recruiting experience for PM. Mc Donald’s channel experience and good employee onboarding examples. [ 28:10 ] What to do/not do when applying as an assistant PM [ 30:20 ] How should companies avoid becoming feature factories and focus more on the customer problems? [ 34:00 ] How to get in touch with Margaux The Productized Podcast is produced by Productized - a series of interviews with product innovators, successful makers, and entrepreneurs. We hope those who listen to the ideas on this show are inspired to productize. For show notes and additional resources related to the Productized Podcast visit medium.com/@Productized.

Host André Marquet will talk with Julia Somerdin is an entrepreneur and IoT digital supply chain solution executive with over 15+ years experiences in connectivity technology and digital technology solutions in both private and public sectors. Experienced in sales/marketing, tech strategy, and system solution and integration with a data-driven and system thinking approach. She is the CEO & Cofounder of Labby a dairy information and data company with a mission to digitize the dairy farming industry. Labby's mobile optical sensing solutions help dairy farmers around the world get the milk composition and quality info in real-time using our advanced latest mobile spectroscopy technology enhanced by AI. Time Notes [3:11] From China to the US [5:33] MIT Experience [10:10] How Julia met her Co-founder [11:26] The idea behind Labby [15:36] Do you think it is possible to apply this technology to measure the quality of other types of goods? [18:40] Lisbon edition of the Techstars “some of [Labby’s competitors] have shifted out of milk testing because actually it is really hard – not only to be able to do the testing itself, but to present accurate and meaningful results.” [22:40] What are your biggest challenges as a product? Top challenge: Deliver accurate results [25:40] What advice would you give to someone who wants to found a hardware startup? What are the things you wish you had known about it when you started? [27:50] Where they produce the Hardware [29:10] Labby uses advanced mobile spectroscopy to determine milk composition and quality information, like milk fat and protein. I imagine that communicating such a specific product must be a challenge. How can you transform something so technical into readable and relevant data? [32:39] How to measure the ethical, social, and monetary impacts of this technology [33:03] How big is this industry? [35:01] Milk Consumption [37:50] Short Turn Vision - Product Market fit [40:02] New related products The Productized Podcast is produced by Productized - a series of interviews with product innovators, successful makers, and entrepreneurs. We hope those who listen to the ideas on this show are inspired to productize. For show notes and additional resources related to the Productized Podcast visit https://medium.com/@Productized.

Host Carolina Messias talks with Ted Harrington, the author of HACKABLE: How to Do Application Security Right and the Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), the company of ethical hackers famous for being the first to hack the iPhone. He has overseen security research hacking for medical devices, password managers, and cryptocurrency wallets. NOTES: [1:31] From Psychology to hacking [3:45] Ted’s book “Hackable: How to Do Application Security Right.” What PMs need to know about it. [7:50] First steps to secure my product [14:00] At what stage do people usually worry about this issue? [15:53] We’re becoming increasingly more digital dependent, with our files saved in our drives, pictures in the cloud, digital calendars, remote work, social media, and so on. How secure are we with what we save or send online? [17:50] Exploit Chain & Information leakage [20:00] More challenging hacking - The iPhone [25:11] The cybersecurity of iPhone vs other brands [28:40] Starting in the 1980s, with cases of cyber espionage during the cold war and to last year, in 2020, with a Massive Distributed Denial of Service attack against AWS, we've been vulnerable to cyber-attacks and aware of the need for protection. Over time what do you think has changed and kept the same? [38:25] Ethical hackers vs non-ethical hackers The Productized Podcast is produced by Productized - a series of interviews with product innovators, successful makers, and entrepreneurs. We hope those who listen to the ideas on this show are inspired to productize. For show notes and additional resources related to the Productized Podcast visit https://medium.com/@Productized.