Harvey Lee is the VP of Product Marketing at the Product Marketing Alliance. He's also a musician and spent lots of time in the music industry. I'm a musician too, so we geeked out about all things rock n' roll—history, specific bands, moments in time—and tweezed out what we felt PMMs could learn from them. Here are some specific topics we covered: Why bands pivot and change their sound Why legacy bands endure The effects tech shifts in music and how success is measured Why good bands fail How to spot a rockstar at your company Here's part 1 of this episode: Podcast Follow Harvey: LinkedIn Learn more about Harvey's new book, 'Backstage Pass': Website Continue the conversation with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Healthy Competition⁠ community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today!

Eldad is the Co-Founder & CEO of WINN.AI, a real-time AI assistant that helps sales teams save time on busywork and win more deals. I learned about WINN.AI through a viral guerilla marketing campaign—they coordinated with 100+ sales influencers to record and post videos smashing their keyboards. It completely took over my LinkedIn feed, and I had to learn more. In this interview, we chatted about: Eldad's background in the Israeli Defense Forces How he researched the AI-assistant competitive landscape before launching WINN.AI The making of their viral campaign The results it produced And lots more! Check out WINN.AI: Website Check out their campaign video: Video Follow Eldad: LinkedIn Continue the conversation with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Healthy Competition⁠ community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.

Derek Osgood is the Founder & CEO of Ignition, a collaborative hub to plan, execute, and measure go-to-market launches. He worked as a Product Marketer across multiple industries, such as gaming, banking, and SaaS, and now he's building the platform he wished he always had. In this interview, we talked about: what it was like being a PMM for Playstation his journey of going from PMM to founder opportunities and challenges of selling to Product Marketers Ignition's GTM strategy of niching down the ideal PMM tech stack And lots more! Follow Derek: LinkedIn Check out Ignition: Website Continue the conversation with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Healthy Competition⁠ community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.

Mayur Palta has led Competitive Intel at some of the world's most valuable companies. And he just published a book with the lessons he learned along the way. In this episode we dive into: what CEOs don't understand about Competitive Intel memorable competitive campaigns between Oracle, AWS, and Salesforce how to build your "compete" muscle with the Outcompete Operating System the ethics of working for companies that are competing with your prior employer And lots more. Make sure you grab a copy of Mayur's book, Outcompete. All proceeds from the book will go to Vibha, which empowers underprivileged children with the gift of education. So you can do some good AND learn a bit about competitive intel 💚 Follow Mayur: LinkedIn Continue the conversation with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Healthy Competition⁠ community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.

Ranee is a Product Marketing leader with 17+ years experience developing marketing and product strategy for global brands and VC-backed tech startups. In this episode, we discuss burnout. Specifically: why it plagues Product Marketers how to detect if you're burnt out (vs. just having a bad day / week) what to do when you feel it creeping into your life the ideal future of Product Marketing And lots more. Follow Ranee: LinkedIn Continue the conversation with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Healthy Competition⁠ community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.

Tamara is the VP Product Marketing at Kajabi, an all-in-one platform that helps creators and entrepreneurs package their knowledge into profitable online courses, coaching programs, membership sites, and more. Tamara is also a creator herself, writing a newsletter and moderating a community both called PMM Office Hours. Here's what we chatted about: Her journey from Product Marketing to Chief Strategy Officer and then back to Product Marketing How she got her role at Kajabi when they weren't initially hiring for a VP of Product Marketing Different opportunities for Product Marketers that want to become creators and lots more! Follow Tamara: LinkedIn Check out PMM Office Hours: Newsletter | Community Continue the conversation with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Healthy Competition⁠ community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.

This episode was recorded live in the Healthy Competition community with Sam Rinaldo, Competitive Intel at Lucid, and Tracy Berry, Competitive Intel at Freshworks. Both Sam and Tracy spent a portion of their careers in the government intel space before pivoting to the corporate side. After listening through, you'll learn: how their backgrounds gave them a leg up when they transitioned to the tech space similarities and differences between their current workflows compared to when they worked for the government what they learned in government intel that they were able to bring with them and apply to their current roles in tech common misconceptions that the tech industry has when it thinks about government intel Follow Sam: LinkedIn Follow Tracy: LinkedIn Continue the conversation with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Healthy Competition⁠ community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.

Anand Sanwal is the Co-Founder & CEO of CB Insights, a tech marketplace platform that enables organizations to make buying decisions quickly and with confidence. We covered lots of ground in this episode—there should be something in here for just about anyone: lessons from growing the CB Insights newsletter to nearly a million subscribers "human-in-the-loop" as a differentiator, and whether or not AI poses a risk to this CB Insights's new product, Yardstiq, and how it delivers quant & qual data for a market landscape how competitive intel should change as an organization grows and matures why "all-in-one" platforms have a competitive advantage over point solutions today Follow Anand: Twitter, LinkedIn Check out CB Insights: Website, Newsletter Check out Yardstiq: Website Continue the conversation with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Healthy Competition⁠ community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.

Bobby Pinero is the CEO & Co-Founder of Equals, the only spreadsheet with built-in connections to any database, versioning, and collaboration. I've joked that every company's biggest competitor is Excel, so it was fun to learn how Bobby and the team at Equals are actually positioning against it. There's a lot to learn from this interview: identifying best fit early adopters for your product how Equals is growing by acknowledging legacy spreadsheet strengths the approach to sub-category creation between traditional spreadsheets and BI tools and lots more Follow Bobby: LinkedIn | Twitter Check out Equals: Website Continue the conversation with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Healthy Competition⁠ community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.

Anthony Kennada is the Co-Founder & CEO at AudiencePlus, the first owned media software for marketers, enabling companies to build, engage, and monetize an owned audience. In this episode, you'll learn how some of the most successful companies today own their audiences vs. rent them on social media platforms or paid ads. As well as: the community-to-media flywheel how Anthony helped create the Customer Success category at Gainsight the first steps you can take to begin building a media arm (even if you're on a budget) Follow Anthony: LinkedIn Check out AudiencePlus: Website Continue the conversation with me: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ | ⁠TikTok⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ This episode is brought to you by the ⁠Healthy Competition⁠ community. 1,000+ messages are exchanged between Competitive Intel and Product Marketing pros every month. Join today to accel your career in Product Marketing and help your company differentiate against competitors.