Product Talk
Products That Count
Produced by Products That Count, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps everyone build great products, this podcast is an award-winning show by and for product minds, with millions of downloads and a 5-star rating on most major platforms. Each of the 300+ episodes features a product leader interviewing another product leader and exploring what it takes to build great products. Recent ones feature the Chief Product Officers of Brex, Glassdoor, Experian and more.
About Us: Products that Count is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps everyone build great products. It celebrates product excellence through coveted Awards that inspire 500,000+ product managers and honor great products and the professionals responsible for their success. It accelerates the career and rise to the C-suite of 30% of all Product Managers globally by providing exceptional programming – including award-winning podcasts and popular newsletters – for free. It acts as a trusted advisor to all CPOs at Fortune 1000, and publishes key insights from innovative companies, like Capgemini, SoFi, and Amplitude, that turn product success into business success. Learn more at ProductsThatCount.com.
About Us: Products that Count is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps everyone build great products. It celebrates product excellence through coveted Awards that inspire 500,000+ product managers and honor great products and the professionals responsible for their success. It accelerates the career and rise to the C-suite of 30% of all Product Managers globally by providing exceptional programming – including award-winning podcasts and popular newsletters – for free. It acts as a trusted advisor to all CPOs at Fortune 1000, and publishes key insights from innovative companies, like Capgemini, SoFi, and Amplitude, that turn product success into business success. Learn more at ProductsThatCount.com.
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Aug 4, 2021 • 43min
EP 163 - Summer Series Highlights: Building Smarter Artificial Intelligence
Our Summer Series of podcasts is designed to introduce you to some of our most popular content and superstar PM professionals from the last six years. This episode focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning highlights from five popular episodes of Product Talk. How do product leaders succeed in building smarter AI and ML that make products better? These product leaders share their insights about the potential of AI, along with some limitations to keep in mind.
Jul 28, 2021 • 41min
EP 162 - Summer Series/Product Lifecycle Highlights
Our Summer Series of podcasts is designed to introduce you to some of our most popular content and superstar PM professionals from the last six years. This episode focuses on product lifecycle highlights from five popular episodes of Product Talk. What's your strategy for optimizing your product lifecycle efforts? These product leaders share their insights from their experience managing products at leading tech firms.
Jul 21, 2021 • 27min
EP161 - Summer Series - Perspectives on Product Management by 5 Product Gurus
Our Summer Series of podcasts is designed to introduce you to some of our most popular content and superstar PM professionals from the last six years. This episode is one of the most popular podcasts we've produced. What would you ask of senior product managers if you could take training with them? Join these five seasoned product gurus for their perspectives on product management.
Jul 14, 2021 • 37min
EP160 - Crossing the Chasm author Geoff Moore on Organize to Compete
Most companies struggle trying to balance the conflicting demands of sustaining an existing business and taking on a disruptive challenge. Product leaders in particular must find ways to innovate in a competitive marketplace. Are you looking to cross the chasm, catch the next wave, keep the next wave from catching you? Silicon Valley icon Geoff Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm (over 1 million copies sold), shares case examples from Salesforce, Microsoft and more from his book, Zone to Win: Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption.
Jul 7, 2021 • 26min
EP159 - The North Face Global CMO & VP of Product Creation On Developing Products with A Purpose
Continued innovation is as crucial as ever. Brands with a long history of success are not guaranteed to continue that success through inertia. How can product leaders develop products for an iconic brand? The North Face Global CMO & VP of Product Creation Steve Lesnard shares his thoughts on developing products with a purpose and pinpointing the purpose of a particular product.
Jun 30, 2021 • 25min
EP158 - A Path to CPO: A Conversation with One of the 1st Ever CPOs
Chief Product Officer (CPO) is one of the newer functions within an organization as more and more companies aim to be product-led. How can a product leader earn that title? In this session, Products That Count Sr Product Manager, Andy Shore, and fmr Plantronics, Google, Logitech, now Products That Count CPO, Renee Niemi, sit down for a fireside chat to discuss what product managers and leaders can do to put themselves on the path to the C-Suite.
Jun 23, 2021 • 57min
EP157 - Highlights from The Winners Circle of the 2021 Product Awards
The 2021 Product Awards brought together the very best in digital products, highlighting the market leaders that are taking the product world by storm in this new Age of Product. Join us in The Winners Circle with Airtable, InVision, and Userleap, as we discuss how product managers can gain a competitive edge and stay ahead by building award-winning products.
Jun 16, 2021 • 29min
EP156 - Miracle Messages Founder & CEO on Building Products For Impact
If there's one thing all of humanity learned in the past 12 months, it's the importance of human connections and the impact of the loss thereof. With the world beginning to reopen, how can product managers use the power of technology to create positive change? This week on Product Talk, Miracle Message Founder & CEO, Kevin Adler, speaks from the heart with a story of activism through tech and how to build products that make a true impact on the world.
Jun 9, 2021 • 23min
EP155 - Doist Sr. Product Marketing Manager on Aligning the Customer Journey
The market for apps is probably as hot as it will ever be and companies need every opportunity to build a competitive advantage. Of course, the strongest path to success comes with aligned execution and a clear product vision. How can the relationship between product and product marketing ensure success across all teams? Doist Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Neil Vidyarthi, takes the Product Talk mic to speak on the alignment X-factor that ultimately drives the customer journey.
Jun 2, 2021 • 26min
EP154 - Sisense CPO & CMO on Cloud Data Analytics
Data is firmly set in its next evolution and the advantages that data provides to product leaders in their decision-making becomes clearer every day. When should product leaders scrap the hand reports and make the jump to a cloud data analytics solution? This week on Product, the CPO and CMO of Sisense, Ashley Kramer, takes the mic to share the needs to know for product leaders looking to go beyond the desktop and implement their own cloud data analytics solution.
