Product Pioneers

Mirela Mus is the founder of Product People a Product Management community and consultancy firm. **Product People** helps companies to discover and deliver great products faster. They do all the hands-on and unglamorous work of a Product Manager/Owner on an Interim* basis (3-36 months). We onboard fast, align teams, and deliver outcomes.Product People is also a product community with 7k+ members with the goal to share knowledge generously. They are on track to become one of the biggest product communities in Germany.**Mirela** is a Technical and creative product leader who built and scaled customer-centric products, experiences, and teams. On behalf of product people she gained experience at: Tier, Zalando, Scout24, DrSmile, Omio, & HeyCar to name only a few.In this episode we talk about how Mirela started Product People, what it is about, how they work internally and what makes a good Product Manager and how to hire them.Tune in to get all the details!Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/productpioneers_/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-pioneers Our Website: productpioneerspodcast.com

In this Episode we have another CODE Startup on the show.Our guests are Vincent Amm (Co-Founder) and Daniel Reichhart (Lead Front-End Engineer) from Tokenstreet.Tokenstreet is an investment app that allows the general public to invest in opportunities that were previously only available to the ultra wealthy (e.g. Venture Capital, Private Equity, Real Estate). The founding team, Daniel and other team members are all CODE University students.We talk about their journey so far, how they approach product development, why they launched a waiting list, how they got funding and what their future plans are. Tune in to get all the details.Tokenstreet Website: http://tokenstreet.com/Download the App: Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/tokenstreet/id1549557098 Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tokenstreet.main Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/productpioneers_/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-pioneers Our Website: productpioneerspodcast.com

This episode is all about NFT´s (non-fungible tokens)and three PM frameworks you probably haven´t heard of. Our guest today is Daud Zulfacar, the founder of License Rocks. He breathes blockchain and decentralized technology and has founded numerous startups before. License Rocks uses NFT´s for licensing software and currently develops a new product sweet (listen to learn more). In this episode we cover the basics of NFT´s understand what the hype is about and how License Rocks fits into the picture. We also cover three PM frameworks that Daud developed and uses himself: - Treppenstrategie: A Roadmapping/ product validation and financing method. - Cacha Days - A Team Empowerment Method - DEFF Concept - A design and product development approach. If you want to learn all about NFT´s and the above frameworks, give it listen! You can contact Daud on: Email:daud@licenserocks Twitter:twitter.com/zulfacar Factory Slack: Daud Zulfacar Book recommendation: Start With Why - Simon Sinek Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/productpioneers_/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-pioneers Our Website: productpioneerspodcast.com

Our guest in this Episode is Stuart Johnson. He is the Senior Product Manager for Search at Ecosia, our favourite planet friendly search engine that plants trees. He is an open source developer by heart and was a physics teacher before he built two startups of his own in the Ed Tech space. In this Episode we talked about the similarities of being a teacher, a physicist and a product manager, the influence of a purpose company on the product management role, dove deep into the development of Ecosia´s Green Leaf feature and how search can nudge people into more sustainable behaviours. If you want to become a product manager in a purpose/sustainability company you don´t want to miss it. Let us tune in.

Our guest in this episode is Lorena Mata Garcia. She was one of the first product managers at Infarm which is now the biggest vertical farming company in the world. Until a month ago of recording this episode, Lorena worked at Infarm as an internal product manager. She built the software infrastructure that took Infarm from a single warehouse with no software, to a global corporation in 10 countries in less than 3 years. Using a mix of off-the-rack and custom-built software, she implemented the processes and tools to power production, operations, sales, inventory. In other words, she built software and mobile apps for internal users. She leads a team of off-shore developers, consultants, and in-house PMs, and helped Infarm become the world's largest vertical farming company, with a growth of over 1,000% percent during her tenancy. As some of you know indoor farming is also the passion topic for our Host Simon. He is also the co-founder of an indoor farming startup, building indoor farms for offices. This episode provides pure gold in terms of learning more about the scale-up phase of an indoor farming/hardware startup, therefore definitely give it a listen. Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/productpioneers_/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-pioneers Our Website: productpioneerspodcast.com

In this episode, we talked about the life at consulting and venture firms like BCG and Rocket internet, how they differ from founding your own startup and what we can learn from them. Nina Zavrieva is our very own Senior Lecturer and Startup Coach for the product management department at CODE University. Previously she worked at BCG - Boston Consulting Group for example building a material sourcing platform a.o, and at rocket internet building Lamoda the biggest online fashion brand in Russia as part of the managing team. She also worked at her own startup channel kit and at CEO of Ventures Lab - a venture builder Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/productpioneers_/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-pioneers Our Website: productpioneerspodcast.com

Manosai Eerabathini is a product manager at google, working on Google map and is based out of Boston. He Previously, built music tech at vevo and enterprise email products at Microsoft. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Networked and Social Systems Engineering. He has over 7 years of hands-on product experience in a wide range of domains. He has a passion for new product development on 0 to 1 projects, whether enterprise or consumer-focused. In his spare time, he enjoys playing basketball and traveling. We will talk about how he got into product management, the importance of soft skills, and his thoughts on early-stage vs later-stage product development. Please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Manosai Eerabathini. Follow Manosai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/manosaie?lang=en Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/productpioneers_/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-pioneers Our Website: productpioneerspodcast.com

Welcome to a new Episode and a new Season celebrating 1 year Birthday of the Product Pioneers Podcast. Our Guest today is Tetiana Boliukh. She is the founder and idea originator of this podcast and a Product Management student at CODE. We talk about how she started this podcast, what went into it and what makes a great podcast. Additionally, we talk about the new direction of the Product Pioneers Podcast, Season 2, and our new Host Simon Heuschkel. Simon is a Product Management Student at CODE and the co-founder of Susteyn.io, a young indoor farming startup. Visit our brand new website: productpioneerspodcast.com Follow Tetiana on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tetiana-boliukh/

Being in a product management role demands a lot from you as a PM, it requires you to wear many hats, and deal with many stakeholders. Your role also changes depending on the industry you’re in, and changes as you grow within the organization you’re part of. In today’s episode, we focus particularly on fintech as an industry. We opened a discussion on how to prepare ourselves to get into fintech as a non-technical PM, how to work with different departments that share similar roles or tasks, the importance of emotional intelligence, and many more!Our guest today has a massive experience from both the business and technical development areas. this is why she is the perfect guest to talk about this particular topic. Chiedza Muguti is the Head of product at PENTA, the digital platform for business banking aimed at SMEs and startups. Their vision is to build a platform of connected services around a bank account which would allow business owners to use one platform for all their financial needs. It is designed to let business owners save time and money on banking so that they can focus more on their core business.

What are the outcome goals? And what’s the difference between being outcome-driven and output-driven? How does that affect PMs, teams, and management? These are some of the questions we asked Product management expert Tim Herbig on today’s episode! We also talked about the reality of working with the popular methods used by PMs today and the importance of choosing ways that fit the team, company vision, and the product we’re working on.Check TIm's website for more https://herbig.co/