Productized Podcast

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Welcome to the Software Renaissance. Your Strategy Isn't Ready | Martin Eriksson Jul 17, 2026

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When anyone can build anything, the advantage isn't in building. It's in knowing what to build and why. In this talk, Martin Eriksson, Author of "The Decision Stack", explains the process from execution to clarity. From "can we?" to "should we?"

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AI's impact on industries and job roles
The concept of the decision stack for strategic planning
Jevons paradox and AI's demand explosion
Reimagining business models with AI
Case studies: Intercom, IKEA, Kive
The importance of scenario planning in AI era

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Three Money Stories You Need To Tell | Rich Mironov Jul 15, 2026

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Staff cuts, AI, constant escalations from Sales… it’s a tough time to be in Product. In this talk, Rich Mironov talks about three Money Stories that you need to keep close at hand – ready to answer the executive funding and priority challenges that are not about the tech. How do we build great products and also sell how our work is critical to overall organization’s success?
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Human Communication in the Age of AI | Matt LeMay Jul 13, 2026

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AI speeds up product development, but human communication and decision-making remain the biggest bottlenecks. In this talk, Matt LeMay shows how teams can collaborate, align, and make decisions at the pace needed to succeed in today’s AI-driven world.

Key topics

AI homogenizes language and erases differences
The illusion of communication versus real understanding
The importance of human work in strategy and alignment
Practical tools for improving organizational communication
The risks of over-reliance on AI for decision-making

Hands on by Choice: Rethinking Power, Impact, and Ego in Product Leadership | Surbhi Marwah Jul 10, 2026

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In this talk, Surbhi Marwah, VP of Retail and Revenue at Finnair, explores what it means to remain hands-on by choice, not by controlling details, but by staying deeply connected to the craft of building products.
Drawing on experiences from scaling platform businesses, she reflects on how product leaders can rethink traditional ideas of power, impact, and leadership identity in an AI-accelerated world. Because when technology moves faster than ever, staying close to the work is often what keeps leadership grounded and decisions meaningful.

Key topics

Hands-on leadership as a strategic choice
The importance of fixing foundational systems before building new features
Using engagement metrics to drive business value
Aligning stakeholder incentives for better product outcomes
The role of infrastructure and content creation in customer experience
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The 20% Club: The Unwritten Rules of Leading When You Think Differently | Dave Martin Jul 08, 2026

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In this talk, Dave Martin leads the way to learning the unwritten rules for neurodivergent leaders to plug "recognition leaks" and master decision-making. You will gain the visibility you deserve in chaotic, side-channel tech organizations.
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Why AI for Product Teams Needs to Be Multiplayer | Dave Ross Jul 06, 2026

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AI has transformed what one person can do. But building great products has never been a solo sport. In this talk, Dave Ross explores how product teams are adapting, moving from fragmented AI usage to collaborative, agent-powered workflows. Using real examples from Miro, he’ll show how teams are rethinking how they work, build, and learn together. And why, despite all the change, the fundamentals still win: strong culture, good judgement, and the environments that help teams learn faster, from hackathons to Fail Nights, and the informal moments where the best ideas often emerge.

Key topics

AI's impact on product management
Rethinking workflows with AI
Accelerating discovery and prototyping
Building an AI-native company
Team collaboration and alignment in AI era

Let Your Current PM Identity Die So the Next One Can Be Born | Rodolfo Cristóvão and Mike Yeardly Jul 03, 2026

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In the high-stakes world of B2B SaaS, the very strategies that propel a company to $100M ARR often become the primary obstacles to reaching $200M. Using Feedzai’s decade-long journey as a case study, Rodolfo Cristóvão and Mike Yeardley explore the "PM Scale Paradox"—the realization that scaling a category-defining product requires a series of intentional "identity deaths."
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Pricing in the Age of SaaSpocalypse | Emanuel Martonca Jul 01, 2026

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The software market is in turmoil. SaaS growth is decelerating, stock prices are tanking, and everyone's blaming AI. But the real story is more complicated. Most SaaS companies built pricing models that only worked during a specific economic moment: cheap capital, aggressive expansion, customers who renewed automatically.
In this talk, Emanuel Martonca, Pricing Engineer & Founder of Soft Fight, dives into the debate of, with all these changes, what to do now.

Key topics

The impact of AI on SaaS business models
The limitations of traditional pricing strategies
How to develop adaptive pricing models
The influence of competition and positioning in pricing
The importance of value metrics and usage-based pricing

Uncertainty Is the Strategy: Stop Waiting for Clarity | Tania Nemes Jun 29, 2026

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In this talk, Tania Nemes reflects on what changes when uncertainty becomes part of the strategy itself. She explores how product leaders can navigate decisions, align teams, and sustain progress while conditions keep shifting, moving from reacting to uncertainty toward making it a source of momentum.

Key topics

Proximity to reality for better decision-making
Hypothesis-driven product work as a mindset
Empowering teams to learn and adapt
Building strong leadership teams in uncertainty
The strengths continuum: optimizing vs overplaying
Creating a culture of continuous learning and experimentation

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Tanja Nemesh

00:49 The Journey of a Product Leader

01:15 Understanding User Behavior

05:09 Hypothesis-Driven Product Development

08:04 Empowering Teams Through Uncertainty

12:06 The Strength Continuum and Personal Growth

16:10 Reflections and Closing Thoughts

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Building Out Loud: AI native Startup Journey | Faith Forster and Randy Silver Jun 26, 2026

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In this talk, Faith Forster and Randy Silver made a live podcast following their own experience and exploring the challenges, the progress, and what comes next on the process of building an AI-native startup.

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