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9 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2022 by Crystal Widjaja · said 50 times in 18 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2025 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
- He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
- OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
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2024 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more
- Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack)
- The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”)
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2023 36 mentions in 5 episodes 7 per episode
- Career frameworks, A/B testing, onboarding tips, selling to engineers | Laura Schaffer (Amplitude)
- How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, Github)
- Failure
- Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst
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2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)
- Why product-led growth is the future | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Surveymonkey)
- How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
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Jul 31, 2022 positive
Widjaja: Gojek's first growth SMS experiment increased driver acceptance by 2%
“Our first real growth experiment, we were actually still the data team at this time, was to connect a quick Python script to the Twilio API that we had access to. And we SMSed a bunch of drivers through a CSV that we uploaded that said like, Hey, you're accept…”
Dec 8, 2022
Segment successfully shifted its pricing metric from API calls to tracked users
“What they actually did was we work with them and we kind of identified that monthly tracked users, what was a much better metric into how customers perceive value. And that was the more fairer metric for customers. Like if you're tracking more users in segment…”
Mar 9, 2023
Mar 9, 2023 neutral
Schaffer: Market expansion and product additions increase developer onboarding friction
“As we were penetrating new markets, adding more products, we were adding complexity and we were pulling in folks who were a little bit less motivated. And those things contributed to people saying, this is difficult.”
Mar 9, 2023 positive
Mar 9, 2023
Schaffer: Poor conversion in logical funnels signals psychological friction
“And if something like very logical isn't converting well, sometimes it means that you're battling against the psyche of the user and you want to take a step back and You know, think about and learn about where someone is psychologically in your space.”
Aug 18, 2024
Yien: Developer and designer-focused companies do not need dedicated product managers
“The broader point is that truly not every team needs a product manager, but the activities, the outcome that one would drive needs to get done no matter what. And in some cases, this is why the prototypical companies that everyone references when they say they…”
Aug 25, 2024
TBH grew in 2017 using server-side Twilio SMS invites
“TBH grew through variety of things, people sharing their messages to Snapchat and text invites. And that was 2017. And the way you invited your friends on TBH was that you tap their name your contact name and there was a button that said invite. And then we us…”
Jul 31, 2025 neutral
Taylor: Developer-led GTM fails when targeting non-engineering business lines
“Developer-led... Motion there is to It does appeal to an individual engineer, often within the department of the CTO who have accountability and a fair amount of latitude to choose a solution. This works if your product is sort of a platform product. It doesn'…”