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PM & Leadership guidance, straight to your ears.

Successful product management isn’t just about training the product managers who work side by side with developers everyday to build better products. It’s about taking a step back, approaching the systems within organizations as a whole, and leveling up product leadership to improve these systems. This is the Product Thinking Podcast, where Melissa Perri will connect with industry leading experts in the product management space, and answer your most pressing questions about everything product. Join us each week to level up your skillset and invest in yourself as a product leader.

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Do you have a product question you’d like answered on a “Dear Melissa” segment
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 Recent Episodes

We’re talking product leadership, strategy, and so much more. Take a listen or search below to see if we answered your question in a previous podcast episode!

 
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Episode 168: Cutting the Fat after a Crisis with Alex Wattrelos, Previous CPO of Sunday
Episode 168: Cutting the Fat after a Crisis with Alex Wattrelos, Previous CPO of Sunday

In this episode of the Product Thinking podcast, host Melissa Perri is joined by Alex Wettrelos Chief Product Officer at Sunday. Join them as they explore the challenges of rapid scaling and then descaling during the 2022 tech-crisis. They discuss how Sunday, a fintech company innovating payment methods across the hospitality industry, went from an idea on a slide deck to 450 employees with $203 million of seed funding. They also touch on the differences between  product management in Europe & the US.

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Episode 167: How to Use More Than 10% of Your Company's Brain with Aaron Smith, Chief Product Officer
Episode 167: How to Use More Than 10% of Your Company's Brain with Aaron Smith, Chief Product Officer

In this episode of Product Thinking, Aaron Smith joins Melissa Perri. Together, they discuss Aaron’s best practices he learned from his time at Amazon, key leadership principles, creating a culture of accountability, and the destiny creator mindset. 

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Episode 166: Building Products and Riding the Wave of Cutting Edge AI with Darren Wilson, CPO of Soul Machines
Episode 166: Building Products and Riding the Wave of Cutting Edge AI with Darren Wilson, CPO of Soul Machines

In this episode of the Product Thinking podcast, host Melissa Perri is joined by Darren Wilson, Chief Product Officer of Soul Machines. Join them as they explore Darren’s journey to CPO of Soul Machines, a company that produces digital humanoids. They discuss the challenges of building digital avatars, keeping up with AI technology, and leveraging user feedback to shape product strategies. 

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Episode 165: The Story of SpotHero & Breaking into Product Management with Matt DiBari, Chief Product Officer
Episode 165: The Story of SpotHero & Breaking into Product Management with Matt DiBari, Chief Product Officer

In this episode of Product Thinking, Matt DiBari joins Melissa Perri to discover the secrets of product management in high growth companies. Together, they discuss effective user research, the different mindsets in B2B & B2C, essential skills in high growth companies, and breaking into product management.

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Have a Product Question? The Lines Are Now Open.

 
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Do you have a product dilemma you just can’t solve? Are you in need of some pointed career guidance? We’ve got a direct line to Melissa, so now’s your chance to ask her anything you’d like. You can record a voice message here, or you can submit a question via form below. Melissa just might answer it in a future Dear Melissa segment of the podcast.

•Questions should not be super specific to your own company so other viewers can also learn from the answer

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Your Host, Melissa Perri

Melissa Perri is the CEO of Produx Labs, a Product Management consultancy, and the author of “Escaping the Build Trap”. She believes the key to creating great products is growing great product leaders.

Committed to that mission, she created the online school Product Institute, where she has shared her scientific approach to Product Management with over 3500 students. In 2019, Melissa was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Business School to teach Product Management in the MBA program. 

As a consultant, Melissa works with executives worldwide to set up their product organizations, advise on product strategy, and grow product leaders into Chief Product Officers.