Toast VP of Product on Building Agents Into Pre-AI SaaS; Shipping AI Into a 14-Year-Old Platform and Building for the Real Economy
Toast was built long before generative AI existed. So how do you weave AI agents into a platform that thousands of restaurants already run their business on, without breaking the thing that works? In ...
25 Sep 30min
Hinge CPTO on Building an App Designed to Be Deleted, Merging the CPO and CTO Roles, Chasing $1B in Revenue Without Chasing Engagement | Ben Celebicic | E312
Most apps optimize for time on screen. Hinge optimizes for you leaving. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos (CEO at Product School) sits down with Ben Celebicic, Chief Product and Technolog...
16 Sep 26min
Bolt CEO on Turning AI Prototypes Into Production Code Engineers Trust, the Story Behind a 5M-to-20M ARR Ramp in Two Months | Eric Simons | E311
One month before Bolt exploded, Eric Simons was preparing to wind the company down. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos (CEO at Product School) sits down with Eric Simons, CEO of Bolt, to t...
9 Sep 31min
Anthropic Member of Technical Staff on Leading Forward-Deployed Engineers, Turning Down 2x Pay, and Why Leaders Are Becoming ICs Again | Amandeep Khurana | E310
What do you do after you've founded a company, sold it to Databricks, and could coast? Amandeep Khurana went back to being hands-on. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumb...
2 Sep 25min
Mural CPO on How to Put AI in Multi-Player Mode for Your Team; Why AI Made Work Lonelier, Not Better | Elaina O'Mahoney
Visual collaboration is missing from the AI era. That's the provocation Elaina O'Mahoney, Chief Product Officer at Mural, brings to this episode of The Product Podcast with Carlos (CEO at Product Scho...
26 Aug 31min
Square Global Head of Product on: How to Build AI Agents People Actually Use, Why $49B Company Got Rid of General Managers | Willem Avé
Two years ago, Square tore up its general-manager model and rebuilt the entire company around functional excellence. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos (CEO at Product School) sits down wi...
19 Aug 28min
How Skydio Ships Flying Robots With Just 20 Product Managers
Most people think of drones as toys. Alden Jones thinks of them as infrastructure. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos (CEO at Product School) visits Skydio's California office to sit down ...
12 Aug 32min
How to Know Your AI Feature Actually Works (n8n's Founder's Metric) | Jan Oberhauser, CEO n8n
n8n's founder puts the company's GitHub repo, nearly 200,000 stars, right next to the paid signup button, and he's genuinely fine if you never pay. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos (CEO ...
29 Jul 46min
