Ilan chats with us about Exceed.ai, a platform that helps marketing and sales teams drive more pipeline from email and website visitors. The Exceed AI Assistant works 24/7/365 alongside humans to ensures every lead is followed up with, nurtured, and qualified using two-way email conversations. When a lead is qualified and ready to talk to a human the assistant will go ahead and book a meeting directly on your rep’s calendar. Ilan compares his vision for nurturing touch points early on, when ther...
Apr 12, 2021•38 min
Ophir establishes the importance of infrastructure, an aspect that he learned early on having lived his school town's transformation, and discusses developments in robotics, AR, and the coming IoT revolution
Mar 08, 2021•37 min
Deep dive into how a perfect storm brews for Uri's launch of Ride Vision in an overlooked market for rider assistance and motorbike accident prevention using computer vision and AI. Pricing, positioning, GTM, market segmentation, you're bound to find something interesting in this remarkable episode of a market about to get tapped big time. To reach Uri: uri.lavi@ride.vision
Feb 08, 2021•38 min
Sizzling conversation with Gadi about conversation AI tech, finding market fit, focusing on core tech and carving out the target audience, and where this is going in five to 10 years
Jan 30, 2021•40 min
We chat with Iddo from his Tel Aviv apartment about his experience with startups in Germany and Israel, cultural differences, and how he leads product at Zebra. Iddo focuses the conversation on human-AI collaboration which is at the core of the work he does at Zebra. Notably he discusses how he brings value to clients with different market dynamics in the US, the UK, and Germany.
Jan 18, 2021•25 min
Quantum computing is here! Nir works for the office of the CTO at AMAT where he directs a Technology and Business team exploring new opportunities in Quantum Technology and manages a portfolio of the group’s programs. In this episode, Nir shares about the tech that's going to be ubiquitous in 5-10 years and shares how accessible it already is to everyone today.
Dec 28, 2020•27 min
An exceptional recounting of a founder's grit on the journey to finding product-market fit at Obligo. Omri chats about his humble beginnings in a small market in Israel, switching gears to a larger international market in London, then switching gears one more time and finding his perfect fit out of Manhattan and the US market while solving the pain around apartment rental security deposits.
Dec 12, 2020•34 min
We have an in depth conversation with Yuval about his background that led to his founding of riseup. And about processes that lead to excellent product management outcomes throughout the organization. Favorite quotes: " And I'll give you an example. We think about the discoveries, basically the process of creating new value from zero to one. We consider it like a pull request. So when a squad comes up with a new idea, they post it on a workplace. We use it over here. They post it, as a pull requ...
Nov 27, 2020•38 min
Eilon chats with us about his evolution to building products that people truly love. He takes us through his journey to where Gong.io is today valued at $2B+, from its humble beginnings in 2015. How he hires for the best. And his relentless quest for optimizing for end user experience by dog fooding and using his product in unconventional ways before shipping features to new segments. At the very end he invents a new product in under a minute.
Nov 05, 2020•38 min
Oren has a paved a phenomenal career in product management and shares from his toolkit in this amazing episode about PM strategy, how to pick a goal for your team, how simplify and choose metrics, how to hire the best, and he shares the future he sees for the travel industry. This is an episode you'll want to listen to a few times! Please share with your colleagues and don't forget to subscribe to Product Nation from your favorite podcast player!
Oct 25, 2020•40 min
Mickey has built and sold two companies in a relatively short amount of time, to both Marketo and Gainsight, creating phenomenal value to his shareholders. Come hear from this product management pro about iterating fast to reach product market fit, then drive growth. Mickey also ties his superior product management skills to traveling the world over. You will have to listen to find out how :)
Oct 13, 2020•35 min
We chat with Noa about the importance of weaving strategy into the product management role. Noa is based in Israel from where she runs a bootcamp for Chief Product Officers - yep you read that right, a bootcamp for product management execs! Noa brings a wealth of experience in product management that goes all the way back to her early days as developer and team lead, when she made the leap. A most inspirational conversation you don't want to miss. Noa's blog: https://ganotnoa.com/ CPO Bootcamp: ...
Oct 06, 2020•33 min
Elad shares about his career trajectory as product manager at Amazon, gives examples of how its leadership principles shape his work, and at the end shares a feature he'd like seen as a way for adding value into battered post corona mom and pop services. Join in on the lively conversation!
Oct 04, 2020•33 min
Aviad chats with us about his journey into insurtech, being the first employee at a Silicon Valley startup gone unicorn, how he built the product management team and at what point to hire additional PMs and expand the product management team, and being design centric. Towards the end we get a glimpse into his creativity in a startup he creates from scratch in a matter of minutes and shares how to reach him. If you're a founder, a PM, a developer, a CTO or engineering manager, a designer, CEO, or...
Sep 26, 2020•27 min
We chat with Lior about cutting edge machine learning use cases in product, giving us a glimpse into not only the future, but more importantly, use cases that solve real problems in the market at a fraction of the old cost. Come learn from the best in this thought provoking episode on ML meets GTM.
Sep 23, 2020•30 min
We chat with Na'ama about pivoting a company in a rapidly changing market post Covid while she leads to product market fit. The conversation runs like a classical MBA Harvard Business Case to the drumbeat of a very accomplished, agile, humble and empathetic product manager and CEO. Come learn from the best, and if you're in the Bay Area and shop for groceries online, you're in for a treat: download the Cheetah app from https://www.gocheetah.com/ and shop away, same products, often much more affo...
Sep 15, 2020•32 min
If you haven't really dug into cloud-enabled Physical Security Information Management Systems (PSIM) - you're about to! Tal Bar Or delivers like a boss, and tells it like 007. Tal tells the story of how he built Octopus by listening to customer's needs to efficiently manage all physical security and cyber security threats from one holistic system with a smart command and control engine.
Sep 10, 2020•30 min
Reneta walks us through a zero to one scenario with the startup she founded, Foodom, all the way from researching to testing to finding a market fit. By the time you're done hearing her story, you'll have clarity for how she isolates the problem, and addresses it with a thrilling solution you'll be wanting try out for yourself.
Aug 31, 2020•31 min
We have a LIVELY discussion with Lior who is founder, CTO and head of Product at logistic platform Bringg (for everyone outside of Amazon). Lior has a very special take on how to do product with the least amount of waste: They're just-in-time for paid features only basically. Fascinating and different take, and a complete do-away with roadmaps. Enjoy!
Aug 20, 2020•36 min
We chat with Eran about the many iterations he takes in the search for product-market fit, one of the toughest challenges product managers solve for, especially in a startup or entity that's going from 0-1. Listen attentively to uncover some not-so-obvious gems in his discovery process.
Aug 15, 2020•27 min
We chat with Ofir about the way he manages production teams at Viber. We chat about product management processes at scale, and how to hire the best with intentionality. Favorite quote: "The PM role is such a difficult role because you need to be a master of all. You need to be good with people, with numbers, UX, see the small and big picture, and zoom in and out in your thought process".
Jul 29, 2020•38 min
We have a lively chat about product-market fit with product management veteran Amir Fish, who spends time with us on defining and owning the problem space. Favorite quote: "So you can see how, by going back to the problem and owning the problem space, you can actually generate your next set of ways to unblock your customer or business"
Jul 15, 2020•30 min
We chat with Allie about use of machine learning in product design over various product iterations, while highlighting the importance of striking a balance between personalization versus narrowing options down, all while keeping users engaged. In addition to her corporate job Allie shares about a nonprofit that she founded in Tel Aviv and a fun product she developed on a recent hackathon.
Jun 27, 2020•26 min
We chat Gilad up about the changing landscape of employee benefits due to Corona, specifically in the way of food benefits which is what Platterz originally set out to do, but not only that. At the end Gilad points to what types of solutions he gravitates to and values in product. Favorite quote: "I'm very much interested in companies that provide a product experience. There are many companies that provide great solutions, technology, products, but that's not my thing. My thing is companies that...
May 27, 2020•27 min
We chat Jonathan Friedman up about launching products from zero to one. Jonathan describes in detail what it's like to ideate and execute a new product, and how he and his team adapted to change due to Corona. He posits that the biggest issue with new products is the "why", "why us", and "why now", which should lead to a solution that is strong enough to break the barrier of indifference. Enjoy the listen!
May 09, 2020•22 min
Noam heads user research at Wealthfront, and we had a lively conversation about ways to test for customer needs, reducing barriers, and conducting research that shapes product. Favorite quotes: "Understanding your users enables you to significantly de-risk the product decisions you're making and reach far better outcomes." and "Diary studies are when we track people throughout their daily lives for a week, two weeks and we see what they do while they are in the context that we care about." and "...
May 03, 2020•31 min
From engineering management to product management to PhD in education to lifelong love for tutoring and now running product for Chegg, we had a blast chatting with Arnon, this time with a focus on managing the PM department. Favorite quotes: "a lot of it is building that trust and building what's called second order model thinking of the person across the table". 2nd Order Thinking: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/second-order-thinking-what-smart-people-use-to-outperform-2/ Also: "What does it ...
Apr 20, 2020•33 min
Roi is a product management veteran, starting his leadership career in an elite unit in the military, to software engineering, to MBA at Tel Aviv University, product management at analytics startup Convertro, through an acquisition by AOL, PM'ing at Lyft and now at ZipRecruiter, we learned a bunch! Favorite quotes: "You need to spend 90% of your time on understanding really what the problem is. Understanding really what is the alternative. Why is it so important that you come up with a different...
Apr 17, 2020•27 min
We Zoomed with Rotem Iram about building a novel product in a new world of Cyber-Insurance. Rotem starts his career at an Israeli intelligence unit, works as a software engineer, then at McKinsey, gets an MBA at Harvard, works in cybersecurity, and launches a startup in insurtech after experiencing the need from a customer's vantage point. Favorite quote: "This channel that you select, through which you are going to be selling your product, is a major factor in how you design your product. Becau...
Apr 13, 2020•29 min
From PM'ing at a special unit within 8200 to a Human-Computer Interaction undergrad at the Hebrew University and a Kellogg MBA, to Fring, Microsoft, and Apttus, we have a lively chat with another product management superhero in Silicon Valley. Gilad shares his experience building an enterprise grade chatbot that his customers love using. Our favorite quote: "It's not about what they (customers) say they want. It's about understanding the underlying need behind what they say or the underlying pai...
Apr 03, 2020•32 min
