An interview with Radhika Dutt. Radhika is a product leader, consultant & author of "Radical Product Thinking". I spoke to Radhika a couple of months ago about some of the core themes of her book but we wanted to deep dive into some of her themes around digital pollution, product ethics, and how to take responsibility for the changes our products bring to the world.

We speak about a lot, including:

• The reception for Radical Product Thinking, what people are taking from the book, and how it's resonated with people around the world

And much more!

Visit the book website or check it out on Amazon or Goodreads.

We covered some of the broader themes from Radhika's book in our first episode Episode 82 - Curing Product Diseases with a Radical Product Vision.

You can find Radhika on Twitter or LinkedIn

An interview with Gabriele Musella. Gabriele is the CEO of Coinrule, a YCombinator backed startup that aims to democratise crypto trading and enable people to set up their own automations to manage their investments for them. He's also created the DDDT framework to drive product decision-making and bring design thinking to the crypto space.

We speak about a lot, including:

• The idea behind Coinrule, the rise of automated crypto trading and whether automated trading is as high pressure as it looks in the movies

And much more!

You can contact Gabriele on Twitter or coinrule.com.

An interview with Daniel Cooper. Daniel is an automation nerd and founder of Lolly Co, a company that aims to help founders of growing companies unlock growth through automation and enabling them to focus human effort on things that humans are best at. He's also the author of the upcoming book "Upgrade" that aims to bring these techniques to the world.

We speak about a lot, including:

• The story behind Lolly Co, the problems they solve, and why process optimisation & automation is crucial for a scaling business

And much more!

Visit the book website.

You can contact Daniel on Twitter or check out his company at Lolly Co.

An interview with Anthony Marter. Anthony is a product & delivery consultant who is passionate about helping New Zealand companies build products more effectively by intercepting them at the right time to deliver change. He's taken his passion for the local product community into Product Aotearoa, a community aiming to support product practices across New Zealand.

We speak about a lot, including:

• How he aims to use his consulting to "help influence companies on how they do product management at the right moment" and make sure the New Zealand product community are supported

And much more!

You can contact Anthony on Twitter or LinkedIn.

An interview with Anna Curzon. Anna is the Chief Product Officer at Xero, with long experience in business strategy & digital transformation. She's also a member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council, appointed by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Anna is passionate about creating a good working culture, and driving for diverse teams and working practices to support that goal.

We speak about a lot, including:

• The origin story of Xero, how it came from the founder having a problem he couldn't solve, and how he started a company to solve it

And much more!

You can contact Anna on Twitter or LinkedIn.

An interview with Peter Johnston & Matt Breuer. Peter is the founder & CEO of new professional social network Polywork. Matt joined as Product Director and employee #9. They talk about the vision for Polywork, the pain points it was designed to overcome, the way they're building it as a team, and how to avoid HIPPO syndrome.

We speak about a lot, including:

• The motivations behind Polywork, how it differs from other professional networking sites, and how they aim to "go beyond the job title"

And much more!

If you don't have a Polywork account already you can sign up using this VIP link and check it out.

You can contact Matt at Polywork and Peter either on Polywork or Twitter.

An interview with Steve Johnson. Steve is a product coach who has trained thousands of product teams across dozens of countries across 15 years. He's co-founder of Product Growth Leaders, a consortium of product consultancies & also co-author of the Quartz Open Framework which aims to help you build products your customers will love.

We speak about a lot, including:

• How his consultancy got started, the problems he solves & how he aims to get people working on real products that resonate with their business, not toy examples

Steve's a published musician! Check his work out on Spotify.

You can find Steve on Twitter or LinkedIn. His consultancy website is https://www.under10consulting.com/.

An interview with George Nurijanian. George is a former pricing analyst turned product manager, currently working as a Product Owner for design systems at New Zealand unicorn Xero. He's also now working to help demystify the world of resources we have available to us as product managers with his new side project prodmgmt.world.

We speak about a lot, including:

• What Xero does as a company, and his work as a platform product owner working on a design system to enable coherent interfaces throughout a rapidly scaling company

And much more!

This site is a collection of techniques to empower entrepreneurial minds. Map your product challenge to the solution.

Before: "I have no clue how to test if my idea is valuable."

After: "I've got a full arsenal of techniques and frameworks."

You can check out George's new side project at prodmgmt.world

You can find George on Twitter or LinkedIn. His personal website is https://nurijanian.com/.

An interview with Rich Mironov. Rich is a smoke jumper CPO who gets thrown behind the fire to help solve some of the hardest problems in product management - trying to fix organisations to help them make products properly. He's worked with 175 companies and has experienced it all, and also distilled this into his Product Bytes blog & book "The Art of Product Management".

We speak about a lot, including:

• What a "smoke jumper" CPO is and the types of problems he solves when he goes into the mind boggling number of companies he has worked with

And much more!

Visit the book website or check it out on Amazon or Goodreads.

You can find Rich on Twitter or LinkedIn. You can also check out Rich Mironov's Product Bytes here.

An interview with Jas Shah. Jas is a product consultant who works with fintech firms to help them out where their product teams are maybe lacking, or don't have the time to do the job. Jas predictably believes in outsourcing product management tasks to consultants, but not all of them, and only if it helps bring the team along and develop their skills.

We speak about a lot, including:

• What problems he solves with his consultancy, the types of companies he consults for, and why he prefers startups to big banks

And much more!

You can find Jas on Twitter or LinkedIn. You can also check out his consultancy Bitsul.