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Product Bakery - How Founders Build and Sell with AI
By Christian StrunkBusiness
Product Bakery - How Founders Build and Sell with AI episodes
- #70 Remote product management & design
Alex and Christian did manage for a long time to meet and record in person again. Therefore, they picked up the topic of working remove vs. being onsite. How can and should teams decide what's best in terms of tooling and location? Tune in to learn more!
Table of content:
- 00:30 - Meeting in person
- 05:05 - What's best to be creative?
- 08:40 - 1:1s vs team meetings
- 12:25 - Industry and professions are relevant
- 17:25 - Cross-functional teams onsite vs. remote
✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩
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📸 Instagram: @productbakery
🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20
🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/
21 min - #69 Staying in Touch With Your StakeholdersCommunication can be the hardest work sometimes. Due to the fact that a lot of companies moved to remote work, it's not getting easier. This time Christian and Alex picked up the whole topic of stakeholder management and what product people can do to bond and keep up alignment.Table of content:00:30 - Is communicating getting harder?02:45 - Different people with different agendas06:35 - Stakeholder awareness09:40 - The first step to good stakeholder management11:45 - Being proactive instead of passive13:45 - Planning and preparing communication✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩👨💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery📸 Instagram: @productbakery🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/19 min
- #68 Taking Care of Your Work-Life BalanceAlex is close to going on vacation. Therefore, he and Christian caught up on the whole topic of work-life balance and discussed what it needs to maintain a healthy balance.Table of content:00:30 - Alex going on vacation02:50 - The importance of work-life balance05:25 - Working on vacation07:00 - Taking care of your employees✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩👨💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery📸 Instagram: @productbakery🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/10 min
- #67 Breaking User Behavior Patterns
Sometimes, the products we use seem to become more complex than easier. The product bakers discussed why that happens and the reasons.
Table of content:
- 00:30 - iOS 15 and the safari URL bar
- 07:20 - Strategy & big picture vs. UX
- 09:30 - Designing against the customer
- 13:00 - The danger of copying trends
✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩
👨💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery
📸 Instagram: @productbakery
🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20
🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/
17 min - #66 How Smart Can Artificial Intelligence Be?
This time, Christian and Alex talked about the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its advantages and potential downsides.
Table of Content:
- 00:30 - Turn off your notification
- 01:55 - What AIs do already these days
- 04:50 - Strong vs. weak AI
- 08:00 - Losing human interactions
- 11:50 - Good data & diverse teams
Book recommendation:
- Competing in the Age of AI
✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩
👨💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery
📸 Instagram: @productbakery
🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20
🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/
15 min - #65 How to Organize Yourself Better
In this episode, Christian and Alex talked about how they organize their time and todos.
Table of content:
- 00:30 - Episode Intro
- 02:30 - Using spare time to be productive
- 04:10 - Color coding the calendar
- 05:10 - Blocking time in the calendar
- 07:45 - Declining meetings
- 09:45 - Manage the stakeholders
- 12:10 - Documentation & tooling
Christian's Meeting Course:
- https://www.christianstrunk.com/courses/meeting-facilitation
✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩
👨💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery
📸 Instagram: @productbakery
🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20
🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/
16 min - #64 Prioritizing without strategy won't work - with Christian Idiodi, Partner @SVPG
Christian Idiodi is a partner at the Silicon Valley Product Group. With his experience, he helps product and leadership teams across the globe to solve their customer problems. In this episode, he shares the biggest challenges that product teams have and how especially leaders can help and empower product people to solve those.
Table of content:
- 00:30 - Episode Intro
- 02:10 - Intro Christian Idiodi
- 03:50 - The biggest challenges product people have
- 08:25 - Missing empowerment from leadership teams
- 13:35 - Prioritizing doesn't work without strategic alignment
- 19:25 - Supporting the leadership team as a product manager
- 25:45 - Keeping the strategy updated as a leader
- 27:35 - The #1 tip every PM should follow
- 30:10 - The #1 tip every product lead should follow
- 32:15 - Micromanaging CEOs
Follow Christian Idiodi:
- Linkedin: @cidiodi
- Twitter: @CIdiodi
- Website: https://svpg.com/
✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩
👨💻 Linkedin: Product Bakery
📸 Instagram: @productbakery
🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20
🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/
36 min - #63 Are tech products becoming unethical?
This time Alex and Christian focused on a topic that they haven't talked about at all. Ethics! Both discuss how current products tempt to become more unethical and what to do about it.
Table of content:
- 00:30 - Episode intro
- 02:10 - Dominated by white people
- 06:40 - Ignoring minorities
- 08:55 - Balancing ethics in your organization
- 09:50 - Are product principles a solution?
- 11:30 - No regulations in tech
- 14:25 - Discrimination on Twitter
Books links:
- Technically Wrong
- Ruined by Design
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🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20
🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/
17 min - #62 Book review - The One Thing
Christian recently read the book "The One Thing" which reminded him how important it is to focus only on one thing. Together with Alex, they've discussed the key learning of the book and how to apply it to your day-to-day product life.
Table of content:
- 00:30 - Intro
- 01:15 - Multi-tasking & context switching
- 05:50 - Identifying your own one thing
- 08:05 - Focusing on only one thing
- 09:30 - Tips to get started
Book link: The One Thing
✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩
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📸 Instagram: @productbakery
🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20
🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/
12 min - #61 Why case studies make you lose your best candidates
The Product Bakers touched a couple of times on the topic of case studies as part of the hiring process. Alex has a very strong opinion when it comes to overall candidate experience. Therefore, they've decided to dedicate this episode to talk about the downsides of case studies and why it makes good candidates not start working for your company.
Table of content:
- 00:30 - Small talk
- 01:30 - The downsides of case studies
- 05:40 - Understanding how candidates think
- 07:50 - Why companies need to rethink their hiring process
- 12:30 - Respect peoples' time
✩ Follow The Product Bakery Podcast ✩
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📸 Instagram: @productbakery
🐦 Twitter: @productbakery20
🌍 Website: https://www.product-bakery.com/
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About Product Bakery - How Founders Build and Sell with AI
From the publisher's feed
Building products got easy. Shipping didn't.
Every week, Christian Strunk (aka PixelStrunk) sits down with founders and solopreneurs who
actually launch products with AI, and drags out the part other podcasts skip: the exact step-by-step.
The prompts they use. The money they burned.
Bakin' in public, weekly.
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