Product Nation

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 :)

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: https://cpobootcamp.com/

PS: The word Taarikhe is thought to have semitic origins (from the root y.r.kh, same root as that used in the Hebrew word for moon, yare'ach) and made its way into Persian rather than the other way around as mistakenly suggested early in the podcast 

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!

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.

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Ofer Baharav & Nir Paz

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.

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 affordable than Costco. Special VIP code to those that get to the end.

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.

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.

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!

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.