As the Senior Director of Product at Textio, Jon Leads Product Management and Product Marketing. Before entering the startup world, Jon started his career as a PM at Microsoft, where he focused on transforming the user experiences of its most widely used products.

Adam Cheyer, the co-founder of Siri, speaks with Dwayne Samuels about the benefits of experimentation and allowing data to drive product decisions. Adam talks about the strategy he uses to know when’s the right time to bring ideas to market and the tools he uses for Go-To-Market initiatives.

Host Dwayne Samuels continues the chat with Steve about IBM's history in AI. Steve talks about the strategy used at IBM in AI and the history of Watson, and the growth mindset behind decisions Steve made as a GTM Product Manager.

Steve spent 40+ years at IBM, where he started as a Software Programmer and later became the GTM Product Manager and Product Manager for Strategic Watson Partners. As a former GTM Product Manager at IBM, Steve's goal was to bring order out of chaos. He talks about the changes in the market and in AI from back then compared to now. Steve speaks with host Dwayne Samuels about his roles at IBM and tells us the difference and similarities between being a Software Analysis and a Product Manager.

Hiro started as a Customer Success Manager in Japan and was the first CSO hire in their Tokyo office. He moved to the US to continue as a CSM for their biggest global clients.  As a Product Marketing Manager at LinkedIn, his mission is to successfully develop and manage international market acceleration strategies, and executing targeted regional market  "launches" with comprehensive integrated GTM motions. Hiro speaks with host Dwayne Samuels about his role at LinkedIn and how the PMM role overlaps with the role of a PM. 

Music: When You Wake Up by Diana Taylor

As the Executive Product Manager at the BBC, Jamie Chung helps the company with crafting a path to the future using AI. Jamie chats with Dwayne Samuels about his efforts with leading the Product Management efforts around BBC's voice assistant, Beeb, and much more.

Music: Action - The Plain Ensemble