The Product Podcast
Product School
Hosted by Product School CEO Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, The Product Podcast drills deep into the minds of Chief Product Officers from Cisco, Lovable, Perplexity, Shopify and many more. We move beyond high-level theory to reveal how top executives actually lead in the age of AI. We dig deep into their real-world decision-making, strategic frameworks, and the operational playbooks used to build intelligent products.If you are a VP, Director, or CPO looking to drive innovation at scale, this is your essential listen.
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May 13, 2026 • 27min
Snowflake VP of AI on Why Enterprises Hide Behind Governance to Avoid Real AI Transformation | Baris Gultekin | E296
Baris Gultekin, VP of AI at Snowflake and former co-creator of Google Assistant, leads product for enterprise AI. He discusses why governance often masks stalled AI plans. He explains the semantic layer, running models next to data for safer governance, and why context plus scoped use cases unlock practical AI at scale.
May 6, 2026 • 50min
Superhuman Mail CEO on Rediscovering Product-Market Fit in the Age of AI, Renaming Post-Grammarly Acquisition & Competing against Google Workspace | Rahul Vohra | E295
Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman Mail (acquired by Grammarly in 2024), built the world’s fastest email engine and a repeatable Product-Market Fit method. He discusses renaming after acquisition, what AI-native truly means, the 5-step PMF Engine, narrowing to high-expectation customers, and defending PMF against commoditization and copycats.
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Apr 29, 2026 • 41min
GoFundMe CPTO on Building Marketplaces Across StubHub, TheRealReal & GoFundMe | Arnie Katz | E294
Arnie Katz, Chief Product and Technology Officer at GoFundMe and three-time CPTO who scaled marketplaces at StubHub and TheRealReal, shares marketplace challenges and fixes. He talks about cold start, imbalance failure, and false positive growth. He explains using AI agents to lower fundraiser friction and how AI drives donation revenue through better matching and coach-style features.
Apr 22, 2026 • 38min
Robinhood VP of Product on Prediction Markets, AI-Native Investing Tools, and Social Trading for the Next Generation | Abhishek Fatehpuria | E293
Abhishek Fatehpuria, VP of Product at Robinhood who scaled the app from single-product equities into a multi-product platform. He discusses prediction markets, AI-native investing tools that compress ideation sprints, and social trading built on verified identities and real trades. He also covers product org design, leading indicators like Gold subscriptions, and a barbell UX strategy for new and power users.
Apr 15, 2026 • 36min
Zoom CPO on Rebuilding the Future of Work Collaboration with Agentic AI — From Meeting Transcripts and Recordings to a System of Action | Jeff Smith | E292
Jeff Smith, Zoom’s CPO who leads product across meetings, AI Companion, and collaboration tools. He discusses scaling through COVID, why Zoom expanded into mail, calendar, and docs to own the work lifecycle, and how agentic AI and AI Companion 3.0 retrieve across tools to turn transcripts and recordings into actionable work. He also covers open integrations, measuring AI impact, and moving from personal boosts to business outcomes.
Apr 8, 2026 • 41min
TikTok VP of Product on Turning Video-First Feeds into a Full E-Commerce Platform | David Kaufman | E291
David Kaufman, VP of Product at TikTok who built monetization systems at Facebook and Google, discusses TikTok’s transformation into an end-to-end commerce engine. He covers AI-driven catalog onboarding and creative generation. He explains on-platform shops that shorten the purchase funnel and the rise of scheduled live shopping events and affiliate-driven long-tail creator promotion.
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Apr 1, 2026 • 33min
OpenAI & Figma Product Builders on Killing the Design-to-Code Handoff and Vice Versa | Ed Bayes & Matt Colyer | E290
Ed Bayes, design lead at OpenAI bridging design and engineering with Codex. Matt Colyer, product director at Figma building code-to-design integrations like Code to Canvas. They explore AI-powered round-trip workflows, agents that update design systems, live demos of code-to-canvas and canvas-to-code, and how interoperability speeds prototyping and changes team roles.
Mar 25, 2026 • 40min
Xero CPTO on Building an Agentic AI Platform to Manage Multiple Agents | Diya Jolly | E289
Diya Jolly, CPTO at Xero and former YouTube monetization lead and Okta CPO, talks about building JAX, an agentic AI platform that coordinates specialized subagents. She covers AI guardrails and human review for accuracy. She explains designing global platforms that scale while handling local tax and payment rules. She predicts conversational interfaces replacing static dashboards.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 47min
Shopify VP of Product on Transforming SaaS to AI-Native and Building $100B+ Agent-Led Commerce | Vanessa Lee | E288
Vanessa Lee, Shopify Vice President of Product and two-time YC founder, leads Shopify’s move to AI-native, agent-led commerce. She talks about making technical product decisions, building LLM-based judges to grade AI outputs, versioning APIs to drive change, and bringing founder-style experimentation and courage into a large organization.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 46min
Google VP of Product on The Future of Search and AI Mode | Robby Stein | E287
Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search who led consumer products at Instagram, discusses AI Mode and the AI-driven transformation of Search. He talks about building zero-to-one products inside huge companies. He explains agentic Search that executes multi-step tasks, how to measure early product traction, and lessons from Instagram failures that shaped product strategy.
