Product Talk
Products That Count
Produced by Products That Count, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps everyone build great products, this podcast is an award-winning show by and for product minds, with millions of downloads and a 5-star rating on most major platforms. Each of the 300+ episodes features a product leader interviewing another product leader and exploring what it takes to build great products. Recent ones feature the Chief Product Officers of Brex, Glassdoor, Experian and more.
About Us: Products that Count is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps everyone build great products. It celebrates product excellence through coveted Awards that inspire 500,000+ product managers and honor great products and the professionals responsible for their success. It accelerates the career and rise to the C-suite of 30% of all Product Managers globally by providing exceptional programming – including award-winning podcasts and popular newsletters – for free. It acts as a trusted advisor to all CPOs at Fortune 1000, and publishes key insights from innovative companies, like Capgemini, SoFi, and Amplitude, that turn product success into business success. Learn more at ProductsThatCount.com.
About Us: Products that Count is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps everyone build great products. It celebrates product excellence through coveted Awards that inspire 500,000+ product managers and honor great products and the professionals responsible for their success. It accelerates the career and rise to the C-suite of 30% of all Product Managers globally by providing exceptional programming – including award-winning podcasts and popular newsletters – for free. It acts as a trusted advisor to all CPOs at Fortune 1000, and publishes key insights from innovative companies, like Capgemini, SoFi, and Amplitude, that turn product success into business success. Learn more at ProductsThatCount.com.
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Oct 13, 2025 • 45min
CPO Rising Series: Former Medallia CPO on Evolving Product Leadership Through Customer-Centric Innovation
Simonetta Turek, Transitioning Chief Product Officer at Medallia, shares her vast experience in B2B product leadership. She discusses the evolution of product leadership towards a GM mindset, emphasizing customer-centric innovation. Simonetta highlights the importance of embedding customer experience into company culture and warns about the pitfalls of focusing too closely on individual customer needs. She also talks about balancing creativity with operational rigor and the significance of curiosity as a key trait for great product leaders.
Oct 10, 2025 • 36min
Transforming Insurance Tech: EY Senior Technology Consulting Lead
How can product leaders turn technical challenges into breakthrough products? In this podcast hosted by Rachel Owens, EY Senior Technology Consulting Lead Srinath Chandramohan will be speaking on mastering product management across technical and business domains. Drawing from over 15 years of experience serving insurance carriers, Srinath reveals how to balance innovation, stakeholder priorities, and strategic product development.
Oct 8, 2025 • 33min
Luxury Presence CPO on Rewriting the Rules of Product Management with AI
Can AI turn a development process from a five-day marathon into a two-day sprint? In this podcast hosted by NEOGOV CPO Denise Hemke, Luxury Presence CPO Zac Hays will reveal how he's using AI to revolutionize product development. Zac shares radical strategies for prototyping, bug resolution, and rebuilding code bases that are challenging everything we know about building digital products.
Oct 7, 2025 • 53min
CPO Rising Series: Kraftful CPO on How AI Will Rebuild Product Teams from the Ground Up
What if AI could turn every product manager into a superhuman innovator? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by NEOGOV CPO Denise Hemke, Kraftful CEO and CPO Yana Welinder will be speaking about how AI is transforming product teams from siloed roles to integrated "product builders". She offers a rare insider's perspective on how emerging technologies will reshape product discovery, prioritization, and development in the next few years, drawing from her experience leading an AI-powered product insights platform.
Oct 6, 2025 • 48min
CPO Rising Series: Talent.com CPO on Revolutionizing Hiring with AI
How can AI revolutionize product-driven job matching? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by NEOGOV CPO Denise Hemke, Talent.com CPO Navya "NRG" Rehani Gupta will be speaking on AI-driven hiring and product innovation. She'll share groundbreaking insights into how technology is reshaping recruitment, reducing bias, and creating more efficient hiring processes for job seekers and employers alike.
Oct 3, 2025 • 52min
CPO Rising Series: How a Top CPO Scales from 7M to 120M Users
What does it take to scale a startup from 7M to 120M users? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Renee Niemi, Opus 2 CPTO Tiama Hanson-Drury will be speaking on transforming product leadership in the AI era, sharing her journey from sales to becoming a top CPO and her insights on building high-performing product teams. Discover how she navigates changing priorities, drives innovation, and creates mission-driven product strategies that deliver exceptional business results.
Oct 1, 2025 • 38min
Simplify Healthcare SVP on Revolutionizing Claims Processing with AI and Automation
Can AI and automation finally untangle the complex web of healthcare claims processing? In this podcast hosted by Cognizant Sr Product Director Chenny Solaiyappan, Simplify Healthcare SVP Daniel Knies unveils how their innovative suite of products uses cutting-edge technology to transform healthcare IT. He shares how their solutions can reduce claims processing time from 60 days to just 8 days, eliminate manual data entry, and bring real-time efficiency to insurance companies across different market segments.
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Sep 26, 2025 • 1h 2min
Scaling Breakthrough Technologies - Statsig Head of Product
Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, shares her journey from scaling products at Uber and Instagram to building innovative solutions at startups. She discusses the significance of deep customer understanding and utilizing AI for faster development. Additionally, Margaret-Ann emphasizes the importance of local adaptations in international markets and the role of data-driven decision-making in prioritizing product features. Her insights illuminate how to achieve product-market fit while competing effectively in today's tech landscape.
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Sep 24, 2025 • 38min
Competitive Intelligence Strategies for B2B SaaS Companies: Okta Head of Insights for Growth & Product Marketing
Kundan Kolhe, Head of Insights for Growth at Okta, shares his wealth of experience in B2B software and competitive intelligence strategies. He emphasizes the need for competitive awareness as a dynamic feedback loop that enhances market positioning. Kundan outlines key steps to initiate a competitive intelligence practice and highlights the importance of trust in sales partnerships. He reveals how tailored content can empower sellers and discusses AI's role in making intelligence more accessible and scalable. His insights aim to transform competitive knowledge into actionable strategy.
Sep 22, 2025 • 44min
CPO Rising Series: Healing Healthcare's Biggest Setbacks With AI-Powered Insights (NRC Health CPO)
What if AI could heal healthcare's biggest setbacks? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by Products That Count Resident CPO Renee Niemi, NRC Health CPO Vinitha Ramnathan will be speaking on transforming patient experiences through market-driven innovation and AI. Discover how one visionary CPO is breaking down barriers in healthcare, solving critical access and outcome challenges while leveraging cutting-edge technology to put patients first.
