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Essential listening for entrepreneurs, product managers and anyone working in tech today. We break down the concepts you need to know, from Product Management to Growth, Sales to Funding, we'll bring you stories that will inspire and insights that will change the way you think about product and business.

Rocketship.fm, produced in partnership with Product Collective, inspires hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs, developers, marketers, product people, and designers each month. Join us as we dive into everything from product management to growth, culture to sales and everything in between. Rocketship.fm has been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, Inc, Entrepreneur and many more business publications as a top business podcast year after year.

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Blockchain today

By now you’ve heard all the buzz, and criticism, of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.The constant fluctuations of the Bitcoin market. One minute it’s going to the moon, the next it’s tanking and will never come back.This isn’t a story all about Bitcoin, because as Bitcoin and it’s siblings Litecoin, Etherium and the thousands of other alt-coins that have come and gone over the years, the underlying technology, Blockchain, is becoming the real star of the show with Banks and Financial institutions around the world researching how they can best use this technology.But the ecosystem itself is still a bit odd. What Satoshi Nakomoto handed over the to the world of Cryptographic Cyberpunks in 2009, 10 years later has become a booming, albeit volatile, industry.There’s an incredible story going on right now in Cleveland. But today on the show we’re going to take you behind some of the companies, governments, and communities elsewhere… all focused on Bitcoin and Blockchain technology.

Blockchain today

2019-03-2100:19:19

Welcome to Blockland

Something is happening in Cleveland, Ohio. A movement, unlike anything it's seen before, has taken over the city. Cleveland’s top business leaders, civic leaders, politicians and lawmakers, people running educational institutions have all dedicated to making Cleveland the Blockchain Capital of the world. And this initiative, as strange as it may sound, is led by none other than a local car salesman, Bernie Moreno. On season six of Rocketship.fm, we're taking you behind the scenes of a movement that's happening inside the civic buildings all over Cleveland, a movement to reposition this blue-collar city into a global technology center. Season six is the story of Blockland.

Welcome to Blockland

2019-03-1400:16:42

Blockland: Season 6 Trailer

Something is happening in Cleveland, Ohio. A movement, unlike anything it's seen before, has taken over the city. Cleveland’s top business leaders, civic leaders, politicians and lawmakers, people running educational institutions have all dedicated to making Cleveland the Blockchain Capital of the world. And this initiative, as strange as it may sound, is led by none other than a local car salesman, Bernie Moreno. On season six of Rocketship.fm, we're taking you behind the scenes of a movement that's happening inside the civic buildings all over Cleveland, a movement to reposition this blue-collar city into a global technology center. Season six is the story of Blockland.

Blockland: Season 6 Trailer

2019-03-1300:00:45

Building a killer product team

One of the most import roles as a product owner is building the right product team. In part two of this two-part mini-series, we take a look at what high performing product managers and product leaders are doing inside of their organizations to manage and lead a high-performing product team.In this episode, we dive into the strategies that managers use to lead their teams successfully. It's not easy and we're not all Steve Jobs (although most of us think we are from time to time) so what do high performing managers from Facebook and Box do? That's the question we answer in this episode. Featuring Alison Go, PM at Facebook, Austin Bales, Director of Product Design at Facebook, Sam Goertler PM at Kickstarter, Ty Ahmad-Taylor, VP of Product Marketing at Facebook, Jeetu Patel, Chief Product Officer & Chief Strategy Officer at Box, & Sebastian Speier, Director of Design at Nike.

Building a killer product team

2019-03-0700:26:251

Interview: Jeetu Patel of Box on leadership and strategy in the new age of enterprise product

We welcome Jeetu Patel, the Chief Product Officer, and Chief Strategy officer at Box to the show today. He leads the company's overall product and platform strategy, driving Box's long-term roadmap and vision for cloud content management in the enterprise.Have you ever wondered how companies like Box approach emerging technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence? Well, today is the day you find out.He also gives amazing advice on building effective product teams, the magical number for the size of a product team, when and how you should decide to build a new feature and how Box guards against disruptors.

Interview: Jeetu Patel of Box on leadership and strategy in the new age of enterprise product

2019-03-0100:29:17

Interview: Teresa Torres of Product Talk on Continuous Discovery

Teresa Torres helps digital product teams adopt continuous product discovery practices including a regular cadence of customer interviews, rapid prototyping, and assumption testing. She emphasizes strong critical thinking a strong connection between what the teams are learning in their research activities with the product decisions that they are making.Mike Belsito interviews her today to discuss how teams can begin practicing continuous discovery, how to get buy-in from management and why the best product teams are talking to their customers every week (if not every day).

Interview: Teresa Torres of Product Talk on Continuous Discovery

2019-02-2200:25:37

Disruption vs Innovation

It seems like all we hear about today is disruption, disruption, disruption. Everybody is disrupting something -- from Transportation to Hospitality -- all anyone wants to do is blow everything up.So what is the difference between Disruption and Innovation? Well, Disruptors are innovators, but not all innovators are disruptors.Disruption and Innovation are often different sides of the same coin. Today we explore how companies are approaching innovation and disruption in the Healthcare industry. We talk with Joshua Landry of Figure1 and Sasha Bhatia, the Director of Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care in Toronto.

Disruption vs Innovation

2019-02-1500:26:56

Why do you love the products you love?

Love isn’t rational. It doesn’t always make sense. But when love is in the air, nothing can come between you and a public tweet. Today we talk to people who’ve professed their love, publicly, for products they love. We discuss why they love the products they love, and what about these companies and brands gets them so excited.We dove into tech brands like Slack and Intercom as well as roll-on deodorant brand Phresh and personal fashion brand Stitch Fix.Huge thanks to our guests today: Lindsey Smith: https://twitter.com/LindseySmithHHCJordi Romero: https://twitter.com/jordiromeroNatalie Gerke: https://twitter.com/NgerkeAlys Gagnon: https://twitter.com/AlysJ

Why do you love the products you love?

2019-02-0700:28:20

Storytelling for Product People

You may be tired of writing product stories and pitching product ideas that fall flat. Here we break down how to tell compelling product stories by understanding the basic of storytelling itself. Jack and beanstalk may not be part of your everyday standups, but its the perfect way to breakdown the essential elements of a story. From screenwriter Michael Jamin to Product Manager and former Technical Director at Pixar, Josh Anon, we show you how you can use basic story writing techniques to better convey product ideas, initiatives, and marketing.

Storytelling for Product People

2019-01-3100:21:162

Meetings Suck

We take a deep dive into how to prepare for and run better meetings, and some tricks to make sure that what was discussed at the meeting, actually gets done. We'll hear from Mamie Kanfer Stewart of Meeteor, Charlie O'Donnell of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Cameron Herold the author of Meetings Suck and Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK

Meetings Suck

2019-01-2400:19:25

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Sai Chavali

love season 5! hope I can make it to Industry Collective one of these years. Cant imagine the crazy amount of work this project that you've released as Season 5!

Oct 22nd

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