In this episode Andrew is joined by Will Smith, co-founder of Tred, the green business current account with sustainability at it’s heart.Tred was Founded 4 years ago by Will and his business partner Pete.Andrew talks to Will about Tred’s journey, the recent launch of their business account, and what makes Tred special compared to bigger high street banks. Some of the high street banks practices around fossil fuels will shock you!In his free time, when he has it, Will is a keen runner an...
In this episode we're talking about the future of software development - Automated Agile.Paul Glover from Burendo joins Andrew to talk about how they are collaborating to utilise AI in their delivery life-cycle to automate the process. Still at early stages they've seen some great results in driving efficiencies using tools such as Claude from Anthropic. Burendo are an Agile delivery and product development consultancy, and Paul is a Principal Consultant in their team.00:00 Introduc...
In this episode of byProduct live Andrew is joined by Saumya Bhatt.Saumya is Global Product Design Team Manager at InPost, the global logistics company offering courier and parcel lockers. InPost has grown phenomenally over the last few years and their lockers are everywhere!Previous to InPost Saumya was Product Design Manager at Wayfair, the global furniture ecommerce company and started her earlier career at Sunguard in the financial services sector.We talk to Saumya about legacy chan...
In this episode I talk with George Fairhall, founder of award winning start-up, WAC. WAC gives more control to hourly paid workers, and combats issues such as underpayment which is a big problem in hourly paid jobs which are often undertaken by younger people.George founded the business 4 years ago and has been on a journey from then, made all the more interesting by the fact George is non-technical founder.I talk to George about her journey as a non technical founder, the challenges she...
This episode of byProduct Live is with Krystle Kocik.Krystle is the Chief Product & Experience Officer for PEXA in the UK. PEXA are a global technology business in the home buying space.Krystle and her team are accountable for delivering a property completions platform that will transform the mortgage/re-mortgage space.Krystle has already delivered the product in Australia where they now own a 90% market share We discuss the challenges of modernising a truly old-school/legacy i...
Todays guest is Igor Ranc - product leader and curator of Handpicked BerlinIgor’s early career included roles at Daimler Financial Services and Mercedes-Benz Bank and in his most recent position Igor was Senior Technical Product Manager in the AI product team at Insurtech platform Wefox. I talk to Igor about his thoughts on AI and it’s application in products, and considering the different confidence levels in AI of different types of users.What started as a side project and a hobby, Ig...
Rory Woodbridge is a product marketing expert. His early career was formed at Google and YouTube, and his last in house role was with hypergrowth FinTech Pleo.Rory now works on a freelance basis providing his product marketing expertise to different companies.Rory has a great substack - check it out https://productmarketer.substack.com/We discuss the value product marketing brings and how it is best utilised in product orgs.01:00 Overview of Product Marketing and its Responsibilities04:...
In this episode of byProduct Live we are joined by Abdo Wahba, CPO at Offerista.Abdo is an expert in the world of presentations and has over 1300 hours training and coaching CEOs, product leaders and consultants in the art of presenting effectively.In our discussion we talk about the 3 biggest blunders most people make when preparing presentations, to help you be more effective. We think about presenting standing up on stage or in front of your team, but the techniques Abdo talks throug...
This week on byProduct Live I am joined by Youssef Hounat, VP of Product at Amsterdam based DataSnipper. DataSnipper recently became a tech unicorn with a value in excess of €1 billion in their latest funding round.Our talk is focussed on the hype around AI, and why the focus needs to be using AI to add user value, not because its the latest and greatest tech innovation. We also ventured into Youssef's growth as a product leader and his move from a non-product/tech role and why th...
In this episode of byProduct Live we are joined by Rhiannon White. Rhiannon is CPO at Clue, the number 1 recommended period & cycle tracking app. Previous to this she held leadership roles at Shazam in Silicon Valley, and the BBC.Our talk focusses on the journey Rhiannon has been on to becoming an effective product leader. We discuss the challenges and mistakes she made early in her career, and the lightbulb moment that changed everything for her.Rhiannon is very open and...
For todays episode of byProduct Live we’re joined by Guven Soydan. In this episode he gives an overview of how he thinks Product Managers can onboard themselves more effectively when starting a new role.While we focus on Product Managers, the ideas and suggestions Guven gives will work across many disciplines and industries.Guven is currently Head of Product at Zalando, for their marketing services team. In this role Guven and his teams are shipping products that helps Zalando’s pa...
This episode of byProduct Live is with Macs Dickinson, Lead Engineering Manager at LHV.LHV are an Estonian based FinTech who’s platform you have probably used, but just don’t know it. Their tech powers platforms such as CurrencyCloud, Wise and Coinbase. In the UK they have established a new bank, and Macs head up their engineering teams. His teams underpin LHV’s banking operations which recently included a major migration to a new platform.This platform migration will form th...
In today's episode of byProduct Live we are talking with Ilya Sakharov.Ilya is CTO at Codility, the leading platform for assessing and advancing technical skills.Previous to Codility Ilya was Director of Engineering at Getir, the ultra-fast grocery delivery platform, and HelloFresh.Ilya has wide experience scaling engineering teams for high-growth productsToday we will be discussing the role of the CTO - It’s ideal positioning in the C-suite of a tech/product company and some of the less obvi...
For this episode we are joined by Darryl Feldman to discuss a topic that’s super relevant in the challenging times we live (climate change, healthcare etc).Todays discussion will be around Building Products withPurpose. Darryl talks about his personal experiences that drive his desire tobuild products with purpose. We’ll take a dive into the why, what and how of creatingproducts that have the potential to make a positive impact in the world. Darryl has worked in a number of pro...
Todays guest is Sayan Maiti. Sayan is Head of Marketplace and Driver App at FreeNow, the mobility super app experienced rapid growth across Europe.Sayan has extensive experience across marketplace and on demand apps in the driving/transportation space. He was previously Director of Product Management at Sixt and Head of Product at Swiggy. Sayan has worked on a number of products from idea stage, and that is the subject we will be discussing in todays episode of byProduct Liv...
Todays episode of byproduct Live covers a topic all leaders like to think they know about and are successful with, but sadly often are not.It’s the secret sauce to success across any teams, and really is the difference between good and great. Today we are discussing Team Empowerment.Joining me is Jakob Thomas. Jakob is CPO at &Make. &Make are a group of entrepreneurs and venture builders who support companies and their teams to design, validate and build digital prod...
Todays episode of I am delighted to be joined by the Queen of product ops and super active tech community supporter, Antonia Landi. Antonia is a big advocate of tech communities both as an organiser, speaker and attendee. Antonia has been a member of our byProduct community pretty much since we started and has been a great supporter. She is also active in a number of other product communities in berlin and beyond01:33 The Importance of Online Communities05:14 Authenticit...
Todays episode of byProduct Live is with Armin Krahl, VP of Digital Product at thermondo, Germany's oldest climatetech business. Armin is an expert in scaling digital products having worked at Wayfair, Delivery Hero and foodpanda.In this episode Armin discusses operating systems in product management.Today we will be unpicking operating systems in product management. How to manage those systems, why its fun, but also understanding there will be some mistakes on the way.01:31 - Defi...
Scott gives a great overview of Emotionless Prioritization along with a nice practical tip using quadrant diagrams to help make decisions.Prioritization without the emotion, but all the passion needed to build great products!Scott Heyhoe is an experienced CPO who has worked across different domains in B2B and B2C and is currently building a new compliance checking platform, Compli, at Talent Clouds01:34 - Importance of Prioritization03:55 - Disseminating Priorities05:02 - Removing Emotion fro...
In this episode I talk with Lilly Dobreva about a topic that doesn’t seem to be discussed nearly enough – ethics in product and product management.Ethics should be the top of the agenda when it comes to building SaaS products, but the conflict with making profit / revenue becomes a real challenge. Just look at some of the biggest tech companies in the world and their approach!This is a topic that definitely needs as much discussion as possible.01:36 – Current State of Ethics in Product Develo...