Product Leader's Journey

Conversations with senior product executives about building successful products, scaling business growth and leading inspired teams!

Product Leader's Journey is a technology podcast hosted by Rahul Abhyankar, with 26 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Rahul Abhyankar hosts Product Leader's Journey, a technology show with 26 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  Ritu Bhargava, xPresident & CPO, SAP CX/CRM - Build "OrgIQ", Manage Up and Across

  Feb 20, 202539 minS4

  <p>Ritu Bhargava is xPresident and Chief Product Officer of SAP Customer Experience (CX/CRM) & Consumer Industries. Prior to that she was SVP of Software Engineering at Salesforce for Sales Cloud (CRM) and held various engineering leadership roles at Oracle. Ritu is a sought-after advisor, investor and has also served as a Board Member at Qualtrics.   </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>In this conversation, Ritu is disarmingly honest and candid as she narrates stories about her experiences rising up in the organization, balancing getting visibility and being a team player, and learning from people six levels down in...

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  Michael Margolis, CEO Storied, Author Story 10X - Building Narrative, Influencing at Scale

  Feb 7, 202547 minS4

  <p>In this engaging conversation,Michael Margolis, CEO of Storied and Author of Story 10X, shares his unique journey to storytelling expert, emphasizing the importance of narrative in leadership and product management. Michael is a thought provoking storyteller, who has tranied product, data and Go to Market teams at companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, NASA, SAP, Salesforce, Uber .. the list goes on. He is also the author two books, Story 10X Turning the Impossible into the Inevitable and Believe Me, a storytelling manifesto for innovators and change-makers. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode he discusses the distinction b...

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  Fred Koopmans, Chief Product Officer, Big Panda - From QA engineer to CPO, riding tech waves with a "reverse job description"

  Jan 16, 202546 minS4

  <p>Fred Koopmans is Chief Product Officer at BigPanda, an AIOps company. He is someone who has managed to ride the tech waves being at the right place at the right time - mobile video optimization on wireless networks, cloud, data platforms, open source, and now AI. Prior to BigPanda, Fred was SVP of Product Management at Cloudera, and Sr. Director Product Management at Citrix, and in engineering roles at Bytemobile.</p> <p>In this episode, Fred shares his approach of writing a reverse job description that tells recruiters exactly what he is looking for. Here are some key highlights...

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  Elizabeth Samara-Rubio, Chief Business Officer, SiMa.ai - Building Business Case for Generative AI

  Dec 13, 202445 minS4

  <p>My guest in this episode is Elizabeth Samara-Rubio, Chief Business Officer of SiMa.ai, which offers MLSOC and platform for Edge AI, and one of the ten hottest semiconductor startups of 2024. In our conversation, we dive into how to help customers build business cases for GenAI, use cases and business models. In her previous role, Elizabeth led GTM and business development at Amazon for the worldwide AI specialist organization in AWS. So we talk about how Amazon’s famous Working Backwards methodology applied to go-to-market activities. Elizabeth started her career at HP as a product manager in the Hardware Se...

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  Episode #7

  Luke Freiler, CEO Centercode - Creating a market category, value-based pricing, ROI analysis

  Nov 18, 202438 minS3

  <p>In this episode, Luke Freiler, CEO of Centercode, which provides user testing solutions to leading tech companies. Luke shares his journey from hardware engineering to founding a company that revolutionizes product testing. He discusses the importance of continuous user testing, the shift from waterfall to agile methodologies, and how Centercode has established itself in a new market category. Luke emphasizes the significance of community building, demonstrating value through metrics, and the evolution of pricing strategies. He also explores the impact of generative AI on product testing and shares valuable leadership lessons learned throughout his entrepreneurial journey. Luke is a...

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