Product Nation

Ilan chats with us about Exceed.ai, a platform that helps marketing and sales teams drive more pipeline from email and website visitors. The Exceed AI Assistant works 24/7/365 alongside humans to ensures every lead is followed up with, nurtured, and qualified using two-way email conversations. When a lead is qualified and ready to talk to a human the assistant will go ahead and book a meeting directly on your rep’s calendar.\r\n\nIlan compares his vision for nurturing touch points early on, when there\'s potentially just a light interest in a product, all the way through to conversion. He contrasts a gap in the market that chatbots alone are not addressing. Along the way he throws in pearls of wisdom about innovative ways to gain more leads. At the end he creates a brand new opportunity in less than a minute, showing a phenomenal level of creativity and agility of thought. Come hear from a polished executive in action.\r\n

Ophir establishes the importance of infrastructure, an aspect that he learned early on having lived his school town's transformation, and discusses developments in robotics, AR, and the coming IoT revolution

Deep dive into how a perfect storm brews for Uri's launch of Ride Vision in an overlooked market for rider assistance and motorbike accident prevention using computer vision and AI. Pricing, positioning, GTM, market segmentation, you're bound to find something interesting in this remarkable episode of a market about to get tapped big time. To reach Uri: uri.lavi@ride.vision

Sizzling conversation with Gadi about conversation AI tech, finding market fit, focusing on core tech and carving out the target audience, and where this is going in five to 10 years

We chat with Iddo from his Tel Aviv apartment about his experience with startups in Germany and Israel, cultural differences, and how he leads product at Zebra. Iddo focuses the conversation on human-AI collaboration which is at the core of the work he does at Zebra. Notably he discusses how he brings value to clients with different market dynamics in the US, the UK, and Germany.

Quantum computing is here! Nir works for the office of the CTO at AMAT where he directs a Technology and Business team exploring new opportunities in Quantum Technology and manages a portfolio of the group’s programs. In this episode, Nir shares about the tech that's going to be ubiquitous in 5-10 years and shares how accessible it already is to everyone today.

An exceptional recounting of a founder's grit on the journey to finding product-market fit at Obligo. Omri chats about his humble beginnings in a small market in Israel, switching gears to a larger international market in London, then switching gears one more time and finding his perfect fit out of Manhattan and the US market while solving the pain around apartment rental security deposits.

We have an in depth conversation with Yuval about his background that led to his founding of riseup. And about processes that lead to excellent product management outcomes throughout the organization. Favorite quotes: " And I'll give you an example. We think about the discoveries, basically the process of creating new value from zero to one.  We consider it like a pull request. So when a squad comes up with a new idea, they post it on a workplace. We use it over here. They post it, as a pull request. So everybody can comment on what they've been discovering so they can get fantastic feedback and they have the responsibility to bring in the right people to the conversation in order to get the feedback". And on compassionate and impact capitalism: "Impact is measurable nowadays, so you will be able to account for positive impact, social impact in the future as a way to price a company in the stock exchange".

Eilon chats with us about his evolution to building products that people truly love. He takes us through his journey to where Gong.io is today valued at $2B+, from its humble beginnings in 2015. How he hires for the best. And his relentless quest for optimizing for end user experience by dog fooding and using his product in unconventional ways before shipping features to new segments. At the very end he invents a new product in under a minute.

Oren has a paved a phenomenal career in product management and shares from his toolkit in this amazing episode about PM strategy, how to pick a goal for your team, how simplify and choose metrics, how to hire the best, and he shares the future he sees for the travel industry. This is an episode you'll want to listen to a few times! Please share with your colleagues and don't forget to subscribe to Product Nation from your favorite podcast player!

Mickey has built and sold two companies in a relatively short amount of time, to both Marketo and Gainsight, creating phenomenal value to his shareholders. Come hear from this product management pro about iterating fast to reach product market fit, then drive growth. Mickey also ties his superior product management skills to traveling the world over. You will have to listen to find out how :)

We chat with Noa about the importance of weaving strategy into the product management role. Noa is based in Israel from where she runs a bootcamp for Chief Product Officers - yep you read that right, a bootcamp for product management execs! Noa brings a wealth of experience in product management that goes all the way back to her early days as developer and team lead, when she made the leap. A most inspirational conversation you don't want to miss. Noa's blog: https://ganotnoa.com/ CPO Bootcamp: https://cpobootcamp.com/ PS: The word Taarikhe is thought to have semitic origins (from the root y.r.kh, same root as that used in the Hebrew word for moon, yare'ach) and made its way into Persian rather than the other way around as mistakenly suggested early in the podcast 

Elad shares about his career trajectory as product manager at Amazon, gives examples of how its leadership principles shape his work, and at the end shares a feature he'd like seen as a way for adding value into battered post corona mom and pop services.  Join in on the lively conversation!

Aviad chats with us about his journey into insurtech, being the first employee at a Silicon Valley startup gone unicorn, how he built the product management team and at what point to hire additional PMs and expand the product management team, and being design centric. Towards the end we get a glimpse into his creativity in a startup he creates from scratch in a matter of minutes and shares how to reach him. If you're a founder, a PM, a developer, a CTO or engineering manager, a designer, CEO, or any of role that touches product, please subscribe to Product Nation in your favorite podcast player such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Castro, etc. by searching for "Product Nation" inside your podcast app, and tune in to 30 minutes of weekly learning. Ofer Baharav & Nir Paz

We chat with Lior about cutting edge machine learning use cases in product, giving us a glimpse into not only the future, but more importantly, use cases that solve real problems in the market at a fraction of the old cost. Come learn from the best in this thought provoking episode on ML meets GTM.

We chat with Na'ama about pivoting a company in a rapidly changing market post Covid while she leads to product market fit. The conversation runs like a classical MBA Harvard Business Case to the drumbeat of a very accomplished, agile, humble and empathetic product manager and CEO. Come learn from the best, and if you're in the Bay Area and shop for groceries online, you're in for a treat: download the Cheetah app from https://www.gocheetah.com/ and shop away, same products, often much more affordable than Costco. Special VIP code to those that get to the end.

If you haven't really dug into cloud-enabled Physical Security Information Management Systems (PSIM) - you're about to! Tal Bar Or delivers like a boss, and tells it like 007. Tal tells the story of how he built Octopus by listening to customer's needs to efficiently manage all physical security and cyber security threats from one holistic system with a smart command and control engine.

Reneta walks us through a zero to one scenario with the startup she founded, Foodom, all the way from researching to testing to finding a market fit. By the time you're done hearing her story, you'll have clarity for how she isolates the problem, and addresses it with a thrilling solution you'll be wanting try out for yourself.

We have a LIVELY discussion with Lior who is founder, CTO and head of Product at logistic platform Bringg (for everyone outside of Amazon). Lior has a very special take on how to do product with the least amount of waste: They're just-in-time for paid features only basically. Fascinating and different take, and a complete do-away with roadmaps. Enjoy!

We chat with Eran about the many iterations he takes in the search for product-market fit, one of the toughest challenges product managers solve for, especially in a startup or entity that's going from 0-1. Listen attentively to uncover some not-so-obvious gems in his discovery process.