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30 Sep 2026 · 31 min

HP President on Replacing Middle Management and Cutting Tickets 40% with AI Agents | Faisal Masud | E314

HP is best known for hardware and printers. Faisal Masud is turning it into a software and AI company, and he thinks the era of stacked management layers is ending. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos (CEO at Product School) sits down with Faisal Masud, SVP and President of Worldwide Digital Services at HP, for a candid conversation about building enterprise AI, and what it does to how companies are actually run. Faisal has a rare vantage point: two decades across Amazon, eBay, Gr...

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   25 Sep 2026 · 31 min

   Toast VP of Product on Building Agents Into Pre-AI SaaS; Shipping AI Into a 14-Year-Old Platform and Building for the Real Economy

   Toast was built long before generative AI existed. So how do you weave AI agents into a platform that thousands of restaurants already run their business on, without breaking the thing that works? In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos (CEO at Product School) sits down with Maggie Crowley, VP of Product at Toast, to unpack what it actually takes to build AI into mature, pre-AI SaaS. Maggie is a former Olympic speed skater (fifth at the 2006 Winter Olympics) turned product leader, wit...

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   16 Sep 2026 · 26 min

   Hinge CPTO on Building an App Designed to Be Deleted, Merging the CPO and CTO Roles, Chasing $1B in Revenue Without Chasing Engagement | Ben Celebicic | E312

   Most apps optimize for time on screen. Hinge optimizes for you leaving. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos (CEO at Product School) sits down with Ben Celebicic, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Hinge, the dating app "designed to be deleted," to unpack how you build a product whose North Star is great dates, not engagement, and still chase a billion dollars in revenue. Ben has been at Hinge for 11 years, since the 2015 relaunch, and recently became one of a growing number o...

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   9 Sep 2026 · 32 min

   Bolt CEO on Turning AI Prototypes Into Production Code Engineers Trust, the Story Behind a 5M-to-20M ARR Ramp in Two Months | Eric Simons | E311

   One month before Bolt exploded, Eric Simons was preparing to wind the company down. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos (CEO at Product School) sits down with Eric Simons, CEO of Bolt, to tell the story behind one of the fastest revenue ramps software has ever seen, and what he learned building toward it for seven years first. Eric is a high-school dropout who approaches life from first principles and treats endurance sports as training for the pain of building a company. He and C...

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   2 Sep 2026 · 26 min

   Anthropic Member of Technical Staff on Leading Forward-Deployed Engineers, Turning Down 2x Pay, and Why Leaders Are Becoming ICs Again | Amandeep Khurana | E310

   What do you do after you've founded a company, sold it to Databricks, and could coast? Amandeep Khurana went back to being hands-on. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia (CEO at Product School) talks with Amandeep Khurana, now on Anthropic's go-to-market team, about a career built on deliberately choosing the harder path. Amandeep traces the whole arc: training as an engineer, moving to the Valley to go customer-facing at Cloudera, catching the company-bui...

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   26 Aug 2026 · 32 min

   Mural CPO on How to Put AI in Multi-Player Mode for Your Team; Why AI Made Work Lonelier, Not Better | Elaina O'Mahoney

   Visual collaboration is missing from the AI era. That's the provocation Elaina O'Mahoney, Chief Product Officer at Mural, brings to this episode of The Product Podcast with Carlos (CEO at Product School). We spend all day alone in our tools, typing or talking to an LLM, and when it's time to collaborate we drop words into a doc instead of thinking together visually. Elaina makes the case that AI has quietly turned work into "solo-player mode," and that the teams who win next will be the ones ...

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