Podcasts for Product Builders

Get nuanced takes on AI's impact across industries from the Every media collective. Thoughtful analysis that goes beyond the hype cycle to examine real implications for work, creativity, and society.

Get hands-on tactical advice from leaders building at companies like Anthropic, Figma, and Linear. Peter regularly features live demos of AI tools and prototyping sessions, showing you exactly how product leaders are shipping features in days instead of months. Perfect for learning how to integrate AI agents, improve your AI evaluation workflows, and adopt the latest AI-native product development practices.

Nilay asks the hard questions about organizational structure, decision-making frameworks, and the tradeoffs big tech companies face. His signature question—'How do you make decisions?'—reveals how companies actually operate behind the PR. Perfect for understanding how organizations like Meta, Google, and GitHub are adapting their structures for the AI era.

Prepare for marathon intellectual conversations with some of the sharpest minds in tech and AI. Dwarkesh asks questions that assume deep context and goes several levels deeper than typical interviews. Great for understanding the big picture and thinking through second-order effects of AI advancement.

Focus specifically on generative AI use cases and the founders building in this space. Learn from early movers in text, image, video, and code generation about what's working, what technical challenges they're solving, and where the opportunities lie. Great for understanding the quickly evolving generative AI landscape.

Learn from leaders at companies like Snowflake, Dropbox, Grammarly, and ElevenLabs about the specific tactics they used to scale from startup to market leader. The focus on go-to-market strategies, sales processes, and building repeatable systems helps you understand how to take products from early adoption to mass market—particularly relevant as AI tools move mainstream.

Cut through the hype with concrete use cases. Learn how teams are actually using AI day-to-day—what works, what doesn't, and what lessons they've learned. Perfect for understanding the practical reality of building with AI versus the aspirational marketing.

Get the playbooks that First Round's portfolio companies (Uber, Notion, Looker, Roblox) actually used to scale. Brett goes deep on tactical frameworks for hiring executives, building culture, and making the transition from founder-mode to scaled-company operations. Essential for builders navigating hypergrowth and organizational complexity.

Get into the weeds of AI engineering—from choosing the right model to optimizing inference, managing costs, and building reliable AI systems. This is for builders who need to understand the technical tradeoffs and best practices for shipping AI features that actually work in production.

Get battle-tested frameworks from product leaders at Airbnb, Stripe, Meta, Ramp, and hundreds more companies. Lenny consistently gets guests to share their actual playbooks—from PLG strategies to pricing models to org structures. Each episode is designed to give you something you can implement immediately. The AI episodes feature hands-on demos and practical implementation advice you won't find elsewhere.

Go deep with AI pioneers like Demis Hassabis, Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, and Anthropic's leadership. Lex asks the questions that matter for long-term thinking—not just how to build AI products, but where AI is headed, what it means for humanity, and how to think about AGI timelines. These 2-3 hour conversations provide the context and first-principles thinking you need to make better strategic bets.

Two of the savviest AI investors interview the people actually building frontier models and AI companies. Guests include teams from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and rising AI startups. You'll get early signals on what's working, where research is headed, and which markets are ripe for disruption. Essential for staying ahead of the curve and understanding where to place your bets in AI.

In a crowded AI tools market, positioning is your competitive advantage. April's frameworks help you articulate what makes your product different, identify your best customers, and craft messaging that actually resonates. Critical for anyone launching AI features or products who needs to cut through the noise and communicate value clearly.

Focus specifically on the growth side of product development—acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization strategies that turn good products into businesses.

Addresses the messy human problems behind product failures that technical solutions can't fix. Learn how to coach product sense, handle imposter syndrome, navigate organizational politics, and build trust across teams. Essential for anyone dealing with the cultural transformation required to build truly empowered, AI-enabled product teams.

Move beyond feature factories to outcome-driven product development. Melissa's frameworks help you shift from output to impact, establish product operations, and influence organizational systems. Her 'Dear Melissa' segments directly answer real product management questions, and guest episodes feature CPOs from companies like Wealthfront, U.S. Bank, and Carta sharing how they scale product at enterprise level.

Understand how one of the most successful design platforms is thinking about AI's role in creativity. Cameron brings a designer's perspective to AI—focusing on human creativity, augmentation vs automation, and how AI changes the creative process. Essential for anyone building creative tools or thinking about AI's impact on design workflows.

Get the unvarnished truth about engineering culture, compensation, and career progression from someone who's been there. Gergely breaks down how top tech companies actually work, what makes senior engineers effective, and how to navigate the politics and processes of software development. Critical for understanding the engineering side of building AI products.

Tap into the global Mind the Product community's collective wisdom on real product challenges. Episodes cover everything from pricing strategy and cross-functional collaboration to working with AI and balancing art with science in product decisions. Great for practitioners who want actionable frameworks from peers actually doing the work.

Uncover the raw truth behind billion-dollar companies from founders who actually built them. The insider access to YC's network means you hear stories that never make it to the press—the pivots, near-death moments, and founder dynamics that determine success. Invaluable for understanding what actually matters when building companies at scale.

Develop pattern recognition for spotting opportunities in emerging markets. Greg breaks down business models, market dynamics, and execution strategies for validated ideas you could actually build. Great for inspiring new AI product ideas and understanding what makes certain opportunities more valuable than others.

Understand how top investors think about market timing, founder qualities, and what makes a billion-dollar company. Harry's daily cadence means you're constantly learning from the best capital allocators and company builders. The show's focus on AI investing helps you understand what VCs are looking for in AI companies and which sectors are heating up.

Bridge the gap between research and production. Sam dives deep into technical implementations, model architectures, and deployment strategies with ML engineers and researchers. Perfect for technical practitioners who want to understand how cutting-edge research translates to real-world applications.

Stay current with daily updates on the fast-moving startup and AI landscape. Jason's 1,200+ episodes of pattern recognition help you spot trends early, understand market dynamics, and learn from both successes and failures. The show frequently features live product demos and fundraising insights that help you understand what investors are looking for in AI-native companies.

Access the playbook from the world's most successful startup accelerator. YC has funded over 5,000 companies and has pattern-matched success better than anyone. Their advice on finding PMF, talking to users, and iterating quickly is timeless, while their AI-specific content helps you navigate the current wave.