Product management

Jul 09, 2026

See How Customers Actually Use Your Product

Founders often make the mistake of relying on aggregate user metrics like DAU, which obscure how individuals truly use a product. This video introduces the 'dot plot,' a powerful visualization tool mapping individual user activity over time. It reveals hidden patterns, helps identify retention issues, and pinpoints features driving engagement, offering deeper insights than traditional metrics and proving invaluable for both B2C and B2B product health analysis.

Jun 29, 2026

You Can't Prompt the Room: The Last Skill AI Won't Replace - Balázs Horváth, VisualLabs

AI has shifted the software development bottleneck from coding to defining *what* to build. This talk emphasizes the critical role of human skills in eliciting true requirements and understanding business value, detailing practical tools like story mapping, a 4-question value framework, and the VAD thinking path to ensure valuable AI-driven solutions are built, focusing on impact over mere feature delivery.

Jun 28, 2026

OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino

Andrew Ambrosino, Product and Engineering Lead for the Codex app at OpenAI, details how AI is transforming product development, shifting focus from implementation to curation and the crucial role of "taste." He discusses AI's current limitations in design, the evolving nature of product roles, and OpenAI's "zone defense" approach to product management. Ambrosino shares his personal workflow with Codex and outlines the vision for it as an intelligent "home base" that orchestrates work across various applications, exemplified by a story of Codex building a Premiere Pro extension.

Jun 25, 2026

Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It

Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, discusses the product philosophy behind "Life at the Speed of Play," focusing on consumer innovation in the AI age. He introduces the "Proven, Better, New" framework, shares insights on founder mode, and predicts a future where "intelligence on tap" driven by free AI compute will unlock unprecedented opportunities for new "internet treasures," despite current investor skepticism in the consumer space.

May 20, 2026

The Latency Goldilocks Zone Explained

Rafael Borger and Daniel Wolbert from iFood discuss the engineering and product strategy behind ILO-Agent, their conversational AI for 200 million users. They cover hyper-personalized recommendation systems, the "Latency Goldilocks Zone" where AI responses can be too fast for users to trust, and the architectural challenges of building multi-channel agents for text and voice.

May 02, 2026

Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Notion)

Max Schoening, Head of Product at Notion, discusses how AI is reshaping software development. He argues that agency—the drive to effect change—is now more critical than specific skills, as AI makes the first 10% of any project 'free'. Schoening introduces his 'tiny core' theory for great products, debates the 'SaaSpocalypse', and emphasizes the growing importance of software quality and taste in an era of exploding software quantity.