Rocketship.fm

The Final Episode of Rocketship.FM (for now)

John Madden: The Unexpected Product Mind Behind a $4 Billion Franchise -- Looking Back

Swing and a Miss: The Curious Case of the Mickey Mantle NFT -- Looking Back

The Psychology of Failure: Why It Haunts Us & How to Move Forward -- Looking Back

Meta’s ‘Low Performer’ Purge: Pink Slips, Receipts, and the Stack-Ranking Revival

Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman: The AI Rivalry Shaping the Future

AI’s Sputnik Moment? How DeepSeek is Shaking Up the AI Race

OpenAI’s 2025 Roadmap: Smarter AI, Agents, and… Humanoid Robots?

Project Stargate: The $500 Billion AI Bet Today's Tech Titans are Taking

TikTok’s Tipping Point: The Ban, the Backlash, and the Battle Ahead

Meta’s Bold Move: The End of Content Moderation as We Know It

Delight: Building Emotional Connections in Products with Nesrine Changuel

2025 Tech Predictions: AI, Jobs, and the Future of Social Media

Defining Moments: The Top Stories In Tech That Defined 2024

From Individual Contributor to Manager: Mastering the Leap with Spotify's Melika Hope

Foundations of Product Management: Navigating the Early Challenges

Impact-First Product Teams: Aligning Goals with Business Success

Mastering the Product Sales Pitch with April Dunford: A Primer for Product People

Mastering SaaS Pricing: A deep dive with Bill Wilson of Pace Pricing

Understanding Product Operations with Jenny Wanger: From Strategy to Best Practices

Returning to the Rocketship: Michael Sacca's Vision for Leadpages

Building an AI Storytelling Powerhouse: The Origin Story of Narratize

Product Discovery in the Real World: Lessons from The New York Times, Citi, and LinkedIn

Leveling Up: How Product Collective's Pendo Acquisition Amplifies the Product Community

The Rise of the Fractional CPO: Scaling Product Leadership in Early-Stage Startups

AI Meets Product Management: Insights from INDUSTRY: The Product Conference

The Most Common Product Strategy Mistakes (And How To Avoid Them)

Going Beyond Usage Metrics to Measure Real Product Impact

Mastering Internal Partnerships: The Hidden Skill of Great Product Managers

The Findaway Journey: From Startup to Spotify Acquisition

Superhuman's AI Revolution: How Superhuman Transformed Email with Artificial Intelligence

Never Search Alone: Mastering your Product Job Hunt in 2024

Mastering Stakeholder Management as a Product Manager / Product Leader

From Meta to Founder: Navigating Product Management Across Tech Landscapes

Pay Once, Own Forever: How Jason Fried and 37 Signals is Challenging SaaS with the 'Once' Model

The Great CrowdStrike Crash of 2024: Lessons from a Digital Disaster

The Art of Influencing Without Authority (And Wisdom from Ancient Eastern Sages)

Move Fast and Build AI -- The AI Story of Amplitude As Told By Its CPO

Proactively Advancing Your Product Management Career

The 2024 Summer Edition of Shopify - A Brand New Product Launch

Getting Started with Jobs-to-be-Done: Understanding the Lingo, Interviewing Customers, and more

Timeless Advice for Product Managers Working in Tech

The Origin Story of DoWhatWorks and its SaaS Experimentation Engine

The Inside Story: TurboTax PersonalPro's Initial Failure

Building Pendo: The Early Struggles & Eventual Strategy for Success

Product Market Fit: A Deep Dive

TikTok on the Chopping Block: The TikTok Controversy in the United States

The Sprig Journey to Product Market Fit plus Tech Industry Insights

Looking back on our 2023 Predictions

From Concept to Market: The PMF Journey of Dagster

Beyond Sight: Unpacking the Apple Vision Pro

Streamlining Workflows: The Asana Automation Journey

Biden's Robo Call + The best of CES

The Story Behind Andrew Wilkinson's Flow App

📰 Invision, Pitch & CPTO's + 👩🏼‍💻 Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Product Operations with Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles

Stop that A/B Test (and do this instead)

Playing Cards to Super Mario: The Evolution of Nintendo

Gimlet Unplugged: A Deep Dive into the World's Premier Podcast Powerhouse

From Playdates to Pixels: Debunking the Phone for Kids Debate

Ink vs. Algorithm: The Writer Strike Dilemma

e/acc: Can a meme pave the way to a utopian society?

Bloomfilter: Raising capital in a downturn

How tech products are funding North Korea's nuclear missile programs

Zoom Zombies No More: Surviving the Commuteocalypse

Why Most Product Launches Fail

Will Robots Take Over The World?

Protocol Harmony: The Evolution of Instant Messaging from AIM to XMPP and Beyond

The Complicated Rise of Sports Betting Apps

The Blurred Lines between Jay-Z and your favorite LLM

Love The Problem

XXX - Musk's Magnum Opus

Is Threads the Twitter Killer? Or Is Threads Dying?

Building the future of fintech + Behinds the scenes at Figma with Adam Nash

Musk vs Zuckerberg

Does AI Have a PR Problem? with Otto Pohl

Apple's "One More Thing"

The People vs OpenAI

The humble beginnings of YCombinator

ChatGPT Goes To School

Google vs. Calendly

Here Come the Food Robots

Have the Humans Taken Back Control of AI? + Google’s Big AI Day

When Should Kids Get a Phone?

Are we gambling with our future? Common-sense AI regulations to save us from ourselves.

How Google Fell Behind

Elon Musk's Twitter

The Psychology of Failure with Jerry Colonna (Rebroadcast)

The art of finding joy (The missing keynote from Industry Europe)

AI Is Having a Moment; Google’s Bard vs ChatGPT, Mozilla.ai

Silicon Valley Bank Tumbles

The Future of Mobility

The Art of Bouncing Back with Coach Dar

The “Peanut Butter Manifesto” – The Leaked Yahoo Memo

Bing's Bizarre Chatbot

What happened to the NFT's?

Leadership lessons from the locker room with ex-NFL player Matt Mayberry

FAA Failure

GPTZero - The Anti-ChatGPT

Predicting 2023: AI, Crypto, and Layoffs

How accurate were our 2022 predictions? Web3, NFTs, quantum computing, SPAC's and more

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

John Madden: The legend of Madden Football's product leader

Why TikTok, Instagram & Snapchat can't stop copying each other

Rocketship.fm interviews ChatGPT

Ticketing Terror

The real history behind Black Friday and the ever-expanding universe of Cyber days.

Who is Ramnik Arora? The fixer behind Sam Bankman-Fried’s & FTX’s $2 billion raised

The Wide World of Fantasy Sports

Never ending tech layoffs, winners and losers of the week & CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Reporter Julia Boorstin on When Women Lead

AI's rapid advancements, AI Steve Jobs & an interview with David Cancel

Product Therapy: Amnon - with Christian Idiodi

Product Therapy: Rotem - with Christian Idiodi

Product Therapy: Adir - with Christian Idiodi

Musk vs. Twitter, Trouble in the Metaverse, and Bitcoin on Amazon Prime

The Rise and Fall of Toys R Us

Samsung’s Grocery Store Beginnings

How eBay lost to Amazon

Youtube started as a dating site?!

Taking Off with YCombinator

MoviePass Returns

The Cat's Meow: An Update on Cool Cats

Tiktok vs the United States of America

Rogers' Big Blackout

The Ups and Downs of Soylent

Nintendo, 130 years in the making

The Ever Elusive Apple iCar

Blue Apron's IPO and a Case of Bad Timing

The rise and fall of Netscape

The Rapid Success of Disney+

Burning $75 Million - The story of Justin Kan’s Atrium

The mind-boggling growth of Neuralink

The Spectacular Fall of CNN+

The Rise of Bumble

Web3: TerraUSD

Web3: The Mickey Mantle NFT

Web3: Woodies

Web3: ConstitutionDAO

Web3: The Cameo Pass Party

Web3: Mike joins Cameo Pass

Web3: Non-Fungible Thingamajigs

Web3: The Breakneck Speed of SOL Labs

Web3: Mike's first NFT

Web3: Down the Rabbit Hole

Product Journeys: Drip

Digital Transformations: Sling TV and Ordnance Survey

Digital Transformations: John Deere and Ramsey Solutions

Digital Transformations: Datasite

Stop that A/B Test (and do this instead)

Bonus: Product Failure Quibi

A Koch, a Kennedy, and a wind turbine walk into a bar…

Product Lessons from Christian Idiodi

Antitrust: Bored Ape Lawsuit Club (Season Finale)

Antitrust: Asher Luzzatto for Mayor of Los Angeles

Antitrust: CryptoCities

John Madden: Product Leader

2022 Tech Predictions

Antitrust: Counterfeit Goods (and why your Amazon cart is full of them)

Antitrust: Democratization of Investments

Antitrust: Product Addiction (with Nir Eyal)

Antitrust: Engagement Loops (are ruining the world)

Antitrust: ConstitutionDAO

Antitrust: Web3, DAOs, ICOs & Protocols

Antitrust: Cryptocurrency

Antitrust: The Facebook Papers

Antitrust: Data Privacy & Ownership

Antitrust: Hustle Culture

Antitrust: (Mis)information

Antitrust: The Lawsuits

Bubble Trouble with ex-Chief Economist at Spotify Will Page and independent analyst Richard Kramer

Introducing Compiler

The ethics and implications of growth at all costs with consumer advocate Adam Levin

Rapid Research with Sarah Doody

Cracking the Product Management career with Jackie Bavaro

Leading Product Teams with Jules Walter, Product Leader at Youtube

JEDI mind tricks with Teresa Torres

Beyond the MVP: A framework for continued product success with Ash Maurya

Reimagining Mens Health: One founders journey from personal recovery to mass market

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

Outer Space Tow Trucks with Rogue.space

Workplace Confessions with Jason Feifer, Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur magazine: "My boss can’t write a simple email" & "I ghosted a company, and I don’t feel bad"

Workplace Confessions with Dan Shapiro the CEO of Glowforge: "My side hustle turned out to be a lot of work" & "Sometimes, I feel like Bill Lumberg"

Workplace Confessions with Thor Ernstsson of Strata: "Am I crazy for wanting to build this?" & "Can somebody tell me when we’ve found product market fit, please?"

Workplace Confessions with Amy Hood of Hoodzpah: "I never planned on this" & "Can’t handle the sweatshop"

Workplace Confessions with Lolita Taub: "My friends don’t know I’m an angel investor" & "Career speed bump"

Workplace Confessions with Christie Kim of Persona: "We look great to the outside world, but really -- we’re just a mess" & "Sometimes, being a mentor overwhelms me"

Workplace Confessions with Hossein Azari, CEO of Cmorq: "Trying to get ahead" & "NFTs?"

Introducing Creative Elements

Workplace Confessions with Justin Shriber, CMO at People.ai: "I hide things from our sales team" & "We have fake advisors at our startup"

Workplace Confessions with Lloyed Lobo of Boast.AI: "My friends think I’m a millionaire, but I’m actually struggling" & "I really need to get away from my family"

Workplace Confessions with Anna Ratala CEO & co-founder of Zvook.co: "I miss taking work-related vacations" & "I got my product-MBA from podcasts like yours"

Workplace Confessions with Amanda Goetz: "I can’t manage anymore" & "Bad Partner"

Introducing Freelance to Founder

Workplace Confessions with Ben Parr of Octane ai: "Two layoffs in a global pandemic" & "Priced just right"

Workplace Confessions with Mac Conwell of RareBreed Ventures: "I Told You So, Mr. VC" & "I’m not really killing it"

Introducing Trail Weight

Workplace Confessions with Charli Marie Prangley of ConvertKit: "In-laws over Co-workers" & "My passion is not at my current company"

Workplace Confessions with Kandis O'Brien: "Hogging the spotlight" & "The Firing Squad"

Workplace Confessions with Laura Roeder: "A Bootstrapper’s Secret" & "Should I stay or should I grow?"

Workplace Confessions with Matthew Zachary: "Should I stay or should I go?" & "The secret sauce"

Workplace Confessions with Brenna Loury of Doist: "Getting back at the system" & "My company doesn’t know I moved"

Introducing: People of Product

Workplace Confessions with Lopa van der Mersch Founder & CEO of Rasa: "I stuff the complaint box" & "I'm not Steve Jobs"

Workplace Confessions with Helen Tran: "My invisible agent" & "Golden Handcuffs"

CPO or CPNo [INDUSTRY Bonus episode w/Ken Norton]

Zoomed Out [INDUSTRY Bonus episode w/Ken Norton]

Unempowered [INDUSTRY Bonus episode w/Ken Norton]

I’m worried I’m biased [INDUSTRY Bonus episode w/Ken Norton]

Impostor syndrome [INDUSTRY Bonus episode w/Ken Norton]

Workplace Confessions with Randy Silver: "I don’t know what I’m doing" & "I’m helping create a monster, and I don’t know what to do"

Workplace Confessions with Sanjiv Kalevar of OpenView Venture Partners: "Our investor-driven roadmap" & "My Million Dollar mistake"

Workplace Confessions with Dan Olsen: "Climbing the Ladder" & "I Suck at Hiring"

Workplace Confessions with Melissa Perri: "Communication Conundrum" & "More than Just Awkward"

Workplace Confessions with Jay Clouse: "Ethical Dilemma" & "A little porn-y"

Workplace Confessions with Christian Idiodi: "Running with an idea" & "I Don’t talk to Customers"

Workplace Confessions with Dheerja Kaur of Robinhood: "Workplace High" & "Underpaid"

Workplace Confessions with Rich Mironov: "Crossing the Line" & "The Interview Roadshow"

Workplace Confessions with Rahul Vohra of Superhuman: "Team Bonding" & "The all-knowing CEO"

Workplace Confessions with Ben Foster: "Our Needy Customer" & "Roadmap Hell"

Product Journeys: Earth Class Mail & Flikshop UPDATES!

Product Journeys: The history of Podcasts

Product Journeys: Signal

Season 10 Trailer: Workplace Confessionals

Product Journeys: Cyberpunk 2077

Mental Models for Product Leaders

Mental Models for Product Managers

Charlie Munger's Mental Models

Product Journeys: BioNTech (Covid-19 Vaccine)

Product Journeys: Nintendo

Product Journeys: Zappos

Product Failures: eBay

Product Journeys: Youtube

Product Journeys: Airbnb

Product Journeys: Stark

Product Journeys: SEMrush

The 10 Dysfunctions of Product Management

Product Journeys: Stripe

Introducing: The Teamistry podcast by Atlassian

Product Journeys: Flow

Product Journeys: Gimlet Media

Product Journeys: Nikola

Product Journeys: Black Product Managers

INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Dun & Bradstreet goes digital [ Part 2 ]

INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Dun & Bradstreet goes digital [ Part 1 ]

INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Netflix's BLM Collection [ Part 2 ]

INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Netflix's BLM Collection [ Part 1 ]

INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Transparent Collective [ Part 2 ]

INDUSTRY Virtual Mini-series: Transparent Collective [ Part 1 ]

Introducing: INDUSTRY 2020 Product mini-series

Product Journeys: Waze

Product Journeys: Tesla

Product Journeys: Veil

Product Journeys: Amazon Echo

Product Journeys: Drip

Product Journeys: Tenor

Product Journeys: Apple's iPhone (The Purple Project)

Product Journeys: Flikshop

Product Journeys: Kairos

Product Journeys: Hey!

Product Journeys: Live from Tomorrow!

Product Journeys: Walker & Co

Michael Sacca on side projects, creative outlets and the beauty of constraints from Creative Elements

Product Journeys: Backstage Capital

Product Journeys: Go Together

Diversity in Tech [Part 1]

Diversity in Tech [Part 2]

Product Journeys: Shift

Product Journeys: PayPal

Product Journeys: Earth Class Mail

Product Journeys: Instagram

Product Journeys: Asana

Product Journeys: Square

Product Failures: MoviePass

Product Failures: It's not you, it's your team

Product Failures: Acquisitions

Product Failures: Path

Product Failures: Blockbuster

Product Failures: Audible

Product Failures: American Airlines

Product Failures: The Psychology of Failure with Jerry Colonna

Product Failures: Color

Product Failures: Google+

Product Failures: eBay

Product Failures: TurboTax

Product Failures: Webvan

Product Failures: Skeletons in Our Closet

400 Episodes 😱

The implications of the surveillance economy

The Incredible Evolution of Big Data

Stop that A/B Test (and do this instead)

The (Abbreviated) History of Product Management

Blind Spots

Twitter Confessionals

The Brilliance of WeTransfers Brand

Overcoming Cognitive Bias

The Trick That Supercharged Superhuman's Growth

Powerful Product Positioning

How Sendlane Created Huge Growth Through User-Centered Design

What type of Product Manager are you?

How Airbnb approaches SEO

The Best Product Advice We've Ever Received....

Product Vision

Product-Led Growth

Perfecting Product Marketing

Building Products People Want

Death of a Product Feature

Shape Up with Ryan Singer of Basecamp

Mental Models for Product Leaders

Achieving Deep Work

In Bezos we trust

Mental Models for Product Managers

Charlie Munger's Mental Models

Data Driven Product Development

Build vs Buy

The History of Product Management

Storytelling for Product People with Connie Kwan

How Adobe transformed itself into a $135 billion dollar SASS company

PM to VC with Hunter Walk

Creating Loyal Customers with Dheerja Kaur of theSkimm

How to tell meaningful product stories

Making Time

Product People vs Product Leaders

Interview: Ash Maurya of Lean Canvas on Scaling Lean

The Downsides of Data

Blockland: Moving Forward (Season Finale)

Blockland: Finding Bernie Moreno

Blockland: Naysayers

Blockland: The Blockland Conference

Blockland: Blockchaining Cleveland, Ohio

Interview: Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Building an Encyclopedia on a Blockchain

Blockland: A Brief History of Blockchain

Blockland: Blockchain today

Blockland: Welcome to Blockland

Blockland: Season 7 Trailer

Building the right product team

Interview: Jeetu Patel of Box on leadership and strategy in the new age of enterprise product

Interview: Teresa Torres of Product Talk on Continuous Discovery

Disruption vs Innovation

Why do you love the products you love?

Storytelling for Product People

Meetings don't have to suck

A Job To Be Done: Building Products People Want

The Untold Story of Books.com [Part 2]

The Untold Story of Books.com [Part 1]

Interview: Arlan Hamilton of Backstage Capital on Diversity, Hustle and Playing to Win

Interview: Vidya Dinamani on Conducting Effective Customer Interviews

Interview: Seth Godin on Achieving Greatness

Interview: Andy Rachleff of Wealthfront on finding product market fit

Interview: Scott Harper of Dialexa on Transforming your Companies Product Practices

Rebroadcast: We F*cked Up: Stories about Product Mistakes

Interview: Todd Olson of Pendo on the 5 key metrics you should paying attention to

Interview: Jackie Bavaro of Asana on Cracking the Product Management Interview

Interview: Claire Vo of Optimizely on Product Testing and Experimentation

Sprint Week Bonus: Day 4 Retrospective with Michael Smart

Sprint Week: Day 4 "User Testing"

Sprint Week Bonus: Day 3 Retrospective with Michael Smart

Sprint Week: Day 3 "Prototyping"

Sprint Week Bonus: Day 2 Retrospective with Michael Smart

Sprint Week: Day 2 "Storyboarding"

Sprint Week Bonus: Day 1 Retrospective with Michael Smart

Sprint Week: Day 1 "Gathering Ideas"

Sprint Week: Getting Ready to Sprint