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Four behaviours that drive successful AI products - Matthew Certner (Partner and Garage Lead, IBM)
October 15, 2025

You can’t build great products on gut instinct, and yet, according to IBM’s global study of 1,000 enterprises, 77% of organisations using generative AI aren’t seeing any financial benefit. In this episode on The Product Experience podcast, Lily Smith sits

What do great product leaders do differently? Christian Idiodi (Partner, Silicon Valley Product Group)
October 08, 2025

Christian Idiodi, Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, and Co-author of the valuable product book Transformed, dismantles some of the most persistent myths in product leadership. Drawing from his global perspective and work across Africas fast-emerg

What obsessing over communication taught me - Sahil Jain (Co-Founder and CEO, Samepage.ai)
October 01, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, Lily Smith speaks with Sahil Jain, co-founder and CEO of Samepage.ai, about one of product managements hardest challenges: keeping teams aligned. From his early career at Yahoo and AOL to founding multiple star

Lessons from building healthcare products in Nigeria - Damilola Adelekan (Lead Product Manager, Remedial Health)
September 24, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver speak with Damilola Adelekan, Lead Product Manager at Remedial Health, who discusses building pragmatic, people-centred solutions in Africa’s fragmented and under-resourced healt

Why saying no to customers builds better products – Patrick Ndjientcheu (CPTO, Irembo)
September 17, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, Patrick Ndjientcheu, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Irembo, shares how his team transitioned from delivering projects for government to building a portfolio of scalable products. Patrick talks about shi

How product can work better with sales and marketing - Sally Foote (Advisor, Bower Collective)
September 10, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, Lily Smith speaks with Sally Foote, a seasoned product leader whose journey from product roles to C-suite commercial leadership spans Carwow, Go Compare, and The Guardian. They unpack the increasingly vital inter

Retention strategies for single-use products - Vivek Kumar (Investor and Advisor, Atlys)
September 03, 2025

Product decisions built on daily-active metrics fall apart when your customers show up once a year, or once a decade. In this episode, Randy Silver talks to Vivek Kumar about building and growing low-frequency products, from property and tax to jobs and d

Why we need to design products for machines - Katja Forbes (Executive Director, Standard Chartered Bank)
August 27, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, Randy Silver and Lily Smith sit down with Katja Forbes, Executive Director at Standard Chartered Bank, design leader, and lecturer, to explore the fast-approaching world of machine customers. Katja shares why bus

How to influence at board level - Kirsten Mann (CEO, Founder, Vizory, Prospection, Oracle)
August 20, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, Lily Smith and Randy Silver are joined by Kirsten Mann, former CPO at Prospection and now startup founder and board member, to discuss how product leaders can play a vital role on company boards. Drawing from h

The story behind Spotify Canvas - Dariusz Dziuk (Product Lead, Spotify)
August 13, 2025

In this episode of The Product Experience, Randy Silver speaks with Dariusz Dziuk, Product Lead for Music Expression at Spotify, about the origins and evolution of Canvas, the looping visuals that accompany music tracks. From early assumptions and first p