Product Rebels

From Navigation to Delegation: Brian Crofts on Building AI at BambooHR

Brian Crofts started his career in corporate finance before moving into product at Intuit, where he spent more than a decade leading product for QuickBooks and TurboTax.

Context Is the New PRD: AI Roundtable Insights

We're back with a special host-only episode! Vidya Dinamani and Heather Samarin step out of the guest chair to unpack what they're hearing across nearly twenty

Product Is Not a Playbook

Why do so many product transformations fail? Because leaders treat product like a science when it's mostly art. Vidya Dinamani and Heather Samarin sit down with Chr

From 1,000 Interns to One Day Sprints

What does it actually look like to run a one-day sprint cycle? To have agents building product overnight? To compress months of work into days — and still ship things tha

Making AI Work In Product Teams: Roundtable Insights

What happens when product leaders stop talking about AI theory and start sharing what’s actually working? In this special Product Rebels episode, Vidya Dinamani and Heat

Building Product-led Teams with Conviction

What does it take to turn a struggling edtech platform into a mission-driven product powerhouse — in under a year?  Vidya Dinamani and Heather Samarin sit down with Jare

[REPLAY] Tinder, TripAdvisor, and more: Universal Product Lessons

Hey there Product Rebels! If you're a product leader right now, chances are someone in your org has asked you some version of "what's our AI strategy?" in the l

[REPLAY] Think Financial, Act Customer

Hey there Product Rebels! We've had a lot of conversations with product leaders lately, and one thing that keeps coming up is how much financial guesswork is involve

Product Leadership in the AI Era

What does it mean to be a true product rebel in the age of AI?  Heather Samarin and Vidya Dinamani sit down with Raviv Levi, former Chief Product & Technology Officer at

Why Product Investment Matters

What happens when product leaders prioritize profit over long-term value?  In this episode, Michael Nierstedt shares lessons from more than a decade building payroll and

Women, AI, and the Gap We Need to Close

Overthinking isn't a liability — it might just be your greatest edge as a product leader.  In celebration of women's history month, Vidya Dinamani and Heather

AI as a Force Multiplier for Product Discipline

In this special episode of Product Rebels, Vidya Dinamani and Heather Samarin revisit highlights from their recent webinar, AI as a Force Multiplier for Product Disciplin

The Right Way to Prioritize [Replay]

Note: As Product Rebels journeys deeper into supporting teams navigating AI, we're resharing this episode featuring Kene Anoliefo who shared some great insights. We

From Consensus to Conviction

What does great product leadership look like when you’re asked to go along with a big initiative you don’t believe in?  In this episode, former CPO at Everway, Timothy A

Don't Ship Assumptions

What happens when you challenge long-held assumptions—and let real data and user behavior lead?  In this episode, Vidya Dinamani and Heather Samarin sit down with Harish

Practical AI in Product

What does it really mean to make AI practical in product teams?  In this special year-end episode, Vidya Dinamani and Heather Samarin are sharing highlights from a recen

Building Campfires, Not Caves

What happens when a product leader enters a company and rewrites the strategy playbook—not with a megaphone, but with a matchstick and a campfire? Vidya Dinamani and Hea

Making AI Work for Product Teams

This special episode of Product Rebels brings you highlights from a recent webinar hosted by Heather Samarin and Vidya Dinamani, and featuring product veteran Ravi Mehta.

Rethinking Product Ownership Boundaries

What does it really mean to be a product rebel?  Heather Samarin and Vidya Dinamani sit down with Saurabh Sharma, CPO at You.com, as he shares how asking the tough quest

Driving Change in Complex Systems

How do you drive lasting change in one of the most complex and high-stakes industries—healthcare?  Vidya Dinamani and Heather Samarin sit down with Nasir Ali, former CPO