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Product & Innovation

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The episodes

How to Build a Profitable Turo Rental Fleet with George Madden

Generation AI: Why Coding, College Degrees and Slow CEOs Are on the Clock with Matt Britton

The AI Skills Gap: Why Entry-Level Jobs Are Disappearing with Ryan Lufkin

This One Platform Could Replace Your Entire Business Tech Stack | Robin Alex

How Earned Media Gets Your Business Recommended by AI with Brett Farmiloe

Podcast Advertising Is About to Change Everything | Jeff Umbro

Building a $25M Business From the Attention Economy with Dan Novaes

Most Businesses Should Never Raise Venture Capital | Navin Goyal

The Social Media Goldmine Brands Are Ignoring with Matthew McGrory

How a Viral Congressional Trading Tracker Became a $1B+ Fintech Business | Autopilot

How AI Is Changing Retail, Style, and the Future of Shopping | Anya Cheng

How Premium Brands Create Demand Without Cutting Their Prices | Tom La Vecchia

How Unregulated Gambling Is Draining BILLIONS From the U.S. Economy | Ismail Vali

Why Founders Must Rethink Their Teams in the Age of AI

With $50K Left and a 40% Failure Rate, How FightCamp Rebuilt After the COVID Boom and Bust

AI Is Lowering the Cost to Build Wealth—Here’s How to Take Advantage with Scott Clary

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Yeah, we joke about this one, but so we launched a product, a new product, new brand in March, 2020, probably the worst time in history to launch a new retail product as like no one is going into retail stores, but it's actually been a very good relationship.

Ryan Alford · Ecommerce Series: How Nufabrx built an 8-figure Shop (15:51)

I want to pay the moms for their milk. I want to create a product, a dehydrated product, to be able to offer to moms and male-nourished babies around the world.

Brooke Andler-Womack · Empowerment for Proper Nutrition with Brooke Andler- (1:45)

You can imagine in a single prompt, items can research market, design a product, the build system, launch it, and they can even optimize revenue for you.

Ethan Ouyang · Agentic AI Is Here: How ATOMS Turns Ideas into Reven (0:00)

So the goal again for poor tab room is not to replace bartenders. It's to transition their role from a bartender to a host to someone who spends more time with people and talking about product and less time just hustling and serving.

Nate Tomforde · The Mayor of Craft Beer, Nate Tomforde and Ryan Talk (36:27)

The biggest thing that I've learned as an entrepreneur is that great ideas come from anywhere and it's the founder's job to listen to every idea, especially from the people who are using the product on both sides.

Brett Farmiloe · The Future of PR: Earned Media, AI in Journalism & V (18:50)

So the virality is not the input. The virality is the end product doing the time, research and effort to craft up good quality content that leads to viral stuff.

Chris Josephs · How a Viral Congressional Trading Tracker Became a $ (0:00)

White Claw became, in a very short amount of time, the fastest growing alcoholic product in the history of alcohol since the Mesopotamians were spitting in pots.

Tony Vieira · Build a Brand That Sells: Lessons From Blue Moon, Wh (9:55)

So innovation is just laziness. It's just, I don't want to do that much work.

Dave Asprey · Bulletproof: The Father of Biohacking - Dave Asprey (5:03)

You want to see great packaging? Walk the aisles of liquor stores.

Monica Nassif · Mrs. Meyer’s: How Reinventing a Boring Category Beca (16:04)

And so while the product I've always wanted to build a product that added value for really a wide audience of people, added value for a wide audience of people, the brand I always liked the idea of it being anchored around high end performance.

Will Ahmed · Whoop is the world’s most advanced fitness wearable (24:51)

Being a great product is a tiny piece of the uh the solution you have to have a great product But if you can't explain to people why they want this why this solves their problem um You're not going to get anywhere.

Marc Randolph · Marc Randolph - Netflix Co-Founder (30:48)

Most businesses are just focused on whatever the end product is that they're making, and so trying to convince them, hey, you've got this buy product, why don't you invest more money to figure out what to do with the buy product?

Yousuf Ahmed · B-Sides: Flavor, Sustainability & Profit with Yousuf (0:58)

What comes up again and again

Lululemon proves category beats product: leggings already existed, but naming the category "athleisure" made them the category queen despite a mediocre company and unremarkable product innovation. (Billion Dollar Marketing Advice with Chr)
Vertically integrating at the manufacturing facility — redirecting oat milk already produced on the same site into his extruder — can move gross margins from about 50% at launch to north of 80%, which is supplement-level margin in snack foods. (B-Sides: Flavor, Sustainability & Profit)
Most AI value for a company like Amazon is invisible back-end infrastructure for manufacturing, packaging, shipping, and process, not the consumer-facing tools most people notice. (Snoop Dog, Gender Controversy, and Jeff )
Ryan's 'over-newsing' argument: public scrutiny of every failed step in R&D is different from regulatory oversight, and reporting every business's misses would bury real innovation. (Weekly Business News for May 17 | Elon M)
Ryan's take on smartphone innovation: makers have run out of features, so the new innovation is subtracting functionality altogether. (The Week of October 27, 2023 Marketing a)
Celebrity 'PR relationships' follow a fixed sequence — tabloid rumor, insider confirmation, blurry paparazzi photos, then a public event — and there's usually a book, movie or product launch behind it. (The Week of September 22, 2023 Marketing)
Josh developed Snow's first product by interviewing his own dentist, orthodontist and oral surgeon, buying every competing product he could, and mining negative Amazon reviews for gaps — sensitivity and delivery method were the openings. ($100 Million E-Commerce Brand Builder w)
Pizza Hut's 'Struggle Bus' experiential tour targets high-stress moments like March Madness and college exams - timing an activation to consumer stress rather than a product launch. (Weekly Marketing and Advertising News, A)
Career risk can mean going backwards first: Aruna took a three-level demotion at Hewlett Packard to move from engineering director into product and product marketing management. (Aruna Ravichandran - Chief Marketing Off)
WhatsApp's new 'View Once' feature sends photos and videos that disappear after a single view - essentially a Snapchat feature you could already approximate in Instagram DMs. (Weekly Marketing and Advertising News: W)

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All 290 episodes

How to Build a Profitable Turo Fleet With George Madden

Matt Britton on Generation AI, Coding and Slow CEOs

The AI Skills Gap and the Death of Entry-Level Jobs

Robin Alex on Replacing Your Business Tech Stack

Earned Media and AI Search with Brett Farmiloe

Blue Moon and White Claw Brand Lessons With Tony Vieira

Podcast Advertising Is About to Change | Jeff Umbro

Dan Novaes: Turning Phone Attention Into Income

Why Most Businesses Should Never Raise Venture Capital

The Social Media Goldmine Brands Ignore | Matthew McGrory

Mrs. Meyer's Founder Monica Nassif on Disrupting a Category

Pelosi Tracker to $1B Fintech: Chris Josephs of Autopilot

Anya Cheng on AI, Data Moats and the Future of Shopping

AP x Swatch: How Luxury Brands Create Demand Now

Inside the $97B Unregulated Online Gambling Market

Rethinking Your Team in the Age of AI

FightCamp's Khalil Zahar on Surviving the Valley of Death

Scott Clary on Using AI to Build Wealth Faster

AI, Aging, and the $2.5M Long-Term Care Problem

Iran War, AI and the Small Business Economy

Real American Beer's Playbook for Breaking Into Big Beer

AI for Small Business Growth with Dave Charest

John Benson on Why AI Content Isn't Converting

Bob Cicero on Making the Office Worth the Commute

The New Rules of AI and Business: Adapt or Get Left Behind

Rethinking Learning: Instructure's Ryan Lufkin on AI

AI Productivity vs AI Security: The Human Risk

Cisco's AI Concierge Agents Are Reinventing CX

Agentic AI and Atoms: Ideas to Revenue With Ethan Ouyang

Brett Berish on Building Spirit Brands His Own Way

Inside the Rental Car Business with George Madden

Email Marketing That Still Works in an AI World

Inside Icons.com: Messi Memorabilia and Scarcity

How Crumbl Cookies Grew to 500+ Stores

Charles Nader on Doc.com's Free Global Healthcare Model

WordPress VIP CEO on AI, SEO and Owning Your Content

Jason Brown: From Student Loans to Stock Market Millionaire

Monica Marquez on Why 95% of AI Pilots Fail

Anya Cheng on AI Styling, Branding & Live Shopping

Alyssa Campbell on Big Kids, Bigger Feelings