5 Must-Listen to Podcasts for Building Online Products
If you’re building, or thinking about building an online product, here are five podcasts to check out for great advice, tips, insights and interviews.
1) Product People
Product People is a “podcast focused on great products and the people who make them.”. Each episode, Justin Jackson interviews some really interesting characters and digs deep into specific subjects of the product building process.
Check out: EP69 with Nir Eyal on how to build habit forming products.
2) The Startup Chat
The Startup Chat podcast offers “unfiltered insights and actionable advice straight from the trenches of startup and business life”. Twice a week, Hiten Shah of CrazyEgg and Steli Efti of Close.io deliver a bite-sized 20 minute episode, tackling specific subjects with an open and frank discussion. Hiten’s background in marketing and Steli’s background in sales make for a great juxtaposition. At the end of each show, they sign-off with two actionable tips that you can implement at your product or business.
Check out: Episode 30: How to Get Your First 10 Customers
3) Inside Intercom
Inside Intercom offers “conversations with practitioners from the worlds of product management, design, startups and marketing”. This relatively new podcast comes from the Intercom team, who are already experts at creating content-marketing centered around product management.
Check out: Episode 2 - Des Traynor talks to Braden Kowitz about the Google Ventures design sprint process.
4) Dorm Room Tycoon
The Dorm Room Tycoon podcast offers “interviews for designers, hackers and startup founders”. In each episode, William Channer talks to a leading thinker on a variety of subjects around building startups. Previous interviewees have included high-profile names such as Jakob Nielsen, Joshua Topolsky and MG Siegler. Each conversation reveals valuable insights that you can apply to your own product.
Check out: Executing on your Vision — Scott Heiferman, co-founder of Meetup reveals why it’s all about the product vision.
5) Exponent
Exponent is a podcast “about tech and society hosted by Ben Thompson and James Allworth”. Ben and James take a weekly birds-eye look at the tech industry, exploring the business strategies and theories behind current tech movements. It’s a great podcast for peering into the near future and discovering insights that may have implications for your own product.
Check out: Episode 48 — Ben and James discuss the future of Twitter, Apple’s seeming war on Google, and Apple Music.
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