S1E1 - Rahul Abhyankar - Welcome to Product Leader's Journey

Hi there! Welcome to Product Leader’s Journey. I am your host, Rahul Abhyankar.

I have always been fascinated by two questions - how did leaders get to where they are, and what did they learn along the way. Looking at someone’s career progression on LinkedIn only scratches the surface.

In each episode, I sit down with product executives, Chief Product Officers, Chief Technology Officers, CEOs, VPs of Product, Engineering, Design, and Analytics to dive into their career journey and understand what shaped their perspectives on building successful products, inspired teams, and scaled businesses.

Why this podcast now?

I talk with many product people who lead teams in product management, engineering, design. Two things surfaced:

1. There is great content on building products on the Internet today, however, much of it is targeted to aspiring or early career product managers, with interview tips, frameworks, and 20 ways to do this or that. It is good intellectual entertainment but it does not address the critical challenges that product leaders face around creating an effective product strategy, coaching individual contributors, and thinking about their own career growth to executive roles.
2. Lot of content also tends to lean towards startups and business-to-consumer products, and delivered by ex-Google, ex-Meta, ex-Twitter folks. Again great content, great speakers, good intellectual entertainment, but not directly relevant to product leaders in enterprises building business-to-business products.

Such conversations led to the creation of Product Leader’s Journey. In Season 1, I sit down with executives from companies such as Juniper Networks, ADP, GitHub, Atlassian and more.

I can’t wait to bring Product Leader’s Journey to you, and hope you will enjoy listening.

You can find the video of each episode on YouTube, and the audio of the episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.