The Product Pivot: Stories of career shifts, breakthroughs, and advice for PMs.
TheProductPivot
16 episodes
2 weeks ago
Everyone’s hyping AI like it’s a magic trick. Aaron Kesler sees it differently — it’s just really good at boring stuff. Now VP of Product at RozieAI, Aaron’s focused on solving the unglamorous problems that make real business impact. But his path to product didn’t start in a boardroom. In college, he built a startup that got acquired. Then he realized he hated coding but loved talking to customers, so he walked away from tech completely and started working at Starbucks. That’s where he learne...
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Everyone’s hyping AI like it’s a magic trick. Aaron Kesler sees it differently — it’s just really good at boring stuff. Now VP of Product at RozieAI, Aaron’s focused on solving the unglamorous problems that make real business impact. But his path to product didn’t start in a boardroom. In college, he built a startup that got acquired. Then he realized he hated coding but loved talking to customers, so he walked away from tech completely and started working at Starbucks. That’s where he learne...
The Product Pivot: Stories of career shifts, breakthroughs, and advice for PMs.
52 minutes
7 months ago
The Product Pivot | Fractional PM Unpacked
In this episode of The Product Pivot, we chat with Trevor Acy—a fractional product manager and coach—about his journey from marketing into product, how he broke in without the title, and what real product thinking looks like inside companies. We also dig into: What founders and early-stage teams get wrong when scalingWhy unscalable work is often the smartest workHow Trevor built his fractional practiceTrevor’s mission to grow Mississippi’s tech ecosystemIf you’re exploring fractional work, th...
The Product Pivot: Stories of career shifts, breakthroughs, and advice for PMs.
Everyone’s hyping AI like it’s a magic trick. Aaron Kesler sees it differently — it’s just really good at boring stuff. Now VP of Product at RozieAI, Aaron’s focused on solving the unglamorous problems that make real business impact. But his path to product didn’t start in a boardroom. In college, he built a startup that got acquired. Then he realized he hated coding but loved talking to customers, so he walked away from tech completely and started working at Starbucks. That’s where he learne...
