The Product Pivot: Stories of career shifts, breakthroughs, and advice for PMs.
TheProductPivot
16 episodes
3 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 | The Power of Saying Yes (and Figuring It Out Later)
The Product Pivot: Stories of career shifts, breakthroughs, and advice for PMs.
57 minutes
4 weeks ago
The Product Pivot | The Power of Saying Yes (and Figuring It Out Later)
Some pivots don’t start with a master plan, they start with saying yes and figuring it out along the way. In this episode, Eduardo (Eddie) Rosenfeld, VP of Applied AI at Lavender 💜🔮, shares how studying philosophy and writing comedy scripts in L.A. somehow led to product ops at one of the fastest-moving AI startups in sales tech. We talk about: → Why curiosity and grit matter more than credentials → The art of “doing whatever it takes” in scrappy startup roles → How to handle feedback without...
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...
