Product builders, whether they’re designers, developers, or product managers, constantly strive to create innovative and user-centric products. Staying ahead of the curve in this competitive landscape requires continuous learning, inspiration, and growth.
Podcasts offer a flexible and engaging way to stay informed and gather insights. We’ve curated a list of 20 interesting podcasts, in no particular order, for product builders to help them gain valuable knowledge, spark creativity and to stay inspired.
Product Builders Podcast
The Product Builders Podcast brings you conversations with experts and innovators who are building digital products. The conversations help listeners gain behind-the-scenes insight into building some of today’s most innovative products.
The Product Experience
The Product Experience features conversations with the product people of the world, focusing on real insights of how to improve your product practice. Part of the Mind the Product network, hosts Lily Smith (ProductTank organizer and Product Consultant) and Randy Silver (Head of Product and product management trainer) “go deep” with the best speakers from ProductTank meetups all over the globe, Mind the Product conferences, and the wider product community.
Indie Hackers
Courtland Allen interviews the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to capitalize on new opportunities, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!
Product to Product
A product management podcast for / by product people. Candid conversations between two product people about, well, product. Hosted by Roadmunk.
The Product Science Podcast
The Product Science Podcast is for startup founders and product leaders building high-growth products, teams, and companies. Listen in on real conversations with the people who have tried it and aren’t afraid to share the lessons they’ve learned (and the mistakes they’ve made) along the way.
UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
Hosted by Jane Portman, the UI Breakfast offers actionable advice and insights on user interface design, product strategy, and user experience. The podcast features interviews with industry experts, covering topics like usability testing, design patterns, and design tools. The UI Breakfast Podcast is a valuable resource for product builders looking to improve their design skills and create more engaging products.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The Changelog, hosted by Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo, is an insightful podcast that features interviews with prominent figures in the open-source community. Each episode highlights the stories, motivations, and projects of these individuals, offering developers an inside look at the open-source world. The Changelog is a great way to stay updated on the latest technologies and learn from the experiences of industry leaders.
Coding Blocks
Pragmatic talk about software design best practices: design patterns, software architecture, coding for performance, object oriented programming, database design and implementation, tips, tricks, and a whole lot more.
Syntax — Tasty Web Development Treats
Syntax is a podcast focusing on web development, breaking down complex topics into digestible episodes that cover everything from CSS Grid to GraphQL. With a perfect blend of practical tips, industry news, and interviews, Syntax is a fun and informative listen for frontend and backend developers alike.
Product Hunt Radio
Product Hunt Radio is a a weekly podcast with the people creating and exploring the future. Tune in every week with Ryan Hoover and Abadesi Osunsade as they’re joined by founders, investors, journalists, and makers to discuss the latest in tech.
Product Thinking
Successful product management isn’t just about training the product managers who work side by side with developers everyday to build better products. It’s about taking a step back, approaching the systems within organizations as a whole, and leveling up product leadership to improve these systems. This is the Product Thinking podcast, where Melissa Perri will connect with industry leading experts in the product management space, AND answer your most pressing questions about everything product.
Masters of Scale
Award-winning business advice from Silicon Valley and beyond. Iconic CEOs, from Nike to Netflix, Starbucks to Slack, share the strategies that helped them grow from startups into global brands — and to weather crisis when it strikes.
On each episode, host Reid Hoffman — LinkedIn cofounder, Greylock partner and legendary Silicon Valley investor — proves an unconventional theory about how businesses scale, asking his guests to share their stories of entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, management, fundraising. You’ll hear the human journey too — failures, setbacks, learnings.
How to Succeed in Product Management
Learn from some of the best product managers in the world through conversations hosted by The Product Management Center at the University of Washington. In each episode, Jeff Shulman, Red Russak, and Soumeya Benghanem dive into the tools, frameworks, and thought processes that will help drive success in product management.
Product Mastery Now for Product Managers, Innovators, and Leaders
Where product managers and leaders make their move to product master.
ProductLed Podcast
The ProductLed Podcast is a weekly interview series with both product-led growth leaders and practitioners who have real knowledge to share on what it takes to use their product to grow a business.
The Product Podcast
Tune in to The Product Podcast, where they chat to all-star Product Leaders from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and dozens of other tech companies. They talk about everything from breaking into the industry and setting career goals, to collaborating with diverse teams and knowing when to pivot. All things Product Management, basically!
Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot’s Chad Pytel is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
Until the Ice Cream Truck
Howard Dierking and Glenn Block both have more than 20 years on the engineering and product side of the house. The name for the podcast derives from a running joke between them about quitting the tech industry and opening an ice cream business. In each episode, they will look at the intersection of product management and software development and talk through lots of different ways that the two disciplines can work together to build great products – or drive everyone in the organization crazy while wasting time and money.
How I Built This With Guy Raz
Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success. How I Built This is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds.
The Secrets of Product Management Podcast by Nils Davis
The Secrets of Product Management podcast by Nils Davis is for all product manager, product marketers, innovators who want to create more value in the world through successful products.
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