
Gettin' to Market
For when your job is real, but your role is…negotiable.
A podcast about building products, launching them, and figuring out how to stay useful along the way.
Episodes
17 episodes
17 - How Org Size Shapes Product Roles
John and Nate dive into how organization size fundamentally changes what product managers and product marketers actually do day-to-day. From sub-100 person companies to 20,000 person enterprises, they explore the trade-offs between moving fast ...
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18:03

16 - Growth Marketing with Kyrie Slater
Nate and John are joined by special guest, Kyrie Slater, Senior Director of Growth Marketing at insightsoftware. They explore how growth marketing fits into the organization, discuss the evolution of marketing roles in the age of AI, and debate...
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Episode 16
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27:45

15 - Groundskeepers vs. Player-Coaches
Are you a player or the grounds crew? Which do you prefer your manager to be? John and Nate dive into a LinkedIn post that divided them on what leadership actually means. John argues leaders should focus on building environments where people ca...
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Episode 15
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25:15

14 - Five Products We Bought for the Brand (Not the Features)
John and Nate flip the script from their earlier "features" episode to explore purchases driven purely by brand loyalty and reputation. From Nate's NASA-approved Omega Speedmaster to John's Sonos soundbar impulse buy, they examine when brand tr...
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20:40

13 - Product Marketing in an AI World
How has AI changed the day-to-day reality of product marketing? Nate and John dive into the real-world impact of generative AI tools on PMM workflows—from accelerating content creation to becoming an unexpected "strategic thinking partner."...
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20:55

12 - Roadmaps! Huh What Are They Good For?
Apologies to the Temptations and Edwin Starr (RIP), though maybe they'd love their hit song being referenced in a podcast about B2B software?Roadmaps: what are they really good for nowadays? Or, more importantly, whom are they f...
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21:50

11 - Four Products We Bought for the Features
In this episode, Nate asks John how his night job moonlighting as a kiss cam operator is going and they each share anecdotes about two purchases they've made where the product's features, and not the brand, were the driving factor. Because ever...
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Episode 11
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23:46

10 - How We Got Here
Nate and John sweat through a heat wave (and tech glitches) to reflect on how they stumbled into careers in product and product marketing. From mentors to odd job pivots and PM vs. PMM debates, they unpack what led them here—and what might come...
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Episode 10
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28:08

9 - Making the Most Out of the Mid-Year Review Cycle
In this episode of Gettin' to Market, Nate and John kick things off with a discovery about how they've settled into their natural PMM/PM roles on the podcast before settling into a conversation about mid-year reviews. They unpack how t...
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Episode 9
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15:05

8 - Workplace Politics
In this week's episode, John suspiciously refuses to share who he voted for in the 2004 election and, together, they unpack the realities of workplace politics (from the exhausting parts to the strategic ones). Through personal stories, they ex...
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14:04

7 - Product Management in an AI World
IN A WORLD...wait, no. In this episode of Gettin' to Market, Nate and John dive into how AI is actively transforming product management. They share real-world examples of using tools like ChatGPT and Claude to streamline workflows, wri...
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18:15

6 - Questions We Ask in Interviews (and How We'd Answer Them)
In this episode of 'Gettin' to Market,' John and Nate discuss some of the questions they ask in interviews when hiring PMs and PMMs. They talk about how they'd answer questions about product launches, data, and the rapidly shifting use of AI. I...
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Episode 6
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18:43

5 - Question Phobia
In this episode, John mansplains the history of product management to Nate, they talk about the one question all couples should discuss before marriage, and the conversation centers on the questions imposter syndrome keeps us from asking and wh...
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15:03

4 - Tricky Products
In this episode, John and Nate talk about the disconnect between product features and value, and how that can discourage newcomers and hurt adoption. John discusses bears and something he learned about solid waste, and Nate gets sucked into the...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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12:37

3 - Offense and Defense
Nate tries to teach John about the value of competitive intelligence (defense) and how not all of us get to work on segment defining products. They talk a little about how great product wins, a new concept John learned, and why kids are maybe t...
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14:39

2 - Janitors vs. Creators
In this episode, Nate and John discuss one of John's more questionable takes: you're either a janitor or a creator. Nate challenges the idea, gives a new perspective to consider, and they talk about the differences between leading a team as a m...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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14:24
