#64: 🔥 UXCam roundtable + Nov Community event & Conf Talks Recap
PM news, expert insights, Community and Conference updates, open roles, and events to help you grow your career and network.
🎫 UXCam Roundtable: Shipping AI Products with Kevin Teodoro
Kevin Teodoro, Product Leader at UXCam, didn’t sugarcoat it at our October Berlin meetup: launching AI products is messy.
The 40-Second Problem
UXCam Analyst takes 40 seconds to respond. Users say it’s “too slow” because they compare everything to ChatGPT.
The tension: Complex questions need multiple AI agents. More agents = more time = frustrated users.
Kevin’s fix: Make waiting less painful. → Killed over-engineered steps
→ Set expectations upfront
→ Show progress (”Analyzing data...”)
When It Got Real
The small roundtable format turned Kevin’s talk into group confession. PMs opened up about: → Stakeholder management struggles
→ Unrealistic founder expectations
→ Building AI “for the sake of it”
→ Past failures haunting them
“It’s such a difference to communicate this close and open.” — Aleksandra
15 people can say what 250 can’t. This wasn’t networking. This was truth-telling.
Your Move
Track time-to-first-token daily. Audit every step in your workflow. Design for the wait you can’t eliminate.
And find your people—the ones who’ll share their real struggles, not just LinkedIn wins.
📸 Want to see the moments in the room? (Thanks Srishti Maitra)
🎫 HeyJobs: Becoming an AI-Native PM: How to Build, Lead, and Stand Out
Hosted by Elena, this is the session for PMs who want to lead in the AI era—not just adapt to it.
Daniel Zherenkov & Fulvio Minichini will tackle the critical questions: How do you build AI products that deliver real value? What does it mean to lead as an AI-native PM? And how do you stand out in a landscape where everyone’s adding “AI” to their roadmap?
Limited to 50 people for meaningful conversations and real connections. Secure your spot now, or snag a free ticket 10 days before the event (if they’re still available).
Don’t miss this one.
🎤 Conference Recap & More to come!
Why 97% of companies fail at product transformation
Here’s what nobody tells you about product transformation: 97% of organizations trying to shift from project to product-thinking face significant implementation challenges.
How HelloFresh and UXCam moved from AI productivity hacks to systemic transformation
Bottom line up front: Most companies are stuck using AI as fancy productivity tools. The real winners are evolving from individual efficiency gains to systemic organizational transformation—and it requires a completely different playbook than you think.
How to build AI products that don't get killed by OpenAI
When Henrique Cruz and his team at Rows.com launched their AI Analyst feature, they did something most startups dream about: they turned a $6,000 influencer campaign into 30 million impressions, 1 million sign-ups, and thousands of backlinks. But here’s the real story—it took them 5 years to reach their first 100,000 users, then just 6 months to hit 1 million.
📰 Product Leaders’ Wisdom
Brought to you weekly by Leila Montazeri
Suraj Srinivasan, Robin Seibert, and Mohammed Aaser outline how companies can turn data into revenue by asking three key questions: Who are your data customers? Should you monetize directly or indirectly? And what’s the right offering, raw data, insights, or full products? The rewards, they argue, can reshape entire business strategies.
After chatting with Dan Shipper, Lenny discovered how Claude Code quietly became a powerhouse, an AI that runs locally and helps with everything from organizing files to writing, analyzing calls, or even managing your workflow. It’s Claude, but faster, smarter, and far more useful for everyday work.
Read on Lenny’s NewsletterMind the Product explores why most internal data products fail, not because of bad tech, but bad product thinking. Dashboards that no one uses, metrics no one owns, and data that doesn’t drive action. His fix: treat internal analytics like real products, solve for decisions, design for real users, and track adoption.
💪 Open Roles
Brought to you weekly by Alessia Marchi
🎶 Song of the Newsletter
From our DJ Marco D’Avila