Rocketship.fm
Rocketship.FM brings you the latest and most important stories shaping the world of technology. From groundbreaking innovations to high-stakes corporate battles, we break down the news that matters—giving you the insights you need to stay informed in an ever-evolving tech landscape. Whether it's AI, big tech power plays, or the future of digital policy, we make sense of the headlines so you don’t have to.
Rocketship.fm, produced in partnership with Evergreen Podcasts, has been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, Inc, Entrepreneur, and many more business publications as a top business podcast year after year.
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Product Failures: Blockbuster
Blockbuster, a staple in American households in the 80's and 90's was widely considered unstoppable, until they weren't.
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Product Failures: Audible
Some failures go unnoticed, but todays failure effected millions of people who woke up to a problematic user interface.
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Product Failures: American Airlines
On September 11, 2001 an American Airlines airplane was hijacked and flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center. As people scrambled to find out what happened to their loved ones, the American Airlines automated phone systems failed.
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Product Failures: The Psychology of Failure wit...
We've been talking a lot about well known product failures, but at this point in the series, we're going to take a little pause.
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Product Failures: Color
Raising $41 million dollars before launch, Color should have been an instant hit....
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Product Failures: Google+
Google+ was an ambitious project to take down the social networking giant Facebook....
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Product Failures: eBay
In the early 2000's eBay was in direct competition with Amazon but they had very different methodologies when approaching the market.
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Product Failures: TurboTax
It was November of 2014 and Brian Crofts was preparing for a meeting with two senior executives at Intuit....
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Product Failures: Webvan
Webvan is well-known as the poster child of the dot-com “excess” bubble that led to the tech market crash in 2000.
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Product Failures: Skeletons in Our Closet
Michael & Mike discuss their own product failures
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400 Episodes 😱
Today we take a look back at the last 6 years of Rocketship.fm
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The implications of the surveillance economy
Google and Facebook we are trading our data in exchange for the benefits of their product
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The Incredible Evolution of Big Data
The history of Hadoop the technology that formed the very foundation of what we know as “big data”.
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Stop that A/B Test (and do this instead)
We talk with Ben Foster, CPO at GoCanvas about vision driven product growth
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The (Abbreviated) History of Product Management
Today we explore the history of the Product Manager from it's early ideation
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Blind Spots
We talk with Laura Klein author of UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products
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Twitter Confessionals
Love isn’t rational. It doesn’t always make sense. But when love is in the air, nothing can come between you and a public tweet.
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The Brilliance of WeTransfers Brand
We talk with Georg Petschnigg the Chief Innovation Officer at WeTransfer
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Overcoming Cognitive Bias
How to recognize and avoid the many belief, behavioral, and social biases, which flaw much human decision making.
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The Trick That Supercharged Superhuman's Growth
Rahul Vohra founder & CEO of Superhuman
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Powerful Product Positioning
Positioning can make or break a new product, yet it rarely gets the attention it deserves.
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How Sendlane Created Huge Growth Through User-C...
Marketing automation platform, Sendlane, embraced user centered design to create huge growth.
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What type of Product Manager are you?
We tackle the six (or seven) types of Product Managers with Catherine Ulrich
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How Airbnb approaches SEO
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, comes in many forms...
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The Best Product Advice We've Ever Received....
Ok, maybe not all of that advice, but we revisit some of our favorite conversations over the past 6 years
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