The Product Un(censored) Show with Colin Pal

We're back from our Q1 break! In the first episode of our podcast in 2024, we talk to Protik Roychowdhury about mental health startups in Southeast Asia, from a product perspective of course! Protik is the VP of Product at Intellect, a mental health startup based in Singapore. They secured their Series A USD$20m funding round in 2022, the largest amount raised by a mental healt

Nat Wongtosrad is a product leader who honed her craft in tech companies such Spotify, Agoda and NocNoc. It was insightful to hear her actual, personal experience with the Spotify model as one who worked there, discuss being a product led company at NocNoc, and the product inspirations she takes into her startup R'ket. Do consider supporting The Product Un(censored) Show: ⁠

In Episode #41, we have Tatiana Palhares, the CPO of Daraz on the show. We discuss being a product leader in one of the leading e-commerce platforms in South Asia with over 10,000 staff and a product team of more than 60, building a product function from scratch and how to product manage a distributed team. Do consider supporting The Product Un(censored) Show: ⁠⁠https://www.b

How does a product leader who has worked at Grab and Meta in Singapore end up in Nairobi in Kenya? In the 40th episode of the Product Un(censored) Show, our host Colin Pal sits down with Mateus Kratz, to talk about his product management journey and experiences that culminates with him becoming the CPO at Kapu in the Silicon Savannah in Africa! Do consider supporting The Product U

In the 39th episode of our show, we have Azwandi Aris, Executive Director Product Management at ServiceRocket talking about how he has managed to succeed as a product manager and product leader as an introvert. We also talk about longevity in his career (he's spent 15 years at ServiceRocket so he knows a thing or two about it!) Do consider supporting The Product Un(censored) S

It’s Episode #38 and we have Pramodh Rai, Co-Founder of Cyber Sierra to discuss an area that doesn’t get enough attention: Cybersecurity. We also cover how startups can balance the need for speed without sacrificing too much security. Prior to co-founding Cyber Sierra, Pramodh was previously the Chief Product Officer at Funding Societies and also the former Chief Technology of

The Product Un(censored) Show is back with Episode #37. We've got Fabian Lua, CPO of LINE MAN Wongnai talking about his take on product led vs founder led organisations, working in high growth, high competition tech companies Shopee and Grab and how to drive for alignment when building a regional product across multiple countries. He also shares his reason for choosing "Hip hop sav

This is Episode #36 and we had Eric Wang in the hot seat recounting his product management journey from waterfall fueled product management to being Director of Product Management at Ninja Van, counting the culture and collaboration cost of hiring teams as far as Palestine, product snobbery and caring for the mental health and well being of his team members. We conclude with talkin

We are back with Episode #35 and we've got Sani Gouw, Head of Product for TruTrip joining Colin Pal on the show to talk about all things product, from differences about doing product management in a digital agency vs tech startups, building remote teams and why enticed him join a travel startup in a time of covid. We end the show discussing why the Jay-Z / Linkin Park collaboration

It's Ep.34, and in the hot seat is Gaurav Sachdeva, CPO of Singapore Press Holdings. Gaurav regales us with stories about his experience building out Adobe's Creative Suite, jumping in the deep end of startup with Grab and his reasons for taking up a CPO role at a traditional media organisation. We also discuss his vocal prowess as a classic rocker and his reason for choosing "Swee