{"podcast":{"title":"The Skip Podcast","slug":"the-skip-podcast-5971055","podcast_index_feed_id":5971055,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/92860.rss","website_url":"https://theskip.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/92860/2324e9fa0532ff478716907ce9057e09.jpg","author":"Nikhyl Singhal","episode_count":51,"summary":"Career advice for tech professionals","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T04:19:45.900997+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-skip-podcast-5971055"},"episode":{"title":"The Post-IPO PM Playbook Is Being Rewritten","slug":"the-post-ipo-pm-playbook-is-being-rewritten","published_at":"2026-03-18T12:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-skip-podcast-5971055/the-post-ipo-pm-playbook-is-being-rewritten","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-skip-podcast-5971055","url":"https://theskip.substack.com/p/the-post-ipo-pm-playbook-is-being","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190644157/f86b9f2e6a23d3ecea83f3e16358fd43.mp3","summary":"Most of the conversation about rebuilding product management comes from two ends of the spectrum: AI-first startups with 30 people and no real installed base, or big tech with thousands of PMs and decades of process. This episode is about the third category: companies that went public in the last few years, have real customers and revenue to protect, and are now trying to move like startups again. The CPOs of Hims & Hers, Rubrik, and Figma joined me to discuss what that actually looks like. Several of their findings directly contradict the advice you'd get from either end of the spectrum. Key topics • Why going public doesn't mean replacing your PM team with \"business people\" • Why AI makes PM workload explode, not shrink • What happens when engineering is no longer the bottleneck • The skill Figma values most at scale (and why speed is the wrong thing to optimize for) • Whether the IPO date is a real line in the sand—and why Yuhki and Anneka land in different places • Why AI adoption at post-IPO companies requires the CPO to go first • How Anneka wrote her team's Claude Code onboarding guide, opened the GitHub repos, and built a triage agent between meetings • Why Dheerja joined Hims & Hers as the \"AI Queen\" • Dheerja’s three-part AI framework she’s executing on • Why Yuhki hired AI veterans first—then immediately hired people with no AI background at all • The case against take-homes (and Anneka's idea for what should replace them) • What a blank canvas reveals about a PM candidate that no case study or behavioral question can • Why every PM is about to become a manager of agents • How to talk to your team when the stock is down and you haven't announced anything new • Why Figma deprecated annual planning—and what Yuhki thinks will become core PM work within a year W…","meta_description":"Most of the conversation about rebuilding product management comes from two ends of the spectrum: AI-first startups with 30 people and no real installed b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3465,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-skip-podcast-5971055/episodes/the-post-ipo-pm-playbook-is-being-rewritten/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-skip-podcast-5971055/the-post-ipo-pm-playbook-is-being-rewritten.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}