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Executives Unplugged Podcast Transcripts

Keith Cowing · 22 episodes with transcripts

CEOs have coaches behind the scenes, but few people get to hear those conversations. Executives Unplugged puts you in that room. I'm Keith Cowing, an executive coach and 2x founder.

Spoken has transcripts of 22 Executives Unplugged episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from April 7, 2026.

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The Truth About Hiring Your First Head of Product

April 7, 2026

Dennis Crowley (0:00)

I've always thought that I was more of the product type of CEO, so I can fill in for the head of product for most things. And I did that for a long time at Foursquare before we eventually hired people to run it. With the project that we're working on now, just because the tools are so different, we hired a lead…

Keith Cowing (0:38)

This is Executives Unplugged. I'm Keith Cowling, your host and executive coach. And that was the voice of Dennis Crowley, founder of Foursquare and Hopscotch Labs. Today, we're talking about the biggest mistakes that founders and CEOs make when hiring their first VP of product or CPO. Focus on companies in the…

Chris Running (1:36)

Whenever we're having a first-time conversation, even if it's just kicking the tires on like, do you need to go to search? Do you even need to hire this person? Is identifying what are the business problems at hand? Or put otherwise, what is bubbling up in your business that is causing pain points that make you to…

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