Spotlight · season 1 · recording now

Leaders, in conversation.

Anna sits down with the people who decide what gets built. Each long-form interview is published with a written deep dive: context, decision, trade-off, lesson.

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01 · The format

Six questions, every guest.

The problemWhat problem did you think you were solving, and when did you find out it was a different one?
The decisionThe hardest product call you made: what you knew, and what you had to guess.
The trade-offWhat you gave up to ship it, and whether you would pay that price again.
The teamHow engineering, design and the business came to commit to the same bet.
The metricWhich number told you it was working, and which number lied.
The lessonOne principle another product leader can use on Monday.
Your reviewGuests check their quotes for accuracy before anything is published.
Your clipsShort vertical cuts of your best answers, cleared for your channels.
02 · Why guests come on

A considered portrait, not a hot take.

Your decisions written up as a case other product people learn from, read by people who build software products, not a general feed.

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03 · ProductBrew teardowns

Three systems you use every day.

60-second scripted episodes plus deep dives, built only from papers and engineering blogs. They show the depth each interview goes to.

EP.07 · ProductBrew teardown · ≈60 s

Netflix doesn't show you my poster

Why Netflix shows every member a different poster for the same title, and the one rule the system obeys

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EP.08 · ProductBrew teardown · ≈60 s

Airbnb knows your taste after one session

How Airbnb turned 800 million search sessions into listing embeddings, and the trick that handles brand-new listings

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EP.09 · ProductBrew teardown · ≈58 s

The sentence you've read a thousand times

How Amazon's “customers who bought this also bought” works, and what it deliberately ignores at request time

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