One day in Los Angeles, I received an email from a friend and past guest of the 100 PM podcast telling me I should meet Mike Belsito.
It didn't take long to understand why the connection was made. We've both been called to the same mission: to support the product community.
It just so happens that Mike's doing it from an unlikely place: Cleveland, Ohio.
Mike is the co-founder of Product Collective, a fast-growing community of product people from across the world who come together in conversation and, once a year, in person, at INDUSTRY: The Product Conference to share ideas and best practices and to learn from each other.
I witnessed firsthand how tirelessly Mike and his team work to make INDUSTRY a success. Which explains why it's the world fastest growing product conference (about to make its European debut in Dublin in April 2018). It also explains why I needed to wait until after the conference to finally sit down with Mike and hear his story.
Tune in below for this special edition of 100 Product Managers.

In this episode:
- Where do startups go wrong with implementing OKRs
- Can OKRs really scale for enterprise?
- What are pipelines and how do they change the way we think about product roadmaps?

In this episode:
- From retail to product management
- Why relationship building is the number one required skill a product manager could have
- The value of having confidence with humility

In this episode:
- Establishing a clear vision of your career path
- Using metrics to answer burning product questions
- What product managers can learn from biology