About the show
The story behind the thing (behind the stories behind the things)
Every product you use and every company you've heard of arrived through a chain of decisions. Some brilliant, some accidental, most invisible from the outside. Products & Companies follows that chain. Host Brian Fending takes one product, company, or market shift and traces it all the way down.
Some brilliant, some accidental, most invisible from the outside.
Not another B2B product-placement show or another news recap. Each episode is a deeply researched topic that uses one specific thing as a lens on the larger patterns of how technology actually gets built, shipped, and adopted.
Who it's for
Made for the people who build, fund, and evaluate technology. Product leaders, engineers, founders, venture operators, and the business-side leaders making build-or-buy calls. The throughline is a technology leader's eye for the detail that gets lost in the headlines and the hype cycle.
Your host
Brian Fending
Brian Fending has spent decades building and running technology inside public, private, and nonprofit organizations, most recently as CIO at the American Association for Physician Leadership. He's a senior operator who's done the work the show takes apart. He writes on technology strategy and leadership at brianfending.com.
Products & Companies is produced by MADE, Inc. Media, the media practice of MADE, Inc. For sponsorship inquiries, reach out through the network.