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SUMMARY:ProductTank Vienna - AI-Native Product Building & Growth
LOCATION:Journi Gmbh
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  people going\n\nAI-Native Product Building and Growth\nHow skills\, roles
 \, and processes change and what's the new gold.\n\n🍹🌴 ProductTank Vienna 
 is back with our Summer Edition — and we're tackling the question at the h
 eart of every product conversation right now: in a world where AI has made
  building faster and cheaper than ever\, what actually moves the needle?\n
 \nJoin Vincent Jong (ex CPO Leadfeeder x Dealfront) and Mario Deubler (ex 
 CPO Passion.io and 120 Ventures) — two product leaders who've been living 
 this shift from the inside — for a candid\, opinionated evening on AI-nati
 ve building\, how roles and processes are being redrawn\, and where the re
 al value creation is moving. Expect honest takes\, lively discussion\, and
  room to push back.\n\nAgenda\n6:15 pm – Doors Open & Welcome\n6:30 pm – W
 elcome by Markus Rothmüller & Journi\n6:45 pm – The AI-First Playbook: Bui
 lding and Growing a Business with AI – Vincent\n7:15 pm – What AI-Native M
 eans for Product Roles and Leadership – Mario\n7:45 pm – Open Discussion &
  Q&A with Markus Rothmüller\n8:15 pm – Networking\, Snacks and Free Drinks
  by Journi\n10:00 pm – Closing Doors\n\nTalk 1: The AI-First Playbook: Bui
 lding and Growing a Business with AI (Vincent Jong)\n\nWithin 12 months\, 
 Vincent built four production-ready SaaS products with real paying custome
 rs — by himself. No team. No agency.\n\nBut here's what nobody talks about
 : as building got easier\, growth got harder. The same forces that let one
  person ship in weeks have flooded the market with noise. Distribution is 
 broken. Old PLG playbooks have shifted from top-of-funnel acquisition to a
  much harder game of qualification\, conversion\, and retention. And stand
 ing out when anyone can build anything has become the defining challenge o
 f the AI era.\n\nIn this talk\, Vincent pulls back the curtain on what bui
 lding and growing actually looks like today: the stack\, the constraints\,
  the failures\, and the strategies that do work — from designing for zero 
 human intervention from day one\, to why your product needs a sharp point 
 of view rooted in real domain expertise\, to why radical cost efficiency b
 eats fundraising for most early-stage bets.\n\nHis advice to the product p
 eople: If you can build something in two weeks and put it in front of real
  users\, you don't need a discovery interview. But if your ICP isn't genui
 nely excited — stop. Because finding customers has never been harder. And 
 building has never been easier. That asymmetry is the only thing that matt
 ers right now.\n\nTalk 2: What AI-Native Means for Product Roles and Leade
 rship (Mario Deubler)\n\nAI has quietly rewritten what a product person ac
 tually does\, and the old assembly line of PM to designer to engineer is c
 ollapsing into something new: one person who can own a customer problem fr
 om first conversation to shipped product. Mario shares what that shift loo
 ked like from the inside of his own move to an AI-native way of working\, 
 and what it means for how product teams and orgs get built.\n\nThe shift e
 veryone's missing isn't about tools — it's about the role. What a product 
 person is is being redrawn: from one specialist in a handoff chain to one 
 person who can own a customer problem end to end. And this changes how org
 s are built\, not just how individuals work. When leaders step back down i
 nto hands-on work\, the team stops running on headcount and starts running
  on leverage\, fed by shared context that reaches every person and every a
 gent.\n\nHis advice to the product people: get closer to the building and 
 get more business-fluent. The ones who thrive own the whole loop\, not a s
 lice of it.\n\nAbout the Speakers\nVincent Jong is an AI-native product bu
 ilder\, founder of SaaS on the Beach and AI Campus Barcelona\, and author 
 of Product-Led Sales. As former CPO at Dealfront x Leadfeeder\, he spent f
 our years at Leadfeeder moving from VP Product to CPO to navigating the me
 rger with Echobot and Dealfront before stepping out to build his own ideas
 . He now helps founders and product teams figure out what growth actually 
 looks like when building has become a commodity.\n\nMario Deubler started 
 as a software engineer in 2006 and spent nearly two decades in and around 
 product\, co-founding the influencer-marketing platform exomatch\, then ho
 lding Head of Product and CPO roles at BuzzBird\, Passion.io\, and Temedic
 a\, and most recently CPO at 120 Ventures. At Passion.io he helped scale t
 he US-based business from 100k to 10 million ARR in 18 months with the hel
 p of Product-led-Growth. Today he works as a Principal Product Operator (H
 igh-IC)\, helping teams transition to a fully AI-native way of building\, 
 and building alongside them\, hands-on\, not from a slide deck.\n\nLocatio
 n & Networking 🌴\nWe're heading to the Journi offices in Vienna's 14th dis
 trict — Goldschlagstraße 172/4/2/2-3\, 1140 Wien. Join us after the talks 
 for some summer networking\, drinks and snacks!
URL:https://www.meetup.com/producttank-vienna/events/315817574/
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