#38: Building Great Products, Product Leadership & the Future of Work with Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn)
About this episode
Derek Andersen interviews Tomer Cohen about product leadership, building great products, and the impact of AI on the future of work.
Recorded at LinkedIn headquarters in Mountain View, this episode features Tomer Cohen, former Chief Product Officer of LinkedIn and one of the product leaders behind how over one billion professionals connect, work, and create economic opportunity at global scale. In conversation with Derek Andersen, Tomer breaks down what it takes to build great products inside large organizations, how LinkedIn evolved into a mobile-first platform, and what product leadership really means when operating at massive scale. The discussion expands into AI and the future of work, where Tomer explains the rise of the full-stack product builder, how AI is collapsing traditional roles across product, design, and engineering, and why builders who combine vision, empathy, and execution will define the next generation of companies. The episode closes with deeply personal reflections on growth mindset, restraint, resilience, faith, and the idea that true freedom lives in the space between stimulus and response. Follow Tomer - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomercohen Follow Derek - X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/derekjandersen Episode Partners: Delve Delve uses AI agents to handle SOC 2, ISO 27001…
People in this episode
Host: Derek Andersen
Guest: Tomer Cohen
Topics covered
- product leadership
- AI and the future of work
- building great products
- mobile-first platforms
- growth mindset
- resilience
Sponsors
Delve, Pulley
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: LinkedIn
Places: Mountain View
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