The Post-IPO PM Playbook Is Being Rewritten

The Post-IPO PM Playbook Is Being Rewritten

From The Skip Podcast by Nikhyl Singhal

March 18, 2026 · 58 min

About this episode

This episode discusses the evolving landscape of product management in post-IPO companies with insights from CPOs of Hims & Hers, Rubrik, and Figma.

Most of the conversation about rebuilding product management comes from two ends of the spectrum: AI-first startups with 30 people and no real installed base, or big tech with thousands of PMs and decades of process. This episode is about the third category: companies that went public in the last few years, have real customers and revenue to protect, and are now trying to move like startups again. The CPOs of Hims & Hers, Rubrik, and Figma joined me to discuss what that actually looks like. Several of their findings directly contradict the advice you'd get from either end of the spectrum. Key topics • Why going public doesn't mean replacing your PM team with "business people" • Why AI makes PM workload explode, not shrink • What happens when engineering is no longer the bottleneck • The skill Figma values most at scale (and why speed is the wrong thing to optimize for) • Whether the IPO date is a real line in the sand—and why Yuhki and Anneka land in different places • Why AI adoption at post-IPO companies requires the CPO to go first • How Anneka wrote her team's Claude Code onboarding guide, opened the GitHub repos, and built a triage agent between meetings • Why Dheerja joined…

People in this episode

Host: Nikhyl Singhal

Guests: Hims & Hers, Rubrik, Figma

Topics covered

  • post-IPO product management
  • AI in product management
  • startup culture
  • CPO insights
  • team dynamics
  • product management strategies

Keywords

  • post-IPO
  • product management
  • AI
  • CPO
  • startup
  • team dynamics
  • Hims & Hers
  • Rubrik
  • Figma

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