# Dogfooding - All Guest Insights

*2 guests, 2 mentions*

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## Maya Prohovnik
*Maya Prohovnik*

> "I am constantly yelling at my product team who do not have podcasts and being like, I really don't think that you can build the right things. If they talk to users all the time, they see the data, but all of them, once they finally start doing their podcast, they're like, I get it."

**Insight:** The guest emphasizes dogfooding as a core leadership philosophy, requiring her entire team to become creators to deeply understand user pain points.


## Michael Truell
*Michael Truell*

> "From the very start, our product development process was really about dogfooding, and using the tool intensely every day. And we never wanted to ship anything that wasn't useful to us."

**Insight:** The guest repeatedly emphasizes that their primary product development engine was 'intense' daily use of their own tool, which provided the 'realism' needed to build useful AI features.


