Crave Connection - In Product
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Crave Connection is a podcast for people who care about building better connections in the digital product world.
Each month, Adi - founder of In Product - sits down with guests from across Product, Design, and Engineering to share honest conversations, real stories, and different perspectives from our community.
Every topic is chosen by the In Product community and explores how we work, lead, and collaborate to create connections In Product.
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Crave Connection - In Product
Episode #11 'Product Growth in Regulated Industries' Building Fast with Compliance.
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🔥 This episode follows our latest In Product Meetup 'Product Growth in Regulated Industries: Building Fast Without Breaking Compliance', where we got into the reality of what it actually takes to build and ship products when regulation is part of the equation.
In this group episode, we go deeper on the questions and moments that didn't feel finished on the night, with three brilliant product and legal voices sharing their honest experience 👇
💬 Kashyap Shah — CPO, Creditstar
💬 Phoebe Morris — Founder, Legally Influenced
💬 Himmat Bains — Sr Principal Product Manager, Gen
🎯 We explore four big themes that anyone building in a regulated environment will recognise:
✅ What good actually looks like — what compliance and product working well together really means in practice, who owns risk, and how that shows up day to day
✅ Tension and tradeoffs — where speed and regulation genuinely conflict, what happens when people disagree, and where the line sits between protecting customers and overcomplicating their experience
✅ Practical ways of working — the habits and rituals that actually improve collaboration, when compliance should be in the room, and how to bring real customer feedback into risk conversations
✅ Decision-making under uncertainty — how to make calls when regulation is unclear, what doing the right thing looks like when it isn't explicitly required, and what signals tell you your approach is working
We also come back to an idea that ran through the whole conversation:
→ Compliance isn't just a constraint. In the right hands, it's a catalyst for building products people actually trust.
This conversation is honest, practical and full of real experience — for anyone navigating the tension between moving fast and getting it right in a regulated space.