Building San Diego's Product Management Community
14 May 2025 · 28 min
This is an interview-style podcast (Tacos & Tech) from May 2025 where host Neal Bloom speaks with Vidya Dinamani, a product leader and community builder. Vidya recounts her path from a physics degree through software engineering, an MBA, and a long product leadership tenure at Intuit where customer-centric practices ("follow me home" and design-thinking) shaped her approach. She describes founding Product Rebels, launching San Diego Product Tank meetups (now ~2,500 community members), and organizing a curated Product Management Summit in San Diego to connect product professionals, share best practices (including AI's impact), and strengthen the local ecosystem. The episode also includes local cultural touches (tacos, meetup venues).
