💡 Product Circle ⭕ Chat - Money Stories and Earning Our Keep with Rich Mironov

​Welcome to 💡 Product Circle ⭕ Chat on
🕔 Wednesday 11 March 2026 at 6:30pm (AEST - Sydney)
🕕 Wednesday 11 March 2026 at 7:30am (Lisbon, Portugal)

​Topic: Money Stories and Earning Our Keep

​💥 Don’t Bring a Backlog to a Gunfight

​Inside product, engineering, and design teams, we tend to speak in process language: backlogs, sprints, prioritisation, dependencies, uncertainty.

​But the people we rely on most — sales, marketing, customer success, finance — don’t care how we build products.

​Worse, our process talk often sounds like excuses.

​So how do we change the conversation?

​In this Product Circle Chat, Rich Mironov challenges product leaders to:

​​💰 Stop defending how we work
​💰 Start clearly explaining why our work matters
​💰 Learn to speak the language of money, not process
​💰 Show credibly that product teams are earning their keep

​This session is about reframing product work in terms that resonate with executives and go-to-market teams — without selling out product principles.

​If you’ve ever struggled to justify roadmap decisions, headcount, or investment… this one’s for you.

​What We’ll Explore

​ ✅ Why “process talk” fails with executives and GTM teams

​ ✅How to translate product decisions into economic impact

​ ✅What Money Stories actually look like in practice

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​About Rich Mironov

​Rich Mironov is a 40-year veteran of Silicon Valley product management.

​He has: ✨Led six B2B software startups (with three exits)

​✨Served as interim VP Product / CPO 15 times

​✨ Worked with 200+ product organisations as a coach and advisor

​Rich has been writing about software product management since 2002, launched the first Product Camps, and is the author of:

​💲 Money Stories: Communicating the Value of Product Work

​💡 The Art of Product Management

​He’s widely respected for cutting through product theatre and helping teams connect their work directly to business outcomes.

​You can find more of Rich’s thinking at mironov.com.

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Zoom Link: See invite

​✨Attend and WIN ✨

​You know we always have something special to giveaway at every chat. This one is no different!

​​🏆Live attendees have the chance to WIN Rich’s brand new book “Money Stories”


✨Virtual Networking ✨

​The first hour of the Chat will be recorded. Afterward, stay on for live networking with product and tech peers from around the world—no recording, just meaningful connections.

Mark your calendar, bring your questions for Rich!

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✨Huge Speakers Booked✨

​We have great global product speakers booked every second week!!

​If you missed our past speakers, catch up on the recordings with Christian Idiodi, Petra Wille, Jason Knight, April Dunford, Bob Moesta and many other Leaders!

​All Product Circle Chat recording will be posted at https://theproductvenn.substack.com/

​thanks,

​Irene

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Irene Liakos

​Product

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