Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn, and he's launching a new podcast called Building One.

And we're going to share the debut episode with you here today.

But first, I have Tomer here with me to quickly tell you who he is and why he's launching this podcast, which is part of LinkedIn's podcast network.

Big technology, as you may know, is part of the network, which features independent shows like mine and in-house shows like Tomers.

And I'm so glad to see it expand.

So Tomer, welcome.

Thank you, Alex.

It's great to be here.

Great to have you, at least briefly, before we queue up your episode.

So I was just, I just listened to building one. And it's clear that, you know, it's a product for, yeah, it's a product for product managers and product leaders and anyone building something. So what are you hoping they get out

of it? Yeah, it's really a product, a product for anybody who has a passion for building.

That's kind of how I grew up. I just happened to have this job, which is kind of also my passion.

I used to do this internally at LinkedIn and it got the people across the company

to come and listen to people who are building products and companies and learn from their experience.

And I thought it would be amazing to take it outside. Right. And so just to queue up the interview

that you're about to do with Cameron Adams, Cameron used to be on the team that built Google Wave.

And I think it's kind of interesting to see how failures play into some of the things that people

do later in life. And Google Wave was this very public failure. And clearly, that's not the end of the story for Cameron or the people that worked on it.

So can you talk a little bit? I mean, we're going to spoil the episode a little bit, but talk a little bit about what you thought hearing that from Cameron.

I thought it was great. It was actually, I had a very similar experience in my past, not something as public as Google Wave, but you could see for his

experience working at Google with some of the best technologies in the world where the goal for

them was to take a really unique technology and try to find a solution for, like a problem for

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