Eric Boduch on product management
From The Side Quest with Eric Boduch · · GrepBeat
“I think a lot of people early on with AI are like we're at the death of the product manager. I'm like no absolutely not. I like the golden age of product management. Yeah. So to that end, is super important. Product management skills super important.”
On , Eric Boduch, Cofounder at Pendo, spoke about product management during The Side Quest with Eric Boduch on GrepBeat.
About Eric Boduch
Eric Boduch, cofounder of Pendo, appeared on the podcast *The Side Quest* on May 5, 2026, where he discussed his venture studio 24 and up. He described the studio as an "unpaid co-founder" that helps entrepreneurs prototype, test ideas, build initial products, find design partners and customers, and raise funding over a 24-month period. During the interview, Boduch offered several observations about the current startup landscape. He stated that "AI has thrown everything up" and that pattern matching, which was important in the "golden era of SaaS," can now be a "big negative." He also argued that "it's the golden age of product management," contrary to claims that AI signals the end of the role. Additionally, Boduch said that "design and product become more of a bottleneck than engineering," noting that tasks that once took six months can now be done in a day or two, shifting the bottleneck away from writing code.