How technology gets built, shipped, and adopted.
The story behind the thing, and the stories behind that. Every product you use arrived through a chain of decisions. Some brilliant, some accidental, and most of them invisible from the outside. Each episode takes a product, company, or market shift and follows it all the way down.
One subject at a time
Each episode picks a single topic and treats it like a case file. The lens is a technology leader's eye for details the headlines skip and the hype cycle buries. Made for product leaders, engineers, founders, and the operators making build-or-buy calls.
Your host
Brian Fending
Brian Fending spent decades building and running technology inside public, private, and nonprofit organizations, which is the lens the show runs on. He writes on technology strategy and leadership at brianfending.com. What the decisions reveal is the whole point.
Products & Companies is produced by MADE, Inc. Media, the media practice of MADE, Inc. To sponsor an episode, reach out through the network →