From Feature Factory to Value Creation | The Product People Podcast
Fri Jan 16 2026
Welcome to the last episode of the 5th season of the Product People Podcast! For this special occasion, we’ve sat with Andrew Quan, VP of Product at Moonfare. In this episode, Andrew reflects on his journey from strategy consulting to product leadership across companies like PayPal, Google, and Tier Mobility.
Andrew shares how product teams get stuck in feature-factory mode and what it actually takes to escape it: shifting decision-making culture, treating top-down decisions as hypotheses, and tying outcomes to team-level accountability. The conversation dives into the real role of product leadership at scale, where influencing without authority, building trust, and understanding people matter more than any framework.
We also explore how Moonfare is approaching AI beyond hype: from productivity gains and developer efficiency to revenue uplift, operational automation, and synthetic user interviews for hard-to-reach customer segments. Andrew closes by outlining what he looks for when hiring PMs today: curiosity, agency, empathy, and the ability to zoom out before zooming in.
A must-listen for PMs and product leaders navigating growth, AI adoption, and the human side of building products in mid-stage organizations.About us:
Product People is the premier destination for Product Management services in Europe. We cover parental leaves, discover/deliver great products, and accelerate transformation by acting as bar-raising pacesetters. Our in-house recruitment process has a 0.5% acceptance rate.
We empower our Product community of 60,000 members to share knowledge generously whilst managing the unglamorous hands-on work of a Product/Program Manager or Product Ops, on an interim/fractional basis (3-12 months). We onboard fast, align teams, and deliver outcomes.
Selected clients include eBay, DeepL, and the World Health Organization.
Join us here too:
🤩 Community Chat on Telegram
📆 Upcoming events on MeetUp
🎥 Talk Recordings on YouTube
📌 Updates and Product Opportunities LinkedIn
📍 Our In-Person Events in lu.ma
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit getproductpeople.substack.com
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Welcome to the last episode of the 5th season of the Product People Podcast! For this special occasion, we’ve sat with Andrew Quan, VP of Product at Moonfare. In this episode, Andrew reflects on his journey from strategy consulting to product leadership across companies like PayPal, Google, and Tier Mobility. Andrew shares how product teams get stuck in feature-factory mode and what it actually takes to escape it: shifting decision-making culture, treating top-down decisions as hypotheses, and tying outcomes to team-level accountability. The conversation dives into the real role of product leadership at scale, where influencing without authority, building trust, and understanding people matter more than any framework. We also explore how Moonfare is approaching AI beyond hype: from productivity gains and developer efficiency to revenue uplift, operational automation, and synthetic user interviews for hard-to-reach customer segments. Andrew closes by outlining what he looks for when hiring PMs today: curiosity, agency, empathy, and the ability to zoom out before zooming in. A must-listen for PMs and product leaders navigating growth, AI adoption, and the human side of building products in mid-stage organizations.About us: Product People is the premier destination for Product Management services in Europe. We cover parental leaves, discover/deliver great products, and accelerate transformation by acting as bar-raising pacesetters. Our in-house recruitment process has a 0.5% acceptance rate. We empower our Product community of 60,000 members to share knowledge generously whilst managing the unglamorous hands-on work of a Product/Program Manager or Product Ops, on an interim/fractional basis (3-12 months). We onboard fast, align teams, and deliver outcomes. Selected clients include eBay, DeepL, and the World Health Organization. Join us here too: 🤩 Community Chat on Telegram 📆 Upcoming events on MeetUp 🎥 Talk Recordings on YouTube 📌 Updates and Product Opportunities LinkedIn 📍 Our In-Person Events in lu.ma This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit getproductpeople.substack.com