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Sep 2025
19m 22s

How American Express 4x Its Experimentat...

Hannah Clark - The Product Manager
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Every product leader wrestles with the same tradeoff: move fast and risk breaking things, or move slow and risk irrelevance. But what if the real accelerator wasn’t cutting corners—it was systematizing experimentation? In this episode, Hannah Clark sits down with Jean Castanon, VP of Digital Product at American Express, to explore how his team quadrupled the ... Show More
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