ProductTank Vienna - AI-Native Product Building & Growth

AI-Native Product Building and Growth
How skills, roles, and processes change and what's the new gold.

🍹🌴 ProductTank Vienna is back with our Summer Edition! We're tackling the question at the heart of every product conversation right now: in a world where AI has made building faster and cheaper than ever, what actually moves the needle?

Join Vincent Jong (ex CPO Leadfeeder x Dealfront) and Mario Deubler (ex CPO Passion.io and 120 Ventures) — two product leaders who've been living this shift from the inside — for a candid, opinionated evening on AI-native building, how roles and processes are being redrawn, and where the real value creation is moving. Expect honest takes, lively discussion, and room to push back.

Agenda

• 6:15 pm – Doors Open & Welcome
• 6:30 pm – Welcome by Markus Rothmüller & Journi
• 6:45 pm – The AI-First Playbook: Building and Growing a Business with AI – Vincent
• 7:15 pm – What AI-Native Means for Product Roles and Leadership – Mario
• 7:45 pm – Open Discussion & Q&A with Markus Rothmüller
• 8:15 pm – Networking, Snacks and Free Drinks by Journi
• 10:00 pm – Closing Doors

Talk 1: The AI-First Playbook: Building and Growing a Business with AI (Vincent Jong)

Within 12 months, Vincent built four production-ready SaaS products with real paying customers — by himself. No team. No agency.

But here's what nobody talks about: as building got easier, growth got harder. The same forces that let one person ship in weeks have flooded the market with noise. Distribution is broken. Old PLG playbooks have shifted from top-of-funnel acquisition to a much harder game of qualification, conversion, and retention. And standing out when anyone can build anything has become the defining challenge of the AI era.

In this talk, Vincent pulls back the curtain on what building and growing actually looks like today: the stack, the constraints, the failures, and the strategies that do work — from designing for zero human intervention.

📍 Location: Goldschlagstraße 172/4/2-3, meetup1, Vienna