On this episode of Zero to One, Sandy Huang joins me to unpack a career spent building and scaling category defining products across Minted, Flipboard, Amazon and GoodRx.

We get into the early zero to one moments that shaped how she builds, from scrappy startup execution to leading multimodal search and shopping for Amazon. Sandy breaks down the core drivers behind the growth at Minted and Flipboard, why personalization moves the needle more than anything else, and how she thinks about flywheels in consumer and marketplace environments.

We talk through what Amazon taught her about scale, writing, critical thinking and debate, and why those mechanisms still shape how she partners with founders and product leaders today.

Sandy also shares a rare look into the process behind patenting technology, how she built her product sense through years of studying human behavior, and why sharpening judgment is becoming one of the most important skills for PMs in the AI era.

We close with a deep dive on responsible AI, the shift toward senior IC tracks in product, and the advice she’d give the next generation of PMs as they build in a world of more tools, more noise and much higher expectations.

A brilliant conversation with one of the most thoughtful product leaders in the field. Let’s get into it.