<p>In this episode, I sit down with Theresa Gschwandtner, an Austrian-born product marketing powerhouse who built her career across cities like London, Boston, New York, Dublin, and Paris. From scaling LinkedIn’s product marketing to founding Kundra, a startup tackling parental leave, Theresa shares how diverse cultural experiences, authentic leadership, and structure have shaped her career.</p><p><br /></p><p>We dive into:</p><p><br /></p><ul><li>Global product marketing &amp; cultural localization</li><li>Structuring and scaling PMM teams</li><li>Building in public as a founder</li><li>Public speaking and leadership as learnable skills</li><li>The unseen challenges of parental leave in the workplace</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><b>Notable Quotes</b></p><p></p><p>“Public speaking is a skill you can learn—and should. Especially in Europe, we don’t emphasize it enough.”— Theresa Gschwandtner</p><p></p><p>“A good PMM should think like a founder. You own the narrative, the research, the launch, the customer.”</p><p></p><p>“People don’t buy from companies. They buy from people.”</p><p></p><p>“Kundra is me, and I am Kundra. That’s why I decided to build in public.”</p><p></p><p><b>Connect with Theresa</b></p><ul><li><b>LinkedIn:</b> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://linkedin.com/in/theresagschwandtner" target="_blank">Theresa Gschwandtner</a></li><li><b>Website:</b> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.kundra.ai" target="_blank">kundra.ai</a></li><li><b>Podcast:</b> Kundra (on Spotify &amp; Apple Podcasts)</li><li><b>Substack:</b> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://kundra.substack.com" target="_blank">Kundra Notes</a></li><li><b>Instagram:</b> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://instagram.com/kundra.ai" target="_blank">@kundra.ai</a></li></ul>