Call It Trust, Not Influence (with Trevor Acy)
ProductCamp Conversations by Allison Herbert and Dave Mathias
Episode notes
In this episode of ProductCamp Conversations, Allison Herbert and Dave Mathias sit down with product coach and community builder Trevor Acy to explore what it takes to bring product thinking to a place the tech map skips. Trevor came to product through B2B marketing, then moved home to Mississippi to help founders and teams who don't get a flywheel handed to them. The through-line is trust: small non-disruptive wins instead of "influence without authority," and why AI only gets you to the wrong thing faster if you skip the human discovery.
📌 Topics Covered:
• Inventing product vocabulary and connections where there is no tech flywheel
• Connecting Jackson founders with university and meetup talent
• Reframing influence without authority as trust, earned one checker move at a time
• Why AI speeds delivery and can spe ...Â