Jake Bowen-Bate
Jake Bowen-Bate has been building digital products as a project manager and more recently as a product manager for almost twenty years, working in digital agencies, tech startups, and global corporations. He is currently Product Lead at Amiqus, a regtech scale-up headquartered in Edinburgh. Jake lives in rural Scotland with his husband and dog and, in his free time, is also a Captain in the Army Reserves and a keen runner, hiker, and target rifle shot. He has also published two novels inspired by the world of tech, finance and politics.
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Feb. 3, 2026
S4E3: Beyond Dogfooding: Balancing Complexity and Market Insight with Jake Bowen-Bate
What if the thing you are closest to is actually what is blinding you? In this episode, Karl talks with Jake Bowen-Bate about the quiet, human challenges of building products in fast‑moving environments. Jake shares what it really feels like to work in places where you are building the plane, flying it, and still figuring out how the controls work, all while knowing the money might literally run out if you get it wrong. The pressure is real, the workload never quite matches the capacity, and th...
Guest: Jake Bowen-Bate