Brought to you by Sidebar —Catalyze your career with a Personal Board of Directors | Maui Nui Venison —The healthiest red meat on the planet delivered directly to your door | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments — Jason Feifer is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine and a former editor at Fast Company . He’s also a podcast host, book author, keynote speaker, and startup advisor. Every week, he shares tips in his newsletter, One Thing Better , to help people become happier and more e...
Oct 12, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, an issue-tracking tool that has quickly become the fastest-growing and most beloved in the world. Before Linear, Karri was the principal designer and co-creator of design systems at Airbnb and the founding designer at Coinbase. In today’s episode, he shares: • How to prioritize craft in product development • The Linear method for modern software development • How Linear operates with only one PM • Why every product needs good design in 2023 • S...
Oct 08, 2023•2 hr 40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Jira Product Discovery —Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Wix Studio —The web creation platform built for agencies — Brian Balfour is the founder and CEO of Reforge. Prior to Reforge, he was the VP of Growth at HubSpot and co-founded three other startups. In today’s episode, Brian shares 10 lessons from his career, growth, and life: • Lesson 1: Inspect the work, not the person. • Lesson 2: Tell me wh...
Oct 05, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | Ezra —The leading full-body cancer screening company — Lane Shackleton is CPO of Coda, where he’s been leading the product and design team for over eight years. Lane started his career as an Alaskan climbing guide and then as a manual reviewer of AdWords ads before becoming a product specialist at Google and later a Group PM at YouTube. He also writes a weekly newsletter with insights an...
Oct 01, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Sidebar —Catalyze your career with a Personal Board of Directors | Wix Studio —The web creation platform built for agencies | LinkedIn Ads —Reach professionals and drive results for your business — Maya Prohovnik is currently Spotify’s Head of Podcast Product. She was employee #1 at Anchor, which was acquired by Spotify in 2019 and now powers more than 80% of all new podcasts created in the world. In 2023, Maya was named one of the Most Important People in Podcasting by The Hol...
Sep 28, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Pendo —The all-in-one platform for product-led companies building breakthrough digital experiences | Wix Studio —The web creation platform built for agencies | Masterworks —Invest in blue-chip art — Nilan Peiris is Chief Product Officer at Wise, one of the fastest-growing (and profitable) tech companies in the world. Wise allows anyone to send money in more than 60 currencies to over 160 countries at low cost, and throughout its history has grown primarily through word of mouth...
Sep 24, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Ezra —The leading full-body cancer screening company | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | LinkedIn Ads —Reach professionals and drive results for your business — Itamar Gilad is a product coach, author, and speaker with over two decades of experience in senior product roles at Google, Microsoft, and various startups. He is also the author of Evidence-Guided: Creating High-Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty and publishes a popular product management newslett...
Sep 21, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Mixpanel —Event analytics that everyone can trust, use, and afford | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | Round —The private network built by tech leaders for tech leaders — Christopher Lochhead is a 14-time #1 bestselling author, top podcaster, and former 3x public tech company CMO and has been an advisor to over 50 VC-backed tech startups. He is best known as a “godfather” of category design, and Adobe named his book Play Bigger one of “the five greatest marketing ...
Sep 17, 2023•2 hr 49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Jira Product Discovery —Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams — Oji Udezue is Chief Product Officer at Typeform and has held leadership roles at Twitter (Head of Product for Creation and Conversation), Calendly (CPO), and Atlassian (Head of Product for communication tools). He is well-known for bringing a product-led-growth (PLG) mindset to the companies he joins. Additionally, Oji mentors startups, is a Managing Partner at the Kernel Fund,...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Mercury —the powerful and intuitive way for ambitious companies to bank | Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life — Andy Johns is a former tech exec and VC who had a successful run at several startups—including Facebook, Twitter, Wealthfront, and Quora—but left it all behind a few years ago to take a new direction in life. Now a mental health advocate, he aids military veterans with PTSD, guides burnt-out high ...
Sep 10, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | Mixpanel —Event analytics that everyone can trust, use, and afford | AssemblyAI —Production-ready AI models to transcribe and understand speech — Claire Butler was Figma’s first GTM hire and their 10th employee. She led Figma’s early GTM strategy from stealth through monetization. She also helped the team through the journey to find product-market fit and built the team that drove Figma’s unique bottom-up growth motion. Eight year...
Sep 07, 2023•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Productroadmap.ai —AI to connect your roadmaps to revenue | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments | OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Tim Holley is VP of Product at Etsy where he leads the Etsy buyer experience. With a tenure spanning more than a decade, Tim has seen the company through many transitions (both in culture, in leadership, and in growth), and his team’s product changes have had a significant impact on buyer retention, conversion, and global expansion. In ...
Sep 03, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | LMNT —Zero-sugar hydration | AssemblyAI —Production-ready AI models to transcribe and understand speech — Meltem Kuran Berkowitz is Head of Growth at Deel, which went from $0 to $300m in ARR in 3 years (fastest company in history to do so). Meltem joined Deel early to lead growth, and currently leads all of the growth and marketing teams including paid ads, content, product marketing, community, brand, a...
Aug 27, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Sidebar —Catalyze your career with a Personal Board of Directors | Merge —A single API to add hundreds of integrations into your app | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments — Bob Moesta is the co-creator of the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework, a close collaborator of Clay Christensen, and CEO and founder of The Re-Wired Group. He has helped launch more than 3,500 new products, services, and businesses and built and sold several startups himself. He is also a fellow at the ...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Merge —A single API to add hundreds of integrations into your app | Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. — Camille Hearst is Head of Fan Monetization at Spotify, where she finds new ways for fans to connect and for artists to monetize. Previously she was Head of Product for Creators at Patreon, Product Marketing Manager at YouTube, the second Product Manager at iTunes, and VP of Product at Hailo. She also co-founded a company called ...
Aug 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster | Mixpanel —Event analytics that everyone can trust, use, and afford | Brave Search API —An independent, global search index you can use to power your search or AI app — Austin Hay is currently Head of Marketing Technology at Ramp and was previously the VP of Business Operations at Runway, the VP of Growth at mParticle, and the fourth employee at the unicorn Branch Metrics. In 2022 he sold his online course, the Marketing Technology Academy...
Aug 13, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | Sidebar —Catalyze your career with a Personal Board of Directors | Merge —A single API to add hundreds of integrations into your app — Christopher Miller serves as the VP of Product for Growth and AI at HubSpot. Having spent the past seven years at HubSpot, Chris has been at the center of one of the biggest B2B growth stories in history—leading HubSpot’s early growth strategy, their shift to PLG, and now their investment in AI. Be...
Aug 10, 2023•2 hr 31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Ezra —The leading full-body cancer screening company | Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Attio —The powerful, flexible CRM for fast-growing startups — Geoff Charles is VP of Product at Ramp—the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time, Fast Company’s #1 Most Innovative Company in North America, and a company I believe we should all study for how they operate, execute, and hire. At Ramp, Geoff has led the product team from the early days, including the development and release o...
Aug 06, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode is brought to you by DX —a platform for measuring and improving developer productivity. — Dr. Nicole Forsgren is a developer productivity and DevOps expert who works with engineering organizations to make work better. Best known as co-author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate and the DevOps Handbook, 2nd edition and author of the State of DevOps Reports , she has helped some of the biggest companies in the world transform their culture, processes, tech, and arch...
Jul 30, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Mixpanel —Event analytics that everyone can trust, use, and afford | Round —The private network built by tech leaders for tech leaders | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments — Ronny Kohavi , PhD, is a consultant, teacher, and leading expert on the art and science of A/B testing. Previously, Ronny was Vice President and Technical Fellow at Airbnb, Technical Fellow and corporate VP at Microsoft (where he led the Experimentation Platform team), and Director of Data Mining and...
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Sidebar —Catalyze your career with a Personal Board of Directors | Superhuman —The fastest email experience ever made | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. — Noah Weiss is Chief Product Officer at Slack, where he leads all aspects of the product organization, including the self-service SMB business, the team that launched huddles and clips, and the search and machine-learning teams. Prior to Slack, Noah served as SVP of Product at Foursquare. He started his career at...
Jul 23, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Brave Search API —An independent, global search index you can use to power your search or AI app | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments — Hari Srinivasan is VP of Product at LinkedIn Talent Solutions, where he oversees LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Jobs, and LinkedIn Learning. He’s also a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University. Previously, he served as the CEO and founder of We Created It, wh...
Jul 16, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | Superhuman —The fastest email experience ever made | AssemblyAI —Production-ready AI models to transcribe and understand speech — Julia Schottenstein is a product lead at dbt Labs, a data transformation company, and an active angel investor in data and infrastructure startups. She first got excited about dbt in 2019 when she was a VC at NEA and decided to make the leap from investor to operator by joining dbt Labs. She also co-hos...
Jul 13, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Brave —The independent, global search index you can use to power your search or AI app | Attio —The powerful, flexible CRM for fast-growing startups | Round —The private network built by tech leaders for tech leaders — Paige Costello is a beloved product leader with a reputation as a remarkable coach and mentor. She is currently the Head of Core Product at Asana, where she leads the group responsible for Asana’s web, desktop, and mobile apps. Prior to that role, she served as t...
Jul 09, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Brave Search API —An independent, global search index you can use to power your search or AI app | Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Superhuman —The fastest email experience ever made — Jiaona Zhang (JZ) is a product leader with a strong background in consumer products and extensive hiring and management experience. She is currently SVP of Product at Webflow as well as a lecturer at Stanford, where she teaches a graduate-level course on ...
Jul 02, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Attio —The powerful, flexible CRM for fast-growing startups | Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments — Sri Batchu currently leads growth at Ramp, the fastest-growing SaaS business (and fintech business) in history. Previously, he led growth strategy and operations at Instacart and was one of the first 50 employees at Opendoor, where he built, scaled, and managed a variety of business teams, including analytics, sales, and pricing. During hi...
Jun 25, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by AssemblyAI —Production-ready AI models to transcribe and understand speech | Mixpanel —Product analytics that everyone can trust, use, and afford | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments — Melissa Tan is an advisor, investor, and growth expert. She’s worked with fast-growing startups like Dropbox, Canva, Grammarly, and Miro, and for the past 2.5 years has been the Head of Growth at Webflow. There, she led the company's self-service business across Product, Marketing, and Gro...
Jun 18, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Mixpanel —Product analytics that everyone can trust, use, and afford | Attio —A powerful, flexible CRM for fast-growing startups | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments — Luc Levesque is Chief Growth Officer at Shopify and has advised companies like Canva, Twitter, Pinterest, and Patreon on growth and product strategy. Previously he served as an executive at TripAdvisor, where he built and led the growth team that helped it become the world’s largest travel site. Luc was th...
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Superhuman —The fastest email experience ever made | Microsoft Clarity —See how people actually use your product | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments — Nikhyl Singhal is VP of Product at Meta, overseeing teams building messaging, groups, stories, and the main Facebook feed. Before that, he served as the Chief Product Officer at Credit Karma and held various leadership roles at Google, leading teams on Google Photos and Google Hangouts. Nikhyl was also co-founder of three...
Jun 11, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brought to you by Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Mixpanel —Product analytics that everyone can trust, use, and afford | Lenny’s Job Board —Hire the best product people. Find the best product gigs — Jeremy Henrickson is Rippling’s SVP of Product, responsible for scaling their product and design team across three continents. Previously, as Chief Product Officer at Coinbase, he oversaw 10x growth of the product and engineering organization and transformed...
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