PRODUCTEA with Leah, Growth & Senior Leadership
Honest, unfiltered conversations with the best from tech - spilling the tea about product, growth, and senior leadership topics.
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Episodes
82 episodes
82: Maranda Dziekonski - When selling never ends - CS in 2024 and beyond
Maranda Dziekonski on the evolving landscape of customer success, the importance of driving value for customers, and owning revenue outcomes for a function that traditionally never has. Like product.Why the traditional role is shifting t...
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Episode 32
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81: Kyle Poyar - Rethinking pipeline responsibility and MQLs
What is driving a company's value in 2024? How do we identify and copy trends that work until they don’t anymore? Why is product-led growth no longer a differentiator but becoming a table stake fast?Why is everyone suddenly providing a p...
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Episode 31
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80: Leah Tharin - The Art and Pain of Public Speaking
Vincent Pierri interviews me (Leah Tharin) about my journey into public speaking, particularly within the tech industry. How I found a platform, overcame stage fright, and built confidence. How does it feel to speak to different audience ...
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Episode 30
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79: Erin Papworth - Transitioning a product upmarket from B2C to B2B
Learnings from the transition from B2C to B2B in the fintech space focus on what can be carried over and what not. Forming behavioral habits and the challenges of building a sustainable business model while addressing the social determina...
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Episode 29
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78: Radhika Dutt - The Power of Shared Vision
The importance of vision, careful pivots, and the balance between innovation and optimization. Her concept of a vision is, to me, one of the very few that I think is actually cutting through the noise and has an impact aside from th...
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Episode 28
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77: Amanda Daering - Effective Team Management Strategies, Leaders vs Managers
We discuss the complexities of change management, the importance of direct communication, and the evolving dynamics of workplace relationships vs in the past. How to build trust within teams, the significance of clarity in roles, and the challe...
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Episode 27
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76: Malte Scholz: Product Management in 2024 and beyond
The dynamics of leadership in product management, the importance of a low-hierarchy organization, the challenges of founder mode, and the balance between control and empowerment.Data in product management, the limitations of traditional ...
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Episode 26
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75: Kevan Lee & Shannon Deep - Understanding Brand beyond visuals
SummaryThe branding experts Shannon Deep and Kevin Lee dig into exploring the multifaceted nature of brand measurement and strategy.Misconceptions surrounding brands and risks associated with brand decisions, the importance...
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Episode 25
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74: Ami Vora - Unconventional Lessons in Senior Leadership
Ami Vora, CPO at Faire, brilliantly lays out a lot of concepts about how she views senior leadership:How to build a strong bench of performers, balancing authenticity and urgency. How do you make yourself care about boring topics and fin...
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Episode 24
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73: Austin Hay - BS Marketing, Dogfooding and the future of CRMs
Cringe Marketing, Dogfooding, and the limitations of Hubspot and Salesforce with Austin Hay, the Co-Founder of Clarify (CRM).I talked with Austin on the rise of superficial marketing tactics and what they do to the importance of building...
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Episode 23
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72: Rand Fishkin - Why paid advertising sucks in 2024
If you spend money on paid ads, chances are that you’re being taken advantage of. The biggest providers do it to you because they can and they optimize their systems more and more towards it.Rand Fishkin and me discuss the challenges and...
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Episode 22
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71: John Cutler - How to structure a product organization
John Cutler on the challenges of scaling and operating a collaborative product organization. We discuss different mental models for how different functions work together as teams and why it’s important to clarify and document the op...
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Episode 21
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70: Pedro Goés - Building for enterprise customers in an oversaturated market
SummaryPedro Góes, the founder and CEO of InEvent, discusses with me the challenges and strategies of selling to enterprise clients in the event tech industry.Why in-person interactions and relationship-building can’t be be...
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Episode 20
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69: Janna Bastow - The challenges and opportunities AI brings to Product Management.
What is the role of product managers in the age of AI and the potential impact of AI on roadmapping and expectation management?Janna Bastow, CEO & Co-Founder ProdPad / Co-Founder of Mind the Product, shares her perspective on how AI ...
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Episode 19
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68: Vijay Iyengar: Unbundling PLG and why BI tools are not good for analysis
When is PLG just a fad? Vijay Iyengar, Senior Director of Product at Mixpanel discusses with me about the misconceptions around PLG and the role of analytics in driving business growth and why first principles is in our field the only thing we ...
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Episode 18
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67: Laura Schaffer: Layering self-serve into a Sales-led gig at Amplitude
Laura Schaffer, VP Product Growth @ Amplitude shares her experience of launching a self-serve paid plan and a free plan at Amplitude, a sales-led organization.We discuss the changing landscape of selling, the power of self-serve product...
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Episode 17
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66: Henrique Cruz - AHA! How to define and reach User activation
SummaryActivation and aha moments in product growth with Henrique Cruz, Head of Growth at Rows.com. How to find the right activation metric that predicts retention and how to iterate on the onboarding flow to improve activation.<...
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Episode 16
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47:09
65: Guillaume "G" Cabane - The Future of Marketing in an AI-Dominated Landscape
SummaryGuillaume Cabane and I discuss the future of marketing and the role of humans in a landscape dominated by AI and automation. We’re talking about what does drive marketing and sales teams, and how their future will lo...
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Episode 15
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64: Kristen Berman - Behavioral science and product growth
SummaryKristen Berman, the Co-Founder of Irrational Labs discusses with me the psychology behind decision-making, the importance of understanding human behavior in product design, and the limitations of traditional research metho...
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Episode 14
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63: Kyle Pursell - Paths into Growth with the Head of Growth Optimization at Shopify
SummaryKyle Pursell, the Head of Growth Optimization at Shopify, talks about impactful business strategies for growth.What is the challenge of moving upmarket, and the role of product-led growth in driving this success. And...
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Episode 13
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62: Kieran Flanagan: The state of AI in 2024 in Tech
SummaryIn the second conversation with Kieran Flanagan, SVP Marketing at Hubspot we talk about how we see AI really being used in tech and not just being a flashy thing you use once. From Sales, to Marketing to Product. W...
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Episode 12
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61: Dennis R. Mortensen - How to win with building for productivity
Dennis R. Mortensen is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of LaunchBrightly, which makes money by automating the most annoying things in our work lives (through AI).We talk about why it’s important to own your own data set for compet...
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Episode 11
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60: Andrew Ettinger - Community-led growth in enterprise sales
SummaryI talked with the amazing Andrew Ettinger from Appen about community-led growth in enterprise sales, the importance of cross-functional understanding, and the transformation of content and community in the sales process.&nb...
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Episode 10
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59: Dani Grant - In-person Community building in a PLG product at Jam.Dev
SummaryJam.dev created a tool called Jam that helps product managers and engineers communicate and debug bugs more effectively. The company has grown to over 100,000 users and has fixed more than 2 million bugs.They have ad...
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Episode 9
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58: Andy Johns - Stop. Burnout within High Performers
SummaryBurnout and the pursuit of external validation in tech. The pressure to constantly achieve and the belief that success will bring happiness and fulfillment is driving some of us into ruin. It almost did with And...
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Episode 8
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