As a PM, your job is to make products and features your users love. But we all know that’s easier said than done. That’s why we made People Driven Products. You’ll learn how to make products people love and get insights from the PM leaders behind some of the fastest growing and most successful tech companies in the world. The show is hosted by Ryan Glasgow, who has over a decade of experience managing products at companies like Weebly and Vurb (acquired by Snapchat) and is now the Founder an ...
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GitHub: Healing Papercuts with Luke Hefson
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When Luke Hefson, now Senior Product Manager, first joined the product team at GitHub he was curious, as most PMs are, about what users honest thoughts were on the product. So he tweeted a simple question asking GitHub users what, if anything, annoyed them about the product. Unexpectedly, received hundreds of responses, retweets, and follow ups fro…
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Marty Cagan on becoming a truly agile team
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A lot of product teams like to say they are agile, but when it comes down to it most teams continue to be driven by sales, roadmaps, and the same “waterfall” strategy of the past. “Most teams are good at delivery but lacking in discovery,” says Marty Cagan, author of Inspired. Cagan notes that frequently product teams are just shipping products and…
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OfferUp: Progress your career by thinking like an entrepreneur with Vlad Gasan
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To succeed in a constantly evolving industry, Product Managers can’t afford to settle for the status quo and need to be constantly hungry for new answers to old questions. “Every great product manager is an entrepreneur,” Vlad Gasan, Principal Product Manager at OfferUp and author of The Ultimate Guide To Becoming a Product Manager, says in the epi…
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Productboard: What it really means to be customer-centric with SK
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As a product manager, there is nothing more exciting than seeing the feature you built be greatly received and widely adopted by your users. But how do you ensure that your roadmap will be valuable to both existing and prospective customers? “If you only listen to your existing customers they will keep your roadmap buzzing for a while, but in the l…
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Thank you for tuning into People Drive Products by Sprig, formerly UserLeap. After a name change, a site re-brand, and a couple product additions, we are ready to bring you season 2 to share more episodes with new guests!By Sprig
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Wise: Creating a culture expects “thoughtful mistakes” with Clara Nobre, Senior PM
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At fintech company Wise (formerly TransferWise), product managers — and all employees from designers to engineers — are empowered to speak directly with customers to advance the product. But the company, which enables people to transfer money abroad at lower costs, also recognizes that you can’t have innovation without failure. “We are quite open t…
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Shift: Driving more effectiveness and productivity through empathy, with Adam Johnston, Director of Product and Design
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Adam Johnston is not a car guy. Yet, two-and-a-half years ago he took on the job of Director of Product and Design at Shift, an ecommerce platform for buying and selling used cars. Adam was drawn to the position and company because of its vision — making car buying and owning a simple and trustworthy process for everybody. It’s that customer-focuse…
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Pandora: How to become a PM skilled in 'ruthless prioritization' with Ananya Sharan, Senior PM
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As a Senior Product Manager at music and podcast discovery platform Pandora, Ananya always keeps the end-user in mind as she delivers on her passion for building user-centric search experiences, driving value both for target customers and internal leadership teams. After working as a product management intern, Ananya was sure of her career path. No…
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Box: A 3-step PM roadmap for launching fast growing products with Alok Ojha, VP of Products
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As the VP of Products at cloud content management platform Box, Alok Ojha leads security and enterprise product portfolios, driving Box's product strategy, long-term roadmap and vision. Alok has extensive experience launching products in the enterprise software industry — he's worked at leading enterprise SaaS companies like Proofpoint and RSA, as …
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Indeed: The 3 keys to value-based decision making with Nissim Lehyani, Senior Director of Product Management
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As a Senior Director of Product Management at job site Indeed, Nissim Lehyani is helping the company adapt to shifting job seeker needs for about 250 million people who visit the platform every month. For Nissim, product management is about reducing friction and enabling a better path that gets people to a desired outcome. Product managers need to …
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TrueAccord: Lessons from building 20 products in 20+ years with Laura Marino, Chief Product Officer
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Laura Marino, Chief Product Officer for TrueAccord, started her career in civil engineering developing software for reservoir operations and hydrologic simulation. When she realized she truly wanted to work in software, she went back to school, got her Master’s degree in management, science, and engineering and has since managed 20 different produc…
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Amplitude: How culture impacts the role of product management with John Cutler - Head of Product Research & Education
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The role of a product manager is not to be a mini-CEO, according to John Cutler, Head of Product Research & Education at Amplitude. The product manager should not be the only decider. Instead, the product manager should function as a team facilitator bringing context and guiding discussions. John was fanatical about that view of the product manager…
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Atlassian: Lessons from 5,000 pieces of feedback with Matt Tse, Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Cloud
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As a Senior Product Manager at Atlassian, Matt Tse uses his experience in product discovery and design thinking to help customers find success with products, such as Jira and Confluence Cloud. A native of Canada, Matt found a welcome change of pace when he moved to Australia and joined the Atlassian team. At the time, Atlassian was in the midst of …
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Wealthfront: Building a loyal, trusting consumer base with Dan Slate - Senior Director of PM
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As the Senior Director of Product Management at Wealthfront, Dan Slate oversees teams that are building products to create a financial system that favors people over institutions. Wealthfront's CEO, Andy Rachleff, is famous for saying you can't iterate your way to product market fit, "Either the dog eats the food or they don't." This rings true in …
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