Product Love

Bootstrapping. Pricing. Freemium. Three words that incite fear in most product-minded people. But don’t close your tab just yet. This week on Product Love, I sat down with Patrick Campbell, who has managed to turn those three things into a pretty successful company called Profitwell.

This week on Product Love, I sat down with Nir Eyal to discuss his new book, what new technology means, and how to actually conduct good meetings.

This week on Product Love, I sat down with Deon, the CEO of Forethought to discuss AI, and his perspective on increasing product-market fit.

This week on Product Love, I sat down with Benjamin Earl Evans, inclusive design lead at AirBnB. In this episode, Ben discusses the importance of inclusive design, and the three types of bias that product managers tend to fall victim to.

This week on Product Love, I sat down with Oji Udezue, VP of Product at Calendly. Before Calendly, he was the Head of Product at Atlassian. While Oji and I joked a lot about the enigmatic 10x product manager that came from Twitter memes, he also expressed how the role has gotten a bit mysterious.  We also discussed the human side of building software, and how to optimize customer calls.

This week on Product Love, I talked to Mada Seghete, cofounder of Branch.io, as well as Head of Strategy and Market Development. Branch.io is a mobile linking and attribution platform. This week on Product Love, we talked about how companies can drive mobile growth and virality in product.

  This week on Product Love, I talked to Jason Vandeboom, CEO and Founder of ActiveCampaign. ActiveCampaign is an email marketing, marketing automation, sales automation and CRM software platform for small-to-mid-sized businesses.    Growing up, he always had a passion for building things. His entrepreneurial career started from finding jobs online where he could provide services like web design, custom solutions, or intranets. He even had a consulting job at a local internet agency. But unlike what you expected, he pursued fine arts in college. He admits it’s a weird blend, but the mix of science and art inevitably leads to product.    This week on Product Love, Jason and I talked about the freedom and limitations of bootstrapping, as well as making champions out of your customers.

At MemberClicks, product managers have to be entrepreneurs that own the product from top to bottom. Meaning, during pre-launch, they own the entire lifecycle. They do the initial marketing, positioning, sales, and support calls. This way, they're able to witness how the customer feels each product lifecycle, and they're able to make fixes as they go. This also helps build the credibility for product managers within their own organization.

This week on Product Love, I talked to Marty Duffy, VP of Product at G2Crowd. G2Crowd is is the world’s largest tech marketplace where businesses can discover, review, and manage the technology they need to reach their potential. We talked about how Marty hires product managers at G2 (he even provides a homework example!), and how he builds an environment for PMs to go faster.

This week on Product Love, I caught up with Jay Brewer, the VP of Experience Design at Rapid7. Jay shares what experience design entails in the security space, and how product managers can optimize from learning about experience design. He also shares how working in video games has benefitted his sense of product thinking.