The Seed Stage - formerly "the June Podcast"

We chat with Brian Donohue the VP of Product at Intercom, known as the great energy bringer in product! 💥 👉 We spoke about:  His journey and lessons as one of the first PMs at Intercom How he built a strong product mission  What makes great “why” statements  How Intercom built and launched their AI, Fin and more! Catch up on the full episode of The June Podcast wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube > https://youtu.be/JsgI38VYZS4  🔗 Where to find Brian Donohue Twitter: https://twitter.com/brian_donohue  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-d-2450192/  📊 Where to find June Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuneDotSo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juneso Website: https://www.june.so/ 👉 The June Podcast is powered by june.so  Discover a new way to do product analytics at june.so

I sat down with Ryan Singer, the Head of Strategy at Basecamp for 17 years, and author of Shape Up, one of the holy grails for product builders.  A builder at heart, Ryan is obsessed with creating better processes for design and development and offered his insights into collaborative work styles, deep programming practices and adapting to industry challenges.  Ryan also touched on effective prototyping, gaining insights from other industries, rethinking the development process, navigating discovery cycles, shaping great ideas, and leveraging storytelling in product development.  ⭐️ What you'll learn in this episode How the software industry is maturing… … and what that means for the way we work Prototyping and the shaping phase of product development  How AI integration will impact products  and more! 🔗 Where to find Ryan Singer Twitter: https://twitter.com/rjs  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/feltpresence/  Felt Presence: https://feltpresence.com/  Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup  📊 Where to find June Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuneDotSo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juneso Website: https://www.june.so/ 👉 The June Podcast is powered by June Discover a new way to do product analytics at june.so

Tune in for an inspiring chat with Scott Belsky, the brilliant mind behind Behance and Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Adobe Creative Cloud, as we navigate the world of product leadership and it's evolving future. Scott shares his journey, product leadership insights, and his tips on conquering the “messy middle” in both big and small companies. We also deep dive into his famous article “The Interface Layer”, how it still inspires product leaders today, and discuss how AI, language models, and augmented reality might revolutionize everything. ⭐️ What you'll learn in this episode how AI will impact professional designers why the future of interfaces is no interfaces how to keep meeting your customers as a busy product leaders and more! 🔗 Where to find Scott Belsky Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottbelsky Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottbelsky/ Website: http://www.scottbelsky.com/ 📊 Where to find June Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuneDotSo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juneso Website: https://www.june.so/ 👉 The June Podcast is powered by june.so  Discover a new way to do product analytics at june.so

Hiten has been making products for over 20 years. He founded multiple companies, such as KISSmetrics - may I say the first product analytics company - and Crazy Egg, a heat mapping tool. He later on created FYI, an enterprise search product that helped people find documents in 3 clicks or less. Two years later FYI brought him to create Nira, a real-time access control system that proactively secures company documents. Hiten also shares a lot his product learnings. His newsletter Product Habits (https://producthabits.com) is among my favorite ones. ________________________ Where to find Hiten Shah Twitter: https://twitter.com/hnshah Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah/ Website: https://hitenism.com Where to find June Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuneDotSo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juneso Website: https://www.june.so/

Today Elena is an expert in PLG models for B2B companies. Elena was a growth Advisor to companies including Krisp, MongoDB, and Maze, and a Board Member at Netlify.  Prior to that she was CMO & Advisor at Miro, SVP for Product & Growth at Malwarebytes, and  SVP at SurveyMonkey.  She’s also an angel investor and Reforge program creator. ________________________ Where to find Elena Verna Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElenaVerna Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenaverna/ Website: https://www.elenaverna.com/ Where to find June Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuneDotSo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juneso Website: https://www.june.so/

Yuriy advises startups and scaleups on go-to-market, user acquisition, and growth strategies. He specializes in channel strategy, performance marketing, product-led growth and experimentation, org design and buildout, and cross-functional frameworks and processes that enable growth. He’s worked with dozens of companies, including Grammarly, Airtable, Canva, Hims & Hers, Whimsical, Otter.ai, and Flo. Previously, Yuriy led Growth and Marketing at Grammarly for 8+ years, where he helped scale to 30m daily active users and a $13b valuation. You can learn about his work here. ________ Where to find Yuriy Timen Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetimenator Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuriytimen/ Website: https://www.yuriytimen.com/ Where to find June Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuneDotSo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juneso Website: https://www.june.so/

Guillaume ("G") was the head of growth at Mention, a social media monitoring platform. After that G was VP of growth at Segment. He joined as the 50th employee, and helped grow the revenue 4x in less than 2 years. Then G was VP growth at Drift. Again he joined as the 50th employee and helped drive the hyper growth in revenue (6x in less than 2 years). Since then G is growth advisor and startup investors (G2, Gorgias, Airbyte, Ramp, etc.). You’re also the founder of Hypergrowth Partners, an advisory fund that helps B2B companies grow faster in exchange for equity. ___ Where to find Guillaume Cabane Twitter: ps://twitter.com/guillaumecabane Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cabane/ Website: https://www.hypergrowthpartners.com/ Where to find June Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuneDotSo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juneso Website: https://www.june.so/

David Apple was the CRO at Zingtree, an interactive decision tree platform.  Prior to that he was at Notion, where he led Sales and Customer Success for over two years. At Notion David was employee #13, and was the first employee in both Sales and Success there. Prior to Notion Davd was VP of Customer Success & Sales at Typeform for almost 5 years where he built and led a team of over 40 people. More recently he’s been dedicating time to his own project and family. David is also angel investing and doing some advising for early-stage B2B SaaS start-ups. ___ Where to find David Apple Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidcapple Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/appledavid Where to find June Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuneDotSo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juneso Website: https://www.june.so/

Kyle is a PLG guru. He's an operating partner at Open View where you help OpenView’s portfolio companies fuel growth and become market leaders. Prior to OV, you worked at a consulting firm. He's also the writer of a biweekly substack newsletter. Certainly the most read on PLG. You write about Product Led Growth (PLG) but not only, also pricing & packaging, go-to-market strategy, SaaS benchmarks and value-add in VC. A quick word about your fund: Open View. They're a Boston based growth fund, provides a team dedicated solely to addressing the needs of their portfolio companies. Among other reasons, it’s been famous for its focus on PL companies. ___ Where to find Kyle Poyar Substack: https://kylepoyar.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/poyark Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-poyar Where to find June Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuneDotSo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juneso Website: https://www.june.so/

Janna co-founded Mind the Product in 2010, an international product community with more than 300,000 members worldwide Prior to that she was a head of product, a startup mentor, then a product evangelist. She's now working full time on her company called ProdPad. ProdPad is software for product teams that combines roadmapping, experimentation, and user feedback management. Today, ProdPad is used by 1000s of product people around the world, including customers such as Microsoft, Automattic, Rackspace, and many others. ___ Where to find Janna Bastow Twitter: https://twitter.com/simplybastow Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jannabastow/ Website: https://www.prodpad.com/ Where to find June Twitter: https://twitter.com/JuneDotSo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/juneso Website: https://www.june.so/