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Feb 29, 2024 • 40min

Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)

May Habib, CEO of Writer, delves into scaling AI products for enterprise, importance of champions, healthy co-founder relationships, and the future of agentic AI. Discusses advice for AI founders in 2024. Highlights investing in smaller AI models for specific use cases and building a business with strong team dynamics.
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Feb 15, 2024 • 54min

The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)

Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, discusses how AI is reshaping the software landscape, bridging the gap between ideas and software, Replit's fundraising difficulties, the secret lever they pulled to scale ahead of competition, and Replit's impressive distribution engine.
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Feb 8, 2024 • 59min

Lessons from Gusto & Square on finding your product wedge | Michael Cieri

Michael Cieri, CPO at Gusto and former Head of Product at Square, shares key product strategies, building for SMBs, pros and cons of vertical SaaS, moving faster in product teams, developing intuition, and impactful individuals at Square.
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Feb 1, 2024 • 1h 11min

A customer success masterclass | How to design, build, and scale a CS org | Stephanie Berner (LinkedIn)

Stephanie Berner, Customer Success Executive at LinkedIn, discusses common customer success mistakes, building a world-class customer success org, tactics for hiring exceptional talent, and where customer success fits into the wider org. She shares successful strategies from Box, Medallia, and LinkedIn. Topics also include early-stage customer success metrics, addressing churn problems, building trust with customers, connecting customer success with product development, and determining the size of a customer success team.
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Jan 25, 2024 • 1h 5min

The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)

Michael Lopp, experienced engineering leader at Apple, Palantir, and Slack, talks about his 'utopia' where engineers have time to create, what makes an excellent engineering leader, navigating internal dynamics between design, engineering, and product, and key lessons from over 30 years in the industry.
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Jan 18, 2024 • 54min

Clay’s path to product-market-fit: Building vertical, creating power users, and understanding founder psychology | Kareem Amin (Co-founder and CEO)

Kareem Amin, co-founder of Clay and former VP of Product at The Wall Street Journal, talks about building power users, finding product-market fit, understanding founder psychology, and using data to improve outbound messaging.
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Jan 11, 2024 • 1h 8min

Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)

Kyle Parrish, Figma's first sales hire, discusses the right time to build a sales function, hiring and scaling a successful sales org, building a unique sales culture, and career advice for ambitious salespeople. They also explore Figma's early sales motion, integrating the first sales hire, and navigating the founder/Head of Sales relationship.
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Jan 4, 2024 • 1h 5min

The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana, Dropbox)

Oliver Jay, former CRO at Asana, discusses common mistakes PLG companies make, how to avoid the 'PLG trap', transitioning to enterprise, building an enterprise sales team, and breaking $10 billion market cap. He also explores the challenges of transitioning from individual to enterprise usage in PLG companies and the growth of Atlassian's product ecosystem.
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Dec 21, 2023 • 1h 10min

Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Building lean, starting young, and studying customers | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)

Steve Blank, the father of modern entrepreneurship, discusses topics such as improving entrepreneurship in the USA, misunderstood aspects of the Lean Startup methodology, traits shared by outlier founders, irrationality of successful entrepreneurs, transitioning from founder to CEO, why some second-time founders fail, building in existing versus new markets, and the future of The Four Steps to the Epiphany.
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Dec 7, 2023 • 1h 14min

Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar)

Neha Narkhede, co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar, discusses the origins of Confluent, Kafka, and Oscilar, how to become a successful second-time founder, advice for monetizing open source products, Neha's unique GTM strategies, and how Confluent ran two businesses within one company.

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