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ProductwiseJourney from VP Product to product focused Co-Founder with Lauren Treasure, Founder of HigaIt's my pleasure to invite Lauren Treasure, a Co-Founder of Higa to speak today and give her perspective on leading the product in start-up or scale-up vs leading product in your own venture. Lauren has a wealth of experience in B2C space and shared some amazing learnings around:
1. The differences in founding a company vs. leading a product team,
2. Building a product zero to one at an existing company vs. building a company zero to one,
3. How it takes a smaller team than it ever has to start a company
2024-07-0918 minProductwiseImproving customer centricity as your product scales with Francis Brero, C0-Founder and CPO at MadKuduFrancis Brero is the Founder and Product leader in MadKudu, a data heavy product allowing companies to manipulate and use first party data to customise the buying experience for b2b buyers.
Our question of the day: how do we improve customer centricity as your product scales?
Francis shares that 1 big change was to introduce Gong, a call recording tool, to bring the voice of customer into the front of the decision making. Francis uses snippets of the recordings through the process of adjustment and improvement of the product on ongoing basis. "You get an...2024-04-0213 minProductwiseCarving out time to stay in close contact with your user, with Matheus Beltrami, Co-Founder of deX LabsLove interviewing first time founders and CPOs on the podcast. Why? Because they both help us all go back to the essence of product management and recap on some of the bias we are all prone to. If you are a first time or repeat product lead, scale up product person or a founder working out the solution - these learnings are for you.
Few weeks ago I sat down for a chat with Matheus Beltrami, Co-Founder and CPO of deX Labs to talk about his journey to product from functional field of data...2024-03-0611 minProductwisePlatformizing the product to enable horizontal growth with Dylan Casey, Co-Founder of WeDuDig into the story of development of WeDu, a community of endurance athletes united around the belief that the true path forward is forged by breakthroughs of body and mind. WeDu naturally grew with its community and expanded horizontally to become a platform, brining together creators, brands, and fans, scaling operations with the help of AI, offering highly curated experience for their niche customer base. Dylan Casey also talks about the "flow of the dollar", tackling the cost implications of scaling the b2c business, and keeping the focus narrow and being one thing to a specific group of...2024-02-1316 minProductwiseCreating empowered yet self guided product teams, with Malte Scholz - Founder, CEO and CPO at airfocusLove when product people build the product for product people! Focused on assisting large and complex product teams to improve on collaboration, communication and results, airfocus recently successfully closed a $7.5M fundraising round, led by Newion with the participation of XAnge, Nauta, Riverside Acceleration Capital, and Picea Capital. In this session we break down the components of building successful products and double click on one of them - building empowered and self guided product teams.
Tune in to hear key learnings from the Co-Founder, CEO and CPO of airfocus, Malte Scholz!2024-02-0711 minProductwiseStage appropriate hiring with Natalie Ledbetter, People Ops leaderAs a talent professional and in my conversations with the founders and CEOs, stage appropriate hiring comes up 100% of the time. That is why I am so glad that we are covering this very topic as the first episode of the new 10 minute series. We had been running longer here, as the subject in question is so vast that myself and Natalie can hold a 2 day conference on this.
Natalie had been working as an early stage PeopleOps leader for over a decade and had been shaping the organisations of many startups across Boldstart VC portfolio and...2024-01-3122 minProductwiseIntroducing the 10 minute podcast seriesMaking the new "10 minute podcast" series available for everyone to enjoy. Each episode in these series is focused on 1 prominent question for the tech community today. I'll be interviewing Founders, CEOs and Product & Engineering leaders, sharing their latest learnings.2024-01-3100 minProductwiseWomen in Leadership Building Industry-leading products in the Age of AI: event summary with Roxy Stimpson, VP Engineering at F5Join the "Thought Leaders: An In-person Roundtable Series" to broaden your knowledge, exchange ideas, and engage with accomplished professionals and experts in their respective fields. This event in Seattle focused on the theme of "Women in Leadership Building Industry-leading products in the Age of AI" and was hosted by F5 and Productwise Talent. This recording is a recap of 2.5h of active discussions with leaders from the field.2024-01-2223 minProductwiseReaching first product success with a vital support of a Fractional Head of Product - Amanda Kozlowski Stanley, Fractional HoPJoining us today is Amanda Kozlowski Stanley, a fractional head of product and co-founder of Sound Products NW. She partners with founders and business leaders to build and test product ideas that are deeply rooted in customer needs.
Amanda returned to the West Coast after a decade in Washington, DC and Hong Kong. She's led strategy and innovation projects for private- and public-sector organizations on five continents, including a former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, the CEO of one of Germany’s largest conglomerates, and Starbucks.
Professional and experienced product mind is ne...2023-10-3034 minProductwiseDiversity and inclusive culture as a solution to building better products, with Roxy Stimpson - Head of Innovation, VP of Engineering @F5Our guest today is Roxy Stimpson, Head of Innovation, Vice President of Engineering in the Office of the CTO at F5, who leads a charter to accelerate the pace and impact of innovation at F5. Before F5, Roxy was the CTO of IoT World Labs leading global teams to create, build, and launch an innovative digital data transformation SaaS platform serving various industries, including transportation, manufacturing, and supply chain.
Her mission is to inspire and empower individuals to become more effective communicators and leaders.
She advocates leveraging technology, lean-agile processes, and machine and human connections t...2023-09-2136 minProductwiseEntering product and engineering field: mentors, confidence, and continuous learning with Sarah Stone - SVP, Product Management at interop.io (prior Finsemble)Sarah is Global Product Manager with over 20 years experience in FinTech, currently Head of Products at interop.io (prior Finsemble). She began her career as a Help Desk Manager at a FinTech startup and have held numerous roles over the years in both Engineering and Product Management. Sarah holds a BA in Mathematics from Boston College and an MS in Applied Math and Statistics from Stony Brook University. She is also on the Leadership counsel for a non-profit and was co-chair for 5 years.
In this episode with Sarah we are talking about:
Her...2023-07-1736 minProductwiseBootstrap to a merger, creating from market gaps with Shruti Goli, Co-Founder and CPO of TrymataShruti Goli is a Co founder and CPO in Trymata, a product analytics company (previously known as TryMyUI). Shruti started working at Microsoft as a Product Manager. She went on to bootstrap a product analytics company, Stitchology.ai, and was 24 years old when she sold it last year in May 2022.
In this Ep. 16 we are going to talk about:
1) building Stitchology.ai while working at Microsoft
2) selling Stitchology.ai at 24 years old to Trymata (usability testing company)
3) merging TryMyUI + Stitchology.ai into 1 product to expand on...2023-06-0634 minProductwiseB2C product rollouts and creating successful remote teams - learnings from Lauren Treasure, ex-Product Lead x Ancestry, CPO x ChatbooksLauren Treasure is a consumer product leader who loves to build and develop teams as much as products. She started her career as a researcher and then pivoted to product at Orca Health, a startup focused on building 3D software products to improve the patient experience.
She then joined Ancestry to help build the AncestryDNA product, which grew from 300k to over 10 million customers during her tenure.
In 2018, she joined Chatbooks to build a product organization and help the company scale. She is currently the Chief Product Officer, leading the product development, UX design and re...2023-04-1836 min
ProductwiseChallenging yourself as a Product professional with Noa Reikhav, VP Product x SkaiNoa Reikhav is vice president of product at Skai, an award-winning omnichannel marketing platform for performance media. Noa brings her unique background in psychology and communication to her role as an innovator in adtech. Responsible for the ideation and development of some of Skai’s most revolutionary AI features, her impact is felt by Skai clients throughout the world.
Beginning her career as a product manager in her native Israel, Noa has since held a variety of roles at adtech companies and startups leading DSP, mobile advertising, and search teams before moving to the U.S. to le...2023-03-1637 minProductwiseReal estate tech - scaling products through brand ambassadors, Julia Bitschanau, CPO x FlatfoxJulia is the Chief Product Officer at Flatfox, a web-based platform that digitalizes all steps of the rental cycle. Julia started her product management career five years ago as an Intrapreneur within the Swiss Mobiliar. She worked as a product manager on multiple projects within different industries. Since 2018 she focuses on the real estate industry first at the PropTech start-up aroov and currently at Flatfox. She holds a wealth of experience when it comes to understanding and representing user needs, defining a product vision and strategy, aligning stakeholders and of course how to launch and communicate a product.
2023-01-2918 minProductwiseSetting up an effective continuous discovery process, with Flora Vidal, CPO x CaptainContratFlora is a CPO of CaptainContrat - the legal and administrative companion for SMB's, for any of their steps, helping them grow their business. Be it writing articles of incorporation, asking a lawyer before signing a contract under commercial law or dealing with administrative duties.
Flora stepped into the CPO role 3.5 years ago from a position of the marketing executive. She previously worked in L’Oreal both as a director of marketing and a a CPO for physical products.
Flora is also a teacher of yoga focusing on yin and vinyasa, and mentors and coaches in...2023-01-2430 minProductwiseBridging physical and digital - IoT product management, with Geraldine Corrales, CPTO x CityTapsGeraldine Corrales is a Product Management professional with more than 15 years of experience in a wide range of industries from consumer to high-tech products. She has spent most of her career working for multinational companies in France, the US, the UK, and Mexico and speaks French, English and Spanish.
In 2019, she joined CityTaps, a French startup dedicated to bringing running water into every home by supporting water utilities in emerging countries. She was recruited to drive the Product Management activities but soon extended her responsibilities to lead the entire Product Development team composed of software developers, electronics...2022-11-2341 minProductwiseCreating the future with quantum computing with Leonie Mueck, CPO at RiverlaneLeonie is a Chief Product Officer in Riverlane and is responsible for building, commercialising and marketing Riverlane's product lines. Leonie is passionate about helping Riverlane's customers move quickly and easily to quantum advantage.
She brings eight years’ experience in quantum technologies and business development, with a PhD in quantum chemistry from the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz in Germany. After her PhD, she held senior editorial roles at Nature and Nature Communications where she was responsible for covering quantum computing and other topics in physics. An ardent supporter of Open Science, Leonie then joined PLOS ONE, building and leading a...2022-11-1035 min
ProductwiseDisrupting traditional sectors through product mindset, with Namrata Sarmah, CPO x INTO University PartnershipsNamrata is the Chief Product Officer at INTO University Partnerships - a Higher Education company that works with top Universities in the UK, US, and Australia, and a student community from all across the world. Previously, she was the CPO at iPlato Healthcare where she led an expansive portfolio of digital products and worked closely with NHS Primary Care. She has worked in product leadership roles at ViacomCBS, Babylon Health and a number of other exciting global companies.
Namrata is a strong supporter of Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace, and is a popular voice in the Women...2022-10-1737 minProductwiseEnjoying the journey of scaling product teams, with Alexandra Lung, CPO x uptime.acAlexandra is a Product leader and a current CPO @ uptime.ac with over 14 years of diverse global ecosystem, working in start-ups, scale-ups, consultancy and enterprise. Alongside founders and exec teams, she builds a vision and an inspiring story, and breaks these down into actionable steps for the product and design teams she manage. She is a big fan of Lean, different forms of Agile and User Centred Design when it comes to solving user problems and delivering business outcomes. She uses a mix of quantitative & qualitative insights in order to de-risk product direction fast and create a learning organisations...2022-10-0333 minProductwiseScaling right - growing your team and maintaining focus on value creation with Audrey Pedro, CPO x ScalewayAudrey Pedro is currently the Chief Product Officer at Scaleway, a complete cloud solution trusted by more than 25k businesses. Audrey’s experience spans over 10 years in product management, overseeing the company’s product roadmap, from strategy and design to general distribution, as well as quality of execution.
Prior to Scaleway, Audrey held product management positions at DocuSign, as well as serving as lead product manager for P&C fraud detection at Shift Technology.
Today we are going to talk about:
Joys and learnings from working with startup founders
Building product mindset in early stag...2022-09-2054 minProductwiseBuilding sustainability focused products for Gen Z, with Anushree SharmaAnushree is a running CPO at NUW, the world's first clothes sharing and swapping app. She is a passionate product leader with experience across a range of product roles at various early stage start-ups. Her experience is spanning across e-commerce, healthcare, travel and fashion in America, India and now in the UK.
Today we are going to talk about:
- user centric design
- learnings point from building products across a variety of countries
- and sustainable future
Episode outline and highlights
[2.00] Anushree’s start in product ma...2022-09-0732 minProductwiseHow to stay user centric and build with success 0-1, with Christiane DemgenskiAs a product leader in a highly regulated market, how do you continue with testing and refining the solution before the product goes live? How do you balance up the role of the CPO in an early stage startup and a 4 month old? Christiane's experience shows multiple times that its possible to land your successful role in product no matter what field you are coming from.
Christiane is Franco-German, 31 years old and is a graduate from Sciences Po in Paris. After first experiences working for a UNESCO-sponsored NGO she joined Swiss largest bank, UBS...2022-08-2243 minProductwiseHow to Balance the Science and Art in Product Management, with Amber FoucaultAs a product leader, how do you build a diverse and high-performing team that is excellent in executing and also has fun? My special guest, Amber Foucault, shares her insight on building great teams and capitalizing on momentum. We also discussed her journey on transferring product management skillset to different industries as well as balancing the science and art in product management itself.
Amber is the CPO of Drop. Drop is the first flexible, consumer-led intelligent mobile rewards platform focusing on personalized member experiences. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Drop is comprised of top-tier, passionate, and diverse talent...2022-07-1730 min
ProductwiseStartup success: strengthening your product proposition through acquisition with Kelly McDonaldHow do you build an amazing product from scratch? How do you invite diversity and inclusion when building your team?
Kelly McDonald is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Cipio. The world's first community influencer marketing platform. Prior to joining Cipio Kelly was the founder and CEO of Kyndoo. A data platform for social commerce that was acquired by Cipio in September of 2021. Prior to founding Kyndoo, Kelly was the Senior Vice President of Revenue, Operations, and People at RealtyShares. An entrepreneur at heart, Kelly loves working on big problems at the earliest stages of a c...2022-07-0335 minProductwiseBuilding a product organisation in a 90-year-old data start-up with Natalie SeatterBuilding products 0-1 is tough, building and scaling a new product organization within a mature business might be tougher. On the one hand, one has the advantage of tremendous volumes of data and potential insight to be generated from that data, on the other, changing the culture to being customer-focused and product-driven is a complex process that can take years to implement.
Natalie Seatter has worked in tech for the last decade in payments, NFP, lottery, and data. She describes herself as industry-agnostic enjoying the learning experience of working in new sectors. Natalie has led large digital...2022-06-2329 minProductwiseReaching PMF faster by adopting the 0-1 entrepreneurial mindset with Shinyoung ParkWant to reach PMF faster and cheaper by adopting the 0-1 entrepreneurial mindset?
Then, you’ll love my interview with Shinyoung Park - Shinyoung Park is a tech investor, advisor, and executive. She is currently a Chief Product Officer at Spoon Radio, the audio streaming app with over 30M downloads around the world. She has invested in various startups such as MagicBus (YCW16), Farmstead (YCS16), and Stonks.
Prior to that, Shinyoung founded a mobile gaming studio, which saw 3 million downloads in 2 months reaching top-grossing no. 45 on iOS. She also devised a GTM strategy for the $3B...2022-06-0543 min