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Triangle Tweener TalksEric Boduch: Revcast, 24 and Up, and Building the Next Generation of Triangle Startups (Part 2)In Part 2 of our conversation with Eric Boduch, Pendo co-founder and CEO of Revcast, we explore the world of venture studios. Having left Pendo to pursue his vision of parallel entrepreneurship, Eric shares how his studio, 24 and Up, identifies, builds, and funds new companies.This episode unravels the unique model of a venture studio, differentiating it from accelerators, incubators, and traditional venture capital. Eric also offers a candid assessment of the Triangle's startup ecosystem, highlighting its strengths and identifying key areas for growth.Tune in to hear:What a venture studio is and how...2025-06-2654 min
Triangle Tweener TalksEric Boduch: Pendo's Origin Story, Building a Brand, and Product in the Age of AI (Part 1)From co-founding one of the Triangle's most successful tech companies, Pendo, to quietly building a new venture studio, Eric Boduch has a deep well of entrepreneurial experience. In this first of a two-part series, Eric sits down with Scot to reflect on his journey, the lessons learned from the dot-com bust, and the evolution of product management.Eric gets into his early days, his path to co-founding Pendo, and the strategic decisions that helped shape its unique brand and culture. If you've ever wondered about the behind-the-scenes of building a high-growth startup a...2025-06-1952 min
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing DemystifiedInvestor Stories 401: Best LP Question (Chase, Boduch, Whitmire) On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Jill Chase Eric Boduch Mike Whitmire We asked guests to share the best question they've ever been asked by an allocator. The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area. Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social. You can learn more...2025-05-1504 min
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing DemystifiedInvestor Stories 394: Lessons Learned (Chase, Boduch, Whitmire) On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Jill Chase Eric Boduch Mike Whitmire We asked guests to tell the most important lesson they've learned in their career. The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area. Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social. You can learn more about...2025-03-2706 min
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing DemystifiedInvestor Stories 390: Visionary Founders (Roizen, Boduch, Ho) On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Heidi Roizen Eric Boduch Gregory Ho We asked guests to discuss the most visionary founder that they've worked with and what makes them so special. The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area. Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social. ...2025-02-2708 min
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing DemystifiedInvestor Stories 387: Why I Passed (Patil, Chase, Boduch) On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Sandeep Patil Jill Chase Eric Boduch Each investor highlights a situation where they decided not to invest, why they passed, and how it played out. The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area. Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social. ...2025-02-0605 min
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing DemystifiedInvestor Stories 385: Key Advice (Inkinen, Roizen, Boduch) On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Sami Inkinen Heidi Roizen Eric Boduch We asked guests for the most important piece of advice that they'd share with folks early in their venture career. The host of The Full Ratchet is Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures, a venture capital firm committed to investing in founders outside of the Bay Area. Want to keep up to date with The Full Ratchet? Follow us on social. 2025-01-2304 min
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, FoundersPendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric BoduchCo-Founder Eric Boduch joins Latka on stage to share how they got 2,842 leads in Q2 2017. This helped them hit $15m in ARR before growing to over $200m today in Sept 2024. Will Pendo hit $300m before Dec 2025?2024-11-0520 min
The Full Ratchet (TFR): Venture Capital and Startup Investing Demystified449. Scaling Unicorn Pendo, When to Hire Your First Sales Leader, How To Construct a Team Pre and Post PMF, and How to Balance Stretch vs. Strain (Eric Boduch) Eric Boduch of Venture Studio 24 and Up and Revcast joins Nick to discuss Scaling Unicorn Pendo, When to Hire Your First Sales Leader, How To Construct a Team Pre and Post PMF, and How to Balance Stretch vs. Strain. In this episode we cover: Pendo's Origin, Product Development, and Customer Acquisition Product Market Fit, Growth Strategies and Team Composition for Early-Stage SaaS Startups Hiring and Company Culture at a Fast-Growing Startup Building and Optimizing Revenue Organizations - Metrics and Assumptions AI's Impact on Software, Dashboarding and Agent Orchestration Guest Links: 2024-09-0238 min
The SaaS CFOPendo Co-founder Raises $3M to Launch Revenue Planning PlatformWelcome to another episode of The SaaS CFO Podcast. Today we have an exciting conversation lined up for you as we dive into the world of revenue planning and optimization with our distinguished guest, Eric Boduch, the founder of Revcast. Eric brings a wealth of experience, having been deeply involved in the SaaS space since its early days. In this episode, he'll discuss the journey from working with early SaaS models to developing a solution that empowers revenue organizations to optimize their operations with predictive insights. You'll hear about the inception of Revcast, their focus on rev op...2024-06-2525 min
The Friday NoonerThe Celebration of Greps-giving, plus Eric BoduchThis week's Friday Nooner featured Eric Boduch, the founder of 24&Up, CEO of Revcast and the co-founder of local unicorn Pendo. Tune in to learn more about Eric's career, latest ventures, etc.2023-11-1740 min
Exit StoriesEric Boduch: How To Turn A Software Startup Into A UnicornOn the season 3 finale of Exit Stories, Pendo Co-founder Eric Boduch joins our host Kevin Mosley.
For those unfamiliar, Pendo is a software company that helps clients collect data on how customers use their products. Eric recently exited the company to launch his own startup venture studio, 24 & Up, in early 2022.
During this episode, Eric talks about his early entrepreneurial background, which includes selling ice cream on the beach, and how he took these lessons into the tech space. He talks meeting Todd Olson, who is now the CEO of Pendo, and launching their first startup...2022-11-151h 03
The Product PodcastFireside Chat with Pendo Co-Founder, Eric BoduchJoin us for a Product Management conversation with Eric Boduch, Co-Founder of Pendo, a product cloud that provides user insight, user guidance, and user communication for digital product teams and application owners. Get the FREE Product Book here2021-04-1227 min
Sit Down Startup(Live episode) How to find your product market fitEveryone knows the value of understanding your product market fit. But getting there is never straightforward. For this live episode, we’re delighted to share a recording of a Zendesk webinar, in partnership with Pendo. Listen for insights and practical advice from two product experts: Mike Gozzo, VP of Product at Zendesk, and Eric Boduch, Co-founder at Pendo. You’ll learn: How to define product market fit is and measure it effectively The right time to prove your fit—should you ever stop? How to get feedback to guide your efforts, and metrics to prove your fit to investo...2021-03-0950 min
Product LoveBrett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures: investing in early stage productsBrett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures: investing in early stage products by Eric Boduch2021-01-2036 min
Product LoveBrett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures: product, growth, acquisitionBrett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures: product, growth, acquisition by Eric Boduch2021-01-1341 min
Product LovePrince Kohli, CTO of Automation Anywhere: automation in productPrince Kohli, CTO of Automation Anywhere: automation in product by Eric Boduch2020-12-1734 min
Product LoveDaniel Scrivner, CEO of Flow: ExplorationDaniel Scrivner, CEO of Flow: Exploration by Eric Boduch2020-12-0944 min
Product LoveMichael Grinich, CEO of WorkOS: Enterprise ready featuresMichael Grinich, CEO of WorkOS: Enterprise ready features by Eric Boduch2020-12-0237 min
Product LoveProduct Love Podcast: Bella Renney, Head of Product at Tray.io: product vision and designProduct Love Podcast: Bella Renney, Head of Product at Tray.io: product vision and design by Eric Boduch2020-11-1138 min
Product LoveBella Renney, Head of Product at Tray.io: north star metricsBella Renney, Head of Product at Tray.io: north star metrics by Eric Boduch2020-11-0435 min
Product LoveMatt Fleckenstein, Innovation Marketing at Microsoft: Innovation and SaaSMatt Fleckenstein, Innovation Marketing at Microsoft: Innovation and SaaS by Eric Boduch2020-10-2852 min
Product LoveNancy Hensley, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Stats Perform: growthNancy Hensley, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Stats Perform: growth by Eric Boduch2020-10-1439 min
Product LoveZiad Ismail, Chief Product Officer at Convoy: decision frameworksZiad Ismail, Chief Product Officer at Convoy: decision frameworks by Eric Boduch2020-10-0748 min
Product LoveTodd Olson, CEO of Pendo: The Product-Led OrganizationTodd Olson, CEO of Pendo: The Product-Led Organization by Eric Boduch2020-09-2333 min
Product LoveBen Keyser, VP of Product at Contentful: delivery modelsBen Keyser, VP of Product at Contentful: delivery models by Eric Boduch2020-09-1641 min
Product LoveWayne Duso, VP at Amazon Web Services: customer-centric culturesWayne Duso, VP at Amazon Web Services: customer-centric cultures by Eric Boduch2020-09-0245 min
Product LoveJames Norwood, product leader and advisor: product marketingJames Norwood, product leader and advisor: product marketing by Eric Boduch2020-08-2655 min
Product LoveRobin Beers, SVP of Customer Insights and Experience Design at Wells Fargo: experience designRobin Beers, SVP of Customer Insights and Experience Design at Wells Fargo: experience design by Eric Boduch2020-08-1940 min
Product LoveIbrahim Bashir, VP of Product at Box: product valueIbrahim Bashir, VP of Product at Box: product value by Eric Boduch2020-08-1242 min
Product LoveDes Traynor, Chief Strategy Officer of Intercom: frameworks and feedbackDes Traynor, Chief Strategy Officer of Intercom: frameworks and feedback by Eric Boduch2020-08-0540 min
Product LoveBen Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist of DataRobot: AI and start-ups part 2Ben Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist of DataRobot: AI and start-ups part 2 by Eric Boduch2020-07-2946 min
Product LoveBen Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist of DataRobot: AI and start-upsBen Taylor, Chief AI Evangelist of DataRobot: AI and start-ups by Eric Boduch2020-07-2244 min
Product LoveNik Parekh, author of The Future of Extraordinary Design: service design, and user experienceNik Parekh, author of The Future of Extraordinary Design: service design, and user experience by Eric Boduch2020-07-1550 min
Product LoveProduct Love Podcast: David Nash, principal product consultant at 280 Group: alignment and product opsProduct Love Podcast: David Nash, principal product consultant at 280 Group: alignment and product ops by Eric Boduch2020-07-0148 min
Product LoveJustin Dilley, VP of Product at Fullstory: sunsetting features and productsJustin Dilley, VP of Product at Fullstory: sunsetting features and products by Eric Boduch2020-06-2454 min
Product LoveMarc Abraham, Head of Product at ASOS: product mindsetMarc Abraham, Head of Product at ASOS: product mindset by Eric Boduch2020-06-1744 min
Product LoveDan Olsen, product management consultant and author of The Lean Product Playbook: product planningDan Olsen, product management consultant and author of The Lean Product Playbook: product planning by Eric Boduch2020-06-1037 min
Product LoveNancy Wang, Head of Product at Amazon AWS, talks about Advancing Women in ProductNancy Wang, Head of Product at Amazon AWS, talks about Advancing Women in Product by Eric Boduch2020-06-0346 min
Product LoveProduct Love Podcast: Lisa Reeves, SVP of Product of ZenefitsProduct Love Podcast: Lisa Reeves, SVP of Product of Zenefits by Eric Boduch2020-05-2731 min
Product LoveProduct Love Podcast: Rahul Vohra, CEO of SuperhumanProduct Love Podcast: Rahul Vohra, CEO of Superhuman by Eric Boduch2020-05-2042 min
Product LoveProduct Love Podcast: Ryan Singer, Head of Strategy at Basecamp and author of Shape UpProduct Love Podcast: Ryan Singer, Head of Strategy at Basecamp and author of Shape Up by Eric Boduch2020-05-131h 16
Product LoveProduct Love Podcast: Matt Lemay, co-founder and partner at Sudden CompassProduct Love Podcast: Matt Lemay, co-founder and partner at Sudden Compass by Eric Boduch2020-05-0655 min
14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and lifeLove your Product - Eric Boduch, 2 of 2"As founders, we all had product backgrounds … we all understood this pain … like we all had this issue of how do you get data about how your software is being used? ... We install a snippet of code and then it just works. It captures everything that's like super empowering to me as a product manager" Eric Boduch, co-Founder of Pendo2020-03-1300 min14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and lifeSmall Town Exit - Eric Boduch, 1 of 2"We looked at each other one night when we were working rather late, which we had a tendency to do. Right. Do we really want to run a consulting company? We looked at each other and we;re both like .. No! So then we start thinking, well, what do we want to do? And from that we said; ‘Well, we really like the idea of building a product!’" Eric Boduch, Co-founder of Pendo2020-03-1300 min
Product LoveCarlos González de Villaumbrosia joins Product Love to talk about Product SchoolCarlos González de Villaumbrosia joins Product Love to talk about Product School by Eric Boduch2020-03-0432 min
Product LoveDan Smoker joins Product Love to talk about product in the B2B and B2C spaceDan Smoker joins Product Love to talk about product in the B2B and B2C space by Eric Boduch2020-02-2640 min
Product LoveJason Mueller joins Product Love to talk about product ops and communicationJason Mueller joins Product Love to talk about product ops and communication by Eric Boduch2020-02-1958 min
Product LoveDarren Chait joins Product Love to talk about self-service and cultureDarren Chait joins Product Love to talk about self-service and culture by Eric Boduch2020-02-1438 min
Product LoveGerard Fitzgerald joins Product Love to talk about product designGerard Fitzgerald joins Product Love to talk about product design by Eric Boduch2020-02-0535 min
Product LoveJake Sorofman joins Product Love to talk about the 2020 State of Product LeadershipJake Sorofman joins Product Love to talk about the 2020 State of Product Leadership by Eric Boduch2020-01-2938 min
Product LoveRahul Vohra joins Product Love to talk about product-market fit and positioningRahul Vohra joins Product Love to talk about product-market fit and positioning by Eric Boduch2020-01-2241 min
Technology Leadership Podcast ReviewAn Honest Look In The MirrorJohanna Rothman on Programming Leadership, Thomas “Tido” Carriero on Product Love, Adam Davidson on Lead From The Heart, Josh Wills on Software Engineering Daily, and Amitai Schleier on Programming Leadership. I’d love for you to email me with any comments about the show or any suggestions for podcasts I might want to feature. Email podcast@thekguy.com. And, if you haven’t done it already, don’t forget to hit the subscribe button, and if you like the show, please tell a friend or co-worker who might be interested. This episode covers the five podcast ep...2020-01-2013 min
Product LoveBrandon Chu joins Product Love to talk about entrepreneurship and building teamsBrandon Chu joins Product Love to talk about entrepreneurship and building teams by Eric Boduch2020-01-1533 min
Product Coffee32. How to build products your customers love (feat. Eric Boduch)This episode's hosts:
Zach LaGreca
Kevin Gentry
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pendo.io2020-01-1349 min
Product LoveBrandon Chu joins Product Love to talk about the first principles of product managementYou probably have seen the name “Brandon Chu” floating around PM-side of the internet, if you’re an avid reader. He’s the creator of the Black Box of Product Management, a site that “shines the light on the PM discipline.” There are tons of amazing frameworks and articles on making good decisions or just growing in your craft. That’s why I had to have him on the podcast. Brandon goes into detail about what it was like to shape the product organization -- even amidst skepticism about what product managers exactly do (a PM’s favorite question). What defined success...2020-01-0844 minTechnology Leadership Podcast ReviewSitting In A Room Full Of MousetrapsScott Belsky on Product Love, Beth Long on Maintainable, Mark Schell on Agile Uprising, Daniel Mintz on Product Love, and Kelsey Hightower on On Call Nightmares. I’d love for you to email me with any comments about the show or any suggestions for podcasts I might want to feature. Email podcast@thekguy.com. And, if you haven’t done it already, don’t forget to hit the subscribe button, and if you like the show, please tell a friend or co-worker who might be interested. This episode covers the five podcast episodes I found most i...2019-12-2315 min
Product LoveThomas "Tido" Carriero joins Product Love to talk about finding product market fit more than once and uniting teamsThomas "Tido" Carriero joins Product Love to talk about finding product market fit more than once and uniting teams by Eric Boduch2019-12-1845 min
Product LoveDaniel Mintz joins Product Love to talk about data in product managementThis week on Product Love, I sat down with Daniel Mintz, the chief data evangelist at Looker, a data exploration and discovery business intelligence platform. Daniel studied music and politics as an undergrad and later pursued his Master’s in multimedia engineering. He’s worked as the head of data and analytics at Upworthy and as a director of analytics at MoveOn.org. His love for data started with learning SQL. But if you’re curious about how he got the chief data evangelist role at Looker, listen to the episode above. We talked about data lakes, metric...2019-12-1849 min
Product Chats PodcastProduct Led Growth with PendoIn this episode of the Pragmatic Live podcast, The Pragmatic editor Andrea Ozias is joined by Eric Boduch, co-founder of Pendo. Listen in as Eric shares his thoughts on his recent article in our latest edition of The Pragmatic magazine. Learn how to scale faster with product-led growth, and Eric’s tips and tricks on how this method has transformed from products he’s marketed and launched in the past. Get tips on how to leverage your product’s performance to accelerate, expand and retain customers, with Eric’s thoughts on:
Taking steps to identify hurdles and challenges to align...2019-12-0611 min
Product LoveScott Belsky joins Product Love to talk about exploring the edges of your productI asked Scott Belsky the age-old product cliché — is product management a science or an art? His answer was that it’s clearly both. Sure, product management has scientific themes — there’s the experimentation, testing, and data. But it also calls on some things that are more qualitative, like empathy for the user and the creativity necessary to stay competitive. Before he was the chief product officer at Adobe, he was the CEO and founder of Behance, a platform that allows creatives to share their portfolios. He also had a brief stint as an entrepreneur and investor, and wrote two books...2019-12-0434 min
Product LoveTatyana Mamut joins Product Love to talk about customer centricity and wildly successful productsThis week on Product Love, I talked to Tatyana Mamut, the Head of Product at Nextdoor. Nextdoor is a social networking site for neighborhoods. Before that, she advised and consulted in the blockchain space for a year. She’s led the product team at Amazon Web services, Salesforce, and has even led a bunch of innovation products at IDEO. But her resume doesn’t stop there, she also has her PhD in economic and cultural anthropology. On this episode of Product Love, Tatyana and I talked about building a team, evangelizing for customers, and the impact of a wildly successful prod2019-11-2047 min
Product LoveChristian Idiodi joins Product Love to talk about customer-centric product managers, and driving digital transformationThis week on Product Love, I talked to Christian Idiodi, a partner at Silicon Valley Partner Group. Silicon Valley Partner Group was created to share senior level experience and best practices with technology companies. At SVPG, Christian stays engaged with the product community by mentorship. He works closely with two student-led startups every year. Like most people, Christian stumbled into product management unintentionally. When he worked at CareerBuilder, he won an annual competition where individuals could submit their entrepreneurial ideas. If they won, they could get funding and time to work on it. Spoiler: He won the competition...2019-11-1336 min
The SaaS Revolution ShowProduct led growth and scaling Pendo with Co-Founder Eric Boduch [Live from SaaStock19]This week's episode of the SaaS Revolution Show is a live recording from SaaStock 2019. We're talking to Eric Boduch, co-founder and chief evangelist at Pendo.
It was a great conversation in the middle of the show floor, on the Podcast Stage, where we really talked about product-led growth, scaling a massive company like Pendo, and how Eric personally deals with that growth.
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Product LoveMarty Duffy joins Product Love to talk about hiring PMs at G2CrowdThis 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. Marty says that he’s a generalist by nature. His strongest suit has always been leadership and problem-solving. The latter naturally drew him to product. Product management has always been a magnet for people who thrived in solving problems. This week on Product Love, we talked about how Marty hires product managers at G2 (he even provides a ho...2019-11-0626 min
Product LoveJay Brewer joins Product Love to talk about experience design and the security spaceThis 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.2019-10-3036 min
The Casted PodcastPutting The Time In With Eric BoduchEric Boduch is the host of Product Love, a podcast where they interview product managers and explore the craft of product management. Eric’s journey as a podcast host was a natural extension of his chief evangelist duties where he could do more work around building community, best practices, and focus on having authentic conversations to … Continue reading Putting The Time In With Eric Boduch →2019-10-3021 min
Product LoveDuncan McCreery joins Product Love to talk about the intersection between customer experience and PMProduct has always encompassed more than just design and engineering. It touches everything in an organization, including sales and customer success. We might not often hear much about the last two, but Duncan McCreery of MemberClicks has had the experience of the more customer-facing roles. Today, he’s The Chief Experience Officer at MemberClicks. Before that, he was the Chief Product Officer, but even before that, he was the VP of Customer Success. But even way before that, he was an English teacher. He’s also had his hand in helping out at a potato farm. There’s no cor...2019-10-2438 min
Product LoveJason VandeBoom joins Product Love to talk about bootstrapping and finding customer champions 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 in...2019-10-1636 min
Product LoveMada Seghete joins Product Love to talk about driving growth and virality in the mobile spaceThis 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. Mada created Branch as a solution to solve her issues with mobile. In the past, she noticed that there were issues with tracking the mobile experience. When an app opens, there weren’t many ways to figure out where that user had come from, what they were doing next, so developers couldn’t customize their customer experience. The core of Branch is to combat that, by building a li...2019-10-0942 min
Product LoveOji Udezue joins Product Love to talk about the human side of software and customer conversations 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. 2019-10-0237 min
Product LoveBenjamin Earl Evans joins Product Love to talk about inclusive design and bias in productThis 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.2019-09-2554 min
Product LoveDeon Nicholas joins Product Love to talk about AI and product-market fitIn the past, when people heard the phrase “artificial intelligence”, they probably thought three things: robots, destruction, and the impending end of humankind. Nowadays, artificial intelligence has graduated to something more sophisticated and much less deprecating like self-driving cars, Amazon’s Alexa, and Apple’s Siri. But there are wary feelings of replacement that are still associated with it. If AI automates everything, what happens to everyone else? Deon Nicholas thinks differently. Instead, he asks us to think of AI as augmentation instead. This week on Product Love, I sat down with Deon, the CEO of Forethought to discuss AI, and...2019-09-1826 min
Product LoveNir Eyal joins Product Love to talk about creating better products, and meetingsThese days, it is unbelievable how easy it is to be distracted. Think about it. We have a nearly Pavlovian response to every Slack notification or every text message, or we’re attached to the “endless scroll” that social media platforms have now adopted. These products are so entwined with our daily habits, because they know how to hook you. In 2014, Nir Eyal released a book called “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” which essentially became every product person’s go-to book. He had researched a framework that would help anyone create products that would influence users. These days, he has a new bo...2019-09-1135 min
Product LovePatrick Campbell joins Product Love to talk about pricing and freemiumBootstrapping. 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. Profitwell is a company out of Boston that helps subscription companies achieve faster recurring revenue growth, by optimizing their pricing or helping them avoid churn. In this week’s episode, Patrick shares what he’s learned in the past about bootstrapping, the ingredients to a winning pricing page, and he breaks down some freemi...2019-09-0443 min
Product LoveLewis Lin joins Product Love to talk scaling your PM careerLewis Lin is a well-known product management author and career coach. He's written about acing PM interviews, getting into top tech companies, and his latest book is all about scaling your PM career. Lin reveals the ESTEEM Method™: six magical competencies to move ahead in your PM career. He explains why they’re the most critical competencies and provides specific tips and tactics on what you could do to demonstrate your capabilities.2019-08-2846 min
Product LoveRadhika Dutt joins Product Love to talk about vision-driven productsProduct managers and business leaders often wax poetic about how they want to change the world with their products or ideas. It’s natural. As product managers, your mission is to obsess over a problem, and find a unique solution that impacts your customers. But how much of that impact are you responsible for? Radhika Dutt believes that you’re responsible for a lot more than you think.2019-08-2146 min
Product LoveJeetu Patel joins Product Love to talk about successful product teams and retentionJeetu Patel has run every function of the business in his career. He’s done his stint in marketing, engineering, sales, and now, product. But the one thing in business that has fascinated him the most has been scale. Early in Jeetu’s career, he’d travel a lot and was constantly amazed to see certain companies that were famous in the United States, have the same level of recognition and impact in a completely different company.
It inspired him to learn the global nature of the business, and how a company can transform its’ reach. This fascination led him to Box...2019-08-1456 min
Product LoveMelissa Perri joins Product Love to talk about scaling product careers and digital transformationThere are a lot of different facets to product. From UX design to engineering to development, Melissa Perri has had a stint in them all. When you look at product with those three different approaches, you come up with a foundation on how to work with these teams. Melissa believes that you get a holistic systems approach to product management, and can evaluate the product for its’ feasibility, usability, pricing, and more.
She’s had over a decade of product experience, and now she’s currently the CEO and Founder of ProduxLabs. ProduxLabs helps companies grow and transform their product manage...2019-08-0755 min
Product LoveManish Patel joins Product Love to talk about communication and feedbackManish Patel joins Product Love to talk about communication as the key trait for all product managers. The core of product management is spreading influence, so communication must be the key tool to drive that. Despite all the demand for technical product managers or domain expertise, Manish still believes soft skills are the best to develop.2019-07-3137 min
Product LoveSupriya Uchil joins Product Love to talk about pretotyping and premortemsSupriya is a product technology executive with 20 years of experience at Amazon.com, Booking Holdings and stints at several startups including Zynga and Pro.com. She was with Amazon.com in Seattle for over a decade focusing on the core customer experience on a variety of products including retail, social and Kindle. Her last role at Amazon.com was the technical advisor to the Sr. Vice President of Amazon devices. Supriya was also the Chief Product Officer of Booking Go from 2016-2018, responsible for the product transformation of the company from a car rental product to becoming the ground transportation...2019-07-2434 min
Product LoveSachin Rehki joins Product Love to talk about hiring, and the craft of product managementIn this week's episode, Sachin Rekhi dives deep into every aspect of product management. He discusses the roles inside product management as well as hiring. Sachin also brings up the case-study question that uses when he's trying to look for great product managements. Check out the rest of this episode to learn about all the gems he's picked up during his 20-year career.2019-07-1758 min
Product LoveHubert Palan joins Product Love to discuss product delight and functionalityThis week on Product Love, I sat down to talk to Hubert Palan, CEO and founder of productboard. Hubert believes that there are two parts to every product: delight and functionality. We primarily buy products for functionality, but delight is the factor that converts casual users to advocates. Listen more on why you should invest in product delight.2019-07-1045 minProduct Chats PodcastWhen Product Profitability is the Wrong Metric for Success* This podcast was captured during our recent webinar
We all want our products to be profitable, right?
Well, at some point, yes. But maybe not right now. Profit isn’t always the right metric. Depending on where your product is in its lifecycle, there may be other ways to measure your product’s success. But how do you know what the right metric is for measuring product success?
In this webinar, Eric Boduch from Pendo and Steve Johnson from Pragmatic Institute examined a number of strategic approaches for identifying the right success metrics to m...2019-07-0355 min
Product LoveHiten Shah joins Product Love to talk about feature adoption and retentionThis week on Product Love, I talked to Hiten Shah, co-founder of FYI, Product Habits, KISSMetrics and Crazy Egg, about feature adoption and retention.2019-07-0348 min
Product LoveNiels Hoven joins Product Love to talk about product delight and gamingWhen is the last time you witnessed something so random and delightful in a product that you had to tell someone about it? Think back to a time you shared that kind of excitement with your colleague over a software product.
This week on Product Love, I talked to Niels Hoven about those moments. Previously, Niels did Product at ClassDojo, and was the VP of Product Development at Pocket Gems. Currently, he’s a product manager at Cloudflare.
On this week’s episode, Niels shares his experiences as a product manager in the gaming industry, and why small delightful moments with...2019-06-2644 min
Product LoveApril Dunford joins Product Love to talk about product positioningApril Dunford joins Product Love to talk about product positioning by Eric Boduch2019-06-191h 01
Product LoveWes Bush joins Product Love to talk about product-led growthWes Bush joins Product Love to talk about product-led growth by Eric Boduch2019-06-1232 min
Product LoveRyan Powell joins Product Love to talk about storytelling and product managementThis week on Product Love, I talked to Ryan Powell of SproutSocial about storytelling, and building creativity. He has a refreshing perspective on the role of the product manager -- there's just so many archetypes that try to encompass the role, but storyteller is definitely a unique way to look at it. Rather than being fixated on scrum versus kanban or grooming the backlog, think about how you can empower your teams and your customers through looking and listening for powerful stories.2019-06-0530 min
Product LoveDaniel Elizalde joins Product Love to talk about IoT Product ManagementThis week on Product Love, I sat down and talked to Daniel Elizalde. Daniel has helped over 1,200 product professionals, taught at Stanford for three years, and he's also now the VP, Head of IoT for Ericsson. I think it's safe to say he's pretty much the expert on IoT product management. We talked about his decision framework as well as the four pillars of product leadership.2019-05-2945 min
Product LoveDheerja Kaur joins Product Love to talk about alignment and evangelizing productThis week on Product Love, I talked to Dheerja Kaur, the Chief Product Officer of theSkimm. We discussed topics of alignment--how do we get everyone in the company onto the product vision?? Luckily for her, their product vision ties into the company vision. Dheerja also makes the case that great product vision and alignment start from the top, and she also provides tips on how product managers can start evangelizing the roadmap within their own company.2019-05-2244 min
Product LoveMihir Nanavati joins Product Love to talk about alignment in product managementMihir Nanavati joins Product Love to talk about alignment in product management by Eric Boduch2019-05-1545 min
Product LoveBrianne Kimmel joins Product Love to talk about product-led salesBrianne Kimmel joins Product Love to talk about product-led sales by Eric Boduch2019-05-0149 min
Tech on TapTech on Tap: TechWire Live Leadership in review, part 2On March 6, 2019, WRAL TechWire held its first TechWire Live event of 2019. Wells Fargo sponsors the event series, and this was the first of four subject matters scheduled for 2019. The content centered around leadership and the itinerary divided the night into two sessions. The first session took a macro look at how effective leaders move the ball forward in their communities. The second session took a micro look at how to make the most significant impact within each person’s own organization.
James Amato, the Strategy and Business Development manager of WRAL TechWire, hosted the event to a packed house. The crow...2019-03-2231 minTech on TapTech on Tap: TechWire Live Leadership in reviewOn March 6, 2019, WRAL TechWire held its first TechWire Live event of 2019. Wells Fargo sponsors the event series, and this was the first of four subject matters scheduled for 2019. The content centered around leadership and the itinerary divided the night into two sessions. The first session took a macro look at how effective leaders move the ball forward in their communities. The second session took a micro look at how to make the most significant impact within each person's own organization.
James Amato, the Strategy and Business Development manager of WRAL TechWire hosted the event to a packed house. The crowd at...2019-03-1933 minTechnology Leadership Podcast ReviewManagers, leaders, A/B testers, and bloodlettersCourtney Eckhardt on Greater Than Code, Teresa Torres on Product Love, Johanna Rothman on Developer On Fire, Jeff Patton on Scrum Master Toolbox, and Jeff Gothelf on Scrum Master Toolbox. I'd love for you to email me with any comments about the show or any suggestions for podcasts I might want to feature. Email podcast@thekguy.com. This episode covers the five podcast episodes I found most interesting and wanted to share links to during the two weeks period starting January 7, 2019. These podcast episodes may have been released much earlier, but this was the week...2019-01-1807 min
FutureTech PodcastEric Boduch – Co-founder – PendoPendo’s overall mission is to make work easier for product managers. Co-founder Eric Boduch discusses Pendo’s product cloud and how it was created. A product created out of pure necessity for his own work became the basis for an entire company. Eric shares how Pendo integrates easily with other established, popular applications. He also discusses how close proximity to Silicon Valley can actually be a negative when building a company up.2018-10-1923 min
Rocketship.fmInterview: Eric Boduch of PendoEric Boduch is the Chief Evangelist and co-founder of Pendo.io. Boduch was formerly the Vice President of Marketing.Pendo delivers a complete platform for product teams that helps companies create products that customers love. With Pendo, product teams can understand product usage, collect feedback, measure NPS, onboard users, and announce new features in app - all without requiring engineering resources. Founded in 2013 and backed by Meritech Capital, Spark Capital, and Battery Ventures, Pendo has raised $56 million, and grown revenue by 400% in the past year. Used by hundreds of innovative software product leaders, Pendo tracks 20 billion user...2018-06-2819 min
Product Chats PodcastSix Ways Product Management's Role Will Change in 2018The following podcast was captured during our live webinar (Six Ways Product Management's Role Will Change in 2018).
The role of product management is undergoing a dramatic rethink. Success is shifting from measuring velocity and roadmap delivery to measuring how well a product performs, how much value it drives and the loyalty of its users.
In this episode of PragmaticLive, Kirsten Butzow, a Pragmatic Marketing instructor, and Eric Boduch, founder of Pendo.io, discuss these emerging shifts in product management.
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Product LoveGuest Dan Olsen, Author of Lean Product Playbook, joins Product LoveEric Boduch and Dan Olsen chat about his experiences building products, trends in product management and his advice for young and aspiring product managers.
Oh and we chat about DURF, we can't forget about that.2018-02-0248 min