Shows
Grow Your B2B SaaSS6E20 - Scaling Product, Scaling SaaS: Product Management Lessons from $0 to $100M+ with Oji Udezue and Ezinne Udezue.What does it take to scale a B2B SaaS company from zero to $100 million in ARR? In the final episode of Season 6 of the Grow Your B2B SaaS Podcast, we explore this big question with two standout guests: Oji and Ezinne Udezue. They’ve worked with top tech companies like Typeform, WP Engine, and Twitter. They also co-wrote Building Rocketships: Product Management for High-Growth Companies. Beyond their resumes, they bring a unique perspective as a married couple with 20 years of partnership, both in life and in product leadership. This episode is full of sharp insights and practical st...
2025-07-0154 min
The Product ExperienceWhat does it take to build successful products now? Ezinne & Oji Udezue (co-Authors at ProductMind, ex-CPOs of Calendly, Typeform & WP Engine)What does it mean to build world-class products in the age of AI? In this episode, Randy Silver talks to Ezinne and Oji Udezue, co-authors of Building Rocketships, a playbook for building high-growth companies in today’s fast-evolving tech landscape. Together, they unpack what product looks like now, how AI changes collaboration, and why ambition, clarity, and disciplined execution matter more than ever.Key takeaways— Building world-class products starts with clear ambition and choosing big, meaningful problems— AI isn't replacing PMs, it's changing the way product work gets done—especially in how we collabor...
2025-06-1147 min
The GTMnow PodcastGTM 144: How AI is Rewriting Product and GTM Playbooks | with Oji Udezue (CPO - Typeform, Calendly)Oji Udezue was most recently Chief Product Officer at Typeform, where he led product strategy across the company’s growing suite of tools. Previously, he was CPO at Calendly, where he helped scale one of the most beloved PLG tools in the market. Before that, he was Head of Product for Creation and Conversation at Twitter, leading core features like Tweets, DMs, and Spaces. At Atlassian, he led all communication products, including the launch of Atlassian’s first post-IPO product.Oji also spent years at Microsoft, building foundational experiences across Windows, Outlook, Hotmail, and Internet Explorer.In...
2025-04-2958 min
LaunchPod | Product Management PodcastVertical shift: How to navigate new product markets | Dan McCarthy, VP of Product (Cyvl) | LaunchPodToday, we’re talking with Dan McCarthy, VP of Product at Cyvl, an AI-powered mapping tool for transportation infrastructure.
In this episode, Dan talks about:
Using lessons from building digital products to improve the physical world around us
Dan’s repeatable playbook for launching into new industries—and the pitfalls to avoid.
How a drop in data ingestion costs allowed Cyvl to open up a new, digitally enhanced way of looking at the world
Why nailing the entire go-to-market strategy is just as critical as the product itself
Links
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in...
2025-03-2533 minLaunchPod | Product Management PodcastHow to tell your CEO they’re wrong about product centricity | Steve Nash, Dir. of Product (GumGum) | LaunchPodToday, we’re talking with Steve Nash, Director of Product for GumGum, an ad-tech platform that matches brands and consumers through AI-powered data and media solutions.
In this episode, Steve talks about:
How to tell your CEO that they’re wrong — and not lose your career
The story behind Playground’s transition to a product-centric culture, and the pace of innovation it unlocked for the team
Why unifying behind Playground’s mission of being “the attention company” led to their successful exit and acquisition by GumGum
Links
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenash/...
2025-03-1131 minLaunchPod | Product Management PodcastUnlock revenue with the zone of benefit | Oji Udezue, CPO (Typeform, Twitter, Calendly) [Repeat]Today, our guest is Oji Udezue, AI product expert, author, and an innovation-focused, multi-disciplined business leader.
Oji has had an extensive and successful career, spanning his time as CPO of Typeform, Head of Product for Creation and Conversation at Twitter, CPO of Calendly, and Head of Product at Atlassian.
Key takeaways:
The “Zone of Benefit,” which helps assess market disruptiveness and emphasizes the need for a high value to price ratio to drive change in customers
The concept of “forest time,” a practice of stepping back to gain strategic perspective
Insights on product-led growth (PLG), em...
2024-12-2454 minLaunchPod | Product Management PodcastThe zone of benefit with Oji Udezue, Principal (Part 2)Today, we continue our conversation with Oji Udezue, Principal at ProductMind, product expert, author, and an innovation-focused, multi-disciplined business leader.
Oji has had an extensive and successful career, spanning his time as CPO of Typeform, Head of Product for Creation and Conversation at Twitter, CPO of Calendly, and Head of Product at Atlassian.
On today’s part two of Oji’s two-part episode, we talk about his experience working on Twitter's creator initiatives, the concept of 'forest time,' a practice of stepping back to gain strategic perspective, and Oji's insights on product-led growth (PLG), emph...
2024-06-2525 minLaunchPod | Product Management PodcastThe zone of benefit with Oji Udezue, Principal (Part 1)Today, our guest is Oji Udezue, AI product expert, author, and an innovation-focused, multi-disciplined business leader.
Oji has had an extensive and successful career, spanning his time as CPO of Typeform, Head of Product for Creation and Conversation at Twitter, CPO of Calendly, and Head of Product at Atlassian.
On today's part one of a two-part episode, LogRocket's VP of Marketing, Jeff Wharton, talks to Oji about his upcoming book, 'Building Rocket Ships;' the complexity of product management due to its multi-disciplinary nature requiring skills in engineering, design, psychology, and economics; and the 'Zone...
2024-06-1830 min
Entrevistas a Product LeadersLa MAYOR conferencia de PRODUCTO de España | La Product Conf 2024🎙️ Escucha este episodio en YouTube: https://youtu.be/L-521naBioU
Esta semana, hemos asistido a la mayor conferencia de Producto de España: la Product Conf organizada por Thiga. En este episodio, hemos hecho 9 mini entrevistas a TOP Product Leaders del sector haciendo preguntas sobre el rol del PM y sobre lo que significa ser un Product Leader.
También, hablamos de muchos temas como:
✅ El Rol del Product Designer en el ecosistema de Producto
✅ El rol del Product Manager en grandes corporacion...
2024-05-2252 min
Behind The ProductOji & Ezinne Udezue: Customer Listening - The Shift from Projects to Enduring ProductsThis episode features a dynamic conversation with Oji and Ezinne Udezue, both Chief Product Officers at Typeform and WP Engine, respectively. The Udezue’s draw from their extensive experience as product leaders to discuss the concept of customer listening and its role in full stack product management. They emphasize the shift from treating product releases as fixed-time projects to ongoing products that require continuous tracking, support, and market engagement. The discussion centers on the importance of balancing business demands with customer delight and the need to build a "listening machine" within organizations to continuously gather and integrate customer feedback in...
2024-02-1542 min
Data Driven - Learn essential data literacy, AI and storytelling skills to future proof your career and fuel data informed decisionsBuilding data informed productsOji Udezue, Chief Product Officer, and David Okuniev, Co-Founder and Head of R&D at Typeform, explore data-driven product development. Building successful products is a delicate balance between inspiration and data-driven decisions. You need inspiration to come up with the initial idea, but you must also remain customer-focused and data-driven to refine and validate that idea. Today, Oji and David discuss building data-informed products.Connect With: David Okuniev: Website // LinkedInData Driven Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterDominic Bohan: Website // LinkedIn // Twitter
2024-02-1537 minData Driven - Learn essential data literacy, AI and storytelling skills to future proof your career and fuel data informed decisionsBuilding data informed products -- Oji Udezue and David Okuniev // TypeformOji Udezue, Chief Product Officer, and David Okuniev, Co-Founder and Head of R&D at Typeform, explore data-driven product development. Building successful products is a delicate balance between inspiration and data-driven decisions. You need inspiration to come up with the initial idea, but you must also remain customer-focused and data-driven to refine and validate that idea. Today, Oji and David discuss building data-informed products. Connect With: David Okuniev: Website // LinkedInData Driven Podcast: Email // LinkedIn // TwitterDominic Bohan: Website // LinkedIn // Twitter
2023-10-0937 min
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | GrowthPicking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform, Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian)Brought to you by Jira Product Discovery—Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams—Oji Udezue is Chief Product Officer at Typeform and has held leadership roles at Twitter (Head of Product for Creation and Conversation), Calendly (CPO), and Atlassian (Head of Product for communication tools). He is well-known for bringing a product-led-growth (PLG) mindset to the companies he joins. Additionally, Oji mentors startups, is a Managing Partner at the Kernel Fund, and writes online about product management. In this episode, we discuss:• Oji’s “Where to Fish to Land a Unico...
2023-09-141h 16
The Seed Stage - formerly "the June Podcast"Beyond Freemium: Typeform’s Journey & The Power of Product-Led Growth | Oji Udezue - CPO (Typeform, Calendly, Twitter)🎙️Tune in for an amazing chat with Oji Udezue, Chief Product Officer at Typeform, as we dissect the intricacies of Product-Led Growth (PLG) and its transformative impact on today's digital landscape.
With a wealth of experience under his belt and having served at the forefront of some of the most successful PLG-driven companies like Calendly and Typeform, Oji provides invaluable insights, drawing from his vast professional journey.
👉 In this episode, we explore:
- The essence of PLG beyond just a go-to-market strategy.
- Oji's...
2023-09-1233 min
This New WayReinventing Leadership in the AI Era: Becoming Customer Scientists and Shepherds of Talent (with Oji Udezue, CPO at Typeform)https://fellow.app/supermanagers/oji-udezue-typeform-reinventing-leadership-in-the-ai-era/
Should leaders be afraid of Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
Rather than focusing on the fear, try using them on a regular basis. AI tools will give you superpowers!
In episode #148, Oji shares insights on how leaders can unlock the full potential of their teams and become effective shepherds of talent.
Oji Udezue is the Chief Product Officer at Typeform. He has years of experience leading product, design, data and content teams. Prior to Typeform, Oji led product teams at Atlassian, Calendly, and Twitter!
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2023-05-1142 min
The Product PodcastFireside Chat with Typeform CPO, Oji UdezueJoin us for an electrifying fireside chat with Oji Udezue, the Chief Product Officer at Typeform, as he shares insider insights on what it takes to excel in the world of product management. Hosted by the Founder & CEO of Product School, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia, this is a conversation you won't want to miss. Discover how Oji's unique experiences shaped his product management philosophy and learn the secrets to his success. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, this episode is a valuable resource for anyone looking to achieve greatness in the world of product management.
2023-05-0229 min
TractionWhere To Fish To Land a Unicorn with Oji Udezue, TwitterOn this episode, Oji Udezue, former Chief Product Officer at Calendly and former Head of Product for Creation & Conversation at Twitter provides a framework for evaluating startup ideas based on their potential for growth and expected outcomes. Specifically, Oji talks about: - A different way to focus on and understand your addressable market. - Which workflows are worth optimizing for profit? - Why some workflows are more profitable than others and how to tell ahead of time. - High-intensity niche...
2022-10-1921 min
Cross Functional and FriendlyEP.10 -- A Career in Product with Oji UdezueThe final episode of our first season. Oji walks us through his path to working with some of the best startups and tech companies in the world
2022-09-0631 min
TractionReverse Freemium: How To Go From Sales-Led to Product-Led To Drive Growth with Oji Udezue and Michael LittOn this episode of the Traction podcast, host Lloyed Lobo of Boast.AI welcomes Oji Udezue, Product Lead at Twitter (and former CPO at Calendly) and Michael Litt, Co-Founder and CEO at Vidyard. The most successful IPOs and fastest-growing private companies of the past decade all started with a freemium, self-service product. Zoom, Atlassian, Slack, Dropbox are just a few. But building a freemium, self-service product when you already have a successful enterprise business can seem like a daunting task. There are a million questions: “Will it canni...
2022-03-301h 14
Product Chats PodcastHow to Manufacture Lightning in a BottleListen in to our recent Product Chat with Oji Udezue, chief product officer at Parsable, as he discusses his experience and shares fundamental product systems that can accelerate your path to achieving repeatable, consistent innovation for your organization.
2021-07-1752 minProduct Chats PodcastCreating Solution Driven TeamsHow do you create innovative and solution driven product teams? How do you create a culture and environment that hums with creativity? Those questions are filled with buzz words we all know well, but in this episode, we get into how it's actually done.
Oji Udezue, chief product officer for Parsable, joins our host Rebecca Kalogeris, VP of marketing and product strategy for Pragmatic Institute, to dive deep into how he has created said environments, and used his extensive experience in the product realm to create top-tier teams that focus on creative solutions.
2021-04-2325 min
Product TalkEP110 - fmr Calendly VP of Product on Customer DiscoveryMany great product leaders will talk about the importance of listening to customers. It’s also essential to know how you should go about doing it. Is there a right and wrong way? As part of our series in partnership with the Product Collective, Product Talk host and Product Exec, Nikki Ahmadi sat down with Oji Udezue, fmr VP of Product at Calendly to discuss customer discovery. They also share some important insight on what it means to be a BIPOC in product.
2020-07-2233 min
The GrowthTLDR Podcast. Weekly Conversations on Business Growth.EP101: Lessons from Calendly's Growth: Squads, Virality, and Network EffectsA couple of the topics we love to talk about on the GrowthTLDR is team structure and product-led growth. Luckily in this episode, we got to talk about both of these things with a true leader in the space, Oji Udezue, VP of Product at Calendly. We talked to Oji about: - How the product team at Calendly is broken into different squads and Oji's approach to creating these multi-disciplinary teams. - What's Oji's approach to improving the virality of Calendly and developing features that improve the network effects of the...
2020-03-2437 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
Mobile FirstRapid Fire Friday #44 - Atlassian w/ Head of Product, Oji Udezue, and Jordan Bryant on the Mobile First PodcastHead over to www.EmergeMobileFirst.com and select "Get Free Resources" to get the full list of resources from all of our guest emailed to you!
2018-02-1600 minMobile FirstEp. #60 - Atlassian w/ Head of Product, Oji Udezue, and Jordan Bryant on the Emerge Mobile First PodcastOji Udezue is the head of product for Atlassian's communications products, which just launched its first new product since IPO: Atlassian Stride. A product veteran with past roles at Microsoft, Bridgewater Associates, Spiceworks and his own startup, InterMingl, Oji is passionate about bringing new scalable products and ideas into the world. He mentors startups with a focus on companies with diverse founders, and drives startup investments in Africa as a passion project. His ultimate goal is productizing functional telepathy but for now will settle for transforming how teams and the people in them, communicate and process social data at...
2018-02-1400 min