It Shipped That Way
An interview series featuring product leaders in tech about the lessons they've learned building great products and teams. Hosted by Allen Pike, new episodes every 3 weeks. Supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 33
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
Winning is Fun, with Jane App Co-founder Trevor Johnston
Jane App Co-Founder & Co-CEO Trevor Johnston shares lessons from building a vertical SaaS that now serves hundreds of thousands of clinicians worldwide. We discuss the geometric power of referrals, o…
00:51:52 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
Making Email Wonderful, with Superhuman’s Lorilyn McCue
Lorilyn McCue, head of AI product at Superhuman, joins to share what she’s learned building LLM-powered products. She talks about how Superhuman executes on shipping delightful software, how to pursu…
00:46:35 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Building What Customers Need, with Milun Tesovic
Milun Tesovic, founder of Metrolyrics, Cmd, and Gitalytics – and now Parter at Expa – shares lessons learned building startups. We talk about building the largest lyrics site in the world, turning or…
00:59:48 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
Solving Impossible Problems, with The Browser Company’s Dolapo Falola
The Browser Company’s Head Of Engineering, Dolapo Falola, shares lessons from Google, Facebook, and Slack, and how they’ve informed his leadership of the team building Arc. He shares about the rush t…
00:45:04 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
Scaling Teams and Yourself, with Cate Huston
Cate Huston joins to talk about her new book, The Engineering Leader. She shares why she wrote a book, leadership problems endemic to fast-growing organizations, why career growth is more than promot…
01:02:50 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
Building Slack, with Johnny Rodgers
Johnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s founding engineers, shares stories and lessons from building Slack. He shares Slack’s origin, the art of extreme responsiveness to customer feedback, how features like …
00:56:06 |
Wed 22 May 2024
Continuous Discovery Habits, with Teresa Torres
Teresa Torres, author of Continuous Discovery Habits, joins to share lessons from her popular and acclaimed book. We talk about the benefits of constantly talking to customers, why it can be worth se…
00:55:37 |
Wed 01 May 2024
The Problems Get Squishier, with Luke Hutscal
Luke Hutscal, Principal Engineer at Clio – formerly of Shopify and Testflight – joins to talk about finding ways to learn rapidly, the downsides of a mercenary mindset, spending time with people who …
00:56:23 |
Wed 10 Apr 2024
Focusing on the Right Things, with Durable Founder James Clift
James Clift, Founder and CEO of Durable and VisualCV, joins us to talk about helping folks build great businesses, staying long-term optimistic yet short-term pessimistic, choosing between exciting i…
00:52:53 |
Wed 20 Mar 2024
The Frontier of Developer Tooling, with GitKraken CTO Eric Amodio
Eric Amodio, creator of GitLens, GitKraken CTO, and former Principal Engineer on VS Code, joins us to talk about founding products by scratching your own itch, building GitLens from an idea to tens o…
00:50:39 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
Building and Funding Growth Teams, with Panobi CEO Merci Grace
Merci Grace, CEO and co-founder of Panobi, and former partner at Lightspeed Ventures and first Head of Growth at Slack, shares lessons about growth as a discipline, pitfalls of fundraising and her “M…
00:56:16 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
Winning with Boring Competence, with Ian Crosby
Ian Crosby, founding CEO of Bench and now Teal, talks building Bench from zero to hundreds, how vertical SaaS is transforming SMB startups, what it really takes to become highly profitable, why Teal …
01:00:41 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
A Way Better Mousetrap, with Quilt founder Paul Lambert
Paul Lambert, CEO and founder of Quilt and former Director at Google’s Area 120, joins Allen to talk society-scale problems, why searching for product-market fit is overrated, the power of building a…
00:52:41 |
Wed 27 Dec 2023
Doing Something Hard, with Unblocked Founder Dennis Pilarinos
Dennis Pilarinos, founder of Buddybuild and now Unblocked (and former Director at Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple) shares what he’s learned about product leadership. We talk about why you should build a…
00:44:19 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
The Culture You Want to Build, with Charity Majors
Honeycomb.io co-founder and CTO Charity Majors joins Allen to share what she’s learned growing Honeycomb from idea to 170-person distributed company, including what goes into being a good manager bey…
01:02:59 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
Building Great Experiences Using LLMs, with David Hariri
Ada co-founder David Hariri joins Allen to talk about an audacious product discovery process that kicked off a 250-employee startup, limitations of hand-scripted workflows, strengths and weaknesses o…
00:58:51 |
Wed 25 Oct 2023
The Puzzle of Engineering Leadership, with Michael Lopp
Michael Lopp, aka Rands, joins Allen to talk about the fundamental need for growth, finding your team’s core motivations, the value of writing for developing clear thinking, the joys and perils of wr…
00:48:49 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
Coaching New Managers, with Tiffany Conroy
Tiffany Conroy, former VP of Engineering at SoundCloud, shares what she’s learned about where new engineering managers stumble and how to support them, considering whether you want to be a manager at…
00:55:43 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Telling Product Stories with Adam Lisagor of Sandwich
Adam Lisagor, Founder of Sandwich Video, shares what he’s learned about the nature of storytelling, about how to zoom out to tell the story of your product, understanding the emotional valence of our…
00:56:09 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
Small But Mighty, with Ridwell Co-founder Aliya Marder
Aliya Marder, Co-Founder of Ridwell, joins us to share what she’s learned about the people-service mindset for product work, the demands of running a startup with a real-world footprint, the power of…
00:40:23 |
Wed 23 Aug 2023
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