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
Engineering Practices That Pay Off, with Later CTO Ian MacKinnon
Ian MacKinnon, CTO of Later and Mavrck, shares lessons learned building Later from founding to success to acquisition – and from the startups that weren’t so fortunate. We discuss early engineering p…
00:46:58 |
Fri 11 Aug 2023
The Intersection of Business and Design, with former Shopify Product GM Lynsey Thornton
Lynsey Thornton shares what she learned helping Shopify grow almost 100x as GM of Core Product, VP of UX, and more. We review some common challenges companies hit as they scale, how to identify hires…
00:54:20 |
Wed 26 Jul 2023
Product Management and Growing Up as an Organization, with Mailchimp’s Bruce Alderson
Bruce Alderson, Senior Product Manager at Mailchimp, shares what he’s learned in 20 years as a CTO, engineering leader, and product manager. We discuss the role of multi-disciplinarians in large orgs…
00:53:33 |
Wed 05 Jul 2023
Building Developer Experiences at Slack, with Steve Gill
Steve Gill, Slack’s Director of DevRel Engineering, digs in to the craft of building great APIs for developers. We discuss the power of open source for informing platform work, building platforms tha…
00:48:13 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
Principal Engineering at AWS Scale, with Nik Pinski
Nik Pinski, Principal Engineer at AWS, shares how AWS is organized for autonomy and customer-centric product development, dealing with millions of events per second, and how Staff and Principal Engin…
00:47:20 |
Wed 17 May 2023
Scaling a UX Org from 30 to 450, with Shopify’s former Head of Design Kyle Peatt
Kyle Peatt, former Head of Design at Shopify, shares lessons he learned helping rapidly scale Shopify’s UX team from 30 folks to 450. We talk about effective triads of product, design, and engineerin…
00:56:06 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
Effective and Scalable Machine Learning, with Opendoor Co-Founder Ian Wong
Ian Wong, co-founder of Opendoor, shares what he’s learned about machine learning and data science in his work as CTO of Opendoor and helping detect fraud at Square. We talk about the differences bet…
00:46:26 |
Wed 05 Apr 2023
Architecting Apps at Netflix Scale, with Arik Devens
Netflix’s Arik Devens shares what he’s learned about architecting mobile apps with many millions of users, building from early adventures at Netscape and Palm up to architectural roles at Fitbit and …
00:56:16 |
Fri 17 Mar 2023
Making Billions with Ethical Onboarding, with Jaycee Day
Jaycee Day, a seasoned designer having worked at GitHub and Blinkist, shares what she learned designing a now world-famous app onboarding flow. We talk about onboarding flows, subscription and trial …
00:41:48 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Solving Engineering Problems with DuckDuckGo’s Cate Huston
Cate Huston shares what she’s learned leading engineering teams at DuckDuckGo, Automattic, and Google. We talk about the challenges of hiring directors, what makes DuckDuckGo weird, supporting team h…
00:39:52 |
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Effectively Leading Technical Teams, with Khan Academy’s Shawn Jansepar
Shawn Jansepar, Director of Engineering at Khan Academy, shares what he’s learned about keeping product teams engaged, effective engineering practices and how to teach them, and building trust.<ul>
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00:41:20 |
Wed 28 Dec 2022
Lessons Learned Building Alexa, with Product Manager Polly Allen
Polly Allen, former Principal Product Manager on Amazon Alexa, shares what she’s learned about the challenging world of building products for voice and AI, as well the roles of data-driven decision-m…
00:43:53 |
Wed 07 Dec 2022
How Not to Ship Your Org Chart, with veteran product designer Brad Ellis
Brad Ellis pulls from his experience designing for Square, Lyft, and many other products to share what he’s learned about the incredible value of user testing, scaling product design across a large o…
00:58:36 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
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