PRODUCTEA with Leah, Growth & Senior Leadership
Honest, unfiltered conversations with the best from tech - spilling the tea about product, growth, and senior leadership topics.
www.leahtharin.com
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 113
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
73: Austin Hay - BS Marketing, Dogfooding and the future of CRMs
Cringe Marketing, Dogfooding, and the limitations of Hubspot and Salesforce with Austin Hay, the Co-Founder of Clarify (CRM).
I talked with Austin on the rise of superficial marketing tactics and what…
72: Rand Fishkin - Why paid advertising sucks in 2024
If you spend money on paid ads, chances are that you’re being taken advantage of. The biggest providers do it to you because they can and they optimize their systems more and more towards it.
Rand Fis…
71: John Cutler - How to structure a product organization
John Cutler on the challenges of scaling and operating a collaborative product organization.
We discuss different mental models for how different functions work together as teams and why it’s importa…
70: Pedro Goés - Building for enterprise customers in an oversaturated market
Summary
Pedro Góes, the founder and CEO of InEvent, discusses with me the challenges and strategies of selling to enterprise clients in the event tech industry.
Why in-person interactions and relations…
69: Janna Bastow - The challenges and opportunities AI brings to Product Management.
What is the role of product managers in the age of AI and the potential impact of AI on roadmapping and expectation management?
Janna Bastow, CEO & Co-Founder ProdPad / Co-Founder of Mind the Product,…
68: Vijay Iyengar: Unbundling PLG and why BI tools are not good for analysis
When is PLG just a fad? Vijay Iyengar, Senior Director of Product at Mixpanel discusses with me about the misconceptions around PLG and the role of analytics in driving business growth and why first …
67: Laura Schaffer: Layering self-serve into a Sales-led gig at Amplitude
Laura Schaffer, VP Product Growth @ Amplitude shares her experience of launching a self-serve paid plan and a free plan at Amplitude, a sales-led organization.
We discuss the changing landscape of sel…
66: Henrique Cruz - AHA! How to define and reach User activation
Summary
Activation and aha moments in product growth with Henrique Cruz, Head of Growth at Rows.com. How to find the right activation metric that predicts retention and how to iterate on the onboardin…
65: Guillaume "G" Cabane - The Future of Marketing in an AI-Dominated Landscape
Summary
Guillaume Cabane and I discuss the future of marketing and the role of humans in a landscape dominated by AI and automation. We’re talking about what does drive marketing and sales teams, and…
64: Kristen Berman - Behavioral science and product growth
Summary
Kristen Berman, the Co-Founder of Irrational Labs discusses with me the psychology behind decision-making, the importance of understanding human behavior in product design, and the limitations…
63: Kyle Pursell - Paths into Growth with the Head of Growth Optimization at Shopify
Summary
Kyle Pursell, the Head of Growth Optimization at Shopify, talks about impactful business strategies for growth.
What is the challenge of moving upmarket, and the role of product-led growth in d…
62: Kieran Flanagan: The state of AI in 2024 in Tech
Summary
In the second conversation with Kieran Flanagan, SVP Marketing at Hubspot we talk about how we see AI really being used in tech and not just being a flashy thing you use once. From Sales, to M…
61: Dennis R. Mortensen - How to win with building for productivity
Dennis R. Mortensen is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of LaunchBrightly, which makes money by automating the most annoying things in our work lives (through AI).
We talk about why it’s importan…
60: Andrew Ettinger - Community-led growth in enterprise sales
Summary
I talked with the amazing Andrew Ettinger from Appen about community-led growth in enterprise sales, the importance of cross-functional understanding, and the transformation of content and com…
59: Dani Grant - In-person Community building in a PLG product at Jam.Dev
Summary
Jam.dev created a tool called Jam that helps product managers and engineers communicate and debug bugs more effectively. The company has grown to over 100,000 users and has fixed more than 2 m…
58: Andy Johns - Stop. Burnout within High Performers
Summary
Burnout and the pursuit of external validation in tech.
The pressure to constantly achieve and the belief that success will bring happiness and fulfillment is driving some of us into ruin. It …
57: Erik Allebest - From 0 to 150 million ARR - The Chess.com story
Summary
Chess.com has grown from being a simple chess service to a thriving 150 million ARR business. The company has focused on making chess accessible to everyone through services around a product t…
56: Jason Fried - Motivation, forming habits and calendars
Motivation, forming habits, managing time, and why it’s important to know how much you enjoy solving problems with Jason Fried.
Jason is really special to me and a 2nd time guest. Whenever we go at it…
55: Mike Weir - Churn & Sales compensation to fight churn
Summary
The conversation with Mike Weir, former CRO of G2, focused on reducing churn and driving expansion revenue.
At G2, they used a churn model with 14 highly correlated variables to identify at-ris…
54: Anthony Pierri - Positioning your B2B Startup through your Homepage
Anthony Pierry, partner at FletchPMM, focuses on messaging for early-stage B2B SaaS startups, and he brought a lot of actionable knowledge on how to do it right to the ProducTea.
Summary
I talk with An…