It Shipped That Way
by Steamclock Software
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Amplifying Human Intent, with Impeccable Creator Paul Bakaus
Amplifying Human Intent, with Impeccable Creator Paul Bakaus
About this podcast
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 Powerplant.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 36 episodes
- Amplifying Human Intent, with Impeccable Creator Paul Bakaus · 57 min · Episode 36Impeccable creator Paul Bakaus shares lessons learned turning a coding harness into a design harness, building ambitious agent skills, getting compelling design from AI, keeping…
- Speed and Quality are Complementary, with Wealthsimple Co-Founder Brett Huneycutt · 42 min · Episode 35Wealthsimple Co-Founder and CPO Brett Huneycutt shares lessons from building a 1500-person company recently valued at $10B. He relates the underlying wisdom of “Launch now”, how…
- Chat Isn’t Automation, with Zapier’s first PM, Chris Geoghegan · 46 min · Episode 34Zapier’s first PM and now VP of Product Chris Geoghegan joins us to discuss the relationship between deterministic and LLM-powered automations, scaling a transparent and…
- Winning is Fun, with Jane App Co-founder Trevor Johnston · 52 min · Episode 33Jane 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…
- Making Email Wonderful, with Superhuman’s Lorilyn McCue · 47 min · Episode 32Lorilyn 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…
- Building What Customers Need, with Milun Tesovic · 60 min · Episode 31Milun 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…
- Solving Impossible Problems, with The Browser Company’s Dolapo Falola · 45 min · Episode 30The 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…
- Scaling Teams and Yourself, with Cate Huston · 1 h 2 min · Episode 29Cate 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…
- Building Slack, with Johnny Rodgers · 56 min · Episode 28Johnny 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…
- Continuous Discovery Habits, with Teresa Torres · 56 min · Episode 27Teresa 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…
- The Problems Get Squishier, with Luke Hutscal · 56 min · Episode 26Luke 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…
- Focusing on the Right Things, with Durable Founder James Clift · 53 min · Episode 25James 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…
- The Frontier of Developer Tooling, with GitKraken CTO Eric Amodio · 51 min · Episode 24Eric 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…
- Building and Funding Growth Teams, with Panobi CEO Merci Grace · 56 min · Episode 23Merci 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…
- Winning with Boring Competence, with Ian Crosby · 1 h 0 min · Episode 22Ian 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…
- A Way Better Mousetrap, with Quilt founder Paul Lambert · 53 min · Episode 21Paul 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…
- Doing Something Hard, with Unblocked Founder Dennis Pilarinos · 44 min · Episode 20Dennis 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…
- The Culture You Want to Build, with Charity Majors · 1 h 2 min · Episode 19Honeycomb.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…
- Building Great Experiences Using LLMs, with David Hariri · 59 min · Episode 18Ada 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…
- The Puzzle of Engineering Leadership, with Michael Lopp · 49 min · Episode 17Michael 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…
