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How structure eases growing pains for product teams – Jeff Lash @ Forrester Sep 24, 2019

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As a product company scales, the complexity of the business also increases. The more employees there are building your product, the more coordination happens between several teams. One of the challenges of a growing product organisation is the need for consistency and order. For a scaling product company that has cross functional teams, a lack of structure can frustrate people and bottleneck other goals that are being prioritised.
In this episode, Forrester’s VP and Group Director of Product Management Research and Advisory, Jeff Lash, will talk about how processes can help a company grow at scale.
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How to successfully onboard new PMs – Cem Kansu @ Duolingo Sep 10, 2019

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Product to Product, a podcast for / by product people, is back for season 5!

This season, we’re diving into the growing pains of a scaling product company. We’ll be giving PMs tactical advice on how to overcome common roadblocks when their teams are going through crazy growth. To kick off this season, we have Cem Kansu talking to us about programs and techniques he uses to make sure new hires are set up for success right from the start.

The onboarding process is more than just having a laptop set up for your new employee on their first day. Product companies need to recognize that onboarding is equally as important as hiring. It’s counterproductive to overlook the onboarding experience because it’s costly to start the process all over again––especially when a company’s goal is to scale sustainably.
Cem is a Director of Product Management at Duolingo who’s been focused on onboarding new employees.
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Referrals are a retention play – Pratik Shah @ Airbnb Jun 03, 2019

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Your most loyal users will help you find your next most loyal user—through referrals. Airbnb's Pratik Shah says they’ll also stick around longer.

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Scaling a monetization strategy as you scale - Katie Guzman @ Asana May 21, 2019

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The average SaaS company spends 8 hours on pricing—don’t do this. Asana's Katie Guzman walks us through how a $$ strategy can evolve with your product.

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Unlocking user onboarding for growth - Emily Lonetto @ Clio May 07, 2019

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This episode, we're joined by Emily Lonetto, who works in growth at Clio and calls herself "strangely obsessed" with onboarding.

She's built several onboarding flows in her career and gives us the low-down of how to hook your users, right off the bat. 🎣

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North stars are leading you astray - Brian Balfour @ Reforge Apr 23, 2019

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Welcome back to another episode of Product to Product, the podcast for / by product people hosted by Roadmunk.

This season, we’re taking a deep dive into growth and giving PMs practical, sustainable, non-hacky ways to grow your product.

Brian Balfour, CEO at Reforge, joins us for this episode. He calls himself anti-North star metrics because they “oversimplify” growth. Brian has helped redefine other shiny metrics to keep teams on track at companies like Hubspot.

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Building world-class growth teams - Willie Tran @ Mailchimp Apr 09, 2019

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Welcome back to another episode of Product to Product, the podcast for / by product people hosted by Roadmunk.

This season, we’re taking a deep dive into growth and giving PMs practical, sustainable, non-hacky ways to grow your product.

Willie Tran, Growth PM at Mailchimp, joins us for this episode. He's worked on several scaling growth teams and he shares his many opinions on how to build growth teams. (He prefers the term "squads").

Plus: he's got some strong opinions about how growth teams should function within itself, and also work with the rest of the organization.

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All PMs should be growth PMs - Shaun Clowes @ Metromile Mar 26, 2019

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Season 4 of Product to Product, a podcast for / by product people, is finally here!

This season, we’re taking a deep dive into growth and giving PMs practical, sustainable, non-hacky ways to grow your product.

First up—Shaun Clowes on why all PMs should be growth PMs.

Whereas core PMs own parts of the product, growth PMs own KPIs and experiments. They also tend to be way more data-driven.

This new distinction between core and growth PM implies that PMs aren’t as focused on growth as their orgs would like them to be, but our guest doesn’t think that’s helpful.

Having worked on both sides, Shaun was the head of product growth at Atlassian before joining MetroMile as their Chief Product Officer.

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Season 4 Teaser Mar 05, 2019

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Back on air March 26, season 4 tackles a brand new theme—growth.

We’re giving you tactical, sustainable, non-hacky ways to grow your product.

Each episode a member of our team will discuss one growth topic with a product person from a really cool company.

We’ve got an awesome lineup this season, with product people who’ve worked at high growth companies like Reforge, Atlassian, Mailchimp and Asana.

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Is there a downside to dogfooding? - Nick Franklin @ ChartMogul Nov 13, 2018

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It's our season 3 finale of Product to Product, a podcast for / by product people!

We're breaking down, dissecting and debunking the product buzzwords you love to hate, and hate to love.

In our last episode, we’re joined by ChartMogul’s Founder & CEO, Nick Franklin to talk about dogfooding.

What happens when you use your own products? You can get some great insights from loving and hating the same things as your customer.

Nick weighs in on some of the cultural changes that can happen in your organization when you eat your own dog food, or even how it can skew your product decisions.

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