Best Productboard Podcasts (2026)

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Driving product mindset and engineering excellence at scale (with Vinay Ram) 39:31

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In this episode, Robin talks with Vinay Ram, VP of Product Engineering at Productboard, about leading high-performing teams, building trust fast, and driving a product-first mindset across engineering. They cover what makes product engineers different, how to balance speed with stability, why staff+ engineers are critical to scale, and how guilds, …

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Luke Ryan 30:05

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In this episode we'll sit down with Luke Ryan, Product Manager at Fathom, to discuss how to stand out in the increasingly competitive market of financial reporting and analysis. Luke is a Product Maker who helps empower accountants and advisors to better understand and manage their clients’ financial health.…

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What staff+ engineers need to be successful in the ML field (with Žilvinas Girėnas) 39:46

1y ago39:46

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In this episode, Robin interviews Žilvinas Girėnas, a Senior Engineering Manager at Productboard. They dive into Žilvinas’ experience leading a machine learning team focused on building Productboard AI. The discussion covers the team’s unique approach to working with AI, the challenges and strategies in hiring ML engineers, and their transition to …

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Courtney Arnott 50:48

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In this episode, we’ll dive into Courtney’s decade of experience in product management and how she’s leading the charge at 120Water to ensure healthier drinking water across the nation. With her unique expertise in transforming services into scalable product solutions, Courtney shares valuable insights into the challenges of bringing tech to a non-…

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The strategic role of design in building customer-driven products (with Zdenek Kuncar) 24:28

1+ y ago24:28

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In our latest episode, we dive into the fast-paced world of design. In a wide-ranging discussion, Zdenek Kuncar, Director of Product Design at Productboard, touches on multi-team collaborations, the importance of feedback, and the benefits of moving from an IC role to the management track. Zdenek joined Productboard six years ago and immediately re…

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Career growth and overcoming challenges to succeed in today’s tech world (with Barbora Votápková) 34:00

1+ y ago34:00

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We sit down with Bara Votápková, a Senior QE engineer at Productboard, to explore the highs and lows of engineering, the blend of technical and interpersonal skills required, and how her personal journey reflects the collaborative culture at Productboard. This episode is packed with valuable insights on career growth, overcoming challenges, and how…

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Learning new languages, harnessing the strengths of management and IC tracks, and embracing adaptation (with Jany Koščo) 41:55

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In this episode, we examine how mastering multiple programming languages is a huge advantage in today’s rapidly evolving tech environment. Jany Koščo, Senior Staff Engineer at Productboard, explains that as a generalist not only can you better solve coding problems and meet customer needs, but you will also have more opportunities to advance your c…

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How to bring more value to your sales approach (with Elizabeth Chase) 29:17

1+ y ago29:17

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We chat with Elizabeth Chase, Manager of EMEA Sales at Productboard, about how surviving a very challenging macroeconomic climate helped reshape our sales approach, placing a bigger emphasis on customer communication, connection, and trust. We discuss the pros and cons of the job, what makes a good salesperson, and why you should never take the wor…

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Champions of culture – how tech companies are embracing change, career growth, and office diversity (with Cris Domingo) 39:17

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We chat with Cris Domingo, Head of People, Culture, and Talent at Productboard, about the key shift many HR departments have made in recent years, taking a more proactive approach toward people. In a post-Covid world, companies have had to adapt and embrace changes in their office environments, with HR essentially becoming champions of culture and …

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Insider tips on hiring staff & senior staff engineers (with Claudiu Andrei) 44:53

2y ago44:53

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In the fourth episode of Season 2, we sit down with Claudiu Andrei, Site Tech Lead at Productboard’s San Francisco office, who’s in the process of building up two new teams to better serve our enterprise customers. We talk to Claudiu about what he considers when hiring staff and senior staff engineers, and what makes a candidate CV stand out. He wa…

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Annett Eckert 29:49

2y ago29:49

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In this episode, we delve into the dynamics of leadership in steering organizational change, particularly in transitioning towards a product operating model. Annett and I explore crucial signals that leaders should be attuned to, indicating the best moment to initiate a change process. We dissect the essential steps that leaders and organizations m…

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John Carter 37:16

2y ago37:16

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In this episode, we dive into the evolving world of product management and innovation with John Carter. Exploring key shifts, from redefining the product manager's role to fostering team innovation in 2024 and uncovering why experienced managers are in the spotlight and how organizations should adapt. We'll also touch on the importance of external …

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Balaji Ananthanpillai 32:20

2y ago32:20

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Join us in this episode with Balaji Ananthanpillai, seasoned product expert with a rich background in shaping products at tech giants like Amazon, Adobe, and Paylocity. As we navigate Q4, we unpack the key differences between roadmaps and strategy. Explore B2B vs. B2C roadmap nuances, discover tactics for effective prioritization, and learn why div…

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Janina Franzkowiak 35:50

2y ago35:50

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In this episode, we hear from Janina Frazkowiak, an accomplished Product Manager with a decade of experience across various industries. We discuss the intriguing world of independent product management, exploring what it entails and how to break into this unique role. Janina shares valuable insights on the rewards and challenges of spearheading 0-1…

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Parveen Downer 33:28

2y ago33:28

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In this episode, we sit down with Parveen Downer, a seasoned senior product manager at Semble. Parveen shares her valuable insights on the skills and mindset needed to thrive in the world of product management, from core people skills essential for success to the development of a product and growth mindset. We also dive into the significance of bei…

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John Zilch 40:44

2y ago40:44

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Today, our guest is John Zilch, who is Senior Director of Product at SugarCRM. Today in this episode we discuss product quality - not in the sense of software testing but how you can ship quality products to customers within B2B companies, and the challenges product teams face doing it. We discuss the importance of business and product strategy, wh…

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Dan Olsen 41:14

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Dive into the product realm with Dan Olsen, acclaimed author of "The Lean Product Playbook." Unpacking his experiences with tech behemoths like Google and Facebook, Olsen provides a deep dive into B2B product challenges, roadmap crafting, and the quest for authentic customer feedback. A must-listen for every product enthusiast.…

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Growth Product Management – reshaping marketing & sales acceleration (with Jaroslav Tran) 39:39

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In the fifth episode of Season 2, we sit down with Jaroslav Tran, Growth Product Manager at Productboard, to talk about why many companies are turning to product-led growth to help secure more customers. We also take a closer look at why product teams in general have become so important to marketing and sales acceleration. Customer needs are rapidl…

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Communication, analysis, ruthless prioritization – the pillars of product management 39:40

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In the fourth episode of Season 2, we sit down with Eva Novotná, a Product Manager at Productboard, to go over the skills you’ll need to successfully lead a product team, including the three core ones: seamless communication, keen professional analysis, and ruthless prioritization. Eva emphasizes the important role soft skills and routine feedback …

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Feedback, autonomy, and gratitude: Cross-collaborating in modern work environments (with Malwina Fojcik) 38:46

2+ y ago38:46

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In our third episode of Season 2, we sit down with Malwina Fojcik, Senior Product Design Manager at Productboard, to discuss why seamless cross-functional collaboration, now more than ever before, is essential to modern work environments. Team members – regardless if they are designers, engineers, or product managers – need to be encouraged to take…

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Staff+ ambitions: Top tips for landing your IC leadership job (with Alice Rum, Dmitry Belyaev and Tomáš Růžička) 43:31

2+ y ago43:31

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Our third episode of Season 2 was a special live recording from this year’s WebExpo conference in Prague, where we discussed what it takes to become a Staff+ Engineer. We sat down with a trio of experts in the field – Alice Rum, Staff Software Engineer at SentinelOne, Dmitry Belyaev, Principal Frontend Engineer at Booking.com, and Tomáš Růžička, St…

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Mentor me this: a master's guide to mentoring for staff+ engineers (with Hussien Khayoon) 44:48

2+ y ago44:48

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In our second episode of Season 2, we chatted with Hussien Khayoon, Staff Software Developer at Shopify, about the undisputable importance and value of mentoring – regardless if you’re just starting out or already at the top of your game. He discusses how his mentoring roles at Bootcamp, Superpeer, and ADPList gave him a different perspective on te…

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From Product-Led to Sales-Led ft. Jon Widawski, Co-founder & CEO, Maze 35:26

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Figma did it for design. Slack did it for team comms. Zoom did the same for meetings. Salesforce - CRM. Every once in a while, a tool comes along that pushes the envelope of our imaginations and brings our presumptions crashing to the ground. And reinvents how sh*t gets done. In 2023, user research and testing aren’t quite the same anymore. And for…

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The 'Enterprise Sales Gene' ft. D'Arcy Doyle, SVP Sales - Productboard 1:02:22

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D’Arcy spent 11 years at Oracle, selling database management systems on either side of the dot-com bubble bursting.He is the man you’d get if you wanted to carve out an early advantage in the enterprise sector while going head-to-head with only one of the most viral tools of all time. Box became Dropbox’s worst nightmare in the enterprise sector du…

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Building a successful sales career & dealing with market uncertainty (with Josh Jones) 39:38

3y ago39:38

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In our second episode of Season 2, we sat down with Josh Jones, Senior Sales Development Manager for the EMEA region, to talk about powering through the volatile fourth quarter of 2022. He shares the lessons we learned during this turbulent period, stressing the importance of actionable strategies, guidelines and roadmaps, and the value of team col…

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From manager of managers to principal engineer (with Ralph McTeggart) 51:56

3y ago51:56

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In our first episode of Season 2, we chatted with Ralph McTeggart, Principal Engineer at Productboard, about his decision to become a Tech Lead after wearing a manager hat for several years. He examines the benefits as well as the challenges he faced upon returning closer to the technical side, sharing how the skills he gained from serving in both …

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From Java to Kotlin: How I made the switch and never looked back, with Pavel Spacil — Senior Software Engineer 36:20

3y ago36:20

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For our 11th episode, we sat down with Pavel Spacil, Senior Software Engineer, to discuss his journey from Java to Kotlin — and Productboard. During an interesting discussion, Pavel shares the challenges and benefits he encountered while learning a new programming language from scratch. We also discuss why Productboard shifted its focus towards Kot…

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Humans of PLG ft. Gaurav Vohra, Head of Strategy & Analytics at Superhuman 43:28

3y ago43:28

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Superhuman: The platform that monetized time! Superhuman - the fastest email experience ever made. In a world where more than a billion people spend three hours a day reading and writing emails, Superhuman enables them to fly through their inboxes twice as fast as before. Gaurav is one of the founding team members who set up many of the company's k…

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With Daryna Kulya, Co-founder of OpenPhone | Humans of Product-Led Growth 36:09

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OpenPhone is an app to which you can add all your work numbers. It can live on all your everyday devices and, on top of calls and messages, offers a full suite of integrations to your work tools. Daryna is on a mission to rewrite the future of the business phone, bringing it back from the dead and into the 21st century. 🚆 With an impressive 200% + …

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Humans of PLG ft. Steeve Vakeeswaran, Head of Sales & Expansion at Zapier 35:06

3+ y ago35:06

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Steeve Vakeeswaran, Head of Sales & Expansion at Zapier; Zapier offers over 5,000 app integrations and powers automations ranging from central workflows at Fortune 500 companies to such side projects as Seinfeldtext and Kanyetext. Zapier's growth from $0-$140 million has been largely driven by their bottom-up self-serve engine🤩. In early 2021, with…

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Humans of PLG ft. Mario Araujo, Head of Growth at Softr 34:27

3+ y ago34:27

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Mario Araujo, Head Of Growth at Softr; the world’s largest ecosystem for building no-code apps. The product makes enables anyone without prior experience in coding to build an online presence in the form of communities, portals, stores, and even CRMs. 🤯Softr has zoomed organically from 0 to 50k users in less than 15 months, picking up Product Hunt’…

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Humans Of PLG ft. Mark Tanner, Co-founder of Qwilr 40:20

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Qwilr is a way for sales and marketing teams to create all of their customer-facing collateral - proposals, quotes, pitch decks, presentations, and contracts - as web pages, rather than PDFs or PowerPoint decks. Read more about Qwilr's growth story here: https://www.topofthelyne.co/p/cause-t... Mark Tanner is the co-founder & COO of the Sydney-base…

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Product Led Growth as a force for good 12:56

3+ y ago12:56

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Canva, Stripe, Substack, Replit, Freshworks as flag-bearers of Product Led Growth (PLG) as a force for cultural change in the world. For more exciting stories from the world of product-led growth, join us on Substack Click here for a free interactive demo of Toplyne.

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Growing 12x in one year… No big Deel 13:35

3+ y ago13:35

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The growth levers and GTM strategies that drove Deel's hockey stick growth and a $5.5B valuation, while making remote hiring a walk in the park. For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Growth hacking with AI: The Copy.ai story 12:31

3+ y ago12:31

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The product-led and build-in-public ethos that enabled Copy.ai's tremendous growth from 0 to $2.4M in ARR in just one year For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Replit: Printing “hello world” shouldn't be this easy! 13:16

4y ago13:16

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The growth and product strategies fueling Replit's browser-based coding revolution! For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Netlify: heading the headless revolution 11:27

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The growth and demand-gen strategies that fuelled Netlify to 2M+ users and a $2B valuation! For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Want zoom superpowers? Mmhmm. Mmhmm? Mmhmm! 12:18

4y ago12:18

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The product, growth, and company strategies that mmhmm employed to reimagine video and distributed work! For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Notion: the all-in-one productivity tool 12:17

4y ago12:17

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Breaking down the GTM strategy that packaged and sold the infinite possibilities of Notion's 'Lego blocks' to 20M+ users 🤯 and raised the PLG giant to decacorn-ship 💰 For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Growing 5x in one year with $0 spent: A Clockwise masterclass 12:26

4y ago12:26

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Clockwise's turbocharged product-led growth engine that drove an organic bottom-up growth of over 5% week over week For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Self-reflection: How to become a confident, high-performing leader (with Ramona Shaw) 1:24:15

4y ago1:24:15

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In the seventh episode of our podcast series, Joshua welcomes Ramona Shaw, his BetterManager leadership coach. Ramona works with both emerging and experienced technology leaders to help them achieve their fullest leadership potential. In this inspiring episode, Joshua and Ramona explore the function and value of coaching, revealing actual examples …

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Sourcegraph: Google for code 12:26

4y ago12:26

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The growth levers and GTM strategies that powered the code-search platform to a 4x increase in revenue and a $2.625B valuation For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Algolia: Your search ends here 13:07

4y ago13:07

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The go-to-market strategies that scaled Algolia to $100M+ in ARR! For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Clearbit: The rocket fuel 'enriching' PLG sales 10:33

4y ago10:33

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The growth marketing and data-driven GTM that powers an API used by 1,500+ businesses For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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An ode to Substack 13:09

4y ago13:09

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A deep dive on how Substack is reimagining content distribution - giving back power to the creator! For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Retool: Saving developers from internal tools since 2017 😇 11:24

4y ago11:24

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In a world desperately in the need of developers, why would you waste their time on internal tools? For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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How Atlassian built a $50B+ acquisition-led growth engine 🤝 7:40

4y ago7:40

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A deep dive on how $1B of capital and a perfectly crafted M&A engine (arguably) created $40-50B of market cap for Atlassian! For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Loom: Weaving 14M users together with video 11:32

4y ago11:32

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A breakdown of the land and expand GTM strategy Loom used in its journey to a $1.5B+ valuation! For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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How Superhuman monetized time! The world's rarest resource 9:49

4y ago9:49

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A deep dive into the three-pronged strategy that raised Superhuman to product-market fit! For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access

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Heir to the tables: The Airtable story 12:42

4y ago12:42

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The growth engine powering Airtable's claim to the spreadsheet throne 👑 For more exciting content and to get added to our mailing list: Join our substack To take Toplyne out on a test run: Request access