It Shipped That Way

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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.

  1. Aug 4

    Amplifying Human Intent, with Impeccable Creator Paul Bakaus

    Impeccable creator Paul Bakaus shares lessons learned turning a coding harness into a design harness, building ambitious agent skills, getting compelling design from AI, keeping up with slop, and amplifying human craft. Impeccable Impeccable Pro The Impeccable slop catalog The Dark Arts of Skill Engineering talk Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Powerplant.

  2. Jan 7

    Speed and Quality are Complementary, with Wealthsimple Co-Founder Brett Huneycutt

    Wealthsimple 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 early dogfooding and short cycle times increase both speed and quality, attention to detail as a brand promise, where product decisions should be taste-driven vs. data-driven, and how to hire people you would want to work for. Wealthsimple Presents: The End of Banking on YouTube Brett Huneycutt on X Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Powerplant.

  3. 2025-12-03

    Chat Isn’t Automation, with Zapier’s first PM, Chris Geoghegan

    Zapier’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 fully-remote company from millions in revenue to hundreds of millions, whether PM roles are becoming more or less important today, disrupting yourself before anybody else does, and the value of knowing SQL. Chris Geoghegan on LinkedIn Cursor for PMs course from Tal Raviv Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Powerplant.

  4. 2024-10-24

    Winning is Fun, with Jane App Co-founder Trevor Johnston

    Jane 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 power of referrals, obsessing over churn, turning your customers into your salespeople, scaling product engineering past Dunbar’s number, transcending a Rails monolith, and finding the fun in 6 hours of Zoom meetings. Jane App Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Powerplant.

  5. 2024-09-18

    Making Email Wonderful, with Superhuman’s Lorilyn McCue

    Lorilyn 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 software, how to pursue both attention to detail and rapid iteration, optimizing your roadmap for learning, questions that are surprisingly easy (and hard) for LLMs, evaluation and testing of AI-powered features, and ruthlessly prioritizing the user. The Superhuman Blog Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Powerplant.

  6. 2024-08-28

    Building What Customers Need, with Milun Tesovic

    Milun 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 the world, turning organizational dysfunction into startup ideas, solving problems without making people change their behaviour, getting acquired by Github a month after launch, making early hires on a product team, and how to get a great domain with one weird trick. expa.com Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Powerplant.

  7. 2024-07-17

    Solving Impossible Problems, with The Browser Company’s Dolapo Falola

    The 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 shares about the rush to launch Stories at Meta, reinventing the browser with Arc, finding work that energizes people vs. finding people energized by the work, “working out loud” for velocity, the challenge of bringing Arc to Windows, rewarding complexity vs. business impact, and playing the long game to hire exceptional talent. dolapo.io The Arc Browser Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Powerplant.

  8. 2024-06-12

    Scaling Teams and Yourself, with Cate Huston

    Cate 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 growth is more than promotions, coachability, levelling up your hiring pipeline, how hiring “bars” can go wrong, and why energy management matters more than time management. It Shipped Ep. 4 with Cate Huston Cate’s new book, The Engineering Leader cate.blog Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Powerplant.

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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.

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  • Creator
    Steamclock Software
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    36
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Steamclock Software
  • Show Website
    It Shipped That Way