Product Decoded Krista Gambrel

In the seventh episode of Product Decoded podcast, Dan Olsen, product management consultant and author of The Lean Product Playbook, interviews Justin Bauer, VP of Product at Amplitude, a software service that provides analytics to help companies understand their user behavior data and ultimately build a better product.

In the sixth episode of Product Decoded podcast, host Ha Nguyen (Product Partner at Spero Ventures) is joined by Amanda Richardson (Chief Data & Strategy Officer at HotelTonight) to discuss advice and best practices on how to fast-track your career in product management. Amanda shares a breadth of advice from her journey to leadership, the skills of successful managers and organizational leaders, and how women can navigate their product management careers.

Michael Sippey, Vice President of Product at Medium, shares his passion for tapping into the zeitgeist of what customers love — in his words, “to catch magic in a bottle” — to create world-class products. He is the former VP of Product at Twitter and is unique in that he is both a starter and a builder and has built both consumer and enterprise products.

Aaron Levie, Co-founder & CEO of Box, shares his story of using asymmetric warfare to beat incumbents to make Box a success, how product leaders can create a disruptive advantage, and how to be your own best customer.

Todd Yellin, Vice President of Product at Netflix, shares his passion for story-telling, personalization, design, and how he works to delight more than 120M Netflix members worldwide through both “aiming high and aiming low.”

Chris Abad, VP Product & Design at UserTesting, shares how he brings a design thinking approach to building products and solving problems, how he pushes product people to think like designers, how he combines quantitative and qualitative talent effectively on teams, and how to get teams to adopt new processes.