Sandi has had a remarkable career so far. She trained as a civil engineer at MIT, did an MBA at Stadford, moved into product management at Amazon, and now runs a very successful SaaS company, Skilljar. Skilljar, founded in Seattle in 2013, is

TSPPB: Dave and Thomas on big co vs small co Product Management

Sep 12th, 2021 57m 19s

Dave and Thomas talk about their experiences as product leaders, and the differences between PM in big companies and small companies. We look at how Salesforce, SuccessFactors and other large companies manage product teams, and explore if that

TSPPB: Thomas interviews Simon Bouchez, CEO and founder at Reveal.co

Aug 28th, 2021 56m 45s

Simon sold his first venture, an HRTECH company, multiposting, to SAP. After successfully delivering on the post merger integration, Simon has started a new venture, Reveal.co. It aims to revolutionise how sales and marketeers collaborate betw

TSPPB: Thomas interviews Tim Geisenheimer, CEO /Cofounder of Correlated.

Aug 15th, 2021 57m 41s

Tim is the CEO and Co-Founder of Correlated, the leading product-led revenue platform for sales teams. Correlated recently launched publicly and announced an $8.3 million round of funding led by Harrison Metal and NextView Ventures. Prior to fo

TSPPB: Dave and Thomas interview Dan Faulkner from Plannuh. How to build great product teams.

Aug 7th, 2021 59m 7s

We speak with Dan Faulkner, CTO of Plannuh, about building great product teams. Dave is an advisor to Plannuh.After getting a master’s in speech and language processing, Dan worked for speech recognition powerhouse Nuance for well over a deca

TSPPB Dave and Thomas Interview Paul Jozefak, CEO of Receeve

Aug 1st, 2021 57m 57s

Paul was a successful VC, but moved to become a founder and CEO. In this episode we explore how to build a successful enterprise SaaS business, targeting the complex problem of accounting collections. It sounds niche, but there is lots to lear

TSPPB: Dave interviews Aaron Kalb, Alation co-founder

Jul 22nd, 2021 59m 5s

This show is with Alation cofounder Aaron Kalb. Our topics: design, data, and disagreement in the context of product and product management.Aaron serves as Alation’s chief data & analytics officer (CDAO) and before that worked as a designer

TSPPB: Thomas interviews Holger Müller. Constellation Industry Analyst and former product leader

Jul 20th, 2021 59m 31s

Holger is one of the leading industry analysts (at Constellation Research) and former product leader. In this episode, Holger and Thomas talk about the dynamics in enterprise software. We dig into history and the current state of product manag

TSPPB: Dave and Thomas with Andy MacMillan, CEO of UserTesting

Jul 9th, 2021 1h 1m

Andy’s got a great background, some real product chops, and can simultaneously give us both the Product and the CEO perspective on product issues. Our topic is Andy’s framework for hiring product managers and product management teams. Key qu

TSPPB: Dave interviews Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx Data

Jun 24th, 2021 1h

Evan Kaplan is the CEO of Influx Data. It helps developers to build IoT, analytics and monitoring software. In this episode we continue to discuss how open source is changing with the Cloud. We talk in depth about what it is be to cloud native

TSPPB: Thomas and Dave interview Prof Dirk Riehle

Jun 18th, 2021 57m 38s

This episode goes deep into open source, especially open source licensing models and how they are evolving. Prof Dirk Riehle is one of the leading researchers on open source. We dig into the recent MongoDB licence, amongst other things. We also

TSPPB: Dave Interviews Chris McLaughlin of Nuxeo and LumApps

Jun 11th, 2021 58m 50s

We welcome a special friend Chris McLaughlin, currently CMO at France-based powerhouse LumApps, a collaboration and communications platform backed by top European investors including Idinvest and Goldman Sachs.In this week’s episode we ask Ch

TSPPB: Dave and Thomas with Stephanie McReynolds on category creation

May 20th, 2021 1h

We have a discussion with former Alation CMO Stephanie McReynolds on the topic of category creation and her learnings as she helped drive the creation of the data catalog category and establish Alation as the leader in it [1].In addition to he

TSPPB: Thomas interviews Murali Mazhavanchery

May 13th, 2021 1h 2m

Murali is VP PM at Utmost, and former SuccessFactors PM. We delve into some HRTECH history, the differences between PM 10 years ago and today, scaling, technical debt, understanding users v buyers, managing constraints, platforms v apps, devel

TSPPB: Dave interviews Brett Queener. The Product Superpowers That Few Flex: Intention and Conviction.

May 6th, 2021 1h

Dave and Thomas interview Brett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures, former President & COO at SmartRecruiters, product-line general manager at both Salesforce.com and Siebel...What was it like running product for Marc Benioff? (Or, for that

TSPPB: Thomas Interviews David Clarke, former Workday CTO

Apr 30th, 2021 1h 1m

The SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg, Thomas Otter and guest David Clarke. We discuss the early days of Workday. We explore acquisitions, the role of architects, what is a platform actually, and the challenge of being a small ven

TSPPB: Dave interviews Scott Beechuk of Norwest Venture Partners.

Apr 23rd, 2021 1h 1m

Dave interviews special guest, entrepreneur, ex-Salesforce product leader turned venture capitalist, Scott Beechuk, of Norwest Venture Partners. Scott and Dave worked together at Salesforce almost a decade ago and work together today with Blue

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