About the show

LaunchPod is a product management podcast hosted by LogRocket's CEO, Matt Arbesfeld, and VP of Marketing, Jeff Wharton, where they talk to product leaders about the issues they faced in their careers, how they found solutions to those issues, and how you can apply these solutions in your own day-to-day product role.

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Episodes

  • How to build a $1M ARR startup (x3) | Adam Schoenfeld (Keyplay)

    January 28th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  36 mins 44 secs
    business, digital experience, product management, technology

    Today, we’re talking with Adam Schoenfeld, CEO at Keyplay, a SaaS solution to help B2B marketers make GTM more efficient.

    In this episode, Adam talks about:

    • How he built 3 startups to over $1m ARR
    • His process that’s allowed him to reliably reach Product Market Fit again and again
    • And the critical mistakes founders always make...and how you can avoid them
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    Anti-silver bullets: Pioneering PLG at IBM | Andy Boyd, CPO (Appfire, IBM)

    January 21st, 2025  |  Season 1  |  37 mins 42 secs
    business, digital experience, product management, technology

    Today, we’re talking with Andy Boyd, CPO of Appfire, which provides a portfolio of over 100 collaboration solutions.

    In this episode, Andy details:

    • His no-fail growth formula from driving product-led growth (PLG) at IBM Watson
    • The ways he uses data to drive experimentation velocity and avoid decision paralysis
    • How he’s slingshotted his career by focusing on working with great people, rather than chasing titles or compensation - and why you should too!
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    Managing product ahead of its time | Sean Lorenz, Senior Director of Product (Altoida, LogMeIn, Neurala)

    January 14th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 45 secs
    business, digital experience, product management, technology

    Today, we’re talking with Sean Lorenz, Senior Director of Product at Altoida, using augmented reality and AI to radically improve neurologic diagnostics

    In this episode, we talked about:

    • How to adapt product to find viable markets
    • The importance of matching product capabilities with market timing and realistic go-to-market strategies
    • How to deal with a product that is ahead of market readiness
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    Navigating a digital reckoning in the art industry | Elizabeth Van Bergen, Product Experience Lead (Phillips)

    January 7th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  30 mins 28 secs
    business, digital experience, product management, technology

    Today, LogRocket’s VP of Marketing, Jeff Wharton, talks to Elizabeth Van Bergen, who leads product experience at Phillips, a global high-end auction house.

    In this episode we talked about:

    • Creating a product experience for both tech novices and early adopters
    • How the traditional auction industry went digital overnight
    • And why the digital experience is as important as the functionality itself
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    Build product like Linear | Nan Yu, Head of Product (Linear, Everlane, BOA)

    December 31st, 2024  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 36 secs
    business, digital experience, product management, technology

    Today, our guest is Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear, a purpose-built tool for planning and building products. Prior to working at Linear, Nan worked at Mode, Abstract, Everlane, and Bank of America.

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    Unlock revenue with the zone of benefit | Oji Udezue, CPO (Typeform, Twitter, Calendly) [Repeat]

    December 24th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  54 mins 54 secs
    business, digital product experience, product management, technology

    Today, our guest is Oji Udezue, AI product expert, author, and an innovation-focused, multi-disciplined business leader.

    Oji has had an extensive and successful career, spanning his time as CPO of Typeform, Head of Product for Creation and Conversation at Twitter, CPO of Calendly, and Head of Product at Atlassian.

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    No BS eComm Analytics | Julie Acosta, Dir. of eComm & Analytics (NOBULL, AutoZone) [Repeat]

    December 17th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  38 mins 56 secs
    business, digital product experience, product management, technology

    Today, our guest is Julie Acosta, Director of eComm and Marketing Analytics at NOBULL, a fast-growing Boston-based footwear and apparel brand.

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    Playbook: PM like a GM | Lauren Creedon, VP of Product (Goldcast, Drift, Hudl)

    December 10th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 38 secs
    business, digital product experience, product management, technology

    On today’s episode of LaunchPod, Jeff Wharton talks to Lauren Creedon, VP of Product at Goldcast, who formerly led product at Drift and Hudl.

  • From product leader to founder | Arman Javaherian, CEO & Co-Founder (Home AI, Shortcut, Crunchbase)

    December 3rd, 2024  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 34 secs
    business, digital product experience, product management, technology

    On today’s episode of LaunchPod, Jeff Wharton talks to Arman Javaherian, CEO & Co-Founder at Homa, about how he went from leading product at Shortcut, Zillow, and Crunchbase to then pivoting to a founder role at Homa AI.

  • Manage product like P&G | Prabhath Nanisetty, Global Head of Industry for Retail Data, Technology, and Quick Commerce (Snowflake)

    November 26th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 30 secs
    business, digital product experience, product management, technology

    On today’s episode of LaunchPod, Jeff Wharton talks with Prabhath Nanisetty, Global Head of Industry for Retail Data, Technology, and Quick Commerce at Snowflake, about how his career started from working as an engineer at Proctor and Gamble where he transitioned into product and worked his way up to leadership at P&G, InfoScout/Numerator, and Snowflake.

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    Building an award-winning ad experience at WSJ | Caroline Albanese, Product Director, Data Products & Capabilities (Dow Jones)

    November 19th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  37 mins 1 sec
    business, digital product experience, product management, technology

    Today, we’re talking with Caroline Albanese, Product Director of Data Products and Capabilities at Dow Jones.

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    Bridging in-store and digital with analytics | Julie Acosta, Dir. of eComm & Analytics (NOBULL, AutoZone)

    November 12th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  38 mins 56 secs
    business, digital product experience, product management, technology

    Today, our guest is Julie Acosta, Director of eComm and Marketing Analytics at NOBULL, a fast-growing Boston-based footwear and apparel brand.

    For Julie, curiosity has a funny way of making you change course. As she originally set out to avoid numbers by going to university for marketing, but as she began developing her career, she found that understanding and working with data made her more effective at understanding her customer base.

    It was at AutoZone, where her path really changed, as Julie went from merchandising to building AutoZone’s first eCommerce Analytics team from the ground up.

    By bridging the digital and in-store experiences, her team altered the company’s understanding of how the two were linked, including how new product lines can grow existing lines and how online customer behavior influences in-store purchases.

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    How to build product at Linear with Nan Yu (Repeat)

    November 5th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  39 mins 36 secs
    business, digital experience, product management, technology

    Today, we're re-running one of our favorite episodes with Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear, a purpose-built tool for planning and building products. Prior to working at Linear, Nan worked at Mode, Abstract, Everlane, and Bank of America.

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    The business of re-branding poop | Isabel Petty, Head of Digital Product at TUSHY (Pattern, GritWell, Walmart)

    October 29th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  34 mins 45 secs
    business, digital product experience, product management, technology

    Today, our guest is Isabel Petty, Head of Digital Product at TUSHY, a modern and sustainable bidet company.

    Isabel received her Masters of Technology Management degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, after which she became a category manager at Walmart and then joined Gritwell, a virtual health clinic, in growth and product development. Before her current role at TUSHY, she served as a senior product manager at Pattern Brands.

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    Scaling zero to $25M product growth lessons | Michael Park, Product Coach & Advisor (BombBomb, Rendi)

    October 22nd, 2024  |  Season 1  |  43 mins 53 secs
    business, digital product experience, product management, technology

    Today, our guest is Michael Park, Product Coach and Advisor who previously served as CPO of BombBomb, a video messaging software company.

    Michael began his career in product design at Havoc, where he transitioned into product management and eventually became VP of product. Michael then served in leadership roles at Danielson Designs and Rendi, a customizable frames and signs company. Most recently, he spent nearly nine years at BombBomb, where he oversaw the product life cycle, managed a 20-person product team, and expanded the customer base from SMB to enterprise.

    On today's episode, LogRocket's VP of Marketing, Jeff Wharton, talks to Michael about his six lessons from scaling product from zero to $25M ARR; the nuance that comes with the “founder mode” discussion in relation to best leadership practices; and what a self-imposed sabbatical taught Michael about product leadership.

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    Survive & thrive in the product growth revolution | Aakash Gupta, CPO, Product Growth (Apollo.io, threadUp, Epic Games)

    October 15th, 2024  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 36 secs
    business, digital product experience, product management, technology

    Today, our guest is Aakash Gupta, CPO of Product Growth, the world's largest newsletter on product growth, with over 110K subscribers.

    Aakash has held an extensive array of product leader roles, spanning from Director of Growth at threadUp, Lead Product Manager at Epic Games, Head of Product Growth at Affirm, to most recently serving as VP of Product at Apollo.io before launching Product Growth.

    Today, our guest is Aakash Gupta, the author of Product Growth, the world's largest newsletter on product growth, with over 140K subscribers.

    Aakash has held an extensive array of product leader roles, spanning from Director of Growth at threadUp, Lead Product Manager at Epic Games, Head of Product Growth at Affirm, to most recently serving as VP of Product at Apollo.i.

    On today's episode, LogRocket's VP of Marketing, Jeff Wharton, talks to Aakash about the different archetypes of product leaders and how those leadership types influence the teams around them; what Aakash's three big wake-up calls were throughout his career that drove him to become a better product leader as his career progressed; and how product growth has become an increasingly imperative role within an organization and how to optimize it.