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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.<ul> <li><a href="https://jane.app">Jane App</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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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.<ul> <li>The <a href="https://blog.superhuman.com/">Superhuman Blog</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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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.<ul> <li><a href="https://expa.com/">expa.com</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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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.<ul> <li><a href="https://dolapo.io/">dolapo.io</a></li> <li><a href="https://arc.net/">The Arc Browser</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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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.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.itshipped.fm/episodes/4">It Shipped Ep. 4 with Cate Huston</a></li> <li>Cate’s new book, <a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-engineering-leader/9781098154059/">The Engineering Leader</a></li> <li><a href="http://cate.blog">cate.blog</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Johnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s founding engineers, shares stories and lessons from building Slack. He shares Slack’s origin, the art of extreme responsiveness to customer feedback, how features like threads and reacji came together, Slack’s positioning and north star, product-led growth as a path to building startups, and how to have an outsized impact in a scaling organization.<ul> <li><a href="https://johnnyrodgers.is/">johnnyrodgers.is</a></li> <li><a href="https://buildingslack.com/">buildingslack.com</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Teresa Torres, author of Continuous Discovery Habits, joins to share lessons from her popular and acclaimed book. We talk about the benefits of constantly talking to customers, why it can be worth seeking delight rather than strictly building products in terms of problems, how to avoid choosing perverse outcomes and metrics, and how to get the truth from customers – despite their aspirational overconfidence.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.producttalk.org/">ProductTalk.org</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresatorres/">Teresa on LinkedIn</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Luke Hutscal, Principal Engineer at Clio – formerly of Shopify and Testflight – joins to talk about finding ways to learn rapidly, the downsides of a mercenary mindset, spending time with people who intimidate you, building a coaching village, making wrong things look wrong, choosing boring technology, resume-driven development, and putting in the reps to get great at hiring.<ul> <li><a href="http://lukehutscal.com/">Luke Hutscal</a></li> <li><a href="https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology">Choose boring technology</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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James Clift, Founder and CEO of Durable and VisualCV, joins us to talk about helping folks build great businesses, staying long-term optimistic yet short-term pessimistic, choosing between exciting ideas vs. clearly profitable ones, the distraction of “fake work”, getting good at rapidly trying and killing ideas, lessons learned from two years of building on LLMs, and the longevity of non-chat workflows.<ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/jamesclift">@jamesclift on Twitter</a></li> <li><a href="https://durable.co/">Durable</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Eric Amodio, creator of GitLens, GitKraken CTO, and former Principal Engineer on VS Code, joins us to talk about founding products by scratching your own itch, building GitLens from an idea to tens of millions of users, the audacity of charging for software, the origins of github.dev and Copilot at Microsoft, LLMs as a new layer of abstraction for developers, and how GitKraken is helping engineers understand large codebases faster.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.gitkraken.com/">GitKraken</a></li> <li><a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eamodio.gitlens">GitLens</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Merci Grace, CEO and co-founder of Panobi, and former partner at Lightspeed Ventures and first Head of Growth at Slack, shares lessons about growth as a discipline, pitfalls of fundraising and her “Marauder’s Map” to raising capital, best practices for starting and scaling growth teams, and her vision for making metrics and growth tooling far better.<ul> <li><a href="https://panobi.com/">Panobi</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Ian Crosby, founding CEO of Bench and now Teal, talks building Bench from zero to hundreds, how vertical SaaS is transforming SMB startups, what it really takes to become highly profitable, why Teal hires for “boring competence”, paying highly for top talent, the psychology of firing, and the limits of culture docs.<ul> <li><a href="https://teal.dev/">teal.dev</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/iwcrosby/">Ian Crosby on LinkedIn</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Paul Lambert, CEO and founder of Quilt and former Director at Google’s Area 120, joins Allen to talk society-scale problems, why searching for product-market fit is overrated, the power of building a better mousetrap, why the “internal incubator” model usually fails, how modern hardware startups iterate rapidly, and why different cities lend themselves to different startups.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.quilt.com/">Quilt</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@prlambert/four-rules-for-starting-a-startup-7f54d2e0e20c#.uc86i65bb">Paul’s Four Rules for Starting a Startup</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulrolandlambert/">Paul Lambert</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Dennis Pilarinos, founder of Buddybuild and now Unblocked (and former Director at Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple) shares what he’s learned about product leadership. We talk about why you should build a product that is hard, how providing support is key to product culture, staying deeply curious about what’s not working, cutting down recurring meetings, and how startups with distribution outcompete the giants.<ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/dennispilarinos">Dennis on Twitter</a></li> <li>Get <a href="https://getunblocked.com/">Unblocked</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Honeycomb.io co-founder and CTO Charity Majors joins Allen to share what she’s learned growing Honeycomb from idea to 170-person distributed company, including what goes into being a good manager beyond supporting your reports, how to build a team that feels supportive and safe while still keeping boundaries and limits, systems thinking for teams and cultures, the difference between generic company values and ones that take a stand, and why having a healthy culture is more important than having a novel one.<ul> <li>Charity’s blog, <a href="https://charity.wtf/">charity.wtf</a></li> <li>The <a href="https://www.honeycomb.io/blog">Honeycomb.io engineering blog</a></li> <li>Emily Nakashima on the Honeycomb blog: <a href="https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/becoming-vp-of-engineering-pt1">On Becoming a VP of Engineering</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Ada co-founder David Hariri joins Allen to talk about an audacious product discovery process that kicked off a 250-employee startup, limitations of hand-scripted workflows, strengths and weaknesses of LLM techniques like code execution, RAG, and function calling, and how support automation may create whole new business models.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.ada.cx/">Ada Support</a></li> <li><a href="https://dhariri.com/">David Hariri</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Michael Lopp, aka Rands, joins Allen to talk about the fundamental need for growth, finding your team’s core motivations, the value of writing for developing clear thinking, the joys and perils of writing a book, the art of a compelling presentation, habits for editing and refining writing, and fostering clarity of responsibility – and curiosity – on your team.<ul> <li><a href="https://randsinrepose.com/">Rands in Repose</a></li> <li><a href="https://randsinrepose.com/the-important-thing/">The Important Thing</a></li> <li><a href="https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/">Rands Leadership Slack</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-software-developers/9781098116668/">The Software Developer’s Career Handbook</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Tiffany Conroy, former VP of Engineering at SoundCloud, shares what she’s learned about where new engineering managers stumble and how to support them, considering whether you want to be a manager at all, the value of explicitly asking those around you what success means, the power of having the confidence to say “I don’t know”, coaching managers through their first case of underperformance, how rigid role definitions hold back folks that perform both product and engineering work, the power of the Six Thinking Hats for making intense decisions, and the cultural responsibilities of senior leadership.<ul> <li><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@theophani">Tiffany Conroy – theophani on Mastodon</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.golaminar.de/">Laminar</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGDryOB8gZc">Tiffany’s talk on Workplace Confidence</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats">Six Thinking Hats</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Adam Lisagor, Founder of Sandwich Video, shares what he’s learned about the nature of storytelling, about how to zoom out to tell the story of your product, understanding the emotional valence of our work, when pre-visualization and storyboarding does and doesn’t pay off, spotting great talent, the value of making pretty good decisions quickly, learning how to let go (a little bit) as a founder, execution-centric leadership vs. results-centric leadership, what kinds of products he likes to invest in, and making people glad to have worked with you.<ul> <li><a href="https://sandwich.co/">Sandwich Video</a></li> <li><a href="https://sandwich.co/clients/breadwinner/">The Breadwinner Fellowship</a></li> <li><a href="http://adamlisagor.com/">adamlisagor.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://masto.sndw.ch/@adamlisagor">Adam Lisagor on Mastodon</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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Aliya Marder, Co-Founder of Ridwell, joins us to share what she’s learned about the people-service mindset for product work, the demands of running a startup with a real-world footprint, the power of a higher mission for rallying a company, doing more with a smaller team, the pathologies of product backlogs, strategic communication past 150 employees, and the challenge of delegating for detail-oriented leaders.<ul> <li><a href="https://www.ridwell.com/">Ridwell</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliyamarder/">Aliya’s LinkedIn</a></li> <li><a href="https://allenpike.com/2023/do-something-so-we-can-change-it">Do Something, So We Can Change It!</a></li></ul> Have feedback for the show? Send an email or message to Allen any time. It Shipped That Way is supported by Steamclock Software and Forestwalk Labs.
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