Gail Axelrod
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How to Ship Effectively with Drift’s VP of Product
On today’s episode of Build, Maggie sits down with Drift’s VP of Product, Craig Daniel, to discuss how to ship product – what it takes to hit your dates (and the importance of committing to them publicly), using tracer bullets to de-risk features, “good / better / best” tiering to scope features and the importance […]
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How the Number One Conversational Marketing User at Drift Books More Meetings Than Anyone (All in Real Time)
Meet Eve. She’s a Drift power user and a consistent leader on our sales team. In fact, she’s the number one Drift user across our entire company. No easy feat in an organization full of avid believers in conversational marketing. Eve is so skilled at conversational marketing that people on our own sales team ask […]
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Why Changing Your Mindset Can Change Your Life (And Our Simple Trick To Do It)
Mindset is everything – and on this episode of Seeking Wisdom, DC and DG talk about the power of changing your mindset to help change your life. Whether you’re starting a new job, a new project, a new business, or training for a marathon, this episode will help you unlock the power of a […]
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The #1 Thing You Need to Make Your Experiments Successful
What’s most important when running any growth experiment? Establishing a control group! Sounds simple, but if you’ve ever conducted any kind of experiment, you know it’s easy to mess up. After all, without a control, you have no way of knowing if your experiment actually made an impact. In this episode, host Matt Bilotti runs […]
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Lever’s CEO on the 3 Key Elements to Hiring for Hypergrowth
On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, DC and DG sit down with Sarah Nahm, CEO of Lever. Sarah grew up in Alabama, studied design at Stanford, worked at Google and wrote speeches for Marissa Mayer. Now at Lever, she helps organizations with the ‘art and science’ of hiring the right people. Today, why Sarah […]
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Christina Wodtke on Radical Focus and Living Your Goals with OKRs
Today on Build, host Maggie Crowley sits down with Christina Wodtke, author of the legendary book Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results, which Maggie describes as the best book on goal setting – ever. In the episode, Maggie and Christina, dive deep into Christina’s experience in product roles at […]
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Best of Seeking Wisdom 2018: Part II
On Part II of the Best of Seeking Wisdom from this year, DC and DG discuss Will Smith’s storied rise to success, why being uncomfortable is the secret to personal growth and their key to taking feedback – sleep on it. Plus, former Facebook and Google exec Molly Graham on culture and employment branding. Lessons from […]
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Best of Seeking Wisdom 2018: Part I
On this very special best of 2018 mash up, you’ll get insights from guests throughout the season, and, as always, nuggets of wisdom from DC and DG. On Part I, hear from ProfitWell’s Patrick Campbell on content strategy, pricing and the future of the subscription economy. Rich Roll and Brad Stulberg break down the emergence […]
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Amplitude’s John Cutler on Why PMs Should Measure Themselves on Value Creation Not Output
Build has a brand new dedicated feed. You can subscribe here to stay up to date when new episodes drop. Today on Build, host Maggie Crowley sits down with John Cutler, Product Evangelist at Amplitude and former Senior PM at Zendesk and Pendo. Together they discuss what Product Evangelist actually means. Plus the importance of value […]
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How to Pick, Plan and Execute a Growth Experiment So You Can 10X Product Activations
On this episode of #Growth, host Matt Bilotti walks us through how to pick, plan and execute a growth experiment. Most crucial to getting started? Make sure the experiment you choose gives you a statistically significant dataset from which to start, run your experiment off of and ultimately base your conclusions on. This experiment framework […]
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DC & DG Answer Your Questions Live on This Special Holiday Edition of Seeking Wisdom
It’s a special holiday edition of Seeking Wisdom 🎁 and DC and DG are taking listener questions live. On this episode, DC and DG share their favorite books of the year, provide insights into their daily routines and habits, how we train managers to develop their teams and much more. You can get Seeking […]
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Richard Banfield on How to Build High Performing Product Teams
This is the second episode of Build in its brand new dedicated feed (subscribe here to stay up to date when new episodes drop). On today’s episode of Build, host Maggie Crowley sits down with Richard Banfield, CEO and co-founder of Fresh Tilled Soil, a leading user interface design and experience agency, and co-author […]
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