It Shipped That Way
Episodes
Speed and Quality are Complementary, with WealthSimple Co-Founder Brett Huneycutt
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
WealthSimple Co-Founder and CPO Brett Huneycutt shares lessons from building a 1500-person company recently valued at $10B. He relates the underlying ...
Chat Isn’t Automation, with Zapier’s first PM, Chris Geoghegan
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zapier’s first PM and now VP of Product Chris Geoghegan joins us to discuss the relationship between deterministic and LLM-powered automations, scal...
Winning is Fun, with Jane App Co-founder Trevor Johnston
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jane App Co-Founder & Co-CEO Trevor Johnston shares lessons from building a vertical SaaS that now serves hundreds of thousands of clinicians worl...
Making Email Wonderful, with Superhuman’s Lorilyn McCue
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lorilyn McCue, head of AI product at Superhuman, joins to share what she’s learned building LLM-powered products. She talks about how Superhuman exe...
Building What Customers Need, with Milun Tesovic
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Milun Tesovic, founder of Metrolyrics, Cmd, and Gitalytics – and now Parter at Expa – shares lessons learned building startups. We talk about buil...
Solving Impossible Problems, with The Browser Company’s Dolapo Falola
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Browser Company’s Head Of Engineering, Dolapo Falola, shares lessons from Google, Facebook, and Slack, and how they’ve informed his leadership...
Scaling Teams and Yourself, with Cate Huston
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 org...
Building Slack, with Johnny Rodgers
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Johnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s founding engineers, shares stories and lessons from building Slack. He shares Slack’s origin, the art of extreme re...
Continuous Discovery Habits, with Teresa Torres
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Teresa Torres, author of Continuous Discovery Habits, joins to share lessons from her popular and acclaimed book. We talk about the benefits of consta...
The Problems Get Squishier, with Luke Hutscal
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Hutscal, Principal Engineer at Clio – formerly of Shopify and Testflight – joins to talk about finding ways to learn rapidly, the downsides o...
Focusing on the Right Things, with Durable Founder James Clift
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Clift, Founder and CEO of Durable and VisualCV, joins us to talk about helping folks build great businesses, staying long-term optimistic yet sh...
The Frontier of Developer Tooling, with GitKraken CTO Eric Amodio
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Amodio, creator of GitLens, GitKraken CTO, and former Principal Engineer on VS Code, joins us to talk about founding products by scratching your ...
Building and Funding Growth Teams, with Panobi CEO Merci Grace
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Winning with Boring Competence, with Ian Crosby
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 re...
A Way Better Mousetrap, with Quilt founder Paul Lambert
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 produ...
Doing Something Hard, with Unblocked Founder Dennis Pilarinos
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Pilarinos, founder of Buddybuild and now Unblocked (and former Director at Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple) shares what he’s learned about produ...
The Culture You Want to Build, with Charity Majors
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Building Great Experiences Using LLMs, with David Hariri
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ada co-founder David Hariri joins Allen to talk about an audacious product discovery process that kicked off a 250-employee startup, limitations of ha...
The Puzzle of Engineering Leadership, with Michael Lopp
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 d...
Coaching New Managers, with Tiffany Conroy
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tiffany Conroy, former VP of Engineering at SoundCloud, shares what she’s learned about where new engineering managers stumble and how to support th...
Telling Product Stories with Adam Lisagor of Sandwich
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Small But Mighty, with Ridwell Co-founder Aliya Marder
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Engineering Practices That Pay Off, with Later CTO Ian MacKinnon
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ian MacKinnon, CTO of Later and Mavrck, shares lessons learned building Later from founding to success to acquisition – and from the startups that w...
The Intersection of Business and Design, with former Shopify Product GM Lynsey Thornton
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lynsey Thornton shares what she learned helping Shopify grow almost 100x as GM of Core Product, VP of UX, and more. We review some common challenges c...
Product Management and Growing Up as an Organization, with Mailchimp’s Bruce Alderson
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bruce Alderson, Senior Product Manager at Mailchimp, shares what he’s learned in 20 years as a CTO, engineering leader, and product manager. We disc...
Building Developer Experiences at Slack, with Steve Gill
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Gill, Slack’s Director of DevRel Engineering, digs in to the craft of building great APIs for developers. We discuss the power of open source ...
Principal Engineering at AWS Scale, with Nik Pinski
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nik Pinski, Principal Engineer at AWS, shares how AWS is organized for autonomy and customer-centric product development, dealing with millions of eve...
Scaling a UX Org from 30 to 450, with Shopify’s former Head of Design Kyle Peatt
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kyle Peatt, former Head of Design at Shopify, shares lessons he learned helping rapidly scale Shopify’s UX team from 30 folks to 450. We talk about ...
Effective and Scalable Machine Learning, with Opendoor Co-Founder Ian Wong
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Wong, co-founder of Opendoor, shares what he’s learned about machine learning and data science in his work as CTO of Opendoor and helping detect...
Architecting Apps at Netflix Scale, with Arik Devens
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix’s Arik Devens shares what he’s learned about architecting mobile apps with many millions of users, building from early adventures at Netsc...
Making Billions with Ethical Onboarding, with Jaycee Day
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jaycee Day, a seasoned designer having worked at GitHub and Blinkist, shares what she learned designing a now world-famous app onboarding flow. We tal...
Solving Engineering Problems with DuckDuckGo’s Cate Huston
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cate Huston shares what she’s learned leading engineering teams at DuckDuckGo, Automattic, and Google. We talk about the challenges of hiring direct...
Effectively Leading Technical Teams, with Khan Academy’s Shawn Jansepar
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Jansepar, Director of Engineering at Khan Academy, shares what he’s learned about keeping product teams engaged, effective engineering practic...
Lessons Learned Building Alexa, with Product Manager Polly Allen
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Polly Allen, former Principal Product Manager on Amazon Alexa, shares what she’s learned about the challenging world of building products for voice ...
How Not to Ship Your Org Chart, with veteran product designer Brad Ellis
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brad Ellis pulls from his experience designing for Square, Lyft, and many other products to share what he’s learned about the incredible value of us...