Supra Insider

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, we’re excited to bring you our second conversation with Josh Herzig-Marx (a follow up on episode 16). Josh was one of the early facilitators in Supra , has been a successful founder who sold his company to Google, held multiple early stage product leadership roles, and in recent years has found meaning in his role as an early stage product co...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, we’re excited to bring you our conversation with Heather Phillips , Senior Director of Product Design at Slack. New to the pod? Subscribe below to get the next episode in your inbox 👇 Before Slack, Heather held multiple design leadership roles at companies including Abstract (where she worked closely with Ben), Designer Fund, RelateIQ, and Y...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, we’re excited to bring you our conversation with Josh Herzig-Marx . Josh was one of the early facilitators in Supra, has been a successful founder who sold his company to Google, held multiple early stage product leadership roles, and in recent years has found meaning in his role as an early stage product coach. New to the pod? Subscribe belo...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. After Ben shared a fun story on LinkedIn about how he got his first tech job, we thought it would be fun to do an episode about how we landed our first jobs in tech. New to the pod? Subscribe below to get the next episode in your inbox 👇 In this episode, we talked about * The story of how Ben joined Life360 as employee #35 through a roadtrip * The stor...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, we’re excited to bring you our conversation with Kelly O'Shaughnessy , Head of Product - Self Serve at Airtable . New to the pod? Subscribe below to get the next episode in your inbox 👇 Getting new products off the ground at established companies is notoriously challenging. But when it works, it can meaningfully expand the company’s TAM and...

A couple of months ago, Ben wrote a thought-provoking LinkedIn post about the potential damage Marty Cagan's advice on Lenny's podcast could cause to feature factory PMs. This sparked a conversation between Ben and Estee Goldschmidt on The Estee Show, which caught the attention of Lenny Rachitsky. Recognizing the importance of the topic, Lenny invited Ben to write a guest post for his newsletter,...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, Marc and Ben sat down to reflect on the first 11 episodes of the pod. New to the pod? Subscribe below to get the next episode in your inbox 👇 In this episode, we talked about * Key decisions we made at the offset and how those have played out * Our runbook for publishing episodes * How we gather and incorporate feedback to make every episode...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, we’re excited to bring you our conversation with Jeff Whitlock , CEO at Grain . New to the pod? Subscribe below to get the next episode in your inbox 👇 Jeff’s most important job is as a father of three. His second most important job is as the CEO of Grain, a role he took on after holding a few other roles at the company, including President,...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. We changed things up for this episode and instead of Ben and Marc interviewing a guest, Ben interviewed Marc. New to the pod? Subscribe below to get the next episode in your inbox 👇 In this episode, Marc and Ben dive deep into various aspects of the Supra community, including: * Supra’s founding story * The importance of curating a high-quality, commit...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, we’re excited to bring you our conversation with Nan Yu , Head of Product at Linear. New to the pod? Subscribe below to get the next episode in your inbox 👇 Nan had a super interesting path to his current role: he started his career as a software engineer at Goldman Sachs, then served as the CTO of Everlane for nearly six years before joinin...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, we’re excited to bring you our conversation with Aakash Gupta. New to Supra Insider? Subscribe to get each episode straight to your inbox 👇 Aakash is a former product leader who was most recently VP of Product at Apollo, Head of Product Growth at Affirm, and other great companies. He’s lately become known for his Substack newsletter, Product...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. This time, Marc and I are excited to bring you our conversation with John Cutler.  John writes The Beautiful Mess, a popular Substack newsletter in the product community and frequently posts on LI to his 100k followers. We both learned about John’s work during his time at Amplitude, where he spent 4.5 years as a product evangelist and coach for hundreds...

In this episode, Marc and Ben are joined by Brenton Sellati . Brenton is the incoming VP of product at Pie Insurance (Series D insurtech company) where he will be leading the product and design team and leveraging his past experience driving innovation strategy and product management at Liberty Mutual Insurance where he started his product career. Between Liberty Mutual and Pie Insurance, Brenton...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider! In this episode, Marc and Ben are joined by Diana Kimball Berlin, a Partner at Matrix who invests in early-stage B2B SaaS & AI companies, from concept to Series A. Diana also sits on the boards of Accord and Meshcapade. Prior to becoming an investor, Diana spent 5 years at Quip, working up from an IC product manager to VP of Product. Before Quip, Diana...

Welcome to another episode of Supra Insider. Following up on last episode’s discussion of the current PM market ( episode 3 ), we wanted to add a new perspective to the conversation by inviting a product management recruiter to the show.  In this episode, Marc and I are joined by James Jordan, the founder of Producto , a recruiting agency focused on PM hiring from ICs all the way to executives. Ja...

This is a wild market for product managers. The hiring landscape has shifted more in the last year than it did in the previous decade. With hundreds of thousands of people actively looking for their next role, we thought it would be helpful to invite a couple of folks from the Supra community to have a chat about how to navigate this job market. For those unfamiliar with Supra, it’s an invite-only...

Josh Doody has coached 200+ high earners in tech through salary negotiations, leading to an average of 16% increase in liquid first year compensation. He’s a published author of Fearless Salary Negotiation and shares tips regularly on YouTube. In this episode, we talk about: * Why people should negotiate * What’s a typical negotiation timeline * How to negotiate without a counteroffer * Go over co...

We’re excited to start sharing some of the interesting topics from the Supra product leadership community. Let us know if you have any feedback on the episode! You can also watch our conversation video on YouTube . Thanks for listening, Marc: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcbaselga/ Ben: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benerez/ “How should I think about joining an early stage startup as their first pr...