product marketing

8 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Aug 3, 2023 by Anique Drumright · across every show →

Everything said about product marketing, oldest first

Aug 3, 2023 positive
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Drumright: Product marketing earlier in development drives faster cross-functional alignment
“This is what we think the value of the business would be and spending a lot more time on that almost product marketing moment earlier on. I think brings your cross-functional team with you much faster rather than making it a by the way and spending a vast majo…”
Anique Drumright Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 5:41 Lessons from Loom on product strategy and organizational leadership | Anique Drumright (COO at Loom)
Aug 31, 2023 positive
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Mehta: Product marketing serves as connective tissue across GM silos
“Then you have the product marketing teams that frequently also serve as the glue because product marketing teams sit in between GTM teams and the product development teams. And so they serve as a bridge between the GM and the GTM functions, but also between ea…”
Saumil Mehta Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 39:03 An org-design masterclass from a Square GM | Saumil Mehta
Oct 26, 2023
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GitLab pairs product marketers directly with product managers to prioritize features
“So we've built a product marketing team that is Getting deeper and deeper. They're matched with product managers, and they're getting deeper and deeper into how our product works and understanding the value of it to really want the product managers to come tog…”
Ashley Kramer Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 43:40 The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
Apr 25, 2024 neutral
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MacInnis: Rippling avoided hiring traditional product marketers for GTM
“And so in our case, in building out what we call a go to market management team, because we didn't even want to use the term product marketing. We didn't want to go shopping in that pool for talent. We were able to be focused on hiring people who were demonstr…”
Matt MacInnis Apr 25, 2024 ▶ 48:27 How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)
May 16, 2024 positive
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Desai: Product marketing initially owned pricing and packaging at VMware
“Pricing and packaging was done by product marketing at VMware initially. Everyone was technical. They understood the product. They could actually You know, demo and sell the product, which helps. Some of the same principles we're using now at Sentry which is y…”
Milin Desai May 16, 2024 ▶ 14:13 Lessons from Sentry on scaling DevTools and finding product market fit (again) | Milin Desai (CEO)
Aug 1, 2024
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Muthukumar: Pitch conversion rate dictates whether to hire demand gen or PMM
“If you can get people into a room and close them well, what you need is more fire at the top of the funnel. Like you need a demand generation person who can bring in more awareness, more leads. More conversations into the funnel. If they're saying like, yeah, …”
Krithika Muthukumar Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 1:00:47 Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
Aug 1, 2024
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Muthukumar: Product marketing cannot be horizontalized across products
“I think the one that you can't kind of overly horizontalize is product marketing. They have to be very close to the products that they are working on, the feature sets that they support. But the rest of the teams can be fairly horizontal.”
Krithika Muthukumar Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 51:38 Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
Mar 26, 2026 positive
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Kreps: Open-Source Projects Require Product Marketing to Drive Adoption
“What was it that it took us probably several years to discover was basically product marketing. You know, in an open source context was, yeah, you gotta tell people why it's interesting.”
Jay Kreps Mar 26, 2026 ▶ 19:46 How to build a company when you’re not an optimist | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)
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