Growthmates: Create and Grow Meaningful Products & Careers

Kate Syuma and experts from TOP tech companies

49 - When Life Redesigns You: Becoming a Mother & AI expert | Caitlin Sullivan (ex-Spotify Business)

Growthmates is where you learn how to grow meaningful products from people standing behind them. Learn from leaders at Notion, Canva, Dropbox, and more in deep dive interviews with Kate Syuma, ex-Miro Head of Growth Design and founder of Growthmates.

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49 - When Life Redesigns You: Becoming a Mother & AI expert | Caitlin Sullivan (ex-Spotify Business)

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Growthmates: Create and Grow Meaningful Products & Careers

Episodios

When Life Redesigns You: Becoming a Mother & AI expert | Caitlin Sullivan (ex-Spotify Business)

The Staff Designer Mindset and How to Stay Creative | Catt Small (Dropbox)

Stop Chasing Titles, Start Designing Your Life | Felix Haas (Lovable)

Build an Audience, Then Build a Company | Michael Ridd (Dive.club, InFlight)

Becoming a Creator and Pivoting Your Career | Ioana Teleanu (ex-Miro, UiPath)

Why Self-Made Generalists Will Shape the Next Big Thing | Nad Chishtie, Lovable

Conscious Tech Is the Future — How to Build It? | Sera Tajima (Conscious Tech Advisor)

Creator-to-Founder Leap: A Wild Ride Worth Taking | Jennifer Phan (Co-founder & CEO at Passionfroot)

Notion’s Way to Influence Millions | Lexie Barnhorn (Anthropic, ex-Notion)

How to Grow Through Community | Mallory Contois (Mercury, ex-Pinterest, LinkedIn)

From Zero to $2M ARR with Life Partner | Marie Martens (Co-founder at Tally.so)

What is your Superpower zone? | Elena Verna (Dropbox, Amplitude, Miro, SurveyMonkey)

This Reflection Framework to shape your 2025 | Kate Syuma (Founder of Growthmates, ex-Miro)

Sense of “belonging” vs “fitting in” | Chetana Deorah (Ex-Design Director at Netflix, Coursera)

From a Designer in Atlassian to a Founder of Dovetail | Benjamin Humphrey (Co-founder and CEO of Dovetail)

What 4 Years of Advising 35+ Companies Taught Me | Yuriy Timen (Advisor, Ex-Growth at Grammarly)

The Roots of AI and building a career you truly love | Emily Campbell (VP of Design at HackerRank)

Notion method: How to Do More with Less | Randy Hunt (Head of Design at Notion)

Revealing 3 myths about User Research and start easy | Jason Giles (VP of Product Design at UserTesting)

Find your Position-Market Fit: The Role of Brand and Memorable Experiences | Enzo Avigo (CEO at June, ex-Intercom)

Driving a Positive Behavioural Change with Your Product | Amy Bucher (Lirio, Author of "Engaged")

From Designer to CEO: Building Design-led and Journey-centric Business (Jochem van der Veer, CEO at TheyDo)

How to Get Your Dream Job and Stand Out in the Crowd | Lena Kul (Miro)

Finding Harmony between Design and Product Management | Bruno Bergher (Metabase, ex-Google)

Making Decisions with User Research from Startup to Scale-up | Behzod Sirjani (Advisor & Partner at Reforge, ex-Slack)

Unpacking a New Growth Playbook with Andrew Capland (Growth Coach, ex-Wisia)

Loom High-Impact Experiments and Synergy Between Core and Growth | Janie Lee (Head of Product at Loom)

The Evolution of Growth at SurveyMonkey | Bradley Belford and Erica Tjader

The Role of Design in PLG: Embracing Quality and Non-Linear Paths with David Hoang (ex-Webflow, VP at Replit)

Top 1% Talent Tactics: Navigating Startup & Scale-up Hiring | Tom Scott, Founder at Verified

Fighting for Creatives: From Apple Siri to Becoming a Founder | Mohammed Abdoolcarim (DesignPro, ex-Apple & Google)

Pricing in SaaS: Best Practices and Dark Patterns | Rob Litterst (HubSpot media)

Unlocking Activation at Coda and Building Trust Between PMs and Designers | Matt Woods (Product Leader, ex-Coda)

Why PLG Doesn't Fit All: Experimentation vs Foundation | Emily Wang (CEO at Bento, ex-Intercom)

All the Truth about User Onboarding and Becoming a Founder | Phil Vander Broek (Dopt, ex-Dropbox)

Inside Intercom’s culture of design in the era of AI and PLG | Thomas Rimmer (Design Director at Intercom)

How Canva creates a magical PLG culture that drives value | Iain Dowling (Growth Design Lead at Canva)

Becoming a Leader, prioritising well-being, and building a data-informed culture | Jenny Chang (Head of Design at Amplitude)

Growthmates Special: Self-reflections on 2023 | Kate Syuma & Oscar Torres

How to ship fast and make it “Good, better, best” | Adam Furness (Design Manager, Growth at Atlassian)

Finding space for vulnerability and innovation | Verna Bhargava (Growth at Adobe)

Running UXR in Growth teams | Andrej Balaz (UXR at Miro)

The path to Solopreneurship | Lex Roman (Founder of Super Easy Digital and the Growth Tracker community)

From UX to CEO, supafast | Zander Whitehurst (CEO at Memorisely)

Transitioning from IC to Manager and unpacking the future of Growth Design | Allen Jordan (Pinterest)

Vipassana, PM & Design Collaboration, and Mental Health | Priya Bhatia (7Shifts)

Balancing work, life and side-projects | Ioana Teleanu, UiPath (UX Goodies founder)

Behavioural design: from dark to bright patterns | Joey Thompson, Miro (ex. Intercom)

Growing as a PM and building happy teams | Willie Tran, Dropbox (ex. Mailchimp, Calendly)