The Art of Product

188: Priorities, Priorities

October 6th, 2021  |  38 mins 27 secs

Ben and Derrick strategize about how to allocate time and energy and staying in tune with customers.

187: Wait, There Are How Many Time Zones?!

September 22nd, 2021  |  41 mins 44 secs

Ben and the team are preparing to officially designate Tuple 1.0! Derrick is working on embedding SavvyCal more deeply in customers' workflows and is digging more moats around time zone handling.

186: Investing In The Core

September 15th, 2021  |  36 mins 44 secs

Ben is back on Martha's Vineyard enjoying some partial days off. The Tuple team just shipped a major overhaul of the app internals with better performance and less CPU usage. Derrick has been doing a bit of housekeeping & maintenance work to make the core SavvyCal offering even smoother.

185: Incremental Improvements

September 1st, 2021  |  25 mins 51 secs

Ben is hanging out with two new team members in the office this week. The Tuple team is preparing to ship some big performance upgrades. Derrick launched the SavvyCal iCloud integration on Product Hunt

184: Delete Your Backlog?

August 25th, 2021  |  47 mins 28 secs

Ben and Derrick have been recharging with some vacation time the last few weeks. Ben is excited to onboard his new sales hire. Derrick shipped a Fastmail calendar integration and released a Zapier integration. The guys discuss the merits of having and tending to a backlog.

Derrick could use your help getting to 50 active Zapier integrations!

183: Soaking In Nature

August 11th, 2021  |  40 mins 24 secs

Ben is excited to onboard a new team member to help with sales and customer success. Derrick shipped iCloud integration for SavvyCal and is continuing the shipping spree. Both have recently had the opportunity to spend some time in nature on lakes and rivers.

182: Cutting Churn

July 28th, 2021  |  28 mins 4 secs

Ben hired a new engineer to help with technical support and learn the ropes on native development. Derrick is thinking about strategies for reducing churn.

181: On A Shipping Spree

July 21st, 2021  |  37 mins 8 secs

At last, Ben found someone for the sales/customer success role at Tuple. Derrick is on a shipping spree with SavvyCal.

180: Unpacking Stripe with Penelope Phippen

July 14th, 2021  |  58 mins 59 secs

Ben & Derrick chat with Penelope Phippen all about how Stripe continues to relentlessly ship high-quality software. P.S. Stripe is hiring!

179: Riffing on Reform

June 30th, 2021  |  43 mins 27 secs

Derrick is joined by Peter Suhm, founder of Reform, to share some updates and do some masterminding.

178: Why Build A Business At All?

June 23rd, 2021  |  54 mins 6 secs

Ben & Derrick have an impromptu chat with Adam Wathan about all things business.

177: On The Frontier

June 16th, 2021  |  44 mins 40 secs

Ben and Derrick discuss shifting roles as their companies grow and evolve.

176: Making the Rounds

June 9th, 2021  |  38 mins 47 secs

Derrick has been sharing his story on various podcasts lately. Ben is continuing to refine his hiring process for the sales role at Tuple. Derrick is onboarding his first support hire and working on a delegated access feature for SavvyCal.

175: Ben's Meetings

May 26th, 2021  |  25 mins 2 secs

Derrick & Ben share updates on where they are spending their time moving their businesses forward.

174: Everything Is A Vision Quest

May 19th, 2021  |  35 mins 48 secs

Ben and Derrick discuss the nature of making decisions in the businesses and growing their teams.

173: Shreyas Doshi on Product Management

May 12th, 2021  |  25 mins 14 secs

Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google) joins Ben and Derrick for a wide-ranging discussion on product management.