Danielle Newnham Podcast

JZ: Lessons in Leading Products at Airbnb, WeWork and more

Episode Summary

The Life of a Product Leader at Some of The World's Most Successful Startups

Episode Notes

Today’s guest is JZ, currently Chief Product Officer at Linktree and previoysly SVP of Product at Webflow. And before that, she led product teams at Airbnb, WeWork, Dropbox and gaming startup Pocket Gems.

In this episode, we discuss JZ’s life growing up – how frequent moves to different cities and countries built her up resilience and adaptability, how she got into product management despite being an Economics Major, how her father’s brain haemorrhage changed her life and the lessons she learned from working at some of the world’s top companies from Airbnb to WeWork, Dropbox and more.

I learned a lot from talking to JZ about how build out a roadmap for your product, when it’s the right time to launch and how to build something which people not only use, but love too.

I think you will learn a lot too so here is my conversation with the wonderful JZ.

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