“our final story is from from Maggie Crowley VP a product at toast”
Maggie Crowley
I've actually been going through old episodes of Maggie Crowley's podcast that she did when she was at drift
2 episodes · 3 sourced appearances
Appearances and evidence
Short attributed excerpts only. Timestamps are approximate.
“today my guest is Maggie Crowley Maggie is currently vice president of product at toast”
“she was also an Olympic speed skater”
Frameworks in these episodes
Episode-linked context, not an unsupported claim of authorship.
Come In Listening, Not Swinging
Earn trust before you inflict change: the first 90 days of a leader inheriting a team.
Fail Conclusively (Maximize the Treatment Effect)
Design experiments that kill an idea for good, so no future exec can resurrect it.
Fear-Origin Audit for Product Bets
Products built from competitive fear fail; audit the motivation before you audit the roadmap.
Problem-First, Wheelhouse-Checked, Unit-Economics-Proven
Three gates a product idea must pass before you build the solution you already fell in love with.
Ruthless Simplification for PM Writing
A set of concrete tools to strip PM documents down to only what's necessary.
Start-With-Why One-Pager
The PM's core artifact: define the thing by nailing the problem and why-now before anything else.
The A-Side / B-Side Career Ledger
Track the B-side of your career so a bad season doesn't read as a verdict on your life.
The Broken Equation Test
No amount of product craft can fix a company whose underlying math doesn't close.
The Data-Driven Red Flag
When someone brags about being 'data-driven,' suspect weak product judgment, not strong analytics.
The Landscape-First Product Strategy Doc
A bullet-driven Google Doc that builds an unbroken logic chain from company mission down to a single team priority.
The Minimum Viable Experiment Trap
A lean test that strips out the mechanism doesn't test the idea — it buries it.
The Three Threads of Great PMs
The three durable behaviors that separate great product managers from good ones, in any company type.
The Worst Product You Ever Shipped
One interview question that separates PMs with real reps from PMs with a clean résumé.
Resources in their episodes
- Airbnb
- Airbnb Plus
- Amazon
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Android
- Apple
- Apple Podcasts
- Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
- Chewy
- ClickUp
- Composer
- Discord
- DraftKings
- Drift
- Duolingo
- Duolingo for Schools
- Eppo
- FigJam
- Figma
- Flickr
- Future
- Google Buzz
- Google Docs
- Google Maps
- Harvard Business School
- Ignition
- iMessage
- Intercom
- Ladder
- Latitud
- Lenny's Newsletter
- Lenny's Podcast
- Linear
- Lyft
- Miro
- Notion
- Nubank
- On Writing Well
- Pandora
- Pets.com
- PetSmart
- Productroadmap.com
- Pump Log
- Quibi
- Ramp
- Reed College
- Scaling People
- Sendbird
- Slack
- Slow Horses
- Snapchat
- Snowflake
- SoundCloud
- Spotify
- Stripe
- TechCrunch
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
- The Pyramid Principle
- Thinking in Bets
- Toast
- Tripadvisor
- Tumblr
- Twitch
- Webflow
- WeWork
- YouTube
- Zero Longevity Science
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