Product

Shopify’s Take on the Strategic Power of Platforms to Drive Growth and Innovation [Podcast]

Ariel Winton

February 5, 2020
Brandon Chu, VP Product & GM of Platform at Shopify, came from an entrepreneurial background and built his ‘own flavor’ of product management.
Learn how he thinks about the strategic benefits of building a platform, what Shopify’s underlying product philosophy is, how they think about competing with applications built on their platform and more.

Ariel Winton
Ariel Winton
VP
OpenView

Ariel is a VP on the investment team at OpenView. She focuses on product-led software companies and helped lead the firm's investments in Calendly, Loopio, Balena, Zipwhip and Cogito. Prior to joining, she was a Product Manager at Yesware.
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