Claire Vo
Chief Product Officer at LaunchDarkly / Former Optimizely & Color
Serial CPO at LaunchDarkly, Optimizely, and Color; two-time founder, engineer, designer, and marketer; creator of ChatPRD, likely the most-used PM-specific AI product, built on nights and weekends.
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Episode Summary
Claire Vo, serial CPO and creator of ChatPRD, shares her approach to bringing startup speed to later-stage companies through clock speed acceleration and the CPTO model that unifies product, engineering, and design under one leader. She discusses how AI is reshaping the PM role, why the skills required will shift faster than expected, and her philosophy of being hired not to add process but to remind organizations they can still move fast.
Leadership Principles
- → People think I'm hired to teach later-stage companies to operate like big companies, but I'm actually hired to remind them they can operate like a startup
- → Bring the clock speed one click faster — if you think something needs to be done this year, it needs to be done this half
- → CPTO (combined product + engineering + design) eliminates debates over what's best for each function and focuses on what's best for the organization
Notable Quotes
"People often think that I get hired into later stage companies because I'm supposed to teach them how to operate like a big company, and in fact, I say I'm hired to remind them they can operate like a startup."
— On her role as a CPO transformation agent
"I communicate to my leaders that my expectation is they bring in the clock speed one click faster. If you think something needs to be done this year, it needs to be done this half."
— On accelerating organizational velocity
"Is AI going to eliminate PMs next year? Probably not. Are the skills required going to shift? Yes. Could they shift much faster than we all anticipate? Probably."
— On the future of PM in the age of AI
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