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Claire Vo

Chief Product Officer at LaunchDarkly & Founder of ChatPRD

Claire Vo is the Chief Product Officer at LaunchDarkly, a technology company specializing in feature management software. She is also the founder of ChatPRD, a prominent AI tool tailored for product managers. Previously, Claire held prominent roles as CPO at Color and Optimizely, and founded both Pretty HQ and Experiment Engine, with the latter acquired by Optimizely in 2017.

Episodes (1)

Insights (15)

ChatPRD Eliminates Need for Additional PM

case studies lessons

A lone PM using ChatPRD saved dozens of documentation hours and removed the need to hire an additional PM for a growing team.

1h 14m

Clear is Kind: Normalizing Feedback

quotes

Claire cites Brene Brown to stress candid feedback.

27m

Sales-Led Companies Can Build Great Products

leadership perspectives

Claire contends sales-led companies can still craft excellent products and provide rewarding PM careers, citing SAP as an example.

1h 16m

Operating in Your Zone of Genius

strategic thinking

Define work where you are uniquely exceptional and energised to ensure long-term sustainable performance.

17m

Personal SLA Prevents Bottlenecks

leadership perspectives

Set a fast personal response time so you never become the decision bottleneck for your team.

23m

Tell Your Boss What Role You Want

leadership perspectives

Claire advises explicitly telling your boss the exact next role you want, tracking progress, yet keeping such talks to under 1% of interactions.

5m

AI Will Replace Functional Communication, Not Influential Communication

strategic thinking

Claire separates replaceable "lowercase c" functional information exchange from irreplaceable "Capital C" influence-driven communication when assessing AI impact on PM work.

1h 2m

Claire's Business Model Interview Question

leadership perspectives

Claire asks PM candidates how they'd improve the business model to test understanding of pricing, unit economics and leverage points.

1h 21m

Technical Expertise Required for CPTO Role

leadership perspectives

Claire stresses you must be technical to run product, engineering and design because driving velocity hinges on understanding how software gets built.

46m

Budget Shifts from Hiring to Automation

leadership perspectives

Claire foresees leaders reallocating spend from new hires to automation software as efficiency gains change role ratios.

1h 9m

ChatPRD: From Meeting Solution to Popular PM Tool

case studies lessons

Lacking a technical PM, Claire used ChatGPT to draft a full PRD mid-meeting, iterated the prompt into ChatPRD, released a paid app now used by thousands creating dozens of specs monthly.

54m

Breaking Problems Into Actionable Factors

strategic thinking

Claire Vo breaks problems into structural, cultural, external and internal factors, then seeks leverage points to influence or walk away.

32m

Consistency Drives Audience Growth

growth scaling tactics

Posting daily boosted followers and algorithm exposure, showing that consistency in content drives audience growth.

1h 25m

Optimize Organization Around Talent, Not Structure

leadership perspectives

Claire advises structuring product-engineering-design leadership based on the CEO’s and team’s skills rather than following one perfect org chart.

50m

Calendar Energy Audit Reveals Zone of Genius

strategic thinking

List past-month activities, bucket by energy level, drop low-energy tasks and double down on high-energy ones to locate your zone of genius.

19m