Fireside Chat with Coda CPO, Lane Shackleton on Empowering Work with AI

In this special talk featuring Carlos González De Villaumbrosia, Founder and CEO of Product School, and Lane Shackleton, the CPO at Coda, the two discuss Coda's growth and evolution over the years. Lane shares insights into his seven-year journey as CPO, starting with a small product team that gradually scaled to 30 people, emphasizing Coda's unique position as both a product team and a user of its own product.

Lane discusses how Coda is used internally for various purposes, including planning, OKRs, retrospectives, and customer communication. He highlights the challenge of balancing being a user and a developer of the product, emphasizing the importance of empathy and curiosity when considering user feedback.

The conversation delves into Coda's integrations and its journey from point-to-point integrations to a flexible integration framework called "Packs." They also touch upon the introduction of page embeds, which allows users to seamlessly incorporate external tools into Coda.

Lane shares Coda's approach to coaching other product teams, where they aim to be consultative and help shape rituals and processes based on users' specific needs. The video concludes with a discussion of Coda's future plans to leverage AI to automate mundane tasks and evolve from a writing assistant to a comprehensive work assistant.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Lane is the CPO at Coda, a cloud-based document editor platform, leading product teams to enhance growth. He is highly skilled in Marketing and Advertising. At Google, he started as an Account Associate and later became a Product Specialist, working on Google AdWords and the Google Display Network. After that, he began to work at YouTube, with monetization launches and video ad effectiveness efforts where he later became a Group Product Manager.

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