Hubert Palan – Breaking Down Barriers Led to Billions

Today’s guest is Hubert Palan, cofounder and CEO of Productboard, a product management system that enables teams to get the right products to market faster.

Since 2015, Productboard has raised over $262 million from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Index to name a few. Today, ProductBoard is valued at US$1.7 billion, making it the second Czech startup to achieve Unicorn status.

Hubert was previously the VP of product management at GoodData, where he played an instrumental role in their scaling from 6 to 300 people.

In this episode, we talk about Hubert’s career background and what motivated him to follow an entrepreneurial path after many years of working for others. We also candidly talk about the early days of building ProductBoard, unpack scaling and building the company over the last eight years, why “founder insight” is overrated, and more.

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