S6E4 An interview with Glen Lipka, Product Design Leader

Glen Lipka is a product leader who has created innovative products for B2B companies since 1995.

Previously, he was the first employee at Marketo, best in class marketing automation software acquired by Adobe and helped guide the company through IPO up to 1000 employees in 9 years. He holds several patents in design innovations.

In this episode, we talked about:

• What is the definition of design for Glen? How does Glen think about design?
• Glen on being the first employee at Marketo
• His job and learning in the pre-internet era
• Designers and their role in society
• The one rule of design for Glen
• What’s needed for a successful company
• And more of his personal design journey and the role that design has played in his life, the insights and knowledge, how he got in where he is now and the inspiring lessons he’d learned along the way!

Links and Resources:

The Power Broker https://amzn.to/3aj0Ypa

https://commadot.com

https://adplist.org/mentors/glen-lipka

https://twitter.com/glenlipka

https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenlipka/

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/