Shaun Clowes
Chief Product Officer @ Confluent
CPO at Confluent. Previously held product leadership roles at Atlassian and MuleSoft.
βWhy great AI products are all about the data, covering product strategy and execution, team leadership, and AI product work.β
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Confluent | Chief Product Officer | 2022-present |
| MuleSoft (Salesforce) | Chief Product Officer | ~2019-2022 |
| Atlassian | Head of Growth & Head of Product (Jira Software) | ~2013-2019 |
| Metromile | Product Leadership | ~2012-2013 |
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βI'm glad to be a bit of a curiosity.β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βOh, average sale press, [inaudible 00:43:22] MRR or some other revenue metric.β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βYes. Yeah, it makes me feel like an old person, but yes, it was a very long time ago.β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βBasically it's now called PLG, but yeah, at that time we didn't even know what to call it exactly.β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βOh man, I'm so far off. When I left it must have been 80,000 customers.β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βI mean, there's a lot of things that didn't go exactly to plan, Lenny. Very early on in my career, I was still a developer and I accidentally deleted one of the core systems of the company that I was ...β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βYes. Isn't that amazing, right? It doesn't mean it's permanently fatal, but asking that question and going through that reckoning turns out that came out stronger.β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βI'm watching a program. I don't get to watch very much TV, mostly at night. I like to watch things that are extremely light, that just don't at all inspire any element of stress and that are very shor...β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βYeah, it's really funny. I really like that. It's so ridiculous, but very funny. So I like that.β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βIt's so weird. In the first episode I'm like, "What is this show?" It's not even clear what time it set in, and it's very weird. It's really cool.β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βAbseil. You might think of it as rappelling. Rappelling, I think. Yeah, lowering yourself down on a rope or...β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
βOh, no, abseiling which is also, I think in the States you guys call it rappelling.β
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)