What does it actually take to scale a product team from startup to IPO?

In this episode of Colorado Tech People, we sit down with Scott Williamson—former Chief Product Officer at GitLab and VP Product at SendGrid—to break down the real challenges of product management, startup scaling, and building high-performing product teams.

From early-stage product-market fit to scaling organizations through hypergrowth and IPO, this conversation is packed with practical lessons for founders, product managers, and startup leaders.

• How to build world-class product teams
• The biggest mistakes founders make when scaling startups
• Why hiring too fast can hurt growth
• How product strategy evolves from early-stage startup to public company

Chapters

• 00:00 The Role of Product Teams
• 07:49 Scaling Product Teams
• 15:06 Go-to-Market Models
• 21:11 Building Global Companies from Colorado
• 26:35 Lessons from Advising Companies