Between Product and Partnerships Podcast

Conversations with product, partnership, and engineering leaders about how to build, support,
and scale integrations and SaaS ecosystems.

Biljana shares how bringing hard data to the table, like usage stats and performance metrics, is the ultimate move for smaller teams. It’s the best way to prove your value, grab a major partner’s attention, and finally move up their priority list.
Published:
March 6, 2026
Scott Lavery, Senior Product Manager at Arkestro, joins Pandium CEO Cristina Flaschen to unpack the transition of integrations from simple features to essential business infrastructure. By exploring the hidden technical debt of low-code platforms and the "invisible" nature of integration success, Scott provides a pragmatic playbook for PMs navigating messy inherited stacks and complex vendor dependencies.
Published:
February 19, 2026
Jacqueline Karlin, AI Product Executive and Founder, shares how she turns mission-driven purpose into actionable products. From defining her “why” to solving real-world problems in commerce and technology, Jacqueline walks us through her approach to customer-first innovation and building products that scale.
Published:
January 29, 2026
In this episode of Between Product and Partnerships, Cristina Flaschen talks with Mike Gelber, Chief Product Officer at Impiricus, about his path into product leadership and what he’s learned building products in the healthcare industry.
Published:
December 19, 2025
Cristina Flaschen talks with Michael Kowalchik founder and CEO of Matterbeam, about why data integration breaks down inside scaling SaaS companies and what a modern architecture should look like. They discuss why pipelines fail, why AI cannot fix weak data infrastructure, and how MatterBeam’s approach helps teams access consistent, trustworthy data as they grow.
Published:
December 19, 2025
A behind-the-scenes look at how Anaplan’s VP of Product Launch, Therese Stowell, builds scalable, cross-functional systems that turn fast-moving SaaS innovation into successful, revenue-driving product launches.
Published:
November 19, 2025
Cristina Flaschen and Francesca Smedberg explore how modern product leaders move beyond features to build focused, outcome-driven teams.
Published:
November 7, 2025
In this episode of Between Product and Partnerships, Nate Lee, founder of Cloudsec.AI, shares insights on managing security risks in SaaS ecosystems and AI-powered tools.
Published:
October 24, 2025
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