Between Product and Partnerships Podcast

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

Chris Lavoie leads Gorgias' technology partner program as their Technology Partnerships Lead. About 2 years ago he was their only Technology Partnerships Manager. Since then, Gorgias' technology partner program has grown to a team of 6, become a million-dollar ARR channel, and launched an app marketplace with 75+ integrations.
Published:
December 2, 2025
Priya Sukumar, the Director of Product Management at RingCentral, defines a user-centric approach to building integrations, and shares processes she has used to implement this approach in her day-to-day. She also provides tactical advice for collecting user data and keeping up to date with integration changes.
Published:
March 6, 2025
Arpit Choudhury, the Founder of Astorik, first started working in the data space at Integromat where he grew their community of automation enthusiasts and contributed to building their data infrastructure and partner ecosystem.
Published:
December 2, 2025
Sid Maestre, The Director of Developer Relations and Advocacy at Lob, talks about customer vs partner DX, trends in developer relations and API standards, and creating a developer community.
Published:
December 2, 2025
We interviewed Francois Grenier, the Head of Technology Partnerships at Sendoso and former Head of Platform Partnerships at Typeform about the importance of product thinking for technology partnerships, building Integrations for customer retention vs acquisition, advice for gathering information on ICP tech stack and customer feedback, and more.
Published:
March 6, 2025
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