How Clerk Builds Product | Building Jam

Building Jam: How Clerk Builds Product | Ep. 20

Building our startup, we get to meet and learn from the experts behind incredible products. Now we’re sharing these behind-the scenes conversations on our podcast, so you can learn from our journey too. Today, Colin Sidoti, CEO at Clerk, joins us to talk about how they build product.

We discuss:

• 0:29 The first thing we want to know: how is Clerk design so crisp and good?
• 4:24 Comparing product cycles - Clerk’s demo day & Jam’s 25% guideline
• 8:45 Clerk’s 1st step in product development is writing the docs and it makes so much sense!
• 13:59 Team structure & hiring empathetic engineers who double as PMs
• 19:00 What dev profile is the best at writing docs?
• 20:55 Trading notes from when Clerk was Jam’s size (18 people!)
• 24:47 Behind the scenes of Clerk’s 200X growth in January 2023
• 27:59 Colin gives us advice for navigating this exciting and challenging stage of growth at Jam

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