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Douglas Hanna, an operations and revenue leader at Grafana Labs, Zendesk, and Kustomer, examines the central open-source business tension: how to commercialize software without alienating developers, while setting sound prices, building sales teams, and operating effectively as an executive.
Rachel Hepworth, a growth marketing builder at Slack and Notion before becoming Harvey’s CMO, defines B2C2B as enterprise adoption driven by consumer-grade design and individual activation, clarifying how product-led growth converts free users into enterprise accounts.
Jeanette Mellinger, a user experience research advisor and former UXR leader at BetterUp and Uber Eats, helps early-stage founders replace assumptions with useful customer interviews and reliable feedback loops, sharpening the search for genuine problem-solution fit.
Jessica McKellar, a software engineer and serial entrepreneur who co-founded Ksplice, Zulip, and Pilot, connects engineering management and open source with equitable hiring pipelines and programming education for incarcerated individuals at San Quentin State Prison.
Marcel Weekes, Figma’s VP of Product Engineering and a former Slack engineering leader, studies the practical mechanics of management: bridging design and development, navigating the transition into leadership, resolving growth friction, and scaling engineering culture.
Melissa Tan is a Malaysian climate advocate, speaker, and media producer who moved from modeling and television into environmental activism, connecting zero-waste living and grassroots sustainability with public awareness while pressing for systemic climate action.
Tara Seshan built embedded finance products at Stripe, later headed product at Watershed, and joined OpenAI, offering frameworks for zero-to-one development, multi-product transitions, and explaining difficult product tradeoffs clearly to leadership during consequential decisions.
Noah Desai Weiss is Slack’s Chief Product Officer and a former product leader at Foursquare and Google, examining product-led growth, product taste, complaint storms, and how teams can balance data with intuition while building AI users trust.