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Yuhki Yamashita, Figma’s Chief Product Officer, argues that product managers and designers should stop drawing hard boundaries between their roles. His approach uses visual communication and storytelling to unite product strategy, design, and the craft of building software users love.
Todd Jackson, a First Round Capital partner and former product leader at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox, brings an operator’s eye to consumer software. His frameworks cover acquisitions, product-manager hiring, company scaling, and four distinct levels of product-market fit.
Tamar Yehoshua, a product executive who has run engineering and design at Google, Slack, Amazon, and Glean, argues that growth can survive operational messiness. The deeper test is maintaining customer empathy, product-market fit, and curiosity when hard data is insufficient.
Sebastian Barrios, Roblox’s SVP of Engineering and a former Mercado Libre technology leader, favors fast-shipping cultures with unusually few product managers per engineer. His experience links executive communication, massive deployment volumes, and platform design that accelerates development.
Sean Ellis, entrepreneur, investor, and author of Hacking Growth, coined “growth hacking” and developed the ICE prioritization method and 40% product-market fit test. His work reframes startup marketing around experimentation, activation, retention, and sustainable acquisition.
Sam Schillace, co-creator of Writely, the web application that became Google Docs, developed engineering-management frameworks across Google, Box, and Microsoft. His perspective connects system design, large-language-model products, adaptation to new technology, and the practical value of optimism.
Sachin Kansal, Uber’s Chief Product Officer, oversees mobility and delivery products used by millions. Through “extreme dogfooding,” he drives and makes deliveries himself, exposing friction firsthand and sharpening a practical approach to rapid iteration and marketplace safety.
Ryan Singer, a longtime Basecamp design and product leader, created Shape Up to replace open-ended development with fixed time boxes and strict problem boundaries. His method connects constraints, Jobs-to-be-Done, and the practical mechanics required to ship software.