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Krithika Shankarraman (Muthukumar) was the first marketing hire at Stripe and OpenAI. Her engineering-led DATE framework diagnoses specific business needs, offering a disciplined way to position technical products, scale early teams, and preserve human taste amid automated content.
Kevin Aluwi, Gojek’s co-founder and former CEO, helped transform a motorcycle taxi call center into an Indonesian multi-service app. His habit of treating operational headaches as data science problems offers a practical model for scaling marketplaces in emerging markets.
Karina Nguyen is an AI researcher whose work spans post-training, product design, Constitutional AI, model personalities, and ChatGPT Canvas. Her methods for evaluating models and interpreting latent spaces reveal how AI tools can be co-designed with human users.
Jenny Wen is a product designer who led FigJam and Figma Slides before building interfaces for Claude at Anthropic. She argues that AI makes linear design processes obsolete, favoring speed and high-fidelity execution over rigid workflows.
Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer, known for steering large organizational shifts at Cisco and Box. His frameworks connect product execution with AI-native security, collaboration, and the challenge of defending systems at machine scale.
Janna Bastow, CEO of ProdPad and co-founder of Mind the Product, created the Now-Next-Later framework to replace date-driven Gantt charts with outcome-based planning. Her guidance shows teams how to escape feature factories and solve genuine customer problems.
Hila Qu moved from data science into growth, leading at Acorns before bringing a product-led motion to sales-led GitLab. Her practical models and 90-day guidance clarify how new growth leaders can build teams, run experiments, and design effective funnels.
Kayvon Beykpour is a software developer and product executive who co-founded Periscope and later led consumer product at Twitter. His “sacred cows” lens challenges established companies to test ingrained assumptions and revive stagnant product cultures.