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Camille Ricketts built First Round Review before becoming Notion’s first marketing hire, where she directed early community-led growth. Her approach treats content and clear storytelling as core business drivers for product positioning, software brands, and startup operations.
Cameron Adams, Canva’s co-founder and Chief Product Officer, helped make graphic design accessible through a mass-market browser tool. His experience across agency work, Google, and web standards informs practical thinking about product strategy, engineering, and the user’s first mile.
Caitlin Kalinowski, a mechanical engineer and hardware executive, led development at Apple, Meta, and OpenAI across products including Mac Pro, Oculus Quest, and Orion. Her methods connect rapid prototyping and manufacturing discipline with the ethics of physical AI.
Brian Tolkin built operations technology at Uber, Opendoor, and DoorDash, and helped define product operations by connecting software development to the physical world. His work examines rapid growth, team structure, and AI’s role in physical marketplaces.
Bill Carr, formerly Amazon’s Vice President of Digital Media, managed the development of Amazon Music, Prime Video, and Amazon Studios. His Working Backwards principles translate Amazon’s management mechanisms into practical rules for hiring, product design, and organizational structure.
Ben Mann, Anthropic co-founder and co-lead of Anthropic Labs, helped establish scaling laws linking AI improvement to data and compute. His work asks how to measure model intelligence, shape Constitutional AI, and understand automation near artificial general intelligence.
Asha Sharma has scaled operations and product strategy across Meta, Porch, Instacart, and Microsoft. Her frameworks replace traditional org charts with dynamic task networks and static products with living organisms, offering a practical way to rethink building at scale.
Archie Abrams, Shopify’s VP of Product and Head of Growth, challenges conventional growth management by avoiding strict KPIs for core teams and tolerating higher early churn. His approach favors durable platforms and user intuition over immediate data.