Profile 11 min read

Lessons from Krithika Muthukumar

Krithika Muthukumar is OpenAI’s VP of Marketing and was the first marketing hire at Stripe and Retool, applying a “diagnostician” mindset that treats growth as a system requiring specific fixes across teams, developer audiences, products, and go-to-market strategy.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Kiren Sekar

Kiren Sekar, an early Meraki leader and former Chief Product Officer at Samsara, built hardware and software for heavy industries such as trucking and construction, grounding product management and technology scaling in direct learning from customers in the field.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Kevin Wang

Kevin Wang built FOSSA to solve the open-source compliance friction he encountered as a developer, creating a platform for enterprise dependency and licensing management while surfacing practical questions about developer tools, early-stage fundraising, and scaling open-source security.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Kelly Watkins

Kelly Watkins is a marketing executive and advisor who served as Slack’s VP of Global Marketing and Abstract’s CEO, grounding product-led growth in straightforward storytelling rather than metrics alone while shaping brands and steering companies through structural transitions.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Kate Taylor

Kate Taylor is a journalist, arts critic, and historical novelist whose work spans film, visual art, literature, Marcel Proust, Charles Dickens, and the Dreyfus Affair, illuminating the mechanics of storytelling and how Canadian media institutions adapt to the digital age.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Jonah Berger

Jonah Berger is a Wharton marketing professor who studies how language shapes perception and choice, connecting the psychology of word-of-mouth with frameworks for overcoming resistance to explain the human behavior and persuasive forces behind what catches on.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Jean-Denis Grèze

Jean-Denis Grèze, former Plaid CTO and co-founder and CEO of Town, offers practical frameworks for engineering leadership, from “spiky” organizational design and probabilistic management to hiring, infrastructure scaling, and the disciplined management of technical teams.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Ian Wong

Ian Wong, Opendoor co-founder and former CTO and Square’s first data scientist, shows how operations-heavy businesses can become automated systems at scale, pairing data science and technical leadership with software grounded in real-world workflows.

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