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Lessons from Jessica McKellar

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.
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Lessons from Marcel Weekes

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.
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Lessons from Melissa Tan

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.
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Lessons from Tara Seshan

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.
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Lessons from Noah Desai Weiss

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.
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Lessons from Kevin Mandich

Kevin Mandich moved from mechanical and aerospace engineering into machine learning and cybersecurity, later leading AI and ML at Sprig, where he explored turning raw feedback into product data, structuring AI teams, and applying large language models.
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Lessons from Ryan Glasgow

Ryan Glasgow, an early product manager at Weebly and Vurb, founded Sprig after seeing slow research cycles impede good software, advancing in-context feedback as a way to manage product complexity and scale user insight with AI.
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Lessons from Nick Caldwell

Nick Caldwell managed engineering teams at Microsoft, Reddit, Looker, and Twitter, distilling a blunt lesson for new managers: stop writing code, focus on people, and learn to build teams, scale organizations, and support career development.

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