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Lessons from Anil Varanasi

Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, approaches business internet infrastructure as a vertically integrated utility. His arguments connect long-term company building, autonomous networks, and the need for enterprise IT to deliver a consumer-grade user experience.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Keller Cliffton

Keller Cliffton, co-founder and CEO of Zipline, proved drone logistics at national scale by turning complex engineering into an invisible utility. His experience offers practical guidance on building hardtech, extending logistics across markets, and surviving early skepticism.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Diya Jolly

Diya Jolly, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Xero, argues against rigid roadmaps as systems grow more automated. Her approach to product management favors adaptability, raising a useful question: how should organizational decisions evolve when technology changes faster?
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Sheila Joglekar Vashee

Sheila Joglekar Vashee, Figma’s CMO and Dropbox’s second marketing hire, specializes in the shift from product-led growth to enterprise sales. Her methods examine how marketing teams can preserve brand identity, engage customers, and reach mass scale.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Jay Kreps

Jay Kreps, co-creator of Apache Kafka and co-founder and CEO of Confluent, formalized the append-only log as a central integration point for enterprise data. His work illuminates distributed-system design, the transition from coder to company leader, and open-source commercialization.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Yuhki Yamashita

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.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Todd Jackson

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.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Tamar Yehoshua

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.

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