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Lessons from Jenny Wen

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.
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Lessons from Jeetu Patel

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.
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Lessons from Janna Bastow

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.
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Lessons from Hila Qu

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.
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Lessons from Kayvon Beykpour

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.
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Lessons from Itamar Gilad

Itamar Gilad is a product management coach and author of Evidence-Guided. His GIST framework and Confidence Meter replace opinion-based planning with testing, helping teams validate ideas, avoid feature factories, and build around real user problems.
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Lessons from Inbal Shani

Inbal Shani moved from aerospace engineering into software product leadership at GitHub, AWS, and Twilio. She frames generative AI as a new developer abstraction layer and argues for data infrastructure that gives businesses persistent memory of customers.
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Lessons from Gustaf Alströmer

Gustaf Alströmer, a Y Combinator partner and former Airbnb growth lead, treats startup growth as an engineering and product discipline grounded in retention. His frameworks connect product-market fit and team building with durable growth rather than short-term marketing tricks.

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