Former Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson reveals how she scaled the company from 160 to 7,000 employees. In this deep dive, she argues that operational structure fuels speed and explains why effective management requires deep self-awareness.
Gustaf Alströmer has guided over 600 startups at Y Combinator. In this deep dive, he shares the recurring mistakes that kill early-stage ventures, insights from Airbnb’s original growth team, and why the next decade’s biggest opportunities lie in climate tech.
Calendly changed how we schedule time. Behind the simple link lies a complex strategy balancing mass adoption with enterprise growth. CPO Annie Pearl details how they scale product teams and transition from PLG to sales-led motions while maintaining rigorous strategic focus.
ProfitWell CEO Patrick Campbell bootstrapped to a $200m exit without VC funding. Here, he shares 10 hard-won lessons on shipping tempo, churn reduction, and team building. A blueprint for founders building sustainable, high-efficiency SaaS businesses.
Retention matters most, and onboarding is the key lever. Lauryn Isford, Head of Growth at Airtable, shares her framework for optimizing flows, implementing "reverse trials," and defining activation metrics that drive long-term business health.
Former DoorDash exec Keith Yandell explains how he led disparate teams—from Legal to HR—without subject expertise. Discover his approach to generalist leadership, radical transparency, and using empathy to scale culture and achieve 10x outcomes in a hyper-growth startup.
Process can be the enemy of creativity. Retool's Eeke de Milliano (ex-Stripe) explains how to scale effectively while maintaining an innovative spirit. Discover how to build rigorous, high-performing teams without clipping the wings of your creative thinkers.
Mixpanel faced high churn after expanding too broadly. By refocusing on core analytics, they improved retention from 60% to 90%. Head of Product Vijay Iyengar shares the engineering-led strategy behind this turnaround and the future of product data.
How did Airtable convince Fortune 500s to trust a 15-person team? Zoelle Egner, employee #11, shares the "punch above your weight" strategy. From obsessive detail to integrating customer success into marketing, learn how they projected maturity and achieved massive scale.
April Dunford, author of Obviously Awesome, breaks down why poor performance is often a positioning problem, not a product one. Discover her proven framework for B2B tech companies to find the context where their product shines and how to immediately connect with ideal buyers.
Former Tinder CPO Ravi Mehta demystifies strategy with the "Product Strategy Stack." Learn to bridge the gap between aspirational missions and daily goals using his actionable framework for building scalable, logical product plans.
Pricing isn't a one-time decision; it's a product feature. Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures) explains why monetization is a massive growth lever. Learn her playbook for determining value, deciding when to charge, and building the infrastructure required to scale.
Pete Kazanjy breaks down why sales isn't a "black box" but an engineering discipline. Learn why you can't outsource early discovery and how to build your "sales source code" to validate product-market fit before scaling a team.
Camille Ricketts, Notion's first marketing hire, deconstructs the mechanics of community-led growth. Learn why "content-market fit" is critical and how it helped scale Notion into a $10 billion productivity juggernaut.
Pricing isn't just a math problem; it's a measure of value. Madhavan Ramanujam, author of Monetizing Innovation, argues that too many products fail because pricing is an afterthought. He outlines a framework to design products around price, drawing from work with Uber and LinkedIn.
Graphite CEO Ethan Smith shares the SEO playbooks behind MasterClass, Robinhood, and Thumbtack. Discover why SEO is a product challenge, not just a technical one, and learn how to drive sustainable, compounding growth through programmatic strategies and topical authority.
