Product Management Thought Leaders:
This is a collection of entrepreneurs and product leaders that I admire. If you are looking to grow in your product management career, these are the people to learn from. They are listed in no particular order.
Marty Cagan
Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, former product leader at eBay, Netscape and HP. Author of INSPIRED
Brandon Chu
VP of Product at Shopify
Paul Adams
SVP of Product at Intercom. Paul oversees Intercom’s product, design and research teams. Previously at Facebook, Google, and Dyson
Des Traynor
Co-Founder of Intercom
Twitter | Blog | Intercom Blog
Seth Godin
Author, blogger, and entrepreneur. Founder of Akimbo, home of the altMBA
Ben Thompson
Author and Founder of Stratechery. Business, technology, and media analyst
Jason Cohen
Founder and CTO at WP Engine
Andrew Chen
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously: led Rider Growth at Uber, advised/invested in dozens of startups, and has been writing for over a decade
Brian Balfour
Founder/CEO of Reforge, previously VP Growth at HubSpot
Ken Norton
Spent more than fourteen years at Google, where he led product initiatives for Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Mobile Maps, and GV (formerly Google Ventures)
Kevin Kwok
Formerly worked at Greylock Partners investing in marketplaces, autonomous vehicles, bottoms up productivity tools, and more
Noah Kagan
Founder of Sumo Group. Previously at Facebook and Mint
Paul Graham
Founder of Y Combinator
Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator
Julie Zhuo
Vice president of product design at Facebook and now Co-Founder at Inspirit
Teresa Torres
Product discovery coach. Previously VP of Products at AfterCollege and CEO of Affinity Circles.
Rian van der Merwe
Head of Product at Wildbit. Previously Senior Manager of Product Strategy at eBay
Nathan Barry
CEO and Founder of ConvertKit
Lenny Rachitsky
Author and entrepreneur. Previously Product Lead at AirBnb and Co-Founder/CEO at Localmind
Courtland Allen
Founder of IndieHackers - acquired by Stripe
Jared Spool
Founder of User Interface Engineering. Writer and speaker on the subjects of usability, software, design, and research.
Ryan Singer
Head of Strategy at Basecamp
Morgan Brown
VP of Growth at Shopify. Previously Product at Facebook
Sachin Rekhi
Founder & CEO at Notejoy
Josh Elman
Product at Twitter, Facebook Connect, LinkedIn, Robinhood. Investor in Medium, Tiktok/Musical.ly, Discord
Hiten Shah
Founder of Crazyegg, KISSmetrics, Quick Sprout and FYI.
Naval Ravikant
Co-founder and CEO of AngelList
Andy Johns
Previously worked in growth and product at Facebook, Twitter, Quora and Wealthfront
Jason Fried
Co-Founder and CEO of Basecamp
Ryan Hoover
Founder of Product Hunt
Scott Belsky
Founder of Behance and now CPO of Adobe
April Underwood
Founder and CEO @nearby. Co-founder @hashtagangels. BOD @ZillowGroup. Prev: @slackhq @twitter
Shreyas Doshi
Product leader at Stripe. Previously worked in product at Twitter, Google and Yahoo.
Oji Udezue
CPO at Parsable. Previously VP of Product at Calendly and Head of Product at Atlassian
Ben Galbraith
Senior Director of Product at Google. Previously VP of Product at Segment
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