People

People

A practical watchlist of builders, operators, and AI product voices. Follow the people who show their work.

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Marc Lou

Indie Maker

Builds and launches small products in public. Useful for pricing, speed, distribution, and cutting scope.

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Pieter Levels

Founder, Nomad List and Remote OK

Long-running example of solo product building, fast iteration, automation, and direct customer feedback.

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Ryan Carson

Founder and Builder

Practical signal on building, selling, and using AI tools without losing customer focus.

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Geoff Charles

Chief Product Officer, Ramp

Follow for AI applied to finance workflows where risk, approvals, procurement, and trust have to work.

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Karim Atiyeh

Co-founder and CTO, Ramp

Useful signal on automation, finance infrastructure, and building systems that remove operational drag.

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Eric Glyman

Co-founder and CEO, Ramp

Good operator lens on zero-touch finance, customer pull, and turning a wedge into a broader platform.

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Karri Saarinen

Co-founder and CEO, Linear

Strong taste signal on product quality, speed, focus, and how modern software teams should feel.

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Tuomas Artman

Co-founder and CTO, Linear

Follow for engineering taste, product infrastructure, and the craft behind fast, calm tools.

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Michael Truell

Co-founder and CEO, Cursor

Tracks the frontier of AI-native software work: coding agents, editor UX, and developer workflow change.

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Sualeh Asif

Co-founder, Cursor

Useful signal on how AI coding products become daily tools rather than demos.

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Scott Wu

Co-founder and CEO, Cognition

Frontier signal on autonomous software engineering and what agent reliability needs next.

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Simon Willison

Developer and Writer

One of the clearest practical voices on LLMs, evals, tooling, security, and what actually works.

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Hamel Husain

AI/ML Engineer & Educator

Applied ML practitioner focused on LLM evaluation, fine-tuning, and evals-driven development.

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Shreya Shankar

ML Engineer & Researcher

Clear voice on LLM evaluation, data quality, and production AI systems.

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Addy Osmani

Engineering Leader, Google

Practical writing on spec-driven development, AI coding workflows, and shipping better software faster.

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Andrej Karpathy

AI Researcher & Educator

Influential educator on LLMs, context engineering, and human-AI collaboration.

AITechnical

Shreyas Doshi

Product Advisor

Sharp operator advice on product craft, leadership, and decision quality.

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Lenny Rachitsky

Writer and Podcaster

Interviews and writing on product, growth, and career development for builders.

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Aakash Gupta

Product Growth Leader & Newsletter Author

Covers AI product trends, growth mechanics, and operator playbooks with clear breakdowns.

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Andrew Ng

Founder, DeepLearning.AI

Influential educator on AI capabilities and practical implementation.

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Ant Murphy

Product Coach & Content Creator

Covers AI product management, spec-driven workflows, and how the PM role is changing.

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Deb Liu

CEO, Ancestry; Former Meta Executive

Pragmatic leadership insights on building and scaling product organizations.

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Elena Verna

Growth Advisor

Hands-on guidance on growth loops, onboarding, and product-led growth systems.

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Gibson Biddle

Former VP Product, Netflix

Product strategy frameworks grounded in real operating experience.

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John Rush

Founder, MarsX and ListingBott

Shows the operating details of small-team SaaS: build loops, SEO, distribution, and productized automation.

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Julie Zhuo

Author, The Making of a Manager

Design leadership and product thinking from early Facebook growth years.

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Marty Cagan

Partner, Silicon Valley Product Group

Leading voice on empowered product teams, product operating models, and product leadership.

ProductLeadership

Petra Wille

Product Leadership Coach

Thoughtful frameworks for PM growth and high-quality product decisions.

LeadershipProduct

Sahil Lavingia

Founder, Gumroad

Builder perspective on shipping quickly, experimentation, and creator economics.

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Shishir Mehrotra

CEO, Coda

Product and collaboration tooling insights from shipping modern work platforms.

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Svetlana Sicular

AI Strategy Advisor

Strategic perspective on integrating AI into product and operating models.

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Teresa Torres

Product Discovery Coach

Best for continuous discovery habits, opportunity trees, and using AI without skipping real customer learning.

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Tomer Cohen

Chief Product Officer, LinkedIn

Exec focused on AI-native product evolution and scaled product organizations.

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