Arash Vakil is a product leader with 20+ years of experience
building consumer platforms at scale. He built PassItOn
(https://passiton.to) - a marketplace where experts volunteer time
and 100% of fees go to charity - solo using Claude Code. He's based
in New York.

Arash Vakil

Product Development Process

I built a marketplace designed to make $0. Here's what it taught me about product

Mike Belsito is Head of Product Evangelism for Pendo and Mind the Product and is seen as one of product management’s most notable connectors. 

Mike spent over a decade leading two of the most recognized communities in product management – first as co-founder of Product Collective, home to INDUSTRY: The Product Conference – and then at Mind the Product, after Pendo brought the two together in September 2024. Through both, he's built spaces where product people connect, grow, and take their craft seriously.

Before his community-building chapter, Mike was a startup founder and operator, serving as a co-founder, executive, and early employee in several technology startup companies. He is currently under contract with Wiley to write The Future-Proof Product Manager – a book that explores the timeless characteristics helping product people stay valuable through any period of massive change. It is due out in February 2027. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN, NPR, and PBS.


Mike Belsito

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Anthropic Fable 5 sage continues, while Noam Shazeer joins Open AI: Your weekly product briefing

Alexandra is the Newsletter Editor at Mind the Product and a journalist with six years' experience covering tech, culture, and the online space. She's worked with New_Public and Untested and co-founded GRV Media's graduate writers' program.

Alexandra Ciufudean

Product Management Career

What the data tells us about tech and PM lay offs

Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing 11+ years of experience in editorial roles across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or email him at louron.pratt@pendo.io 

Louron Pratt

Product Launch

What building from scratch in the AI age teaches you

Aditya is Principal Product Manager at Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has spent over a decade building technology products for brands including Levi's, Sephora, Lululemon, and Williams-Sonoma. At Albertsons, he leads product development for the company's in-store fulfillment technology—the platform store associates use to pick online grocery orders—where every workflow decision directly impacts associates, customers, and millions of orders. He writes about product management, software delivery, and the organisational challenges of shipping high-stakes technology in fast-moving environments.

Aditya Singh

Product Roadmap

The S-I-N framework: A platform PM's guide to seeing the system

Join our podcast hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver for in-depth conversations with some of the best product people around the world! Every week they chat with people in the know, covering the topics that matter to you - solving real problems, developing awesome products, building successful teams and developing careers. Find out more, subscribe, and access all episodes on <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-product-experience/">The Product Experience homepage</a>.

The Product Experience

Podcast

A deep dive into the state of product in 2026

Product leader with 12+ years pioneering value economics methodologies that have influenced how enterprise software companies globally quantify business value. Built platforms serving thousands of sellers across 40+ countries and multiple industries (manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, technology), with work directly impacting Fortune 500 technology purchasing decisions worth billions annually. Established frameworks and practices for scaling strategic consulting into product offerings that have become reference points in B2B software sales, measurably improving deal velocity, win rates, and customer value realization across the enterprise software industry.

Gaurav Sharma

When product roadmaps ignore realized value

Stakeholder Management

Lindsey Jayne on burnout, building influence, and landing the product 

Kelvin Obasuyi is the Senior Product Manager at Duplo, where he leads product development for cross-border payment infrastructure serving merchants across Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa. He previously held product leadership roles at Thrive Agric (agtech), 56 Capital (venture capital), and Clear Voice (ecommerce). Kelvin holds an MBA from Oxford University's Saïd Business School (Class of 2024) and has built products used by over 200,000+ users across fintech, agriculture, and commerce sectors.



Kelvin Obasuyi

Product Management Metrics and KPIs

Metrics

The retention metrics that actually matter: What we learned scaling Duplo across 2,000+ merchants

Product Management

10 things we learned at #mtpcon London 2026

Amar Saurabh is a product leader who has built and scaled technology on a global scale. He has led product portfolios at Meta, TikTok, and PayPal, focused on AI, personalization, monetization, and growth. He uses AI to improve decision-making, and drive measurable ROI. Amar is also passionate about mentoring builders and helping teams adopt AI responsibly.

Amar Saurabh

How I navigated the first 30/60/90 days of a brand-new product 

Anupama Garani is VP at PIMCO, where she leads enterprise GenAI initiatives with a focus on evaluating and diagnosing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in production. Her work centers on the hardest part of AI adoption: determining what to test, how to test it, and diagnosing why systems fail when accuracy and trust actually matter, whether the root cause is data quality, retrieval logic, model behavior, or user intent drift.

She is the author of the TRUST Framework, a repeatable operating model for evaluating and governing GenAI systems across transparency, reliability, usefulness, security, and testability in regulated environments.

Anupama has spoken at conferences and panels including SSON, the American Data Centers & AI Conference, and TMLS, covering topics at the intersection of RAG failure modes, evaluation strategies, and AI governance. She co-authors "AI in Production Field Notes," a newsletter reaching over 9,200 subscribers. She is also a reviewer for IEEE and AAAI conferences and serves as an Ambassador for WiDS, ODSC, and GHC, and as a mentor for Cornell's Break Through Tech.

Before PIMCO, she worked on NLP automation at Goldman Sachs. The through-line across her career is making AI decision-grade in environments where mistakes are costly and shortcuts don't survive.

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