Star Treatment
Does prominence change the questions? Every guest, plotted: their public prominence (rated 1–10 by an LLM, methodology below) against the host pushback they met, measured from every diarized word of their episodes.
An aggregate AI reading of public interviews: pushback per exchange, plotted against guest prominence. It describes questioning patterns across the whole catalogue, not any single guest, and every point opens to its episode. full disclaimer →
+0.01pushback per +1 prominence
1.0/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
0.9/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
320guests measured
dot size = rated episodes · gold line = average per prominence level · every dot links to the person
All guests, by prominence
| Guest | Prominence | Host pushback | Guest pushback | Eps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 9 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ben Horowitz Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 9 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Brian Chesky Co-founder and CEO, Airbnb | 9 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Stewart Butterfield Co-founder & Former CEO, Slack | 8 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Marc Benioff Chair, CEO & Co-Founder, Salesforce | 8 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Seth Godin Author, Speaker, and Teacher, Seth's Blog | 8 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jessica Livingston Co-founder, Y Combinator | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Eric Ries Founder & CEO, Long-Term Stock Exchange | 8 | 1 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Melanie Perkins Co-Founder & CEO, Canva | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Drew Houston Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Dropbox | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Fei-Fei Li | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Field Co-founder and CEO, Figma | 8 | 1.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Adam Mosseri Head of Instagram, Meta | 8 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tony Fadell Principal, Build Collective | 8 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Evan Spiegel Co-Founder and CEO, Snap Inc. | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Keith Rabois Managing Director, Khosla Ventures | 8 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Bret Taylor CEO & Co-Founder, Sierra | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kim Scott Co-Founder, Radical Candor | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Pincus Founder & Executive Chairman, Zynga | 7 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Brian Halligan Co-Founder & Executive Chairperson, HubSpot | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Krieger Chief Product Officer, Anthropic | 7 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Rory Sutherland Vice Chairman, Ogilvy UK | 7 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Annie Duke Special Partner, First Round Capital | 7 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Kunal Shah Founder & CEO, CRED | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Geoffrey Moore Partner, Wildcat Venture Partners | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tobi Lütke Co-Founder and CEO, Shopify | 7 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dharmesh Shah Co-Founder and CTO, HubSpot | 7 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jason Fried Co-founder and CEO, 37signals | 7 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Qasar Younis Co-founder & CEO, Applied Intuition | 6 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Becky Kennedy Founder & CEO, Good Inside | 6 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Guillermo Rauch Founder & CEO, Vercel | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shishir Mehrotra Chief Executive Officer, Superhuman | 6 | 0 | 1.3/10 | 4 |
| Nikita Bier Product Growth Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners | 6 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Roger Martin Professor Emeritus, Rotman School of Management | 6 | 0 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Matt Dixon Co-Founder, DCM Insights | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Richard Rumelt Professor Emeritus, UCLA Anderson School of Management | 6 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Hoover Founder and General Partner, Weekend Fund | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Maples, Jr. | 6 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Scott Belsky Partner, A24 | 6 | 0.3 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Shreyas Doshi Startup Advisor & Executive Coach | 6 | 0.3 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Julie Zhuo Co-Founder, Sundial | 6 | 0.8 | 0.8/10 | 4 |
| Benedict Evans Independent Technology Analyst | 6 | 1 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Simon Willison Creator, Datasette | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sam Lessin Founding Partner, Slow Ventures | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eoghan McCabe Co-Founder & CEO, Intercom | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Weil Operator in Residence, Scribble Ventures | 6 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Susan Cain Author & Founder, Quiet Revolution | 6 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ivan Zhao Co-founder & CEO, Notion | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Deb Liu Co-Founder, Ember AI | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sean Ellis Author, Hacking Growth | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Hamilton Helmer Co-Founder & Co-CIO, Strategy Capital | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kayvon Beykpour Co-founder & CEO, Macroscope | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dalton Caldwell Co-Founder & General Partner, Standard Capital | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Marty Cagan Founder, Silicon Valley Product Group | 6 | 1 | 4.3/10 | 3 |
| Nir Eyal Author & Consultant, Nir & Far | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jason Lemkin Founder & CEO, SaaStr | 6 | 1.5 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Howie Liu Co-Founder & CEO, Airtable | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeffrey Pfeffer Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Tavel Venture Partner, Benchmark | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sriram Krishnan | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Chip Conley Co-founder & CEO, Modern Elder Academy | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Peter Deng General Partner, Felicis | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rahul Vohra Founder & CEO, Superhuman | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Graham Weaver Founder & CEO, Alpine Investors | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Naomi Gleit Head of Product, Meta | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jessica Hische Lettering Artist & Author, Jessica Hische Inc. | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tamar Yehoshua Chief Product and AI Officer, Atlassian | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cameron Adams Co-founder & CPO, Canva | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Abrahams Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jason Feifer Editor-in-Chief, Entrepreneur Magazine | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nancy Duarte CEO, Duarte, Inc. | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Claire Hughes Johnson Corporate Officer and Advisor, Stripe | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lulu Cheng Meservey Founder and CEO, Rostra | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Aluwi Venture Partner, Lightspeed | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt Mochary Founder & CEO Coach, Mochary Method | 5 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Gergely Orosz Author, The Pragmatic Engineer | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Claire Vo Founder & CEO, ChatPRD | 5 | 0.3 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| April Dunford Founder and CEO, Ambient Strategy | 5 | 0.3 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Nicole Forsgren Senior Director of Developer Intelligence, Google | 5 | 0.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Bob Moesta CEO and Founder, The Re-Wired Group | 5 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Jeetu Patel President & CPO, Cisco | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Molly Graham Founder & CEO, Glue Club | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Elena Verna Head of Growth, Lovable | 5 | 1 | 2.8/10 | 5 |
| Chip Huyen Author & Technologist, Tep Studio | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Garrett Lord Co-founder & CEO, Handshake | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brian Balfour Founder & CEO, Reforge | 5 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| John Zeratsky Co-Founder and General Partner, Character Capital | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Jake Knapp Co-founder & General Partner, Character Capital | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Andrew Wilkinson Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Tiny | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Truell Co-founder & CEO, Anysphere | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Uri Levine General Partner, The Founders Kitchen | 5 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Melissa Perri Founder & CEO, Product Institute | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Camille Fournier VP of Engineering, CoreWeave | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Todd Jackson Partner, First Round Capital | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Karri Saarinen Co-Founder & CEO, Linear | 5 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Chris Miller VP of Product, HubSpot | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gustaf Alströmer Group Partner, Y Combinator | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Caitlin Kalinowski Board Director, Axon | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jason Cohen Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, WP Engine | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ben Mann Co-Founder, Anthropic | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jerry Colonna Co-Founder and CEO, Reboot.io | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Gustav Söderström Co-CEO, Spotify | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aarthi Ramamurthy Founder & General Partner, Schema Ventures | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Albert Cheng Chief Growth Officer, Chess.com | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| David Placek Founder & President, Lexicon Branding | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Wes Kao Co-founder, Maven | 4 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Alisa Cohn Executive Coach and Founder, Alisa Cohn & Associates | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Yuhki Yamashita Chief Product Officer, Figma | 4 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Ami Vora Chief Product Officer, Anthropic | 4 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Bangaly Kaba Director of Product Management, YouTube | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Carole Robin Co-Founder, Leaders in Tech | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sam Schillace Deputy CTO & CVP, Microsoft | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy Johns Founder and Writer, Clues.life | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ronny Kohavi Consultant and Advisor | 4 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| David Singleton Co-founder & CEO, Dreamer | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ken Norton Executive Coach and Founder, Bring the Donuts | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Yuki (Yuhki Yamashita) | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Katie Dill Head of Design, Stripe | 4 | 0.3 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Casey Winters Co-Founder and CEO, SuperMe | 4 | 0.3 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Madhavan Ramanujam General Partner & Co-Founder, 49 Palms Ventures | 4 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Tom Conrad CEO, Sonos | 4 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Gina Gotthilf Co-Founder and CMO, Outsmart | 4 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Noah Weiss | 4 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Paul Adams Chief Product Officer, Intercom | 4 | 0.7 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Nikhyl Singhal Founder, The Skip | 4 | 0.8 | 1/10 | 4 |
| Elizabeth Stone Chief Product and Technology Officer, Netflix | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Dan Shipper Co-Founder and CEO, Every | 4 | 1 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Edwin Chen Founder & CEO, Surge AI | 4 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Dhanji R. Prasanna Chief Technology Officer, Block | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Hamel Husain Founder & AI Consultant, Parlance Labs | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nick Turley Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aparna Chennapragada Chief Product Officer, AI Experiences, Microsoft | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Varun Mohan CEO & Co-Founder, Windsurf | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anton Osika Co-Founder & CEO, Lovable | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eric Simons Co-Founder & CEO, StackBlitz | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anneka Gupta Chief Product Officer, Rubrik | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Eli Schwartz SEO & Growth Advisor | 4 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ethan Evans Founder, Level Up | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Dicks Storyteller & Author, Storyworthy | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Paul Millerd Author & Founder, StrategyU | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ramesh Johari Professor, Stanford University | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christopher Lochhead Co-Founding Partner, Play Bigger Advisors | 4 | 1 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Andy Raskin Strategic Narrative Consultant & Advisor | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Patrick Campbell Founder & CEO, ProfitWell | 4 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| John Cutler Head of Product, Dotwork | 4 | 1 | 1.8/10 | 9 |
| Chris Hutchins Host, All the Hacks | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ian McAllister Senior Director of Product for Vehicles, Uber | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Janna Bastow CEO & Co-Founder, ProdPad | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Teresa Torres Founder, Product Talk | 4 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Anish Acharya General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tomer Cohen Former Chief Product Officer, LinkedIn | 4 | 1.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Jason Droege CEO, Scale AI | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Asha Sharma CEO, Microsoft Gaming | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Singer Founder and Product Advisor, Felt Presence | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Farhan Thawar VP & Head of Engineering, Shopify | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alistair Croll Co-founder & Chair, FWD50 | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Logan Kilpatrick Product Lead, Google DeepMind | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Will Larson CTO, Imprint | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Christina Wodtke Lecturer, Stanford University | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Josh Miller CEO & Co-founder, The Browser Company | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Camille Ricketts Partner & Head of Marketing, XYZ Venture Capital | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ezinne Udezue | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nabeel S. Qureshi Visiting Scholar, Mercatus Center | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nan Yu Head of Product, Linear | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Margolis UX Research Partner, GV | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tristan de Montebello CEO and Co-Founder, Ultraspeaking | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Komoroske Co-founder & CEO, Common Tools | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jessica Lachs VP of Analytics & Data Science, DoorDash | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jag Duggal Former Chief Product Officer, Nubank | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jonny Miller Founder, Nervous System Mastery | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Christian Idiodi Partner, Silicon Valley Product Group | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Williams Founder & CEO, DevTune.ai | 3 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Paige Costello Head of AI, Asana | 3 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Meltem Kuran Berkowitz Head of Growth, Deel | 3 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Camille Hearst Head of Fan Monetization, Spotify | 3 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Lane Shackleton Chief Product Officer, Coda | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nilan Peiris Chief Product Officer, Wise | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eeke de Milliano Head of Global Product, Stripe | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pete Kazanjy Co-founder & CRO, Atrium | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Petra Wille Independent Product Leadership Coach | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Fareed Mosavat Chief Development Officer, Reforge | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Hardiman Chief Product Officer, The New York Times | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ryan J. Salva VP of Product, GitHub | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Arielle Jackson Marketer in Residence, First Round Capital | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Raaz Herzberg | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ethan Smith CEO and Founder, Graphite | 3 | 0.3 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Oji Udezue Founder, ProductMind | 3 | 0.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Ebi Atawodi Director of Product, YouTube | 3 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Geoff Charles Chief Product Officer, Ramp | 3 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Kristen Berman CEO & Co-founder, Irrational Labs | 3 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Crystal Widjaja Co-Founder, Generation Girl | 3 | 0.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Jiaona Zhang Chief Product Officer, Laurel | 3 | 0.7 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Tara Seshan Product Lead, OpenAI | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Ward Head of Talent, Cursor | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Max Schoening Head of Product, Notion | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Boris Cherny Head of Claude Code, Anthropic | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sander Schulhoff CEO, InventoryQuant | 3 | 1 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Jeanne DeWitt Grosser COO, Vercel | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shreya Shankar Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brendan Foody Co-Founder and CEO, Mercor | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sachin Kansal Chief Product Officer, Uber | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mayur Kamat Founder, RetireOdds | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Keith Coleman VP of Product, X | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shaun Clowes Chief Product Officer, Confluent | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Archie Abrams VP of Product & Head of Growth, Shopify | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Benjamin Lauzier Co-founder & CEO, Nurra | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vlad Loktev Chief Creator Ecosystem Officer, Roblox | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Yien Head of Product, Stripe | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Phyl Terry Founder and CEO, Collaborative Gain | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brian Tolkin Head of Merchant Product, DoorDash | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Donna Lichaw Executive Coach & Author | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Heidi Helfand Consultant, Coach, and Author, Heidi Helfand Consulting | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ayo Omojola Founder & CEO, Substrate | 3 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Sri Batchu Chief Marketing Officer, The RealReal | 3 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Anuj Rathi Chief Business and Growth Officer, Cleartrip | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Inbal Shani Chief Product Officer, Twilio | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bill Carr Co-Founder, Working Backwards LLC | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Claire Butler Senior Director of Marketing, Figma | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hari Srinivasan Chief Product Officer, LinkedIn | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Melissa Tan Startup Advisor & Angel Investor | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Luc Levesque Growth Advisor, Shopify | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Henrickson SVP of Product, Rippling | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Carilu Dietrich Growth Advisor | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hila Qu Executive in Residence, Reforge | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Varun Parmar SVP & GM, Adobe | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Annie Pearl Corporate Vice President, Microsoft | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Naomi Ionita Board Partner, Menlo Ventures | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ravi Mehta Co-founder & CEO, Outpace | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sahil Mansuri Founder and CEO, Bravado | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Fishman Partner & Executive in Residence, Reforge | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Emily Kramer Co-Founder, MKT1 | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alexander Embirikos | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Maggie Crowley VP of Product, Toast | 3 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Jen Abel Co-Founder, JJELLYFISH | 3 | 1.7 | 3/10 | 3 |
| Cat Wu Head of Product, Anthropic | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sherwin Wu Head of Engineering, OpenAI Platform | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Grant Lee Co-founder, Gamma | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Robby Stein VP of Product, Google Search, Google | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nesrine Changuel Product Coach and Author | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt LeMay Co-founder and Partner, Sudden Compass | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bob Baxley SVP of Design & Experience, ThoughtSpot | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Karina Nguyen Former AI Researcher, OpenAI | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joe Hudson Founder & Master Executive Coach, Art of Accomplishment | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Weinstein Product Lead, Stripe | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David DeSanto Chief Executive Officer, Anaconda | 3 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Noam Lovinsky Chief Product Officer, Superhuman | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Judd Antin Founder & Executive Coach, Judd Antin Consulting | 3 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Denise Tilles CPO, Grocket | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Itamar Gilad Product Coach & Author, Itamar Gilad Consulting | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Julia Schottenstein COO, LangChain | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Marily Nika GenAI Product Lead, Google | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Hockenmaier Chief Strategy Officer, Faire | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tom Verrilli Chief Product Officer, Whatnot | 3 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Jenny Wen Head of Design, Anthropic | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gaurav Misra Co-founder & CEO, Captions | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Noam Segal Founder, UX Quests | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rachel Lockett Founder & Executive Coach, Lockett Coaching | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Maor Shlomo Founder & CEO, Base44 | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Hilary Gridley Former Head of Core Product, WHOOP | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mihika Kapoor Product Manager, Figma | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aman Khan Group Product Manager, Google Cloud | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Evan LaPointe Founder, CORE Sciences | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kenneth Berger Executive Coach and Founder, Kenneth Berger Coaching | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Maya Prohovnik VP of Podcast Product, Spotify | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tim Holley Chief Product Officer, MyFitnessPal | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Becker Founder & CEO, Thrive Digital | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Upasna Gautam Head of Product & AI Studio, American Journalism Project | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Keith Yandell Chief Business Officer, DoorDash | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zoelle Egner Founding Operator, Coalition Operators | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lauren Ipsen Talent Partner, Decibel | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sachin Monga Co-Founder, Porches | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Ambrosino Desktop Lead, Codex, OpenAI | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jessica Fain VP of Product, Webflow | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aishwarya Reganti (Ash) Founder & CEO, LevelUp Labs | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sebastian Barrios SVP of Engineering, Roblox | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rohini Pandey Co-Founder, Transparent Collective | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Elan Reshef Co-founder & CPO, Gong | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Lowenhar Founder & Managing Partner, Enjoy The Work | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Raiza Martin Co-Founder and CEO, Huxe | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tal Raviv Product Lead, Riverside | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tanguy Crusson Product Lead, Jira Product Discovery, Atlassian | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vikrama Dhiman Head of Product, Gojek | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Emilie Gerber Founder and CEO, Six Eastern | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Lauryn Isford Head of Product Growth, Notion | 2 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Austin Hay Co-Founder, Clarify | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shweta Shrivastava Senior Director of Product Management, Waymo | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nikita Miller SVP of Product Management, The Knot Worldwide | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Laura Schaffer VP of Growth, DigitalOcean | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jules Walter Product Lead, Google Gemini | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Barbra Gago Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Lattice | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adriel Frederick VP of Product Management, Reddit | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jason Shah Product Leader, Advisor, and Investor | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Grenier Founder & Applied AI Researcher, AIMatey | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yuriy Timen Full-Time Growth Advisor, Self-Employed / Various Companies (previously Global Head of Marketing and Growth, Grammarly) | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Krithika Shankarraman | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt McGinnis | 2 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Ian Silber Head of Product Design, OpenAI | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jacob Warwick Founder and CEO, ThinkWarwick | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Megan Cook Head of Product, Jira, Atlassian | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ada Chen Rekhi Co-Founder, Notejoy | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christine Itwaru VP of Product, Beamer | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vijay Iyengar Engineering Leader, Sierra | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Georgiana Laudi (Gia) Co-founder & CEO, Forget The Funnel | 2 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jackson Shuttleworth Group Product Manager, Duolingo | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mohika (Mihika) | 1 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dianne Penn Head of Product, Anthropic | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Fiona Fung Engineering Leader, Anthropic | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Amol Avasare Head of Growth, Anthropic | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kiriti Badam | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
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| JM Nickels Senior Director of Product Management, Uber | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Timothy Davis Performance Marketing Lead, Shopify | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
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