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Josh O'Connor and the Long Work of Making ClickUp Fit in a Pocket
Before ClickUp could travel in a pocket, someone had to decide what the pocket could live without. O'Connor's public trail is a decade-long lesson in mobile engineering: make the sprawling useful, make the complicated feel obvious, then keep shipping.
Alex Yurkowski Built the Tool His Team Could Not Find
The ClickUp co-founder learned inside IBM, built outside convention, and turned an internal fix into a global workplace platform. His latest project brings the lessons back to Notre Dame students, one weekly conversation at a time.
Codegen Left the IDE and Moved Into the Meeting
The coding agent that once lived on its own now works inside ClickUp, turning task context into pull requests. For engineering teams, that makes Codegen less of a clever coder and more of an accountable colleague - with enterprise paperwork attached.
Asana Bet On The Rules Monday Doesn't Want To Build
While Monday.com sells colorful boards, Asana wagered its enterprise future on Workflow Builder - a rules engine for the approval chains that cross departments. Here is why the boring bet keeps working.
The Spreadsheet That Got a Security Clearance
Smartsheet and ClickUp sell competing visions of how work gets organized. Their sharpest divide is not a feature toggle but a gate: the federal authorizations that decide who can compete for sensitive government work.
The Best Project Manager Is the One That Closes Your Tabs
ClickUp, monday.com, and Wrike all promise one place to run work. The revealing difference is how many product boundaries a team crosses between an idea, a conversation, and an assigned task.
Your Team Doesn't Need More Project Management Software
Trello, Asana, monday.com and ClickUp all promise order. The useful question is how much structure your team can live with before the system becomes the work.
The Agile Planning Tax Jira Rivals Refuse to Charge
Jira includes a backlog and basic timeline for everyone, but reserves cross-team planning for Premium. Linear, Shortcut and ClickUp make the everyday rituals of agile planning available much lower in the pricing stack.
Arsham Memarzadeh
Arsham Memarzadeh is a General Partner at Meritech Capital in Palo Alto, where he leads enterprise software and infrastructure growth investments. He arrived in early 2025 after six years at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he helped lead the growth practice and backed Wiz, Chainguard, Verkada, ClickUp, Axonius, Personio, Enable, Payhawk, and Spiff.