product-operations
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Dotwork
Dotwork is an AI-native strategy, portfolio, and product operations platform that connects goals, work, finance, and outcomes so enterprise leaders can align teams and steer decisions with confidence. Founded by Steve Elliott - who previously built AgileCraft and sold it to Atlassian, where it became Jira Align - the Georgetown, Texas company uses knowledge graphs, a no-code organizational ontology, and AI agents to turn strategy that is usually buried in slide decks and spreadsheets into a living, connected operating model. Dotwork raised a $12M Series A and counts product and portfolio leaders at companies like NVIDIA, GitHub, and SolarWinds among its early users.
Dragonboat
Dragonboat is a product portfolio management platform that helps product leaders and their teams connect strategy to execution - linking OKRs and investments to roadmaps, delivery, and outcomes. Founded in 2018 by Becky Flint and based in Santa Clara, California, it now positions itself as a 'Product Portfolio OS for agentic enterprises,' pairing a semantic data layer across tools like Jira, Salesforce, and Zendesk with AI agents and apps for strategy, intake, roadmapping, planning, and delivery. The company raised a $12M Series A led by Insight Partners in December 2021 and is used by thousands of product teams worldwide.
Winston Lin
Winston Lin is a Program Manager in the Office of the CEO at Juniper Square, the San Francisco fintech that builds investment management software for private markets. Based in Austin, Texas, he sits at the operational center of a Series D company with roughly 950 employees, working close to the chief executive on the business operations and systems that keep a fast-scaling SaaS company running. Before fintech he spent his career in education technology, rising to Senior Director of Data Engineering at the charter-school network Achievement First. He holds a BA from Columbia University.
Shelby Rhodes
Shelby Rhodes is the Senior Director of Product Operations and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Strava, the world's leading fitness social network with 180+ million athletes across 190+ countries. She brings 11+ years of experience from Google and YouTube, where she oversaw products used by billions of people including YouTube Shorts, Gaming, Live, and Comments. Now at Strava during one of its most pivotal chapters - a confidential IPO filing and a surge past $500M in annual revenue - she sits at the intersection of product strategy and executive leadership at a company betting that movement beats doomscrolling.