Melissa Perri is a product management authority, author, Harvard Business School lecturer, and founder of Produx Labs. Best known for 'Escaping the Build Trap' (O'Reilly, 2018), she has helped reshape how companies think about product strategy - moving organizations from output-obsessed feature factories to outcome-driven, customer-centric teams. Through her consultancy, online school, CPO Accelerator, and Product Thinking podcast, she has trained thousands of product leaders worldwide and advised companies from Fortune 500s to VC-backed scale-ups.
John Cutler is a product thinker, writer, and systems overthinker best known for The Beautiful Mess newsletter (59,000+ subscribers) and the viral concept of the 'feature factory.' A college dropout turned touring musician turned video game creator turned product executive, he has written nearly 1,000 pieces on the messy intersection of product, people, and organizational design. He co-authored Amplitude's North Star Playbook, spent years as a product evangelist coaching teams worldwide, and is now Head of Product at Dotwork — a platform for building product operating systems.