Tim Holley has served as Head of Product for a number of leading consumer businesses including Etsy, SoulCycle, and now MyFitnessPal. In this conversation, he outlines how Etsy’s product org operationalizes their mantra to “keep commerce human”, designing for the two highly different but highly connected users of a marketplace, driving loyalty, and how shipping product as a public company looks different than earlier years. Interviewed by Runyon Partner Joseph Rizk.

Runyon Advisor Bailey Richardson has held executive roles at some of the most iconic technology companies including OpenAI, Instagram, Substack. As the current Head of Community at OpenAI, this discussion covers how to engender trust with users through product in an AI-driven world, OpenAI’s ambition for “scaled access to learning”, and more on ChatGPT’s unprecedented recent growth and scale. Interviewed by Runyon Partner Joseph Rizk.

As the creator of IBM Watson and now CEO of Elemental Cognition, Dr. David Ferrucci is a foremost expert in AI. In this timely conversation, moderator Steven Bertoni from Forbes magazine speaks with Dr. Ferrucci about the practical business implications of generative AI. The pre-recorded session was attended by esteemed business leaders from the industries of media, financial services, and insurance, among others, and includes audience questions on topics of Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI technology that can reason, regulatory hurdles, industry trepidation, and hybrid AI’s true potential for disruption.

As Chief Product Officer at Adobe, founder of Behance, and active angel investor, Scott Belsky shares his insights about developing products and ventures for the creative community. This conversation centers around the importance of the interface layer, feeling fully utilized at work, design as a competitive advantage, and lessons learned navigating the messy middle. Entrepreneurship comes with highs, lows, and the hairy in-between stage at the heart of Scott Belsky’s recent book, The Messy Middle. Interviewed by Runyon Partners Joseph Rizk and Anthony D’Avella.