The people behind August’s conversation
Our August 2025 Product Conversations webinar brought together Anand Subramani, Fareed Mosavat, Jenny Wanger and Shaun Clowes. This feature introduces the backgrounds behind their invitations and the complementary perspectives we wanted to bring to Pinnacle’s audience.
The line-up connected four parts of effective product work: a clear direction, a way to test ideas, an environment that supports execution and an experience that keeps customers engaged.
Anand Subramani
Product management educator and leader
The experience behind the invitation
Anand Subramani combines product leadership with product management education, including teaching at Stanford’s School of Engineering. His background includes product roles at Gusto, Dropbox and Zynga. His work connects product strategy with technical understanding and the practical decisions involved in delivering effective products.
Why we invited Anand
We invited Anand to connect strategic intent with delivery realities. His combination of teaching and product leadership made him relevant to an audience seeking clearer priorities, stronger technical conversations and a more grounded approach to product decisions.
How can product managers build enough technical understanding to make better strategic choices with their teams?
Fareed Mosavat
Product growth and experimentation expert
The experience behind the invitation
Fareed Mosavat’s background includes growth-focused product work at Slack and product and growth leadership at Instacart and Zynga. His teaching examines experimentation and product-led growth across consumer and self-service businesses. His perspective connects growth ambitions with the discipline of testing assumptions and learning from evidence.
Why we invited Fareed
We invited Fareed to bring an experimentation lens to the edition. His experience made him a relevant voice on how teams choose what to test, assess the quality of their evidence and connect experiments with a coherent growth strategy.
How do you distinguish an experiment that produces useful learning from one that simply produces a result?
Jenny Wanger
Product operations expert
The experience behind the invitation
Jenny Wanger helps product teams improve how they work through product operations, consulting and coaching. Her writing examines the systems, processes and practices that support effective teams. Her perspective looks beyond individual productivity to the environment in which product decisions, collaboration and execution happen.
Why we invited Jenny
We invited Jenny because product strategy needs an operating environment that supports it. Her perspective connected the discussion with clearer ways of organising work, sharing information and reducing friction between people and teams.
Which operating practice would help your team make better decisions without adding unnecessary process?
Shaun Clowes
Product growth and retention expert
The experience behind the invitation
Shaun Clowes has led product and growth work, including serving as Head of Growth at Atlassian. He contributes to teaching on retention and engagement, bringing a perspective on how people begin using a product, find value and continue returning. His work helps connect growth with the quality of the ongoing customer experience.
Why we invited Shaun
We invited Shaun to complete the growth picture beyond acquisition. His background made him relevant to an audience looking to understand activation, sustained engagement and the role of retention in building a stronger product business.
What behaviour shows that customers have found lasting value, rather than merely tried the product once?
Together, these four perspectives connected product direction with learning, team operations and continuing customer value. That combination explains why we invited the speakers to join our community.