Thought Leaders
The people below are worth learning from. The first table is product management proper. The two after it are the accounts worth following while you build, and the ones worth following to understand where the field is heading.
Follow fewer accounts than you think. A short feed you actually read is more useful than a long one you scroll past.
One thing to know before you build a feed: application architecture has almost no social media presence. Nobody posts in depth about schema design, deploys, or CI. For that part of the work, feeds will not help you and the docs and books in Builder Resources in the Product Management book are where to learn it.
Product management
| Category | Name | Description | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundations & Methodology | Marty Cagan | Founder of SVPG, author of INSPIRED, EMPOWERED, and TRANSFORMED. How strong product teams operate | Website • LinkedIn |
| Dan Olsen | Author of The Lean Product Playbook, consultant helping companies build products customers love. Lean product and product-market fit | Website • LinkedIn • X | |
| Teresa Torres | Product discovery coach, author of Continuous Discovery Habits, creator of the Opportunity Solution Tree framework | Website • LinkedIn • X • Substack | |
| Melissa Perri | CEO of Produx Labs, author of Escaping the Build Trap, product strategy expert | X | |
| Strategy | Gibson Biddle | Former VP Product at Netflix, creator of the DHM model (Delight customers in Hard-to-copy, Margin-enhancing ways) | Website • LinkedIn • X • Medium |
| Shreyas Doshi | Former product leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google, and Yahoo. Known for frameworks like the LNO System | Website • LinkedIn | |
| Paul Graham | Co-founder of Y Combinator. The essays more than the account. Written for founders building their own thing | Essays • X | |
| Growth & Scaling | Brian Balfour | Founder/CEO of Reforge, former VP Growth at HubSpot, venture partner at Long Journey Ventures | Website • LinkedIn • X • Reforge |
| Casey Winters | Growth advisor, former CPO at Eventbrite, led growth at Pinterest and Grubhub, partner at Reforge | Blog • LinkedIn • X | |
| Design & Leadership | Julie Zhuo | Former VP Product Design at Facebook, author of The Making of a Manager, co-founder of Sundial | Website • LinkedIn • X • Substack • Medium |
| Education & Community | Lenny Rachitsky | Former Airbnb PM, author of Lenny’s Newsletter, one of the most popular product management publications. Researched product, growth, and career advice | Substack • X |
| Aakash Gupta | Product leader and educator sharing frameworks for product growth and strategy | LinkedIn • X • YouTube | |
| Paweł Huryn | Product leader behind The Product Compass, sharing practical PM frameworks and insights | ||
| Colin Matthews | Product leader focused on AI product management and modern PM practices |
Who to follow while you build
The most useful accounts for building products with AI agents.
| Account | Why |
|---|---|
| @ClaudeDevs | Official Anthropic developer updates. Where Claude Code, API, and MCP changes get announced first |
| @bcherny Boris Cherny | Head of Claude Code. Agents, tooling, engineering workflow |
| @simonw Simon Willison | Creator of Datasette, co-creator of Django. Near-daily practical posts. His blog is the better resource, organized by tag |
| @steipete Peter Steinberger | Built and sold PSPDFKit, now works on agents full time. Posts about advanced multi-agent setups. Not a first read |
| @emollick Ethan Mollick | Wharton. Structured experiments on what AI is actually good and bad at. One Useful Thing is the better subscription |
| Every: @danshipper, @kieranklaassen, @every | They ship AI products in public, Cora and Spiral among them, then write up what happened. Kieran on compound engineering is the most specific writing anywhere on agentic workflow |
| @HamelHusain Hamel Husain and @sh_reya Shreya Shankar | The two people who turned evals into a teachable subject. Their free course is a good place to start on evals |
| @chipro Chip Huyen | Wrote AI Engineering. Production systems, cost and latency tradeoffs |
| @swyx | Links people and ideas across AI engineering, through Latent Space |
| @amanrsanger Aman Sanger | Cursor founder. The one framework account that bears directly on this stack |
| @alexalbert__ Alex Albert | Anthropic, on prompting and agent behavior. The practice counterpart to @ClaudeDevs announcements |
Where the field is going
Useful for perspective, not for shipping this week.
| Name | Handle | Who they are |
|---|---|---|
| Sam Altman | @sama | CEO, OpenAI |
| Dario Amodei | @darioamodei | CEO, Anthropic |
| Demis Hassabis | @demishassabis | CEO, Google DeepMind |
| Greg Brockman | @gdb | Co-founder, OpenAI |
| Jensen Huang | @JensenHuang | CEO, NVIDIA. The compute side of AI |
| Marc Andreessen | @pmarca | Co-founder of a16z, creator of Netscape. Investment and long-term views. Also writes at the a16z blog |
| Aaron Levie | @levie | Co-founder and CEO of Box. Enterprise cloud and AI. Also on LinkedIn |
| Andrej Karpathy | @karpathy | Researcher and educator. The clearest explainer of how LLMs work |
| Andrew Ng | @AndrewYNg | Founder of DeepLearning.AI. Applied ML and career advice |
| Yann LeCun | @ylecun | Deep learning pioneer, NYU. Strong and useful dissenting opinions |
| Fei-Fei Li | @drfeifei | Stanford HAI. Created ImageNet. Human-centered AI |
| Sebastian Raschka | @rasbt | Author and educator on LLM implementation |
| Lex Fridman | @lexfridman | Long-form interviews with AI researchers and founders |
| Logan Kilpatrick | @OfficialLoganK | AI developer ecosystem and platform |
| Kai-Fu Lee | @kaifulee | Investor and author. Global and China AI perspective |