A conversation about what changes when product leadership moves from founder-led, VC-backed companies into private equity-owned businesses with tighter timelines, harder commercial expectations and a different idea of what success looks like. Along the way, Nick Ken explains why building connected products for Winmau’s century-old darts business means respecting the sport’s tactile traditions while trying to set a new standard for digital experience.

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger weighs how AI is speeding software development while making product judgment, deletion and durability more important. He and Dan Shipper discuss agent-native design, lean teams and the challenge of building tools that feel flexible without becoming fragile.

Every’s team introduces Proof, a free and open-source collaborative editor built for humans and AI agents to draft, comment, revise and trace the origins of text together. The conversation weighs provenance, creative ownership and the emerging divide between writing meant to be read and writing meant to be processed by machines.