Bring outstanding products to life.

Great products are incredibly rare. They require great teams—even more rare—which need thoughtful, experienced, dedicated leadership. It’s exciting, and exhausting, and challenging.

It’s what I do.

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Hi, I’m Dave. I’ve been building digital products for 25 years: at giants like Google, tiny startups I’ve co-founded, and everything in between. I’m a founder, executive, PM, designer, engineer, and whatever else needs doing in a pinch. My passion: building teams with the energy, drive, and collaboration necessary to bring outstanding products to life. Learn more →

Dave’s collaborative approach fosters a culture of innovation and creativity, resulting in cohesive and high-performing teams. He consistently leads by example and is always willing to mentor and nurture talent.
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Andra M.
VP Product, Craft
Dave is an exceptional leader with an innate sense of empathy that he uses to foster a collaborative environment. The feedback from team members was overwhelmingly positive, and there is a unanimous desire to continue collaborating with him.
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Cassandra R.
VP People, Stytch
Dave is a highly-experienced product executive who can up-level your team and product strategy. He understands how EPD orgs work together and how team dynamics influence business outcomes.
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Austin S.
VP People, Craft
Dave is both a leader and a peer, and I’ve appreciated the thoughtfulness he applies to our working relationship. He leads by example, and I’ve learned just as much from seeing how he thinks about his own work as from the feedback and advice he’s given me.
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Kelly L.
Product Design, Stytch
Dave’s collaborative approach fosters a culture of innovation and creativity, resulting in cohesive and high-performing teams. He consistently leads by example and is always willing to mentor and nurture talent.
Photo of Andra
Andra M.
VP Product, Craft
Dave is an exceptional leader with an innate sense of empathy that he uses to foster a collaborative environment. The feedback from team members was overwhelmingly positive, and there is a unanimous desire to continue collaborating with him.
Photo of Andra
Cassandra R.
VP People, Stytch
Dave is a highly-experienced product executive who can up-level your team and product strategy. He understands how EPD orgs work together and how team dynamics influence business outcomes.
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Austin S.
VP People, Craft
Dave is both a leader and a peer, and I’ve appreciated the thoughtfulness he applies to our working relationship. He leads by example, and I’ve learned just as much from seeing how he thinks about his own work as from the feedback and advice he’s given me.
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Kelly L.
Product Design, Stytch

Top Articles

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Founder Mode Embodies the Tech Leadership Crisis

Paul Graham's Founder Mode worsens our leadership crisis by diminishing everyone who isn’t a founder, and by denying founders the resources they need to grow and the expertise of the people they hire.

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Do We Collaborate Too Much?

Most of what we call collaboration isn’t actually collaboration at all. And sometimes it’s organizational dysfunction and inefficiency disguised as collaboration.

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Miter is Shutting Down

We founded Miter with a simple observation: everybody hates meetings. In two years we learned so much...and disproved our core hypothesis.

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How Did Figma Succeed? A Brief History

There are plenty of theories explaining Figma's success. Here's mine, rooted in a historical context many have ignored.

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The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload

Everyone hates meetings. Everyone thinks they know how to fix them. Mostly, everyone is wrong.

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What is Product Quality? A Practical Definition

“Let’s build a low-quality product,” said nobody ever. Yet, somehow, the world is full of them. How do we change that? How do we even talk about it productively?

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