Announcing The Fall 2021 Reforge EIRs

Most modern business knowledge is trapped in the heads of a small group of frontier leaders working on the fastest-growing companies. They go from operating role to operating role, not being able to take the time to pause and synthesize what they know to pass it on. As a result, unless you are one of the few lucky people to work closely with these frontier...

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The Growing Specialization of Product Management

Adam Fishman is an Executive in Residence at Reforge. He was the Chief Product and Growth Officer at Imperfect Foods, VP Product and Growth at Patreon, and Head of Growth at Lyft. ...

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The Momentum Canyon: From Traction to Growth

Brian BalfourBrian is the Founder and CEO of Reforge. Most recently, he was the VP of Growth @ HubSpot. Prior to HubSpot, he was an EIR @ Trinity Ventures and founder of Boundless Learning (acq by Valore) and Viximo (acq by Tapjoy). Thanks to Andy Johns (Ex-Wealthfront, Quora, FB, Twitter), Valerie Wagoner (EIR at Reforge, Ex-GoJek, Credit Karma) and...

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Tug of War: Balancing What’s Best for the User vs. Business

Erika Warren is a Reforge EIR on Retention + Engagement. She's the former VP of Product & Strategy at Wyzant, a tutoring marketplace supporting millions of students with their learning goals. Before Wyzant, she was a founding member of the Grubhub product team. ...

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How to Overcome the Technical Strategy Spiral

Harsh Sinha CTO of Wise, ex-PayPal and eBay, Reforge Partner. Bryan DoveCEO...

Aug 2021

Announcing 4 New Fall Programs

We're excited to announce that applications are now open for the Fall 21 Cohort Programs. In addition to our 10 existing programs across Growth, Product, and Marketing, we have also added four NEW programs that will serve product leaders, engineering leaders, and founders.A quick reminder that our cohorts are intensive 4-6 week part-time programs led...

Jul 2021

Grow Your Career Like You Grow A Product

Elena Verna is a Reforge EIR and Partner on the Experimentation and Monetization Deep Dive programs. Elena is a Growth Advisor to Miro, MongoDB, Maze, and others. She was formerly SVP for Product & Growth at Malwarebytes, and also an SVP at SurveyMonkey. She has a breadth of experience across freemium, self-serve, and free-trial subscription revenue...

Jul 2021

How To Choose, Test, and Scale Emerging Acquisition Channels

Adam Grenier is an EIR at Reforge. He was most recently VP of Product and Marketing at Lambda School and has spent 16 years running marketing and growth functions for companies including Uber, HotelTonight, and Zoosk, as well as digital media for clients like Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, JCPenney, and Budweiser. ...

Jun 2021

Tech debt is not a burden, it's a strategic lever for success

Matt Greenberg is the CTO at Reforge, former VP Engineering at Credit Karma, and co-creator of the Scaling Product Delivery program. ...

Jun 2021

Top Product and Growth Insights From Reforge's EIRs and OIR's

World class operators tend to move from one role to the next. Unless you are one of the lucky few to work directly with them, the knowledge and insights remains trapped in their heads. We view it as part of the Reforge mission to unlock these earned insights, and pass them to the next generation.This was part of the reason we created our EIR (Executive...

Jun 2021