10 Marketplace Product Leaders To Follow

10 Marketplace Product Leaders To Follow

Blog Post
September 21, 2021


This blog post features marketplace product leaders that share about product management. By following these product leaders, you can learn from their experience and insights they often share about leading product at top marketplaces like Airbnb, Eventbrite, Grubhub, Turo, Outdoorsy, and more. We recommend following and getting to know these product leaders:

Casey Winters

Casey Winters is currently the Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite. Casey is a prolific product & growth leader in the world of marketplaces and has previously worked with & advised marketplaces like Airbnb, Hipcamp, Ritual, Thumbtack, Reddit, Pinterest, Grubhub, and more. Casey was also a past Everything Marketplaces group chat guest and you can see the recording of his group chat here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn, website

Lenny Rachitsky

Lenny Rachitsky was previously product & growth at Airbnb for 7+ years. Lenny now writes Lenny's Newsletter, which is one of the most insightful weekly newsletters on product, growth, and marketplaces. He also advises & invests in startups. Lenny was also a past Everything Marketplaces group chat guest and you can see the recording of his group chat here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn, website

Ravi Mehta

Ravi Mehta was previously the Chief Product Officer at Tinder. Prior to Tinder, Ravi was also a product leader at Facebook and Tripadvisor. He's also an EIR at Reforge and a top mind when it comes to marketplace & product leadership. Ravi was also a past Everything Marketplaces group chat guest and you can see the recording of his group chat here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn, website

Adam Fishman

Adam Fishman was recently the Chief Product & Growth Officer at Imperfect Foods. Prior to Imperfect Foods, Adam was the VP of Growth at Patreon, then Head of Growth at Lyft. Adam is a top mind when it comes to marketplace product & growth. He's also an EIR at Reforge. Adam was a past Everything Marketplaces group chat guest and you can see the recording of his group chat here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn

Rohan Katyal

Rohan Katyal is a product leader that previously built Yelp’s experimentation program and went on to lead Yelp's Request-A-Quote Marketplace. He's currently leading product for small businesses at Facebook. Rohan was also a past Everything Marketplaces group chat guest and you can see the recording of his group chat here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn, website

Gilad Horev

Gilad Horev is currently the VP of Product at Eventbrite. Gilad is a top mind when it comes to product and has written some incredibly insightful posts about marketplace payments & business models specifically. Gilad was a past Everything Marketplaces group chat guest and you can see the recording of his group chat here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn, website

Tom Wang

Tom Wang is currently the Chief Product Officer at Turo, which is the world's largest peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace. Tom is a seasoned executive that has extensive experience in product, leadership, and scaling teams at marketplaces. Tom was a past Everything Marketplaces group chat guest and you can see the recording of his group chat here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn

Andrew Cunningham

Andrew Cunningham is currently the Vice President of Product at Mothership. Prior to Mothership, Andrew led product at Outdoorsy and VRBO. Andrew has extensive experience in product, leadership, and team building at growth stage marketplaces. Andrew was a past Everything Marketplaces group chat guest and you can see the recording of his group chat here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn

Paul Ghio

Paul Ghio is currently the Director of Product at Yelp. Prior to Yelp, Paul led product at Autodesk, Creative Market, & HomeAdvsior, so has some really incredible & diverse marketplace experience. Paul was a past Everything Marketplaces group chat guest and you can see the recording of his group chat here.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn

Vivek Kumar

Vivek Kumar is currently the Vice President of Product at PropertyGuru. Vivek has extensive experience leading product, scaling new markets, and team building. He particularly focuses on low frequency marketplaces and how to overcome some of the challenges marketplaces face with this.

Profiles to follow & more: Twitter, LinkedIn


Many of the product leaders mentioned above have been incredibly generous in contributing their time to share more about their experience, insights, and learnings with the Everything Marketplaces community. We'd like to give a huge thanks to them for doing so and also actively sharing content that they create for the marketplace community at large. There are also other marketplace product leaders that are beneficial to follow, so if you feel like we left anyone off of this list, please reach out and let us know.

Want to learn more about product for marketplaces? We've curated some of the best blog posts, essays, podcasts, and group chats about product for marketplaces that you can see here. You can also join the product space in our community where many of the leaders mentioned above are talking about product with the group here.