Casey Winters

Growth and product leader. Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite. Previously led growth product at Pinterest (40M to 150M MAU) and was an early growth hire at GrubHub (Series A to IPO). Adviser to Airbnb, Canva, Tinder, Thumbtack, and others. Partner at Greylock. Writes at caseyaccidental.com.

Appearances

• Casey Winters on Growth and Product Leadership — Lenny’s Podcast, ~2022
• Casey Winters on Growth and Product Leadership 2.0 — Lenny’s Podcast, ~2023

Key positions

• Scalable acquisition is a requirement for product market fit, not a post-PMF concern.
• The PM career bottleneck is strategy: execution gets you to senior PM; strategy gets you to executive.
• Ops roles are a functional hack; their explicit goal should be to eliminate themselves.
• Perceived simplicity — advanced features hidden by default, discoverable on demand — is the right design goal for products serving users across a wide sophistication range.