Nickey Skarstad
VP Product at Duolingo. Previously Director of Product at Airbnb (leading the host product and long-term stays), product roles at Etsy and Wing, and an earlier stint at Shopify. Known for the vision-to-execution pyramid — a framework that sequences first principles, strategy, roadmap, and execution to ensure teams align before touching a design tool. Developed a quality metrics model grounded in customer feedback rather than internal proxies. Proponent of the one-way/two-way door distinction as a decision-making discipline applied before committing to a course of action, not after.