Fireside Chat with Jonathan Arena - Crafting a Company

​How do you go from crafting products to crafting a company?

​Join us at Lightfield for a fireside chat with Jonathan Arena, co-founder of New Generation, hosted by our cofounder Henri Liriani.

​We’ll get into understanding real problems, shaping the user journey from first impression to customer success, getting comfortable with sales and GTM as a designer-founder, and how building product teams is evolving in 2025 as roles and workflows collapse.

​Jonathan’s career has been defined by creating magical, deeply crafted consumer experiences. Before starting New Generation, he:

• ​Led Consumer Product Design at Patreon, owning end-to-end responsibility for the new mobile app, community product, creator tools, content consumption experience, web surfaces, and the design system

• ​Designed foundational photo and community experiences at Facebook used by billions of people

• ​Led the design team for Portal, Facebook’s first AI hardware product, building a new OS from the ground up

• ​Managed design teams at Cruise, shaping early rider experience for autonomous vehicles and the company’s AI tooling suite

​Come by if you're a designer, product builder, or founder who wants to dive into how great products - and great product companies - get crafted.

​Event Schedule:

• ​6:00–6:15pm | Arrival, light bites

• ​6:15–6:20pm | Welcome

• ​6:20–7:00pm | Fireside chat with Jonathan Arena

• ​7:00–7:30pm | Q&A

• ​7:30–8:00pm | Networking

​Hosted by:

​​Lightfield: An AI-native CRM that remembers everything, then acts on it. It automatically captures and organizes every customer conversation across email, meetings, and notes, creating your team’s collective customer memory. Backed by Greylock, Lightspeed, and Coatue, Lightfield helps founders learn from every interaction and move faster toward repeatable growth.