Picnic, Product & People
A Friday picnic for people who build products 🌿
I recently met Patricia Klimek and Steven Henty, who are building something really interesting and spending time in the Bay Area talking to the people closest to product decisions.
They want to understand what’s really happening inside teams: what gets built, who influences those decisions, where alignment breaks, and what product leaders are seeing firsthand.
So instead of another conference room, panel, or formal networking event, we thought: why not bring a really good group of product people together for a picnic?
That’s the plan. 💛
A small, warm, semi-casual gathering of PMs, founders, product leaders, builders, operators, and leadership folks from across the Bay.
No stage. No slides. No forced networking.
Just honest product conversations, interesting people, and a chance to meet others you might actually want to stay in touch with.
We’re also excited to have WeAreDevelopers joining us as a community co-host, bringing more developers and AI builders into the mix.
What do you get out of it?
A community.
You get a community of people in the Bay Area who build. People you can learn from, exchange ideas with, collaborate with, grab coffee with later, or maybe even build something with someday.
Plot twist: this picnic now comes with a giveaway. 👀🦆
My friends at WeAreDevelopers, Josh Shulman and Clemens Bauer are bringing 10 Executive tickets to WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026: North America to give away at the picnic.
And no, we’re not doing a boring raffle. 😄 Think best picnic vibe, best question, unofficial DJ energy or simply the person having way too much fun. 😂
We’ll pick 10 people before we wrap!
Come for one conversation. Leave with a few people you’ll genuinely want to talk to again.
And because it’s Friday afternoon, there’ll be good food and drinks too. Park-legal kind. 😉🥤
Picnic mode 🧺
Bring a blanket or folding chair, and if you have a favorite card game, bring that too.
Come curious. Leave with a few more people in your corner.