John Milinovich
- Led Generative AI Product at Canva, where I helped build Magic Studio (Time's Best Inventions 2024) and Canva AI
- Previously: founded URX (acquired by Pinterest), led discovery at Clubhouse, co-founded Aesthetic
- Early career at Google and Yahoo
- UCLA architecture — got hooked on code after seeing Casey Reas demo Processing.js
- Interested in AI-human collaboration, product craft, and building things
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- Design isn't verifiable
- Canva is one percent of the way there
- The agentic web
- 2026: the year of autonomous computing
- Today is full of possibilities
- Neighbors, not nodes
- Managing in the age of agentic workforces
- Just do things
- Creative compression
- "Why did people need to remember things?"
- The great acceleration
- World sims, o3 and multi-agent frameworks
- 2025 will be the year of voice AI
- The AI feature trap
- The art of going with the flow
- Developing product sense
- Thoughts to docs
- The GenAI application layer
- The courage to remove
- The future of generative interfaces
- The speciation of LLM products
- The AI-enabled entrepreneur
- Organizational OODA loops
- 2024 is the year of multimodal AI
- Dangerously good product managers
- 2023 is the year of natural language interfaces
- On chain conglomerates
- The crypto mullet: web2 in the front, web3 in the back
- 5 web3 predictions for 2022
- How startups can avoid flawed decision making
- Stories are the native format of the mobile era
- How to use Pinterest for marketing
- Did social media kill the open web?
- The golden era of content remixing
- A founder's guide to design
- URX retro: business model-vision fit
- How to ace your YC interview
- 7 lessons learned growing from 4 to 20 people
- URX's YC story
- People first, ideas second
- Convertible notes explained in 192 words
- 1 year, 11 months at Google University
- Quantified me
- The power of passion
- A Silicon Valley love story