Michael is a long-time product leader, and repeat Reforge instructor. He was most recently VP of Product at Descript, and prior to that he built and led product & product design teams at Outside Interactive, Medium, Twitter and Six Apart. He was also Co-Founder and CEO of Talkshow Industries, a startup acquired by Medium. Michael was one of the web’s first bloggers, and has spent a good portion of his career building tools and platforms for creators to express themselves and connect with an audience.