@arcktip
Architect of Products. Builder of Teams. Explorer of Cities.
From blueprints to billion-user platforms — designing what moves us forward.
Who I Am
I'm Patrick — a product executive, entrepreneur, artist, and writer. I trained as an architect at Drexel, an urban planner at Columbia, and earned an Executive MBA from Quantic with a specialization in strategy and finance. Along the way I pursued graduate work in Science, Technology & Society (STS) — spending an entire summer researching how the advent of television transformed the design of the American home and the social dynamics of family life. That study taught me something I carry into every product I build: technology doesn't just exist in spaces, it fundamentally redefines them.
I've helped scale Social Bicycles (which became JUMP, later acquired by Uber), launched Superpedestrian's novel Copenhagen Wheel, led enterprise product and design at Udacity, built commerce experiences at Google that were used by millions of merchants. Now, I'm building ads growth products at Meta. Along the way I co-founded RayHoff, served as a Teaching Fellow at Singularity University, and mentored hundreds of PMs through programs like The Product Mentor.
When I'm not shipping products, I'm painting, backpacking, or exploring the dense urban fabric of cities like New York and Shanghai. I believe the best products, like the best cities, emerge from the intersection of structure and serendipity.
B.Arch — Drexel University
STS Studies — Drexel University
M.S. Urban Planning — Columbia
EMBA, Strategy & Finance — Quantic
"Patrick was absolutely tireless in driving the success of the team's projects forward."
— Colleague at Udacity"If you have the opportunity to work with Patrick in any capacity you should do so without hesitation."
— Former Direct Report"Not thinking ahead deeply is like playing Tetris. Use a systems approach."
— @arcktip"Software companies should learn from hardware: price to maximize volume regardless of initial cost."
— @arcktip"Remember to keep a growth mindset. Embrace the opportunity to learn and grow."
— @arcktip"The last thing you need is another person telling you what to build. I help you focus on execution."
— @arcktip"Patrick was absolutely tireless in driving the success of the team's projects forward."
— Colleague at Udacity"If you have the opportunity to work with Patrick in any capacity you should do so without hesitation."
— Former Direct Report"Not thinking ahead deeply is like playing Tetris. Use a systems approach."
— @arcktip"Software companies should learn from hardware: price to maximize volume regardless of initial cost."
— @arcktip"Remember to keep a growth mindset. Embrace the opportunity to learn and grow."
— @arcktip"The last thing you need is another person telling you what to build. I help you focus on execution."
— @arcktipThe Path
Beyond the Screen
Writing
Essays and books on product, cities, technology, and the spaces in between.
Whether you're the first PM or one of hundreds, the way you structure your teams determines your ceiling. A framework for organizational design drawn from years of scaling product teams from startup to enterprise.
Read essay →America's largest cooperative housing complex was built on a failed amusement park, attacked by architects, and held together by its residents. The story of what ambitious social engineering can — and can't — accomplish.
Read essay →Polling is simultaneously the most rigorous instrument ever devised for reading a mass public and a recurring object of professional crisis. An essay weighing the methodological and normative case for and against it.
Read essay →A paper on disclosure, democratic epistemology, and the collapse of "Election Night" — from the 1980 West Coast controversy through the 2004 Kerry exit-poll leak to the 2026 Los Angeles mayoral primary.
Read essay →The question written on the board in the first session and left there for fifteen weeks: how do technologies reshape the spaces we inhabit? An introduction to the course and the method behind it.
Read essay →Whoop, Oura, and continuous glucose monitors promise self-knowledge through data. An essay on what these devices actually validate against clinical gold standards, and what happens once the score becomes the goal.
Read essay →From John Snow's cholera map to Sidewalk Labs' failed Toronto waterfront, cities have always tried to see themselves through instruments. An essay on the case for urban sensing and the consent problem that sank its most ambitious attempt.
Read essay →Contact tracing, insurance-linked wearables, and congestion pricing all recruit a personal device into civic measurement — three cases where the line between measuring a person and measuring a city has already dissolved.
Read essay →The original short-form edition — a concise field guide for students testing whether product management fits them.
Read the book →The expanded edition — 100+ pages going deep on what PMs actually do, the traits that survive AI, how to think like a PM, and six hands-on exercises to find out if you'd like the work.
Read the book →Teaching
Four seminars for dual-listed undergraduate and graduate audiences — drawing on fifteen years building products at Social Bicycles, JUMP, Google, and Meta. Each course ships with a session-by-session reading list, instructor guide, and practitioner perspective.
How do technologies reshape the spaces we inhabit? A 15-week seminar tracing the television, the automobile, the smartphone, and ambient AI through the built environment using STS frameworks.
View course →Cities as complex systems; products as interventions. A seminar for planners, MBAs, and engineers building technology for urban environments. Includes a half-day field session.
View course →Why hardware is different. A skills-first course covering BOM modeling, firmware strategy, supply chain, and the full arc of a physical-digital product lifecycle.
View course →Organizations are products. A seminar applying Conway's Law, the Rule of Seven, and platform team theory to real product org design — from startups to enterprise to the agentic era.
View course →Mentorship & Speaking
As a long-time mentor with The Product Mentor program, I guided dozens of PMs and delivered talks on product organization, career growth, and the science of execution.
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