Marissa "Reese" Gifford
Reese is a visionary executive who delivers the strategy and road maps that align enterprise goals, investments and capabilities with emerging market and customer needs for high-tech companies. With the proven ability to develop and communicate clear direction and goals across functions, she partners with engineering, business and external stakeholders to sustain focus and achieve milestones.
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May 5, 2026
S5E4: Authenticity Over 'Fake It': Lessons in Leadership and Life with Reese Gifford
At some point in your career, you have to decide who you’re going to be when things are uncomfortable. In this episode of Productly Speaking, returning guest Reese Gifford joins Karl Abbott to talk about authenticity and humility, not as polished leadership traits, but as choices made under pressure. The kind that cost you something in the moment and only make sense later. Reese reflects on entering tech in the late 90s as a young woman with no roadmap, learning early that preparation wasn...
Guest: Marissa "Reese" Gifford
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Aug. 5, 2025
S3E4: Open Source, Real Business: Lessons from Mozilla and Microsoft with Reese Gifford
What happens when the people building your product do not work for your company, and still feel deep ownership over every decision? In this episode, Karl talks with Reese Gifford about the lived reality of building products in open source, where community passion can be both your greatest strength and your hardest constraint. Reese shares what it was like stepping into Mozilla, falling in love with the mission, and then navigating the very human tension between keeping Firefox open and free whi...
Guest: Marissa "Reese" Gifford