John Milinovich

Leading Generative AI Product at Canva, where I helped build Magic Studio (Time's Best Inventions 2024)
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

Writing

The Agentic Web 31 Jan 2026

2026: The Year of Autonomous Computing 22 Dec 2025

Today is Full of Possibilities 01 Dec 2025

Neighbors, Not Nodes 21 Nov 2025

Managing in the Age of Agentic Workforces 30 Jul 2025

Just do things 25 Apr 2025

Creative compression 31 Mar 2025

"Why did people need to remember things?" 20 Feb 2025

Glass minds 31 Jan 2025

The great acceleration 22 Jan 2025

Simulating reality 22 Dec 2024

2025: the year of voice AI 18 Dec 2024

The AI feature trap 03 Nov 2024

The art of bending 05 Oct 2024

Product sense 25 Sep 2024

Thoughts to docs 25 Sep 2024

The real AI goldrush 18 Sep 2024

The courage to remove 12 Jul 2024

The future of generative interfaces 03 Jul 2024

The speciation of LLM products 01 Jul 2024

The AI-enabled entrepreneur 20 Apr 2024

Organizational OODA Loops 23 Feb 2024

2024: the year of multimodal AI 19 Dec 2023

Dangerously good product managers 01 Mar 2023

2023: the year of natural language interfaces 09 Jan 2023

On Chain Conglomerates 10 Jul 2022

The crypto mullet: web2 in front, web3 in back 11 Jun 2022

2022: web3 predictions 02 Jan 2022

The courage to course correct 02 Jan 2021

Pinterest for marketing 10 Dec 2020

Web in chains 18 Nov 2020

Content alchemy 02 May 2020

A founder's guide to design 28 Jan 2020

URX retro: business model-vision fit 02 May 2017

How to ace your YC interview 15 Apr 2016

Small is fast 24 May 2015

URX's YC story 17 Oct 2013

1 year, 11 months at Google University 31 Jan 2013