Product Manager in the Making

The House
of Strategy

A creative, entrepreneurial mind learning to build products the right way — so people get a few more moments of joy out of their everyday experiences.

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The Lab

Concepts I've prototyped, researched, or am still building out.

Nathan Grzesiek — a friendly portrait in a black shirt against a green, sunlit background.
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The Curator's
Philosophy

For the past two years I've been building restaurant technology at Adora, working directly with clients, turning conversations into user stories and Figma prototypes, and wearing both the product and design hats.

Before that, I was in San Francisco, immersed in the startup ecosystem. I ran my own startup, worked at a venture capital firm running the university program and partnerships, reviewed thousands of startups, and trained hundreds of students to become the next generation of founders and investors. I went through Co.Lab's product management program to learn the craft properly, and I haven't really stopped learning since. A new course or book is basically a permanent hobby at this point.

I've always had a creative, entrepreneurial mind. What I'm chasing now is the discipline to match it: good taste paired with real process, in service of building things that actually make people's lives a little better.

I don't have years of formal PM titles yet, but I'm an extremely fast learner and about as coachable as they come. Give me a real problem and a real team, and I'll figure out the rest quickly.

Outside of work: Midwest roots, new dad as of July 2026, a lifelong baseball fan, faith-driven, and a certified foodie and coffee snob who never turns down a reason to travel.

How the House is Built

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    Blueprint & Discovery

    Talk to real users and stakeholders before writing a single ticket. I map the actual problem — not the first solution someone hands me — the same way I ran discovery interviews and a market survey for Pathloom before ever touching a feature list.

  2. 02

    The Foundation

    Turn discovery into user stories and interactive Figma prototypes, so engineers and clients can react to something concrete before a single line of code gets written.

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    Framing & Build

    Write and groom the tickets, sit inside the sprint, unblock engineering day to day, and keep the client in the loop through every phase — this is the part most PM titles skip past, and it's where I actually live at Adora.

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    Move-in Day

    Ship in phases, watch what real users actually do once it's live, and feed that back into the next cycle instead of chasing whatever idea is loudest that week.

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