PhilGetzen

I'm a product leader and hands-on builder. I spent 12 years in product leadership at Disney and ESPN, Twitter, and Microsoft. Today, I build my own consumer, AI, and data products while advising teams on product strategy.

At ESPN, I founded the Video Experiences team and later led five product managers responsible for video across mobile, web, and connected TVs, supporting more than 70,000 live events each year. From 2019 to 2025, we grew video minutes 92% and monthly active users 75%. At Twitter, I shipped a unified video player serving more than 100 million people each day, helped lead the unification of video playback across Twitter, Vine, and Periscope, and contributed live-video infrastructure for Thursday Night Football. At Microsoft, I designed and shipped enterprise cloud solutions through Intune for Fortune 500 clients.

I also co-founded Gique, a nonprofit that delivered STEAM education through the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester, and TempoRun, an app that matched music to a runner's pace. That early-stage work continues today through products including BookOwl, Grove, and Metric Magic.

I believe the best technology disappears. A reader should focus on the book, a fan on the game, and a team on the decision in front of them, not the software underneath. When you stop noticing the tool, that's when it's working.