Profile banner
Mike Ottavi-Brannon

Mike Ottavi-Brannon

Co‑founder & product leader (analytics → sales AI) — ex‑Amplitude

mob
Austin, Texas
Joined August 2025
Favicon imagelinkedin.com
Favicon imageamplitude.com
Favicon imagetwitter.com
Favicon imageyoutube.com

Network

3.3K connections
📈
GTM Sales Leaders
💡
Startup Founders CTOs
🤖
AI/ML Product Eng
💰
Venture Capital Advisors
📊
Amplitude Alumni
⚙️
...

Summary

Experienced product leader focused on analytics products: Mike spent six years at Amplitude building and running core analytics product areas (from PM → Senior → Principal → Group PM), authored technical/product posts on analytics best practices, and led cross‑functional teams to ship analytics features used by product orgs. amplitude+1
Founder and early‑stage operator who builds company‑level product processes: He co‑founded Useful (AI for CRM and forecasting) in 2022 and previously co‑founded Harvst (medical cannabis delivery), showing repeated founder/operator experience and a focus on productizing customer conversations and operational workflows. theorg+1
Cross‑domain product experience from consumer mobile games to B2B analytics and sales AI: Early PM roles at Kabam and Blue Shell Games gave him live‑ops, monetization and user‑growth experience, which he later applied to B2B product problems at Amplitude and Useful. youtube+1
Technical + business foundation: He holds a BSE in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and began his career in investment banking and technical/analyst roles, giving him a mix of analytic rigor and product intuition. theorg+1
Customer‑centric product builder with a bias for talking to users: Across talks and interviews he emphasizes structured customer conversations and extracting signal from real interactions — a theme that directly motivated Useful's product. youtube+1

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

Inside Amplitude’s Tech Stack: Our Product Management Software

February 11, 2021

Post describing Amplitude's internal product management stack and tooling practices; authored on Amplitude's blog.

Favicon imageamplitude.com

Introducing Conversion Drivers: Understand the Behaviors Behind Conversion and Drop‑Off

March 19, 2020

Amplitude post about a feature for identifying behaviors that drive conversion and drop‑off in product analytics.

Favicon imageamplitude.com

Making Data Validation Suck Less

March 27, 2018

Blog post on Amplitude about data validation practices and improving analytics reliability.

Favicon imageamplitude.com

Hobbies

Amateur/enthusiast cook — frequently references cooking and recipes. amplitude+1