Technology Management master's from the University of Bridgeport, building toward product management. On the BeReal externship the leak wasn't the daily prompt - 70% of daily actives already post. It was the empty first feed: new users unlock it, see two posts, and quietly leave, blaming their own friend list rather than the app. I designed Circles, a shareable link that creates a small mutual group so day one isn't empty. Scored it with RICE, prototyped it, pitched it against D7 retention rather than MAU. My recommendation was Refine, not Proceed - nobody had used it yet.