Bartek Kunowski
Who they are
Bartek Kunowski is co-founder and CEO of Itera — a Barcelona-based founder who previously shipped product at Glovo and Tuenti, and before Itera built and shut down two companies: Joey (AI safety app for kids) and ara (product collaboration tools).
Person
Bartek studied at the University of Waterloo, graduating in 2003, then spent the next two decades climbing the product ladder in European consumer tech — Group Product Manager, then Chief Product Officer roles at companies including Tuenti and Glovo, the Barcelona-based quick-commerce platform. He founded Joey in 2024, a safe messaging app for pre-adolescents that used AI to detect cyberbullying and inappropriate content — shut down. Then came ara in 2025, a suite of collaboration tools for product teams (arameet.co, polir.io) — also shut down. In January 2026 he launched Itera, an AI-native product development platform that lets product teams ship changes on existing codebases without tickets or handoffs. The through-line is a CPO-turned-founder who keeps narrowing in on the same problem: the broken interface between product thinking and engineering execution. He posts actively on LinkedIn about AI-native product development, product velocity, and AI coding tools — specifically referencing Claude, Claude Code, and Anthropic's internal PM practices — and attended South Summit in 2026 to meet product and tech leaders.
Network
No direct edges are available from the network probe. Bartek publicly engages with Marc Andreessen's frameworks — he has amplified Andreessen's OODA loop framing on LinkedIn — and frequently references Anthropic's PM practices and Claude Code. Possibly — his South Summit attendance in 2026 is his primary live networking surface right now.
- Marc Andreessen· Co-founder, Andreessen Horowitz
How they likely show up
- Three companies founded in rapid succession (Joey 2024, ara 2025, Itera 2026) → extremely high cadence of hypothesis-test-kill cycles; he moves fast and doesn't linger on sunk costs.
- Two prior companies shut down before launching Itera → comfortable with failure as iteration, not a signal he oversells product-market fit prematurely.
- Career arc from Group PM → CPO at scaled consumer platforms (Tuenti, Glovo) → solo founder → suggests he knows how large product orgs break down and is building to fix exactly that.
- Active LinkedIn posting on AI coding tools, Anthropic PM practices, and the OODA loop → thinks in frameworks, likely arrives at conversations with a clear thesis rather than open-ended exploration.
- Based in Barcelona, attending South Summit — operating in the Spanish-European startup corridor rather than SF/NYC → his reference points and network skew European consumer and product tech.
Conversation tips
- → Reference a specific LinkedIn post — the Anthropic PM practices one or the OODA loop share — to show you've tracked his thinking, not just his title.
- → Ask about the leap from CPO to founder: he's made it three times in two years, and the reasoning behind each pivot is probably the most revealing thing about how he thinks.
- → Don't treat Joey and ara as failures to dance around — he shut them down fast, which is a skill. Asking what he learned from each will resonate more than skipping past them.
- → He's deep on AI coding tools (Claude, Claude Code) — if you have a take on where agentic coding is headed, lead with it; he'll engage substantively.
- → Avoid vague 'AI for product teams' framing — his entire thesis is that tickets and handoffs are the problem; be specific about the workflow layer if you want to have a real conversation.
Toolbox
Openers
- Open on Itera's core bet — shipping changes on existing codebases without tickets or handoffs — and ask what he saw inside Glovo's product org that convinced him this was the right problem to go after.
- Reference his LinkedIn post on Anthropic PMs not writing PRDs and using Claude instead — it's a pointed thesis about how AI changes the PM role, and it's clearly core to what Itera is building.
- Mention that he founded Joey (AI safety for kids) and ara (product collaboration tools) and shut both down before launching Itera in January 2026 — a tight two-year loop that's worth unpacking.
Discovery questions
- You shut down Joey and ara within a year each before landing on Itera — what was the specific insight that made this problem feel like the one worth staying with?
- Anthropic's PMs apparently don't write PRDs — how much of Itera's product is shaped by what you've seen AI-native teams like Anthropic actually do internally versus what traditional product orgs ask for?
- You went from CPO at scaled companies to founding three times in two years — what does a product org at Glovo's scale do that you're specifically trying to make unnecessary with Itera?
Avoid
Don't frame the conversation around productivity metrics or 'shipping faster' in the abstract — his thesis is structural (eliminating tickets and handoffs entirely), not incremental, and generic velocity talk will read as not having done the homework.
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