The 3 Biggest Barriers to AI Adoption Across Your Team | Derek Pharr, CPO (Sporcle)

Why is AI adoption so hard inside companies? Derek Pharr, CPO at Sporcle, joins LaunchPod to reveal the 3 biggest barriers to AI adoption and how he helped his team overcome them.

In this episode, you’ll learn how Sporcle:

• The 3 biggest barriers to AI adoption and how Derek addressed them
• How Sporcle built a “content intern” with Claude Projects to augment trivia writers and improve user engagement
• How Derek prototyped, tested, and rejected a doomed product idea in under an hour

Links

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekpharr/
Sporcle: https://www.sporcle.com/

Resources

How Lattice’s PM team built an AI Slack “Intern” | Neha Monga, CPO (Ex-Lattice) | LaunchPod: https://stories.logrocket.com/p/how-lattices-pm-team-built-an-ai

Chapters

00:00 Intro
03:17 The 3 Biggest Barriers to AI Adoption
06:35 Building a “Content Intern” with Claude Projects
15:08 Scaling Trivia Creation Without Losing Quality
25:34 Prototyping and Killing a Doomed Idea in Under an Hour
34:15 Lessons for Product Leaders on AI Adoption

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Special Guest: Derek Pharr.