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Nov 30, 2023 • 1h 24min

The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI ethically | Jack Krawczyk (Google)

Jack Krawczyk, Senior Director of Product at Google, discusses key lessons from Bard's development process, ethics in AI, how Bard shipped fast, what separates Bard from competitors, the future of LLM, Generative AI, and AGI, and advice for aspiring AI developers.
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Nov 16, 2023 • 1h 19min

A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, Uber, and Calm | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)

Will Larson, CTO at Carta and former CTO at Calm, discusses engineering strategy, common management mistakes, optimizing engineering velocity, organizational policies, and the value of micromanagement in certain situations. They also explore the challenges of resource allocation, diving into the details, measuring engineering velocity, handling feedback, and building fundamentals in engineering.
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Nov 9, 2023 • 59min

How goal-setting and planning is different for AI products | Anastasis Germanidis (Co-Founder & CTO at Runway)

Anastasis Germanidis, Co-Founder & CTO at Runway, discusses the origins of Runway, limitations of being 'customer-driven' in AI, balancing research development with product development, goal-setting for AI products, and advice for early-stage AI founders.
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Nov 2, 2023 • 1h 7min

How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (Vercel's CEO)

Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, discusses his path into tech, the journey of building Cloudup and its impact on WordPress, the importance of simplification in business, finding the balance between developer and user experience, the benefits of using Red Panda, the value and positioning of the Vercel platform, AI code behavior, and the importance of simplification and saying no.
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Oct 26, 2023 • 1h 14min

The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)

Ashley Kramer, CMO and CSO at GitLab, discusses how GitLab monetizes open source roots, marketing metrics, transparent company culture, serving enterprise customers, unique marketing lessons from open core company, and a recent marketing campaign.
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Oct 12, 2023 • 1h 14min

How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)

Colin Zima, former Chief Analytics Officer and VP of Product at Looker, discusses lessons from Looker, investing in white-glove customer support, scaling high-touch customer support, intuition-based approach to product, Looker's goal achievement streak, founding story of Omni, and hot takes on startups and hiring PMs.
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Oct 5, 2023 • 1h 7min

Building Zapier from first principles | Contrarian takes on growth, hiring, fundraising | Wade Foster (Co-founder & CEO)

Wade Foster, Co-founder & CEO at Zapier, discusses the unorthodox decisions behind Zapier's success, their powerful distribution engine, and the impact of Veterans United. He shares insights on product market fit, fundraising, and people management. The podcast explores unconventional strategies, adapting to change, and the importance of intellectual honesty.
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Sep 28, 2023 • 1h 1min

How young outsiders changed the shipping industry by finding product-market fit again and again | Laura Behrens Wu (Shippo)

Laura Behrens Wu, Founder & CEO at Shippo, talks about the company's pivot-stricken origin story, finding product-market fit multiple times, unique take on founder-market fit, advice on talking to users, prioritizing resources using the 3 Horizons Framework, and the impact of unfiltered emails on team connection.
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Sep 14, 2023 • 1h 6min

AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)

Dan Siroker, CEO at Rewind AI and co-founder of Optimizely, discusses Rewind's journey to Product Market Fit, lessons from Optimizely, his unique Twitter fundraising strategy, hot takes on the future of AI, and where to build in AI. They also explore the current state of AI and excitement surrounding large language models. The chapter on fundraising through Twitter explains the reasons and strategies used. Lastly, Dan shares future plans of Rewind AI and lessons on building a product people want.
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Sep 7, 2023 • 1h 17min

A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig

Ryan Glasgow, CEO and founder of Sprig, and Kevin Mandich, Head of Machine Learning at Sprig, discuss key lessons from Sprig's founding story, product development in the pre vs. post-LLM world, how to overcome AI skepticism, evaluating new models, the importance of ML engineers, Sprig's 'AI Squad' team structure, and upskilling team members on AI.

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