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Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon Aish and Kiriti Badam have built 50+ enterprise AI products across companies like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Databricks. Based on these experiences, they’ve developed a small set of best practices for building and scaling...

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.Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin used to have 10 salespeople. Now he has 10 empty desks—each one labeled with an AI agent's name. His sales team went from 10 humans → 1.2 humans + 20 AI agents. Same revenue. In his return to the podcast, we discuss: 🔸 Why mid-tier SDRs/BDRs will be "extinct" within a year 🔸 Where to start integrating AI into your sales motion 🔸 The specific AI tools that have worked best (and which flopped) 🔸 His 2026 predictions for GTM and sales 🔸 How to become "hyper-employable" in the age of AI Listen now 👇 • YouTube: • Spotify: • Apple: Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 DX — The developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers: 🏆 Vercel — Your collaborative AI assistant to design, iterate, and scale full-stack applications for the web: 🏆 Datadog, Inc. — Now home to Eppo, the leading experimentation and feature flagging platform:

Lenny Rachitsky

341,785 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

Dr. Fei-Fei Li (Fei-Fei Li) is known as the “godmother of AI.” For the past two decades, she’s been at the center of AI’s most significant breakthroughs, including: - Spearheading ImageNet, the dataset that sparked the AI explosion we’re living through right now. - Leading work at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) - Serving as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud - Co-founding Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI - Serving on the United Nations AI Scientific Advisory Board - Being named as Time's 100 most influential people in AI In this conversation, Fei-Fei shares the rarely told history of how we got to today—and what comes next. We discuss: 🔸 The backstory on ImageNet 🔸 Why robotics faces unique challenges compared with language models and what’s needed to overcome them 🔸 Why Fei-Fei believes AI won’t replace humans but will require us to take responsibility for ourselves 🔸 Why world models and spatial intelligence represent the next frontier in AI, beyond large language models 🔸 The surprising applications of Marble, from movie production to psychological research 🔸 How to participate in AI regardless of your role 🔸 Much more Listen now 👇 • YouTube: • Spotify: • Apple: Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 Figma Make — A prompt-to-code tool for making ideas real: 🏆 Justworks — The all-in-one HR solution for managing your small business with confidence: 🏆 Sinch — Build messaging, email, and calling into your product:
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Dr. Fei-Fei Li (Fei-Fei Li) is known as the “godmother of AI.” For the past two decades, she’s been at the center of AI’s most significant breakthroughs, including: - Spearheading ImageNet, the dataset that sparked the AI explosion we’re living through right now. - Leading work at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) - Serving as Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud - Co-founding Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI - Serving on the United Nations AI Scientific Advisory Board - Being named as Time's 100 most influential people in AI In this conversation, Fei-Fei shares the rarely told history of how we got to today—and what comes next. We discuss: 🔸 The backstory on ImageNet 🔸 Why robotics faces unique challenges compared with language models and what’s needed to overcome them 🔸 Why Fei-Fei believes AI won’t replace humans but will require us to take responsibility for ourselves 🔸 Why world models and spatial intelligence represent the next frontier in AI, beyond large language models 🔸 The surprising applications of Marble, from movie production to psychological research 🔸 How to participate in AI regardless of your role 🔸 Much more Listen now 👇 • YouTube: • Spotify: • Apple: Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 Figma Make — A prompt-to-code tool for making ideas real: 🏆 Justworks — The all-in-one HR solution for managing your small business with confidence: 🏆 Sinch — Build messaging, email, and calling into your product:

Lenny Rachitsky

250,455 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten

The rise of the IC CEO with Howie Liu After a viral tweet claimed Airtable was dead based on incorrect data, Howie led a radical transformation: reorganizing the entire company into "fast" and "slow" thinking teams, becoming an “IC CEO” who codes daily, and encouraging employees to cancel all their meetings to play with AI. In our conversation, we discuss: 🔸 The “fast thinking” vs. “slow thinking” team structure that lets Airtable ship AI features weekly (inspired by Daniel Kahneman) 🔸 Why CEOs must become ICs again in the AI era 🔸 Why “playing” with AI tools should be mandatory—Howie tells employees to cancel all meetings for a week to experiment 🔸 Why evals can kill innovation (and when to use “vibes” instead) Listen now 👇 • YouTube: • Spotify: • Apple: Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 LucidLink — Real-time cloud storage for teams: 🏆 DX — The developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers: 🏆 Claude — The AI for problem solvers and enterprise:
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The rise of the IC CEO with Howie Liu After a viral tweet claimed Airtable was dead based on incorrect data, Howie led a radical transformation: reorganizing the entire company into "fast" and "slow" thinking teams, becoming an “IC CEO” who codes daily, and encouraging employees to cancel all their meetings to play with AI. In our conversation, we discuss: 🔸 The “fast thinking” vs. “slow thinking” team structure that lets Airtable ship AI features weekly (inspired by Daniel Kahneman) 🔸 Why CEOs must become ICs again in the AI era 🔸 Why “playing” with AI tools should be mandatory—Howie tells employees to cancel all meetings for a week to experiment 🔸 Why evals can kill innovation (and when to use “vibes” instead) Listen now 👇 • YouTube: • Spotify: • Apple: Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 LucidLink — Real-time cloud storage for teams: 🏆 DX — The developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers: 🏆 Claude — The AI for problem solvers and enterprise:

Lenny Rachitsky

243,711 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

Many people consider Linear the gold standard in B2B software. Their focus on craft, the end-user experience, and building strongly opinionated software is inspiring a new generation of founders. It's also one of the most beloved and fastest-growing B2B products out there today. In my conversation with Nan Yu (Nan Yu), head of product at Linear, we discuss: 🔸 Why it's a red flag if you think speed and quality are at odds 🔸 Linear’s philosophy on deadlines 🔸 The “double triangle” framework for product management 🔸 Nan’s systematic approach to creativity 🔸 Nan’s approach to landing his dream product roles 🔸 Their unique approach to product development 🔸 Much more Listen now 👇 • YouTube: • Spotify: • Apple: Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 Sinch — Build messaging, email, and calling into your product: 🏆 Paragon — Ship every SaaS integration your customers want: 🏆 Wix Studio — The web creation platform built for agencies: it
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Many people consider Linear the gold standard in B2B software. Their focus on craft, the end-user experience, and building strongly opinionated software is inspiring a new generation of founders. It's also one of the most beloved and fastest-growing B2B products out there today. In my conversation with Nan Yu (Nan Yu), head of product at Linear, we discuss: 🔸 Why it's a red flag if you think speed and quality are at odds 🔸 Linear’s philosophy on deadlines 🔸 The “double triangle” framework for product management 🔸 Nan’s systematic approach to creativity 🔸 Nan’s approach to landing his dream product roles 🔸 Their unique approach to product development 🔸 Much more Listen now 👇 • YouTube: • Spotify: • Apple: Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 Sinch — Build messaging, email, and calling into your product: 🏆 Paragon — Ship every SaaS integration your customers want: 🏆 Wix Studio — The web creation platform built for agencies: it

Lenny Rachitsky

34,279 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr