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Why PMs are suddenly valuable again | Tulsee Doshi (Head of Product, Gemini)
Sunday, November 8, 2026 • Duration 58:33
Tulsee Doshi is head of product for Google’s frontier AI models, including Gemini and other multimodal models, such as Nano Banana, Genie, Veo, and Lyria.
We discuss:
1. Why model development is not just engineering, but also like Snape’s potions class
2. Google’s full-stack frontier AI strategy
3. What PMs do inside a frontier AI lab
4. Tulsee’s 60-20-20 framework for balancing what works now and what’s almost working
5. How to write your first eval
6. The rising value of great PMs
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How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano
Sunday, November 1, 2026 • Duration 01:27:47
Hector Serrano runs one of the most innovative and successful paid growth programs in Silicon Valley. As Head of Content at Wispr Flow, a leading AI voice-to-text tool, he built a roster of 50 creators who drive 500 to 600 paid user-generated content (UGC) ads every month. The creators are paid a cut of ad spend, and the best of them earn over $13,000 a month. It’s a playbook the best DTC brands have used for years, now adapted for SaaS. Hector joined Wispr Flow at 19, before the product had PMF, and over the past year, Wispr Flow has grown revenue 30x and raised at a $2 billion valuation.
We discuss:
1. Why paid UGC is one of the biggest untapped growth levers right now
2. The step-by-step playbook for building a successful paid-UGC program
3. Why the best marketers are “allergic to AI”
4. What makes a great modern marketing hire
5. Why YouTube is the most underrated growth lever in SaaS
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An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)
Sunday, October 25, 2026 • Duration 01:25:47
Rob Snyder is the author of The Power of Pull and writes the newsletter The Physics of Startups. He has advised more than 50 startups on growing from zero to $1 million in ARR, drawing on his own experience as a founder who spent two years pushing a product the market didn’t want before accidentally stumbling onto what actually works. In this episode, we walk step by step through his framework for finding product-market fit, from coming up with an idea to closing your first handful of deals.
We discuss:
1. The PULL framework: Project, Unavoidable, List of options, Limitations
2. Where the best startup ideas come from
3. Tactics for cold outreach and running your first sales call
4. Why Rob advises against design partners
5. Goblin mode: what to do when nothing is working
6. How to apply the PULL framework inside larger companies
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Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)
Sunday, October 18, 2026 • Duration 01:12:12
Emmanuel Ameisen is an interpretability researcher at Anthropic, where he looks inside LLMs like Claude to understand how they think. Before joining Anthropic, he spent years in applied ML at Stripe and Insight, and is the author of Building Machine Learning Powered Applications. His research has produced some of the most striking findings in the field: that models form general representations of concepts, plan many tokens ahead without stating those plans explicitly, and may exhibit something structurally similar to the distinction between conscious and unconscious processing in humans.
We discuss:
1. Why the “next-token predictor” framing undersells how models actually plan and think
2. Why anthropomorphizing AI can actually be the right approach
3. Why models are “grown,” not built
4. What the “J space” reveals about model self-awareness
5. The smooth scaling curve behind what look like sudden capability jumps
6. How interpretability connects to AI alignment and safety
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Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)
Sunday, October 11, 2026 • Duration 01:02:11
Josh Woodward is the head of Google Labs, the Gemini app, and AI Studio. He has spent over 17 years at Google and oversees its longest-running and largest labs team, whose products include NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook), Project Genie, and Flow. His job is to find, experiment with, and scale new AI products, and he has built one of the most distinctive product cultures in the industry for generating ideas, running experiments, and, even more importantly, knowing when to quit.
In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:
1. Why every company now needs to think and operate like a labs team
2. Where the best ideas really come from
3. The “almost possible” framework
4. How to recognize genuine product-market fit early
5. When to kill an idea
6. What skills are rising in value in the AI era
7. Why roles are not actually blurring into one universal builder role
8. How to set up your internal labs team
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OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux
Sunday, October 4, 2026 • Duration 37:23
Tibo Sottiaux leads ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI. Under his stewardship, OpenAI has shipped some of its most consequential consumer launches: Codex, ChatGPT Work, and most recently, the new Dots personal agent platform. He joined me at DevDay, hours after his team launched more than 20 new products, to talk about where things are heading.
We discuss:
1. Dots, OpenAI’s new personal AI assistant
2. Why most actions on the internet will soon be taken by agents
3. Why loops, graphs, and fine-tuning agent workflows are a passing phase
4. Which skills are trending up and down in the AI era
5. How Tibo’s Dot warned him about a production outage five minutes before the launch
6. OpenAI’s approach to AI safety
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The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
Sunday, September 27, 2026 • Duration 01:34:14
Molly Graham is back for round two, and this one is even more powerful. Molly has spent more than 20 years helping organizations and the humans inside them navigate growth and change. She’s held leadership roles at Google, Facebook, Quip, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and is the host of TED’s WorkLife podcast (which she took over from Adam Grant). She also runs Glue Club, a leadership community for senior operators, and writes a popular newsletter called Lessons.
In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:
1. Why Molly’s famous “give away your Legos” career advice no longer holds true in an AI world
2. The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now
3. Why delegating to AI is fundamentally different from delegating to a human
4. The fear narrative around AI job displacement, and why it’s overblown
5. Which Legos you should never give to AI
6. What the best managers are doing right now
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90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis
Sunday, September 20, 2026 • Duration 01:36:53
Peter Sellis was the first product manager at Snapchat, where he spent seven years building one of the most beloved consumer products in history. He went on to serve as Head of Product at Discord, where he helped drive some of the fastest user growth the platform had seen. Having left his role at Discord, he gets to be especially real and unfiltered — nothing to promote, no PR, no comms team.
In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:
1. Why Peter designs teams like . . . terrorist organizations
2. What it was really like to manage Nikita Bier
3. Why the median PM is so bad
4. Why Snapchat’s ads business never reached its potential
5. Why growth almost always comes from the core product
6. Peter’s three “oxymorons” of great product management
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How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 01:22:43
Roman Ugarte helped incubate and build Grok Bot, the popular new knowledge-work agent from SpaceXAI. A small, isolated team took it from first line of code to a working internal product in four weeks, and to a hugely successful public launch just three weeks later. Before Grok Bot, Roman led Growth at Cursor, where he helped scale the company from 15 people to over 1,000 before its acquisition by SpaceX.
In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:
1. The origin story of Grok Bot
2. The key decision to build it from scratch instead of adding it to Cursor
3. Why the team personally onboarded nearly 300 of its first users
4. The two early product decisions that made Grok Bot so successful
5. Their “colleague-pilled” product philosophy
6. Roman’s advice on moats, and what has allowed Cursor to keep winning in the most competitive market in the world
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Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
Sunday, September 6, 2026 • Duration 01:19:24
Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has focused on consumer investing. Anish is one of the most insightful, thought-provoking, and in-the-weeds product investors I’ve met, and this conversation will get your mind buzzing. Before joining a16z, Anish was a serial founder and operator: he founded SocialDeck, which he sold to Google, then led multiple efforts inside Google before founding Snowball, which he sold to Credit Karma. At Credit Karma he rose to VP of Product and then GM of the consumer product and the broader credit card business.
In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:
1. Why you don’t have to worry about becoming part of the “permanent underclass”
2. Why company building will now involve creating a series of loops
3. What’s happening in consumer right now
4. Why the biggest opportunity in consumer is “/loop, make me happier”
5. Why moats are discovered, not designed
6. The rising importance of distribution as a moat
7. Being a model sommelier
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• The Nature of Order, Book Three: A Vision of a Living World: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2SS62LG
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