1. Define done before you show the prototype | Rob Ferguson, Fireworks AI #ai #productmanagement Done is the most seductive word in the English language. It is very tempting to show a prototype to a customer, especially one that looks pretty done. Rob Ferguson of Fireworks AI 10/23 21:00 ♡
2. Cold email is dead | Rob Ferguson, Fireworks AI #ai #productmanagement What happened to the cold email open rate? One startup Rob Ferguson advises used to get a 4% open rate on cold email. His guess for today: fractions of a percent, maybe zero. Peopl 10/22 21:00 ♡
3. Why Anthropic Is Hiring Fewer Juniors Six agent hours for every human hour. Seventeen engineers for every product manager. What happens when an AI company turns its own technology on the way it works? This week on Now 10/22 02:48 ♡
4. What's your moat when anyone can copy you? | Rob Ferguson, Fireworks AI #ai #productmanagement What's the one thing to focus on to build a real moat? A product team tells you they are terrified of being disrupted, because people can copy them so quickly. Rob Ferguson of Fire 10/21 21:00 ♡
5. How to make your customers stay when anyone can copy your product | Rob Ferguson (VP, Fireworks AI) Rob Ferguson is VP of Technology and Strategy at Fireworks AI, the inference and model-customisation platform used by AI-native companies such as Cursor and Notion. He previously s 10/21 17:08 ♡
6. Stop debating. Ship a prototype. | Soufi Esmaeilzadeh, Google #ai #productmanagement One of the worst things to do is to spin and lose cycles in debate. Soufi Esmaeilzadeh, who leads AI experiences in Google Search, tells her team to go from idea, to define it, to 10/16 21:00 ♡
7. Stop using keywords. Just ask. | Soufi Esmaeilzadeh, Google Search #ai #productmanagement Can't you let people stop using keywords and just formulate in sentences? Soufi Esmaeilzadeh leads AI experiences in Google Search, the AI Overviews box at the top of the page and 10/15 21:00 ♡
8. Why Companies Are Blocking AI agents AI agents can fill a shopping basket, navigate a website and act on a customer’s behalf. But what happens when they reach checkout and hit “verify you’re human”? This week on Now S 10/14 23:44 ♡
9. What does Google look for in a PM? | Soufi Esmaeilzadeh, Google #ai #productmanagement What does Google look for when it hires and promotes PMs? Randy Silver asks Soufi Esmaeilzadeh, who leads AI experiences in Google Search, what she looks for now. Her answer has th 10/14 21:00 ♡
10. How Google structures its product team, prototypes and ships fast at scale | Soufi Esmaeilzadeh Soufi Esmaeilzadeh is product director for AI experiences in Google Search, where she leads AI Overviews and AI Mode. In 15 years at Google, she has watched search move from ten bl 10/14 16:54 ♡
