A practical guide for people building platforms in 2024. Posted July 9, 2023 by Vik Chaudhary and Sid Palani Our Motivation There are many resources for product managers of consumer apps or B2B applications. However, we see a gap in PM resources for the unique challenges of building platforms, which serve as foundational tools for…
Posted on April 18, 2024 by Vik Chaudhary Autonomous, LLM-driven agents are a $4.6 trillion market opportunity, says Foundation Capital. To illustrate their point of AI replacing or augmenting humans, I wrote this article to explain NVIDIA researcher Jim Fan‘s autonomous “Foundation Agent”. Jim and his team used GPT4, the Large Language Model behind ChatGPT, to…
An Article on Managing AI Product Risk By Alex Kalinin, Sid Palani, and Vik Chaudhary Generated by Google’s ImageFX The allure of AI (particularly Generative AI) is undeniable. Its potential seems limitless, from generating captivating images and videos to powering self-driving cars to aiding medical diagnoses. However, behind the glitz and glamor lies a complex…
Understanding organizational culture is so important to building great products. I recently worked with a team from the MIT AI Lab, where I worked with Prof. Patrick Winston, the head of the lab. Since then, I joined fast-growing startups, Oracle‘s growth stage, and Meta, while some of these worked at Google. I notice that, as…
Can Artificial Intelligence turn YOU into a full-stack developer? According to GitHub, their Copilot tool accounts for 46% of developers’ code across all programming languages, and 61% just for Java. Impressive, right? But what happens when you try it out yourself? I am no professional coder–at least, not for over 10 years. Yet, using ChatGPT…
Front row with Sam Altman of OpenAI at the Bloomberg Technology Summit with host and executive producer Emily Chang! Sam’s superpower is that he is a strategic thinker—he is able to look around the corner faster than anyone else in our technology industry. We all aspire to do this in Tech! Mission—“I am excited to…
I subscribe to Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited and Audible, where I can either read or listen to articles, books and podcasts that I would otherwise not have seen. While searching both these databases is cumbersome, occasionally I will see a gem emerge. Today, one of the Kindle gems was Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of…
You know that Jack Dorsey started Square, the payments company. Lesser known is his co-founder, Jim McKelvey. I heard him in a Harvard Business Review podcast, which is my go-to when on a long weekend walk to Stern Grove in San Francisco. Stern Grove, a stunning grove with a permanent stage, is legendary for its…
As a new Computer Science & Engineering grad at MIT, I was interviewed by Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM. Microsoft spot-rated my C code. IBM (actually) said that only US citizens should bother applying. Oracle flew me to California, put me up in a hotel, and my to-be boss took me to dinner. Oracle won me…
You might wonder: how are product roadmaps designed, or, as some may jest “is there a method behind the madness?” While the method is different for B2C products at any company, in B2B there are clear principles to follow when building for and selling to large teams. Here’s a template that has worked for some…
