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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 served as Global Head of AI at AWS and CTO of Microsoft for Startups, and has been a startup CTO through three exits. Rob joins Randy Silver to ask what a moat looks like when features can be cloned in days. They cover why competition is a good signal, why data and customer proximity now matter more than shippi...

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 blue links to multi-turn conversation. She joins Randy Silver to explain how her team prototypes and ships at Google’s scale, why she runs lean “SWAT team” pods, and how she balances speed against the quality bar users expect from search. Key takeaways Users changed their behaviour first. Once natural language m...

Francois Lopitaux is SVP of Product at ThoughtSpot, the analytics company built on the premise that you should be able to search your data like you search Google. He began his product career 18 years ago, when Salesforce acquired his Paris company, and went on to lead customer service, analytics and AI products there before joining two startups and then ThoughtSpot. He joins Randy Silver to explain how building agentic products differs from shipping deterministic software, from designing with...

When you use an AI tool, how much time do you spend correcting it? And would your customers be willing to do the same? Kendra Vant, Chief Product Officer at Tapi, joins Randy Silver to explore the “reliability layer”: the people, checks and engineering that make AI products dependable. She explains why enthusiastic AI users often provide that layer themselves, and why product teams can’t assume their customers will. Kendra shares four questions to ask before building AI into your product, fro...

Matt Feczko is director of product operations at Ocado, the UK grocery technology company whose warehouse robots and delivery automation now run for retailers including Kroger in the US and Coles in Australia. He spent the first half of his career as a customer-facing product manager, starting on SharePoint and Office at Microsoft before moving to the UK to join Skype and then four different startups over six years. A LinkedIn recruiter's typo — dropping a comma from his job title — led him t...