I Built a $100M Company in 3 Years by Betting on AI Agents | Arvind Jain (CEO Glean)
My guest today is Arvind Jain.Arvind is the CEO of Glean and believes every employee should have a team of AI agents to help them get work done. We had a great chat about how AI agents will impact work and Arvind’s top lessons from scaling Glean to $100M ARR in 3 years.This episode is brought to you by Merge — Merge gives SaaS companies like Ramp and Drata a single API to launch over 200 product integrations fast. Book a meeting via www.merge.dev/peteryang and get a $50 Amazon gift card when you attend.Timestamps:(00:00) How to find job security with AI(03:10) Everyone will manage a team of AI agents(05:53) Is PM well positioned to thrive with AI?(10:27) How anyone can build powerful AI agents now(12:28) Three real barriers to enterprise AI adoption(17:34) How Glean reached $100M ARR in only 3 years(22:52) Making AI work with messy internal company data(26:51) Critical skills you need to build to craft AI products(33:33) Are 5-year plans completely worthless?(36:12) Glean's vision is to give everyone an AI teamGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/100m-company-in-3-years-ai-agents-glean-arvind-jainWhere to find Arvind:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jain-arvind/Website: https://www.glean.com/📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!
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Exclusive: Inside the Best AI Model for Coding and Writing | Scott White (Anthropic)
My guest today is Scott White.Scott is the Head of Product for Claude at Anthropic, and I’m excited to be the first to interview him about the hybrid reasoning AI model Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Scott also gave me a behind-the-scenes look at how Anthropic builds AI products, the most essential skills in the AI era, and how Claude will evolve from assistant to agent.This episode is brought to you by Vanta — Join 9,000+ companies like Atlassian and Quora, and use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real time. Get $1000 off at vanta.com/peterScott and I talked about:(00:00) How Claude will evolve from assistant to agent(01:58) Inside Claude 3.7: The first hybrid reasoning AI(04:51) How Claude became best in class at coding(08:50) Top 3 ways that Scott uses Claude to build Claude(13:49) PMs can now design and collapse the talent stack(17:00) Will AI models become commoditized, and Claude's personality (22:34) How to work with AI researchers(27:20) Step by step how Scott builds AI product(32:37) Why every PM must master writing AI evals(35:53) If Mike Krieger has brought Instagram's principles to Anthropic(38:41) How to get hired at Anthropic(43:01) Flipping the script on Claude's futureGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/inside-the-best-ai-model-for-coding-claude-scott-white Where to find Scott:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottiewhite/Website: https://claude.ai/ 📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!
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AI Does 90% of My Work Now as a Product Leader | Yana Welinder (Kraftful)
My guest today is Yana Welinder.Yana is the CEO of Kraftful, an AI product that helps 50,000 product teams extract insights from user reviews and surveys. She’s also a power user of ChatGPT and did a live demo of her top AI workflows for Deep Research and Operator.Timestamps:(00:00) At this point, I’m not doing anything without AI(01:38) Live demo of Operator automating product work(08:07) Using Deep Research for competitive analysis(11:05) Unlocking Deep Research to get medical advice(13:29) More everyday use cases for AI you might not know about(19:07) The key problem with AI startups(22:32) What should the PM actually do if AI will do everything?(25:36) The ups and downs of being an AI founder(29:02) How to balance prompting, RAG, fine-tuning, and evals(32:09) The right time horizon to plan for AIGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/ai-does-my-work-now-as-a-product-leader-yanaWhere to find Yana:X: https://x.com/yanatweetsWebsite: https://www.kraftful.com/📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!
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We were going to shut down our company…now we’re worth $700M | Eric Simons (Bolt)
My guest today is Eric Simons.Eric is the CEO of Bolt, the AI coding platform that has exploded from 0 to 3M users in less than a year. Eric gave me a live demo of building a $2B mobile app from scratch with Bolt, how his “overnight” success was seven years in the making, and how real product teams use Bolt to get work done faster.This episode is brought to you by Vanta — Join 9,000+ companies like Atlassian and Quora who use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real time. Get $1000 off at vanta.com/peterTimestamps:(00:00) From almost shutting down to $20M ARR in 2 months(01:20) Watch Bolt build Spotify with a single prompt(03:59) Live demo of building a $2B mobile app in 15 min(05:16) How to test your prototypes on mobile with Expo(10:03) Redesigning UX just by pasting in a screenshot(15:00) "Vibe coding" secrets straight from Eric(18:38) How Bolt will solve the AI debugging doom loop(24:34) The AI prototyping use case that most people aren't thinking about(27:21) The inside story of scaling Bolt from 0 to 3M users(41:10) Why AI products are like surfboards in a tsunamiGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/building-a-billion-dollar-app-with-bolt-aiWhere to find Eric:X: https://x.com/ericsimons40Website: bolt.new📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!
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This Vision Playbook Will Change YouTube and Your Life | Ebi Atawodi
My guest today is Ebi Atawodi.Ebi is the Director of Product for YouTube Studio, the home for 65M creators (including me). Ebi gave me an inside look at crafting Studio’s vision and how to define yourself beyond your job title. Ebi’s super inspiring, and you'll love our chat.This episode is brought to you by Vanta — Join over 9,000 global companies like Atlassian, Quora, and Factory who use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real time. Get $1000 off at vanta.com/peterTimestamps:(00:00) If I took away your job title, who are you?(03:44) Defining the vision for YouTube Studio(07:30) Tell me what's painful, not what you shipped(11:18) Transforming a vision into strategic themes(21:24) What most people don't realize about platform PMs(28:59) Balancing the needs of big and small creators(33:23) Why the little moments really matter for creators(38:01) Why Ebi took time off to make a short film(43:50) I'm a storyteller, and nobody can take that awayGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/this-vision-playbook-will-change-youtube-productWhere to find Ebi Atawodi:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebiatawodi/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vQTfTejyY📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!
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