20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak

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Aatish Nayak is the Head of Product at Harvey where he oversees product vision, strategy, design, analytics, marketing, and support. This is his third hypergrowth AI unicorn having previously held product leadership roles at Scale AI from 40 to 800 people, and Shield AI from 20 to 100 people.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

04:21 Biggest Product Lessons from Scale AI

7:18 Why Product Managers Are Wrong: They are not the CEO of the Product

12:28 Why Market Selection is More Important than Anything Else

16:40 If Distribution is King then Product is President

22:06 Effective Product Strategy and Execution

26:24 How to Write the Best PRDs

31:01 Balancing New Features and Technical Debt

33:17 Analysing Retrospectives and Postmortems

33:55 Introduction to Pre-mortems

38:25 Biggest Product Mistakes and Lessons Learned

41:40 Evaluating AI Models and Lessons Learned

45:03 The Future of AI in Product Management

55:21 What Should Product People Learn to Win in a World of AI

59:37 The AI Talent War in San Francisco

01:01:26 Quickfire Round