A Founder's Playbook for Shipping 10x Faster with AI | Yana Welinder

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​ ​ Yana is Head of AI at Amplitude and a good friend. We had some real talk about how to stay scrappy inside a big company, including how to avoid decision by committee and endless internal debates.

Yana also demoed her favorite AI workflows to triage her emails and aggregate customer feedback. I think you’ll love our banter 😅

Yana and I talked about:

(00:00) "By the time you've debated 2 ideas, I've already shipped 10" (03:21) Think "how would I run this company?" not "what's my job?" (05:22) Why we banned decisions by committee (08:25) Cross-functional now means doing the work, not coordinating it (11:22) Why frustrated users can become your biggest advocates (15:19) Live demo: Using ChatGPT Atlas to triage emails and defuse emotional ones (24:38) AI is still terrible at prompting (and what you can do about it) (28:48) Live demo: Combining qualitative feedback with quantitative data (37:38) Why AI analytics is lagging (and what needs to change)

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