Product strategy

The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos & Romain Huet & Peter Steinberger, OpenAI

The Golden Age of AI Engineering — Alexander Embiricos & Romain Huet & Peter Steinberger, OpenAI

OpenAI's Romain Huet and Alexander Embiricos, joined by Peter Steinberger, outline the explosive progress of Codex at Dev Day 2024. They highlight the shift from manual coding to managing autonomous agents, enabled by rapid model iteration (every 6 weeks), open-source developer tools, and optimizations for cost-effectiveness ($1/M input tokens) and blazing inference speed (750 tokens/sec). The discussion centers on empowering AI engineers, not replacing them, by evolving agent capabilities, fostering an open ecosystem, and addressing future challenges like seamless local/cloud task execution and human attention as the new bottleneck in agent orchestration.

A Playground for AI Engineers

A Playground for AI Engineers

Paulo Vasconcellos from Hotmart details their journey of building "Agent as a Product", explaining how they blend classic ML models with LLMs for efficiency, evolve their MLOps platform for the generative AI era, and create real business value through AI-powered tutors and sales agents.

Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users

Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users

Grant Lee, co-founder of Gamma, shares the journey of building a presentation tool to 100 million users and $100M ARR. He discusses the strategy of being 'different, not just better' than incumbents like Microsoft and Google, the importance of starting with a strong product thesis before integrating AI, and the disciplined 'hire painfully slowly' approach that allowed a small team to achieve massive organic growth.

Giga: The AI Platform for Enterprise Support

Giga: The AI Platform for Enterprise Support

Giga co-founders Varun and Esha discuss their product-first approach to enterprise AI, detailing their innovative 'AI Forward-Deployed Engineer' model that enables rapid, scalable customer support automation. They break down how they solve complex, multi-party use cases for clients like DoorDash and share their vision for expanding beyond support to become a comprehensive ops automation platform.

The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins

The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins

Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva, shares the core philosophies that propelled the company to a $42 billion valuation. She details her 'Column B' thinking—building towards a dream future rather than from existing constraints—and explains how setting 'crazy big goals' and systematically learning from over 100 investor rejections were crucial. Perkins also discusses surviving a two-year technical rewrite without shipping features and Canva's foundational 'two-step plan' to build a valuable company and use its wealth to do the most good possible.

Connection is Everything • Ken Hughes • GOTO 2025

Connection is Everything • Ken Hughes • GOTO 2025

In an increasingly digital world, genuine human connection is paramount. This presentation explores the shift in consumer values across seven generations, urging developers to move beyond transactional software and focus on four key pillars: making the user the center of their world (the 'Blue Dot' consumer), exceeding their ever-rising expectations, embracing the 'phygital' reality shaped by AI, and building deep, relational connections, exemplified by Taylor Swift's fan engagement.