My guest today is Stephen Chau.Stephen is the co-founder of Cove, a Sequoia-backed startup that lets you interact with AI through a ground-breaking visual interface instead of chat. We had a great chat about why the future of AI is generative UI, how to build great AI products, and how he scaled Uber Eats from $0 to $25B.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 https://www.merge.dev/peteryang and get a $50 Amazon gift card when you attend.Timestamps: (00:00) The future of AI is generative UI

(01:53) Demoing Cove's visual AI interface for trip planning

(05:02) Beyond chatbots: Co-creating with AI in a natural way

(09:01) Context-aware AI that updates content automatically

(11:11) Putting AI to the test to list premium Japanese snacks

(14:02) Building AI apps directly within your workspace

(16:35) Demoing real world use cases for visual AI interfaces

(27:39) Generative UI and just-in-time AI apps

(31:16) Why chatbots are the "DOS stage" of AI interfaces

(45:44) The secret to building Uber Eats to $25B

(54:51) The best way to build your AI product senseGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/he-built-uber-eats-now-pushing-ai-beyond-chat-stephen-chauWhere to find Stephen:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenchau/Website: https://cove.ai/📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

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.

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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 team

Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/100m-company-in-3-years-ai-agents-glean-arvind-jain

Where to find Arvind:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jain-arvind/

Website: https://www.glean.com/

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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!

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/yanatweets

Website: https://www.kraftful.com/📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

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.

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Timestamps:

(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 tsunami

Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/building-a-billion-dollar-app-with-bolt-ai

Where to find Eric:

X: https://x.com/ericsimons40

Website: bolt.new

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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.

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Timestamps:

(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 away

Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/this-vision-playbook-will-change-youtube-product

Where to find Ebi Atawodi:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebiatawodi/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vQTfTejyY

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My guest today is Amjad Mosad, CEO and founder of Replit.Amjad is the CEO of Replit, an AI coding platform with 34M users that’s making it possible for anyone to build an app in 60 seconds from their phone. In our chat, Amjad shared how you can learn to code with AI and gave me a live demo of Replit’s AI agent. We also discussed the skills that will still matter in AI. 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/peter. Timestamps:(00:00) Two paths to tech job security in the AI era

(06:36) The best way to learn to code with AI

(07:41) Building a nutrition tracking app with Replit

(14:07) How to avoid getting stuck on bugs with AI

(18:30) 5 tips to get the most out of AI coding agents

(22:10) Why everyone should build personal software

(24:00) What makes Replit's AI approach different

(27:41) Why traditional roadmaps are dead

(30:40) How Replit uses AI internally to build faster

(34:00) Build an app in 60 seconds from your phone

(36:14) Career advice for tech folks to become AI nativeGet the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/this-ai-tool-lets-you-build-apps-faster-than-googlingWhere to find Amjad:

X: https://x.com/amasad

Website: https://replit.com/📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

My guest today is Colin Matthews. Colin is a rockstar instructor who teaches a popular AI Prototyping for PMs course on building AI apps without coding skills. In our interview, Colin shared how to pick the right AI prototyping tool, what you should do before asking AI to code, and how to build a habit-tracking app step by step in just 20 minutes.

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Timestamps: (00:00) Do this before asking AI to code (01:13) How to pick the right AI prototyping tool (05:50) Choosing AI tools for client, server, and database (10:49) Building a habit-tracking app step by step(14:02) Always start with the data model (22:08) Top mistakes to avoid with AI prototyping (27:14) Should you still learn to be technical with AI? (32:13) Avoiding the 70% problem and getting stuck on bugs (33:59) How to learn to code through AI prototyping Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/the-number-one-hack-to-build-with-ai-without-getting-stuck Where to find Colin:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinmatthews-pm/

Get $100 off Colin's prototyping course: https://maven.com/tech-for-product/ai-prototyping-for-product-managers?promoCode=peter100 📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!