the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

How @TheMikeBal uses Cursor and MCP to build an AI operating system that connects to all his tools Most PMs juggle dozens of disconnected tools.

AI native PMs are lapping those who just use LLMs. Here’s how to build an AI PM operating system with @TheMikeBal, Head of AI and PM @davidsbridal: 8:41 - The OS mindset 15:22 - Key MCP integrations 28:26 - Demo: 30s design validation 48:52 - Manus vs Claude vs ChatGPT

AI native PMs are lapping those who just use LLMs. Here’s how to build an AI PM operating system with @TheMikeBal, Head of AI and PM @davidsbridal: 8:41 - The OS mindset 15:22 - Key MCP integrations 28:26 - Demo: 30s design validation 48:52 - Manus vs Claude vs ChatGPT

Happy Friday! 🥳 Here is our weekly round up of launches from this week: —@NotebookLM launched a whole suite of education features including flashcards, quizzes, and a series of public notebooks in partnership with @OpenStax —@NotebookLM also launched a major update to their reports, with customization, AI-suggested formats, and blog posts. —@GooglePhotos users in the U.S. can now turn photos into short videos with Veo 3 in the Create tab. —We launched vertical format videos in @FlowbyGoogle and via the Gemini API. —We reduced prices in the Gemini API by ~50%, for Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast. —AI Mode in @Google Search is now available in five new languages (Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese).