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Asha Sharma

Corporate Vice President of Product, AI Platform

Microsoft

🎯 Product Strategy (3)

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🎯 Product Strategy

A planning framework designed for the high-velocity AI era where traditional annual or rigid roadmaps fail. It replaces fixed timelines with 'Seasons' defined by secular industry changes, allowing for agility while maintaining a north star.

Core Principles

  • 1.Identify the 'Season' based on secular changes (e.g., 'Season of Agents').
  • 2.Set loose quarterly OKRs to directionalize the team.
  • 3.Execute in 4-6 week squad-based goals.
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"We think about it as what season are we in? ... I feel like you have to actually build for the slope instead of the snapshot."

#seasonal#planning#protocol
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🎯 Product Strategy

A shift from treating product as a static 'artifact' to a living 'organism' that improves with usage. The core mechanism is a metabolism that ingests data and digests rewards to autonomously improve outcomes.

Core Principles

  • 1.Treat the product as a living entity, not a shipped artifact.
  • 2.Design the 'metabolism': the rate at which the product ingests data.
  • 3.Implement a rewards model (RLHF/Fine-tuning) to steer outcomes.
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"The whole KPI is what is the metabolism of a product team to be able to ingest data and then digest the rewards model and then create some sort of outcome."

#organism#conversion#strategy
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🎯 Product Strategy

A hierarchy of platform value that prioritizes 'invisible work' (infrastructure) over visible features. Successful platforms win on reliability and trust before winning on bells and whistles.

Core Principles

  • 1.Base Layer: The 'Invisible Work' (Reliability, Privacy, Safety, Data Residency).
  • 2.Middle Layer: Optimization & Matching (The engine that connects supply/demand or inputs/outputs).
  • 3.Top Layer: Features & Pixels (The visible UI elements).
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"It's often in the invisible work or not the pixels that actually drives that... WhatsApp didn't win because it had stickers... it won on reliability and privacy."

#platform#fundamentals#pyramid
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