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2 claims Geoff Charles made fit 1 mental model. Most often: Bottlenecks. Everything they said here.

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Bottlenecks

A system moves only as fast as its narrowest point; speed up anything else and nothing changes.

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AI removes a bottleneck in product development only to move it, and the winning team is the one that finds the next bottleneck fastest and removes it.

  1. Geoff Charles Chief Product Officer at Ramp; Ramp's first product hire AI simply removes the bottleneck, but moves it. And the best team, the winning team, is the team that can find the bottleneck faster, remove it, and move on to the next one. What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com · 10 Sept 2026 · 2:54 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    AI simply removes the bottleneck, but moves it. And the best team, the winning team, is the team that can find the bottleneck faster, remove it, and move on to the next one.

The bottleneck in product development has shifted to product people, who should be as lazy as engineers.

  1. Geoff Charles Chief Product Officer at Ramp; Ramp's first product hire So, here's a tip. Be more like engineers. Be as lazy as engineers. Because the reality is that the bottleneck has now shifted to us. What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com · 10 Sept 2026 · 3:24 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    So, here's a tip. Be more like engineers. Be as lazy as engineers. Because the reality is that the bottleneck has now shifted to us.