Ami Vora

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Leads product at Anthropic, which she joined at the end of 2025; previously chief product officer at Faire, and fifteen years at Meta, the last of them as vice president of product and design at WhatsApp.

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The job of product has always been to be a bridge between the real problems people have and the technology that can solve them.

Their wordsI think the job of product is always to be a bridge between the real problems that people have in the world and the technology that you can use to solve it. And like that's always been true.
spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:55 · all korrents from this recording
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 1st of 19 in this recording
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The technology side keeps changing, but the human side does not change that fast: people have the same problems.

Their wordsthe technology side is changing but the human side like the human side doesn't change that fast. We have the same problems.
spoken · machine transcript hear it at 1:30 · all korrents from this recording
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 2nd of 19 in this recording
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It is now faster to build three versions of something and try them out.

Their wordsThat's in the past. Like now it's actually faster to just build three versions and try them out
spoken · machine transcript hear it at 8:30 · all korrents from this recording
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 6th of 19 in this recording
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With the technology changing every two months, you have to throw away what you knew about yourself in the job and try something different.

Their wordspart of the technology changing every two months is you have to throw away what you knew about yourself in the job using that technology and just try something different.
spoken · machine transcript hear it at 9:14 · all korrents from this recording
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 7th of 19 in this recording
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Raising your tolerance for change and being willing to embrace it is very important.

Their wordsI think like raising your ceiling on tolerance for change and being willing to embrace change is super important.
spoken · machine transcript hear it at 9:50 · all korrents from this recording
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 8th of 19 in this recording
Our reading
Mapping out exactly what will happen in uncertain times probably locks you out of trying new things; leaders should frame the chaos so it feels safe to engage with.

Their wordsand that's a way to exert control. And I just I I think that locks you out of trying all the new stuff. And so what we have to do is like frame the chaos so it feels safe and it feels plausible to engage with it.
spoken · machine transcript hear it at 10:51 · all korrents from this recording
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 9th of 19 in this recording
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It is probably still too early in understanding what works for anyone to simply build the right answer; everyone is exploring together.

Their wordsI think we're just so early in like understanding what works. It's not like stuff is stable and we can just build the right answer. It's like we're all trying to explore together.
spoken · machine transcript hear it at 17:47 · all korrents from this recording
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 13th of 19 in this recording
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Five overlapping products that work in different ways are better than one over-constrained product, designed from a theory, that never got a chance to meet the market.

Their wordsBecause I feel like the fail state is you decide from the beginning like based on a theory of exactly what needs to happen and you like over constrain a product. And I would much rather have like five overlapping products that all work in different ways than like one overly constrained one that we never even gave a chance to actually like meet the market.
spoken · machine transcript hear it at 19:09 · all korrents from this recording
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 14th of 19 in this recording
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Right now it is easy to transfer cognitive load to users by handing them a set of tools and asking them to choose.

Their wordsright now it's easy to just transfer a bunch of cognitive load to the user and be like here's some tools like why don't you choose?
spoken · machine transcript hear it at 25:52 · all korrents from this recording
↗Why Claude can’t be your PM (yet) | Anthropic CPO Panel (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 17th of 19 in this recording

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