In this episode of the Building AI Products podcast, I interview Sasha Laundy, who was the Director of Data Science at Warby Parker. Sasha is one of those wonderful high-IQ, high-EQ, left-right-brained people who's both super technical and a great people manager. At Warby Parker (or "Warby" for those in the know), she ran a centralized team that did statistical modeling, BI training and analyst support, and machine learning. In this episode, we discuss: 👓 Shape Up, a framework for shipping in...

AI hype is outrageously high. Michal Bloch Ron, former PM at Microsoft AI and Teams, helps us cut through the hype by sharing what learned about grounding AI products in concrete user needs. Michal's first role as a PM was to find product applications of the Cortana speech model and text model — one of the most widely-used AI technologies from before the advent of transformers. Currently spending a year at the Stanford GSB, she also gives us a sneak preview of the research she's doing on the...

Welcome to Building AI Products, a practical podcast for people who build AI and data science products. In this show, we'll interview the folks in the trenches who are discovering what's working and what's not as they design, build, and ship AI products that touch people's lives.