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MentionsBecoming an AI PM

“with the rise of all of these tools that are being built on top of you know open AI apis or anthropic apis”

Speaker: Aman Khan▶ Watch at ~7:30approx.
UsesInside OpenAI

“companies who are and have some domain specific knowledge and they're really excited about that problem space like they can go and do that”

Speaker: Logan Kilpatrick▶ Watch at ~12:00approx.

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