00:00 Intro to Yana's work & early times in tech
07:21 Early-stage product: When & how to pivot
10:28 Handling customers' emotional quotient during a pivot
17:46 Experimenting product updates with an early users
18:52 Setting up a community on X (Twitter) for PMs
26:45 Revisiting product strategy for dynamically changing markets
35:29 Possibility of AI in multiple domains & what would stay
40:44 Scope and future of product management
43:44 How to get started with LLMs & GenAI
52:00 AI & creativity for artists
Building products is such a fun journey—especially if users are involved early in the process that it feels like co-creating and riding the wave with them. There’s also racing against the advancements in technology, thanks to AI’s hypergrowth every passing day. So how do you balance the ride and race, when do you know it’s time to take a dive or a turn and how do you account for changing markets?
Yana Welinder is the founder and CEO of Kraftful, an Al copilot that helps teams build better products by listening to user feedback. A YC alum and a Stanford fellow, she formerly led product teams at IFTTT, Carbon, and Wikimedia Foundation. Yana loves backing up founders and she currently runs GenAIFounders community and she invests into promising ideas via Pioneer fund. A true 0-1 person and an amazing friend in the product community.
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