From the course: Becoming an AI-First Product Leader

Why AI fundamentally changes your role

From the course: Becoming an AI-First Product Leader

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Why AI fundamentally changes your role

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- Let's talk about why you need to think AI first as a product leader. Every technological revolution has dramatically changed the roles of product leaders, from the personal computers in the '70s to the Internet in the '90s and then the mobile in the first decade of the 21st century. Every tech revolution inherently changed the way we build products. And as a result, it has impacted the strategy and success of companies across the world. Those tech revolutions force leaders to learn and adapt quickly in order to compete in the marketplace. And those leaders usually did it by dramatically changing the way they worked for years. I was at LinkedIn when the mobile revolution happened. In just a few years, we moved from desktop only site to primarily a mobile experience, and it required everyone across the organization, from engineers to executives, to relearn how to rebuild products and rethink our strategy. AI is no different. I would even claim it's the biggest tech revolution we have all ever experienced. Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, calls AI the "defining technology of our time," and Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, was famously quoted to say that AI is "more important than fire or electricity." To understand the role of AI in technology today, imagine a river rafting boat. The guide in the back that holds the two paddles pretty much navigates the boat. Those big paddles play the role of AI. They can dictate success and failure in your product today. That guide, then, better be you. If you lead products in your company, you have to have the knowledge and the skillset to know how to use those paddles and navigate your team and product to success.

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