OpenAI’s Tara Seshan on ambition as the new bottleneck for companies
On Lenny’s Podcast, the ChatGPT Work product lead discusses building for AI capabilities two to three months out and making it a product manager’s job to raise other people’s ambitions.
TLDR
Lenny’s Podcast describes its conversation with OpenAI’s Tara Seshan as exploring a shift from “rowing” to “steering”: as AI takes on execution, human judgment and ambition become differentiators. The episode also examines how OpenAI thinks about building for model capabilities two to three months out, why helping others aim higher matters for product managers, and the distinction between writing to think and writing to report.
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