Asha Sharma

Asha Sharma leads AI product strategy at Microsoft, where she works with thousands of companies building AI products and has unique visibility into what’s working (and what’s not) across more than 15,000 startups and enterprises. Before Microsoft, Asha was COO at Instacart, and VP of Product & Engineering at Meta, notably leading product for Messenger.

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Overlay: Building AI Products Skills

AI products should be treated as living organisms that continuously improve through interaction loops rather than as static software releases.

"Because these models are so effective at this point, you want to start to tune them to certain types of outcomes. All of a sudden, these are these living organisms that just get better with the more i..."
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Strategy & Positioning Skills

Platform products win by providing a flexible abstraction layer that allows users to adopt rapidly evolving tools without technology lock-in.

"And so you really need to bet on a platform or some app server type layer that allows you to swap things in and out and not really be beholden to anything, any one technology or any one tool because t..."
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