When AI Makes Engineering Too Fast for Product Teams | Oji Udezue (ex-Typeform & Calendly)

On today’s episode of LaunchPod, we’ve got something special for you. Normally, you’d have to join us in person at one of the dinners we host for product leaders to hear this talk from Oji Udezue. But the response has been so great, we had to bring him onto the show again.

Oji has previously held product leadership roles at Typeform, Twitter, Calendly, and Atlassian. Today, he’s joining us to share a major problem in product delivery that he’s seeing as AI adoption increases across teams.

In this episode, we discuss:

The “three-speed problem,” as Oji calls it – how AI will bring about a 10x increase in engineering velocity. But where does that leave product management and go-to-market teams if they can’t keep up?
Why AI is a BS term, as it’s really five new AND distinct capabilities – and how to use those as a framework for smarter product strategy
And how his “shipyard model” for product teams will ensure you keep up and thrive, even as AI reshapes how we build software

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Links
Oji’s LinkedIn:   / ojiudezue  
ProductMind: https://www.productmind.co/
Building Rocketships: Product Management for High-Growth Companies: https://www.productmind.co/building-r...
Oji Udezue's keynote at Industry 2025:    • Why your CEO will ship faster products tha...  

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Resources
Lovable: https://lovable.dev/
Unblocked: https://getunblocked.com/
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Chapters
00:00: Intro
03:22: The product journey that led Trevin to Big Cartel
05:55 Big Cartel's 20+ year legacy and how they look at innovation
12:28: Why simplicity can trump complexity in software
13:26: Products and features that delight ft. an example from Alaska Airlines
18:03: Why Big Cartel launched a "pause subscription" button, and the value it drove
21:09: What makes features appear "magical" in today's product landscape
23:06: The overlap between product management and product design
23:40: Trevin's guide to hiring for curiosity and grit
33:17: Conclusion

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