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Noam Lovinsky

Chief Product Officer, Superhuman. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Noam Lovinsky serves as the Chief Product Officer at Superhuman, where he oversees product strategy and development. He previously held product leadership roles including Chief Product Officer at Thumbtack, Senior Director of Product Management at Meta, and Director of Product Management at YouTube.

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20VC Opinion
Lovinsky: Product management and marketing are fundamentally the same function
“There's all these interesting debates right now about like, Roles collapsing and product and marketing and so on. And I just really don't see these things as separate. I see product and marketing and, you know, it's the same thing.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 5:37 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Opinion
Lovinsky: AI and vibe coding will not eliminate the product design phase
“So is the design phase going away? No, like you still have to do that sort of thinking. And there are many Different tools for doing that sort of thinking.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 9:32 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lovinsky: Product teams will stop writing specs for humans within three years
“Write specs for humans. I hope most people aren't writing specs for humans any longer.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 13:01 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lovinsky: Democratized software creation is an enduring shift, not hype
“I think the idea that everyone can build is not a moment in time hype cycle.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 17:22 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lovinsky: AI will generate 90% of Superhuman's code within 24 months
“In 24 months, I hope it's like 90%.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 20:00 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Insight
Lovinsky: The ideal AI-era product team is one PM, designer, two engineers
“I think now you're much more looking at, you know, it's like maybe one PM, one designer, two engineers is kind of like, you know, what you need.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 21:30 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Opinion
Lovinsky: Slack no longer improves my effectiveness as a Chief Product Officer
“But I have to say in my role now, I'm not sure that slack actually makes me better at what I do and makes my day better and more effective.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 31:53 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Opinion
Lovinsky: I am a buyer of Anthropic equity over OpenAI right now
“I'm a buyer of Anthropic at this point.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 36:09 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Prediction Held up
Lovinsky: AI models will achieve continuous learning and self-improvement by 2026
“I think we're going to crack the, like, continuous learning, self-improving. These things, you know, can just be set on a task and given the context and build the memory and are just going to get better on their own for, you know, the majority of tasks that yo…”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 36:19 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Insight
Lovinsky: Great product leaders are fundamentally exceptional storytellers
“I mean, I think fundamentally a great product leader is a great Storyteller. Someone that is able to understand what the customers actually need, what problem that actually needs to be solved and can form that into a story that is just well understood and well…”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 5:09 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Insight
Lovinsky: Productivity pitches signal product teams misunderstand their true value
“I think we like, Lean to things like time and productivity when we don't know what the value is, what the true value is.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 7:48 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Insight
Lovinsky: Strict role specialization in tech product design doesn't work
“The idea that like you are a designer and therefore you stay in these lanes and you do these tasks and you don't do engineering work or you don't do product work just like doesn't make sense. Like it doesn't work that way.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 8:53 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Insight
Lovinsky: Use AI coding agents to co-write product specifications
“You should use the thing that's going to code it to help you write it because it's going to end up creating a version of that output that is more compatible with what it understands to do the work.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 14:24 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Opinion
Lovinsky bets UX application-layer AI tools will beat dev tools to mass UX
“I guess I would probably bet on people working at that UX application layer already.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 19:24 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Disclosure
Lovinsky: AI currently generates nearly half of Superhuman's net new code
“We're basically at the point where we're approaching about half.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 19:48 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lovinsky: Software TAM will expand as products solve more complex problems
“I mean, I guess like TAM expansion that I see is that the number of problems, the number of things that you're able to solve with software and do for people, it's just going to expand.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 26:46 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lovinsky: Continuous background AI inference won't reach general knowledge work by 2026
“Whether it happens widely in knowledge work, By 20, 26, I think is, you know, I'll take a bet with you on that. Certainly for coding. I think in a lot of places we're already there, right? I mean, you have like the Ralph Wiggum stuff that, that popped up over,…”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 32:35 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lovinsky: AI will cause short-term economic pain before driving widespread abundance
“I think we're going to definitely go through a painful period. Wealth inequality in the US is something that I really am concerned, concerned about because it's higher than it's ever been, higher than the Gilded Age, and, ah, that has a lot of very potentially…”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 34:12 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
Lovinsky: Marketplaces should prioritize customers first because suppliers need quality demand
“Many marketplaces live and die by the quality and liquidity and supply. And so why would you know, focus on customers first in the thumbtack perspective and supply is, are the pros, the people that, that you hire? Well, you know, we always just felt that what …”
Noam Lovinsky Mar 17, 2024 ▶ 18:26 The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, FB, Thumbtack, YT)
Lovinsky: Standard biannual performance reviews kill corporate startup incubators
“If you're a large organization, and you do some performance management process, like, twice a year, and that's how you're gonna evaluate and incentivize people in your zero to one incubator, you've already killed it. It just like, it's the wrong incentive. It'…”
Noam Lovinsky Mar 17, 2024 ▶ 46:52 The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, FB, Thumbtack, YT)
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lovinsky: Grammarly was profitable from day one and remains profitable
“The company has been around for 15 years and was profitable from day one and continues to be quite profitable.”
Noam Lovinsky Mar 17, 2024 ▶ 50:37 The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, FB, Thumbtack, YT)
Lovinsky: Bootstrapped culture can hinder companies needing to invest ahead of growth
“In moments that were like in, in that we're in like today, that can also be detrimental. Right. Cause like the business gets to a certain size. You start getting to kind of like log large numbers. You need to start thinking about, you know, are there other pro…”
Noam Lovinsky Mar 17, 2024 ▶ 56:01 The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, FB, Thumbtack, YT)
Lovinsky: Executive-level tech interviews evaluate less of actual capabilities
“Most people don't know how to do leadership recruiting. And I feel like as I've, you know advanced in my career, like the interviews for some reason, like get easier and actually like evaluate less about like, you know, who I am as a product leader or whatnot.”
Noam Lovinsky Mar 17, 2024 ▶ 1:06:12 The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, FB, Thumbtack, YT)
20VC Insight
Lovinsky: Instagram's core product insight was tapping into latent consumer vanity
“The product insight is that, you know, vanity is Much bigger market than we realized it was as a, you know, latent demand that kind of tapped into.”
Noam Lovinsky Jan 16, 2026 ▶ 7:16 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman

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