Tara Seshan
13 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 30, 2026 by Tara Seshan · across every show →
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Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: Great collaborators prefer rough drafts over fully polished documents
“Very few great people want to interact with like a perfectly polished, finished idea, like a perfectly polished idea. Their new ideas just like bounce off of it versus something that has more crags and more rough edges that they too can polish with you togethe…”
Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: Meeting prep time should match total collective attendee time
“I have this like personal belief that if I'm going to make someone read my document, I have to at least read it first that number of times. Or I think about this in meetings, too, that if I'm gonna call a meeting with a set of people, I need to have prepped th…”
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Seshan: Prompt-built web apps replace docs and sheets in PM workflows
“The easy reach of building a site all the time has changed what my day-to-day looks like, which often in previous worlds used to look like creating lots of artifacts, like dachshunds, cheats, and whatever it might be. Now I just make sites all the time.”
Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: Defining core hypotheses matters more than grand strategy in AI
“And what that means is the thinking you need to do is being as pointed as possible about what your core hypothesis is. And that hypothesis definition is the most important thing. Like, what is actually to use the Shashir Raholtra phrase, like, the eigenquestio…”
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: AI products fail unless built for models 2-3 months out
“You fail if you build for where the models are now. You fail if you build for where you think the models will be in a year. Like, both outcomes are equally wrong, and I'm sure many people have talked about this, but both outcomes are really equally wrong. If y…”
Aug 30, 2026
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Seshan: OpenAI operates with extremely limited top-down management
“OpenAI is actually founders-led which is that everyone inside the company, especially in their area, is in essence kind of a founder to some extent. The level of like top-down direction at OpenAI is extremely limited relative to places I've worked for prior.”
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Aug 30, 2026 positive
Seshan: Future of work shifts to humans steering while AI rows
“I do think that increasingly the future of work will look more like steering than rowing in the sense that there will be agents that you'll, you'll be able to work with that do a lot of the rowing and your role increasingly becomes steering the ship in the rig…”
Aug 30, 2026
Seshan: Software resembles filmmaking, requiring auteur taste over mere capital
“Software is not like real estate. You don't like put money in and get value out. It is a little bit more like filmmaking, where you can put a lot of money into a film, but that doesn't guarantee that the film is successful or good. There is some like auteur st…”
Aug 30, 2026 positive