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Gaurav Misra: belief

27 Mar 2025 Lenny's Podcast How to win in the AI era: Ship a feature every week, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and create magic your competitors can't copy | Gaurav Misra (CEO and co-founder of Captions)

“I think truly in normal times it may not be possible to create that much roadmap that quickly, but I think because there's so much innovation underlying all this, there is that scope available.”

— Gaurav Misra

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Gaurav Misra
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belief
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27 Mar 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…A lot of this is turning into an archeology of a modern product team and startup. So I want to keep digging. This is not where I was planning to go, but this is awesome. I love that this approach of every engineer shipping something every week that's marketable connects directly to where I started this conversation, which is how do you stay above the noise? And part of the answer is just ship stuff constantly, and just continue to impress people. Like, "Here's a new amazing video feature." "Look at this thing." Exactly. Yep. I think it's definitely key, right? And there's enough area and enough scope for that to happen. I think truly in normal times it may not be possible to create that much roadmap that quickly, but I think because there's so much innovation underlying all this, there is that scope available. The roadmap almost seems unlimited, just truly. Okay. The other question I imagine people would be wondering is how do you work on longer-term projects that take many weeks? There's also infrastructure, I guess, back-end stuff. So maybe answer those questions. How do you think about long-term stuff and then how do you deal with back-end stuff that isn't a feature that anyone would care for?…

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