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Published · transcript-backedKiriti Badam: recommendation
11 Jan 2026 Lenny's Podcast Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and Amazon
“So we recommend building step-by-step. When you start small, it forces you to think about what is the problem that I'm going to solve.”
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- Kiriti Badam
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- recommendation
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- 11 Jan 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…This significantly changes the way you should be building product. So we recommend building step-by-step. When you start small, it forces you to think about what is the problem that I'm going to solve. In all this advancements of the AI, one easy, slippery slope is to keep thinking about complexities of the solution and forget the problem that you're trying to solve. It's not about being the first company to have an agent among your competitors. It's about have you built the right flywheels in place so that you can improve over time.…
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