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Published · transcript-backedAishwarya Naresh Reganti: belief
11 Jan 2026 Lenny's Podcast Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and Amazon
“I think be foolish enough to believe that you can do anything if you put your heart to it, especially now because you have so much data at your hand that could be pointing towards the fact that you probably will be unsuccessful.”
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- Aishwarya Naresh Reganti
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- 11 Jan 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…These are just two of 19 products. No Caffeinate though. I don't know if that's even paid. Okay, let's keep going. Do you have a favorite life motto that you find yourself coming back to in work or in life? For me, I think this is one my dad told me when I was a kid and it's always stuck, which is they told it couldn't be done, but the fool didn't know it, so he did it anyway. I think be foolish enough to believe that you can do anything if you put your heart to it, especially now because you have so much data at your hand that could be pointing towards the fact that you probably will be unsuccessful. How many podcasts made it to more than a thousand subscribers or how many companies hit more than one million ARR? And there's always data to show you that you won't be successful, but sometimes just be foolish and go ahead with it. That's great. Yeah.…
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