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Aparna Chennapragada: belief

18 May 2025 Lenny's Podcast Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI, you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada

“When you think about all the folks who think about, "Hey, this is exactly how everything's going to look and this is exactly the sequence," and so on, I think there's no substitute to experientially building it.”

— Aparna Chennapragada

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Aparna Chennapragada
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
18 May 2025
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…Very cool. Two more questions. Do you have a favorite life motto that you often come back to when you're dealing with something maybe you share with folks that they find useful as well in work or in life? I have one. In fact, actually, this is my email signature for, I don't know, for the last 20 years or so. It says the best way to predict the future is to invent it. I think it's a quote by Alan Kay. I find it useful for two things. One is no one knows anything. When you think about all the folks who think about, "Hey, this is exactly how everything's going to look and this is exactly the sequence," and so on, I think there's no substitute to experientially building it. I think the second part is if you think there's something that should exist, go build it. I love that. Final question. We've talked about standup comedy a bit. Is there a favorite under the radar standup comedian that you think people should go check out?…

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