Kevin Weil

OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter)

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Opening

Kevin Weil (00:00:00): The AI models that you're using today is the worst AI model you will ever use for the rest of your life, and when you actually get that in your head, it's kind of wild. Everywhere I've ever worked before this, you kind of know what technology you're building on, but that's not true at all with AI. Every two months, computers can do something they've never been able to do before and you need to completely think differently about what you're doing....

The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.

Low-ego framing

AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter)" date: "2025-04-10" type: "podcast" guest: "Kevin Weil" channel: "Lenny's...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly

Kevin Weil (00:05:23): Thank you so much for having me. We've been talking about doing this forever and we made it happen. Lenny Rachitsky...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Carry memory

Lenny Rachitsky (00:45:23): I want to come back to that you talked about researchers and their relationship with product teams. I imagine a lot of innovation comes from...

Returns to something said earlier, proving the conversation has memory.

Low-ego framing

this is the most viral thing that's happened in AI, which a high bar since, I don't know, ChatGPT launched. Just like, did you guys expect it to go this well? What does it feel like internally? Kevin...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly

Lenny Rachitsky (01:31:09): It's going to work out great. Okay. Well, thank you, Kevin. Thanks for being here. Kevin Weil (01:31:12): All right, man, thanks so much. See you soon. Lenny...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.