Bio
Chief Product Officer at Microsoft, leading AI product strategy across productivity tools. Former CPO at Robinhood and former VP of Product at Google. Public reference voice for the "NLX is the new UX" thesis and the Frontier-cohort tiered-rollout pattern in enterprise software.
Operating themes
- NLX is the surface. Conversation flow, turn-taking, and tone are product design, not content.
- Living one year in the future. Personal philosophy operationalised as a Frontier cohort with bleeding-edge access.
- Taste over roadmaps. "Punchline market fit" and iteration cycles replace 12-month planning theatre.
- Both legs of the splits. In enterprise, run fast tech cycles and slow change management simultaneously.
Cards
- Natural language is the interface; conversation flow is the design surface — Natural language interaction is the surface; conversation flow is design [Tier A]
- Run a Frontier cohort — early-adopter access to bleeding-edge features — in parallel with normal rollout — Run a named early-adopter cohort in parallel with normal rollout [Tier B]
Sources captured
- 2026-04-28 — Lenny's Podcast, "NLX is the new UX, living in the future, taste over roadmaps" (
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