How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma

Asha Sharma leads AI product strategy at Microsoft, where she works with thousands of companies building AI products and has unique visibility into what’s working (and what’s not) across more than 15,000 startups and enterprises. Before Microsoft, Asha was COO at Instacart, and VP of Product & Engineering at Meta, notably leading product for Messenger. *What you’ll learn:* 1. Why we’re moving from “product as artifact” to “product as organism” and what this means for builders 2. Microsoft’s “seasons” planning framework that allows them to adapt quickly in the AI era 3. The death of the org chart: how agents are turning hierarchies into task networks and why “the loop, not the lane” is the new organizing principle 4. Why post-training will soon see more investment than pre-training—and how to build your own AI moat with fine-tuning 5. Her prediction for the “agentic society”—where org charts become work charts and agents outnumber humans in your company 6. The three-phase pattern every successful AI company follows (and why most fail at phase one) 7. The rise of code-native interfaces and why GUIs might be going the way of the desktop 8. What Asha learned from Satya Nadella about optimism *Brought to you by:* Enterpret—Transform customer feedback into product growth: https://enterpret.com/lenny DX—The developer intelligence platform designed by leading researchers: https://getdx.com/lenny Fin—The #1 AI agent for customer service: https://fin.ai/lenny *Transcript:* ⁠https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-80000-companies-build-with-ai-asha-sharma *My biggest takeaways (for paid newsletter subscribers):* ⁠https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/i/171413445/my-biggest-takeaways-from-this-conversation *Where to find Asha Sharma:* • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aboutasha/ • Blog: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/author/asha-sharma/ *Where to find Lenny:* • Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com • X: https://twitter.com/lennysan • LinkedIn: https://www.l