Ankit Jain

A podcast where I had a wonderful time discussing a spectrum of topics on Product Management: - some non-obvious Aha moments in Product career - early career level-up map & hacks - experiment hacks - 0-to-1 journeys & scale-ups - B2B vs B2C flavours in PM youtube.com/watch?v=TTrP8F…

Two counteracting forces every product leader building with AI should be tracking: 1. Longevity gains: AI-accelerated drug discovery and preventive health will add years to human lifespan. 2. Livelihood collapse: Labour displacement during the 10-20 year transition window will…

Billions of blue blistering barnacles!

LLMs don't manage anger. They manage attention. And they're terrible at it. The failure modes: - Recency bias - Anchoring bias - "Context rot" - "Lost-in-the-middle" problem All symptoms of the same root cause: attention collapse across long context windows. This isn't a…

"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr Beale."

Most PMs never make the leap to be a GM because they mistake product-market fit for market intuition. They are different skills. Product intuition: What to build, how to ship it, where to optimize. Market intuition: Where value is concentrating, why customers switch, how…

The entire theory of relativity and the effects it predicts hinge on 2 postulates (truths assumed because they help derive a framework that explains all experiments and observations): - Space-Time's geometry has Lorentz symmetry - Finite, invariant speed 'c' of everything through…

Well, no hockey stick growth, but hopefully being interesting and useful via my takes for a few folks out there. Appreciation and thanks for the engagement! 2025-10-23: 700 followers (+100 in 533 days) 2024-05-08: 600 followers (+100 in 414 days) 2023-03-21: 500 followers

The more production AI systems I see, the more my intuition shifts. Teams are extracting massive value from transformer architecture that hasn't fundamentally changed: - Creative retrieval strategies solving context window constraints - Workflow orchestration patterns converting…

The real opportunity of AI in company internal processes isn’t automation. It’s institutionalizing expertise. The highest ROI comes from: 1. Mapping how top performers think, decide and prioritize 2. Capturing their mental models, workflows and micro-decisions 3. Encoding this…

The Mid-Market Trap. Most SaaS companies underestimate the operational cost of serving $10-$100k ACV customers. The economics are deceptive: - $1k ACV: Self-serve scales. Product handles onboarding. Common denominator wins. - $1mn ACV: Customization pays for itself.…

Contrarian conviction gets harder to display as you get senior. Not because you stop having opinions. Because the cost structure of being wrong changes completely. - Early career: Wrong take = learning tax - VP level: Wrong take = credibility hit, team confusion - C-suite:…

The brutal reality of building a $5M+ ARR SaaS: The market filters you at every step. 1. Enough people must have the problem. 2. Enough must know they have it and be actively seeking help. 3. Enough must have a budget to solve it. 4. Enough must choose you over alternatives. 5.…

The Professional Setup Saturation Test. The best career benchmark isn't titles or compensation. It's the point where external advice stops being novel. Your work environment should be the richest source of insight. The 4-Step Audit for On-the-Job Learning: 1. Select: Identify…

Enterprise procurement systems create invisible pricing thresholds. Cross one, and your deal enters a maze of reviews, legal redlines, and frozen budgets. Smart teams price just below those thresholds. The faster buying cycle often yields higher realized revenue than a…

The real incumbent in most B2B “workflow” product categories isn’t another SaaS. It’s spreadsheets. They signal user pain, but not always business potential. Sometimes they reveal a problem too fragmented, or too small, to build a category around.

Learned a simple P&L rule that reframed my view on talent strategy: The 3x Value Multiplier. Value = Revenue per headcount / Cost per headcount - 1x: Covers salary/cost. You've met the bare minimum. - 2x: Covers overhead (tools, real estate, support staff, etc.). You're now at…

How does "expertise" evolve as one engages in a new knowledge domain? 1. Conceptual: Theory, fundamentals, taxonomy 2. Applied: Convert theory into practice, implementation details, experiential learning, bringing together concepts to achieve a tangible goal 3. Strategic:…

The explosion of deep, expert-level knowledge at one's fingertips requires even more to build judgment on the level of abstraction to stay at that is sufficient to develop understanding on a new topic for the practical problem at hand. Rabbit-holing, while intellectually…

There was "keyword stuffing" for SEO. Now we are racing towards "context stuffing" for LLM Optimization (LLMO). Articles / blogs not written primarily for human readers but for LLMs to surface inside the generated text with citations. More structure, facts, citations, blurbs.…