Beyond AI Theater: How a Real AI Product Team Looks Now | Eric Anderson, SVP Product (Datasite)

We’ve all been witness to how AI collapses the org chart: leaders are back to doing IC work, ICs are shedding the busy work, and teams are shipping features in two-week sprints that used to take a year.

Our guest today is Eric Anderson, SVP of Product at Datasite, the virtual data room platform where billion-dollar M&A deals get done. He walks us through how a real-life, AI-first team has made progress in adoption and the difficulties along the way.

In this episode, Eric shares:

• How the contract has changed as the PM role has evolved. It’s not a layoff story - but product has collapsed back to subject-matter expertise, judgment, and taste
• Inside their “iteration zero” process: where PRDs are written live in the meeting, prototypes are wired to real data, and what the new bottleneck is now that building is fast
• Plus how you build trust in your AI product when a billion dollars is on the line: citations for everything, correlation, not imperative statements, and why nobody lets the computer decide

Links

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-anderson-pr0ductexec/
Datasite: https://www.datasite.com/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
03:04 AI is flattening the org chart (and why that's a good thing)
07:32 "The contract has changed": PRDs written live, ideas to code in minutes
14:42 Rise of the hyper creator: Blurring roles on the product team
17:53 Shipping fast isn't enough: Why taste and focus are the new bottleneck
21:35 Inside the virtual data room (VDR)
26:52 How Datasite builds trust in AI insights
31:59 Wrapping up

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