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Claire Vo

Founder & CEO, ChatPRD; Host, How I AI, Chatprd

Search every verified Claire Vo interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Claire Vo, founder and CEO of ChatPRD and host of How I AI, spoke at the Lenny and Friends Summit in San Francisco on September 10, 2026. In a panel discussion with OpenAI’s Tara Seshan and Nan Yu, Vo discussed product development in the AI era, including the practice of shipping imperfect features, designing agents that users can understand, and the importance of completing the final steps of a task. She also asked the OpenAI leaders about their approach to building integrated experiences versus expanding into broader ecosystems. In a separate talk at the same summit, Vo argued that traditional feature roadmaps are no longer effective, stating that AI tools have made nearly every feature plausible and buildable, which she said undermines the value of prioritization based on effort. She suggested that teams should instead raise their ambition and conviction, define success over longer time horizons, and be willing to discard software that does not meet a high bar. Vo also remarked that despite having access to advanced AI tools and coding agents, she found herself "out of good ideas," and warned that an "AI factory" combined with an outdated roadmap could accelerate poor judgment and turn bad ideas into problems more quickly.

Recent appearances

  • Is Meta’s Muse Wonder model any good?

    October 14, 2026 · 📺 How I AI

    I put Meta’s new Muse Wonder (and Wonder Full) frontier models through the How I AI bench, which covers nearly 20 tasks across prototyping, agentic workflows, coding, writing, and creative work. I scored everything with an LLM-as-a-judge pass and my own voice notes, then pulled together the first-look results you see here. What you’ll learn: 1. Why Meta’s “personal and professional agent” framing mostly holds up, and where it doesn’t 2. What active focus mode actually does on long-running tasks, and whether it’s real 3. The three agentic tasks where Muse ranked first, and why those categories…

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  • Stop planning for 2027: how OpenAI builds product 90 days at a time | Tara Sesha and Nan Yu (OpenAI)

    September 29, 2026 · 📺 Lenny's Podcast

    How do you build AI products when the technology and users’ expectations are changing so quickly? At the Lenny and Friends Summit, OpenAI’s Tara Seshan and Nan Yu join Claire Vo to discuss shipping imperfect features, designing agents people can understand, and deciding how those agents should work with other tools. They explain why rapid testing, direct conversations with users, and completing the last mile of a task matter more than ever. Recorded live at Lenny and Friends Summit on September 10, 2026, in San Francisco.

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  • Everyone’s shipping more. Does any of it matter? | Claire Vo

    September 24, 2026 · 📺 Lenny's Podcast

    AI has made it easier than ever to ship software, but how do you know what’s worth building? In her talk at the Lenny and Friends Summit, Claire Vo argues that traditional feature roadmaps can push teams to clear backlogs, copy competitors, and keep shipping without learning what matters. She makes the case for bigger ambitions, stronger convictions, and experiments grounded in real customer evidence. Recorded live at Lenny and Friends Summit on September 10, 2026, in San Francisco.

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  • She Staffed Her Profitable Startup With AI Agents | Claire Vo, ChatPRD

    July 15, 2026 · 📺 Solo Founders

    Claire Vo runs ChatPRD, an AI "Chief Product Officer" for over 100k product managers as the only full-time human, bootstrapped, with zero venture capital. The rest of her company is a staff of nine named AI agents she manages like real employees. (One of them emailed us 90 minutes before she arrived to coordinate scheduling.) She and Julian get into how a custom ChatGPT became a real business, why she runs nine scoped agents instead of one all-knowing bot, and the honest case for (and against) going 'true' solo. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Jv1... Apple Podcasts: https://podcast…

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  • The New PM, Claire Vo | Compile 26

    June 24, 2026 · 📺 Cursor

    Claire Vo, founder of ChatPRD, on what product management becomes when code is abundant but the market is not. 0:00 - Anybody can build anything 1:38 - Inventing ways to not build 7:13 - The constraint has shifted 9:42 - The age of abundance 11:51 - What product should be now 13:03 - Build something people want 15:41 - Manifesting novel ideas 17:50 - Bringing people along 20:17 - Is PM dead? 24:42 - Find the money, build companies

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  • From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo

    March 29, 2026 · 📺 Lenny's Podcast

    Claire Vo is the host of our sister podcast, “How I AI,” a former product executive and engineer, and founder of an AI startup called ChatPRD. Claire now runs her business, podcast, and family life with the help of nine OpenClaw agents running on multiple Mac Minis and old laptops. In this episode, Claire shares her journey from OpenClaw skeptic (it deleted her family calendar the first time she tried it) to true believer, and gives a masterclass in using AI agents in real life. We discuss: 1. The exact step-by-step process to install and set up OpenClaw (it’s easier than you think) 2. How to…

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  • No Lanes: How Claire Vo Runs an AI-Native Company on Her Own Terms

    March 12, 2026 · 📺 Zapier

    A year ago, Claire Vo told an audience at Lenny's Summit that PM is dead. She wasn't just talking about product managers. Claire — a three-time CPTO (LaunchDarkly, Color Health, Optimizely), founder of ChatPRD, and host of the "How I AI" podcast — joins Wade to talk about what it actually takes to lead through AI transformation: not through mandates, but through hard skills, cultural rituals, and the willingness to be wrong in front of your team. They talk about why CEO edicts don't move the needle and individual conversations do, how to frame AI as a career opportunity for skeptical enginee…

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  • Redefining Product Management in the Age of AI - ChatPRD Founder Claire Vo

    November 24, 2025 · 📺 How to Product

    What does it take to lead product and technology teams through constant transformation? In this episode of the CPO Rising Series hosted by NEOGOV CPO Denise Hemke, ChatPRD Founder and LaunchDarkly Fmr CPTO Claire Vo shares insights on the evolving role of the CPO, why speed beats perfection, and how AI is redefining experimentation and product management itself. Claire discusses her journey from founder to CPO, the rise of hybrid roles that blend engineering and product, and why the next generation of product leaders must think like business owners. Accelerate your career with our Product new…

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  • Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with ChatPRD Founder Claire Vo

    October 20, 2025 · 📺 O'Reilly

    Claire Vo, the founder of ChatPRD and host of the How I AI podcast, has a real knack for extracting and sharing practical tools, tips, and ideas that anyone can put to use today. In this episode, Claire sat down with Tim to share her perspective as a longtime product leader who began using AI to boost her own productivity and ended up turning it into a successful business. Claire sketched the origin story of ChatPRD and got into what it’s like to be the only full-time person working there (alongside a few fractional employees and a host of agents). She also weighed in on how to balance tradit…

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  • Why should founders treat AI like a teammate? | Claire Vo, Founder of ChatPRD.ai

    September 03, 2025 · 📺 The Founder's Foyer with Aishwarya Ashok

    In this episode of The Founder's Foyer Podcast, Claire joins us to talk about building with AI, vibe coding, and the future of product creation. We cover everything from AI tools that speed up coding to why product fundamentals never change. Claire shares how solo founders, startups, and even large organisations can use AI to move faster and why ignoring AI could make you unemployable in just a couple of years. Highlights include: 1. What vibe coding really means for non-technical builders 2. Why AI-powered tools are changing how products are made 3. How leaders can push teams to adopt AI…

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  • Why PMs need to build, not just manage | Claire Vo - CPTO at LaunchDarkly | TPF

    May 20, 2025 · 📺 The Product Folks

    Welcome to the another exciting episode of The Data Product Files, a podcast that dives deep into the art and science of building data-powered products. Hosted by Richa Verma and Suhas Motwani, this series dives deep into frameworks, decision-making and career lessons at the intersection of Data, AI, and Product Management. ➡️ In this episode, we sit down with Claire Vo, Chief Product & Technology Officer at LaunchDarkly, serial founder, and creator of ChatPRD — an AI copilot for PMs. Claire shares her unconventional journey from copywriter to tech executive, the intentional strategies behind…

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  • From Idea to Product in 30 Min Using AI Agents (Full Tutorial) | Claire Vo

    May 18, 2025 · 📺 Peter Yang

    Copy my best AI workflows to save time and automate busywork: https://www.behindthecraft.com 🤝 Subscribe to my practical AI newsletter read by 150K+ professionals: https://creatoreconomy.so ​ ​ Claire is the Chief Product Officer of LaunchDarkly, founder of ChatPRD, and host of the How I AI podcast. No product leader uses AI as much as Claire so I was thrilled to get her to demo how she builds a new feature with AI agents and how she’s advising PMs to adapt to AI in the next 18 months. This episode is brought to you by Vanta — Join 9K+ companies like Atlassian who use Vanta to manage risk an…

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