#372 Bulletproof Large Scale Data Science with Srini Raghavan, Chief Product Officer at Freshworks
About this episode
The episode discusses the evolving landscape of software development and user experience in the age of AI with Srini Raghavan from Freshworks.
Software buying decisions used to be made once, by someone far removed from the people actually using the tool. That model is breaking down. Teams now expect software to work out of the box, without weeks of setup, integration, and configuration before anyone sees value. At the same time, a growing share of "users" aren't people at all — they're AI agents calling the same systems through APIs and chat interfaces. That raises a set of questions worth sitting with: what happens to user experience when the user isn't human? Can personalization and simplicity coexist, or is one always traded for the other? And as building software gets cheaper, what actually separates a good product from a cluttered one? Srini Raghavan is Chief Product Officer at Freshworks, where he leads product strategy for the company's AI-powered customer and employee experience software. He previously served as Chief Product Officer at RingCentral and SVP of Product at Five9, and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In the episode, Richie and Srini explore the SaaS consolidation trend and why the "SaaSpocalypse" prediction missed the point, building software that works for both…
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