The Product Podcast Vercel SVP of Product on How Real AI-Native Products Operate and Ship Faster | Aparna Sinha | E284
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Feb 4, 2026 Aparna Sinha, SVP of Product at Vercel and former Google Kubernetes leader, talks about building AI-native developer platforms. She describes Vercel’s AI cloud primitives, the Team of One philosophy, and why shipping imperfect products early matters. She also covers dogfooding, hybrid pricing for AI value, and organizing tiny autonomous teams to iterate quickly.
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V0: Dogfooding The AI Cloud
- Vercel built V0 internally to let non-developers ship apps from mock-ups using AI.
- The team used V0 as a way to learn what primitives the AI cloud needed for real customers.
Speed As A Survival Strategy
- AI forces product teams to ship in an environment where the ground is constantly shifting.
- Speed and a platform that enables fast experiments are survival requirements for AI-native products.
Run Two- To Three-Person Teams
- Build very small cross-functional teams of two to three people to maximize output with AI.
- Give them broad scope and agency so constraints speed decision making and execution.