Uri Fen (Microsoft MSAI Hive): Focus, Killing Products, and the Value Only You Can Bring

Description

Uri Fen is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, in the MSAI Hive group (Microsoft Search, Assistant and Intelligence) in Herzliya, which builds AI products for planning, managing, and summarizing meetings within Microsoft's ecosystem. In the conversation he talks about the technological pivot the team went through with the arrival of the LLM, about the importance of focus and discovery over execution, about the courage to 'kill' products, and about his side projects in the field of mental health. The core of the episode is the tension between a product manager's desire to do everything (FOMO) and the need to distill the unique value that only they can bring.