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AI-Driven Growth

A podcast by Åsmund

Conversations from inside the AI transformation.

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  1. 01 · Google DeepMind · 2026-10-23 Building it is no longer the hard part Arash Sadr, Applied AI Strategist, Google DeepMind Building an AI product is no longer the hurdle. Getting people to use it well, and keep thinking, is.

    A conversation with Arash Sadr, Applied AI Strategist at Google DeepMind, about what works with AI today and what changes in the next 12–24 months. Arash came to AI from industrial design and brings DeepMind's research into Google products used by billions of people. He is writing the forthcoming O'Reilly book Designing for AI.

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  2. 02 · Solo · 2026-10-23 The productivity drug of AI Åsmund reflection A finished document looks like finished thinking. With AI, it often isn't.

    A reflection piece on a pattern from Åsmund's client work: AI separates producing from thinking, and fast output can hide that nobody did the thinking, highlighted through a few real-life stories.

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  3. 03 · Zoom · 2026-10-23 Who should own AI in your company? Laetitia Farrugia, Chief of Staff, Zoom Zoom made two early calls: no training on customer data, and no foundation model of its own. Then came the hard part.

    A conversation with Laetitia Farrugia, Chief of Staff at Zoom and one of the leaders of its AI transformation, about how the company set up AI for its global workforce. She has spent nearly two decades in operations at Apple, VMware and Zoom, turning strategy into execution.

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Arash Sadr, Google DeepMind
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