How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)

How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)

Published on Aug 28
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<p><strong>Asha Sharma</strong> leads AI product strategy at Microsoft, where she works with thousands of companies building AI products and has unique visibility into what’s working (and what’s not) across more than 15,000 startups and enterprises. Before Microsoft, Asha was COO at Instacart, and VP of Product & Engineering at Meta, notably leading product for Messenger.</p><p><strong>What you’ll learn:</strong></p><p>1. Why we’re moving from “product as artifact” to “product as organism” and what this means for builders</p><p>2. Microsoft’s “seasons” planning framework that allows them to adapt quickly in the AI era</p><p>3. The death of the org chart: how agents are turning hierarchies into task networks and why “the loop, not the lane” is the new organizing principle</p><p>4. Why post-training will soon see more investment than pre-training—and how to build your own AI moat with fine-tuning</p><p>5. Her prediction for the “agentic society”—where org charts become work charts and ag...