Alastair Preacher

Forever restless with the status quo, I believe we can always do better for our customers and improve business value. If you're looking to scale your business, improve customer experience, or innovate in product development, let's talk.

OpenAI Undercuts Itself, Figma's Two-Hour Skill, Block's Thousand Apps

Y Combinator

+19

OpenAI Undercuts Itself, Figma's Two-Hour Skill, Block's Thousand Apps

Plus: why 59% of a leading AI benchmark's hard tests reject correct code, Lenny's burnout data, and the art of not

BYAlastair Preacher

Jul 17, 2026

Product Leadership

+13

🎙️ Pod Shots #144 - The Art of Not

🤖 Everyone's racing to add more. This week, the winners did the opposite.

BYAlastair Preacher

Jul 14, 2026

Anthropic's Office Invasion, Figma's Code Grab, Meta's Mind Reader

Packy McCormick

+33

Anthropic's Office Invasion, Figma's Code Grab, Meta's Mind Reader

Plus: X launches MCP server, iOS 27 personalises Siri, and Hopper's $35M pricing lesson

BYAlastair Preacher

Jul 10, 2026

Etched

+13

🎙️ Pod Shots #143 - Bet the Company

🤖 De-risking is the safe advice. This week, the winners did the opposite.

BYAlastair Preacher

Jul 7, 2026

I'm back baby (Fable returns), Tesla's 16GW Solar Play, AWS's 11,000 Junior Hires

Packy McCormick

+47

I'm back baby (Fable returns), Tesla's 16GW Solar Play, AWS's 11,000 Junior Hires

Plus: return on tokens, the tells that give away AI design, and why AI adoption is a trust problem not a tooling one

BYAlastair Preacher

Jul 3, 2026

Pod Shot

🎙️ Pod Shots #142 - Use Less AI

🤖 The people building AI just told you to use less of it.

BYAlastair Preacher

Jun 30, 2026

Uber Eats

Midjourney's Medical Pivot, Meta's Fintech Play Claude's Slack Move

Plus: agent-native version control, collaborative product vision, and why the B2B launch playbook is dead

BYAlastair Preacher

Jun 26, 2026

Workflow Automation

🎙️ Pod Shots #141 - It's Never The Model

🗑️ The Waste Nobody Talks About

BYAlastair Preacher

Jun 23, 2026

Anthropic

Anthropic's Forced Shutdown, Apple's Default Win, Coinbase's Agent Rails

Plus: the model price war, the open web gets squeezed, and why Atlassian bought a startup it didn't want

BYAlastair Preacher

Jun 19, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #140 - The Human Edge

🤖 The 4 Product Leadership Skills AI Still Can't Touch

BYAlastair Preacher

Jun 16, 2026

Uber Eats

Apple's Gemini Pivot, SpaceX's Record Price, Agentic Payments Go Live

Plus: cloud dev environments for AI agents, UX nudges from Uber Eats, and why organisational metabolism is the new moat

BYAlastair Preacher

Jun 12, 2026

Startups

🎙️ Pod Shots #139- Heat Up the Bathtub, Not the Ocean

🤖 The unglamorous habit behind every durable business: get close, stay close, then scale.

BYAlastair Preacher

Jun 9, 2026

SpaceX

The IPO Floodgates, The Model Land-Grab, The Wearable Bet

Plus: AI-driven tech debt, the breaking internship pipeline, and judgment as the last moat

BYAlastair Preacher

Jun 5, 2026

Pod Shot

🎙️ Pod Shots #138 - We're in 1997

🤖 Exit Multiples Have 10x'd, Agents Have Crossed a Capability Threshold, and Most Companies Are Running on Last Year's Playbook

BYAlastair Preacher

Jun 2, 2026

SpaceX

Microsoft's Claude Retreat, ClickUp's 22% Cut, AI jobs impact [again]

Plus: discovery slop, the leadership delegation triad, and PM workflow automation targets

BYAlastair Preacher

May 29, 2026

Pod Shot

🎙️ Pod Shots #137 - Beyond the Keyboard

🎯 The Digital Ceiling Is Real - and the Next Frontier Is Physical, Political, and Stubbornly Human

BYAlastair Preacher

May 26, 2026

Anthropic

Google's Everything Launch, Karpathy's Move, Spotify's AI Triple

Plus: why coordinated execution is the new AI moat, observability that fixes its own bugs, and why emotion beats logic in the boardroom

BYAlastair Preacher

May 22, 2026

Eric Reis

🎙️ Pod Shots #136 - Why do great companies go bad?

🤖 The thing that destroys most great companies is not competition - it is their own success.

BYAlastair Preacher

May 19, 2026

Anthropic

Anthropic's Breakout, Google's Blitz, Bumble's Bet

Plus: why freemium breaks in AI, cross-functional goal hacks, and the tool that cuts your LLM costs by 70%

BYAlastair Preacher

May 15, 2026

Ways of Working

🎙️ Pod Shots #135 - The Self Modifying Era

🤖 The Self-Modifying Era: When Software, Teams, and Roles All Become Malleable

BYAlastair Preacher

May 12, 2026

Judgement

🎙️ Pod Shots #134 - The Agency Gap

🤖 Skills Got Cheap. Agency Didn't

BYAlastair Preacher

May 5, 2026

+11

OpenAI's Freedom, Shopify's Junior Bet, Claude Postmortem

Plus: agent memory patterns, vibe-coding goes mobile, and why distribution beats product

BYAlastair Preacher

May 1, 2026

Future of Product

🎙️ Pod Shots #133 - The New Rules of Product

🤖 The Product Is No Longer the Moat - And Most Teams Haven't Noticed Yet

BYAlastair Preacher

Apr 28, 2026

SpaceX

SpaceX's Cursor Play, Claude Does Design, Meta Tracks Employees

Plus: strategy coherence frameworks, CEO daily routines, and UX details AI can't replicate

BYAlastair Preacher

Apr 24, 2026

Jobs

🎙️ Pod Shots #132 - PM Trouble

🤖 Why Half of Product Managers Are in Trouble

BYAlastair Preacher

Apr 21, 2026

Alastair Preacher

OpenAI Undercuts Itself, Figma's Two-Hour Skill, Block's Thousand Apps

🎙️ Pod Shots #144 - The Art of Not

Anthropic's Office Invasion, Figma's Code Grab, Meta's Mind Reader

🎙️ Pod Shots #143 - Bet the Company

I'm back baby (Fable returns), Tesla's 16GW Solar Play, AWS's 11,000 Junior Hires

🎙️ Pod Shots #142 - Use Less AI

Midjourney's Medical Pivot, Meta's Fintech Play Claude's Slack Move

🎙️ Pod Shots #141 - It's Never The Model

Anthropic's Forced Shutdown, Apple's Default Win, Coinbase's Agent Rails

🎙️ Pod Shots #140 - The Human Edge

Apple's Gemini Pivot, SpaceX's Record Price, Agentic Payments Go Live

🎙️ Pod Shots #139- Heat Up the Bathtub, Not the Ocean

The IPO Floodgates, The Model Land-Grab, The Wearable Bet

🎙️ Pod Shots #138 - We're in 1997

Microsoft's Claude Retreat, ClickUp's 22% Cut, AI jobs impact [again]

🎙️ Pod Shots #137 - Beyond the Keyboard

Google's Everything Launch, Karpathy's Move, Spotify's AI Triple

🎙️ Pod Shots #136 - Why do great companies go bad?

Anthropic's Breakout, Google's Blitz, Bumble's Bet

🎙️ Pod Shots #135 - The Self Modifying Era

🎙️ Pod Shots #134 - The Agency Gap

OpenAI's Freedom, Shopify's Junior Bet, Claude Postmortem

🎙️ Pod Shots #133 - The New Rules of Product

SpaceX's Cursor Play, Claude Does Design, Meta Tracks Employees

🎙️ Pod Shots #132 - PM Trouble

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