Podcast
Accelerate Podcast, with Becky Flint
When anyone can prototype something by Friday, the hard question stops being “can we build it.” It becomes “should we, and how would we even know?” I sat down with Becky Flint, founder and CEO of Dragonboat, to talk about what changes when building gets easy: why judgment becomes the real differentiator, where AI is genuinely helping versus just amplifying old organizational weaknesses, and why an agentic operating model is only as good as the source of truth underneath it.
What you’ll hear
- The bottleneck moved from execution to decision quality
- A lot of “building” right now is performative
- The PM isn’t dead, but the job is shifting to judgment
- Democratization is great until a one-line change takes the site down
- The waterfall-era disciplines are quietly coming back, because they’re cheap now
- Product Ops is the force multiplier, and it’s misunderstood
- Don’t automate what’s already broken
If this resonates, I wrote more about the same idea, judgment as the real bottleneck once building gets cheap, in Strategy to Results →