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Our guest Jake Dluhy-Smith, CEO and founder of OAK&#8217;S LAB, knows the high-growth playbook better than most: his Prague-based team of around 100 top engineers and product builders works almost exclusively with US scale-ups and post-IPO companies, from Blue Owl Capital to Blackpoint Cyber.\u00a0 In this episode we dig into how AI is really changing product development \u2013 from speed and time to market to the quality of product decisions and the way teams are organised. Jake shares concrete workflows, the things AI still can&#8217;t do (and a few fuck-ups worth learning from), and where this is all heading \u2013 can you imagine a tech company without tech people? We close with practical tips for smaller teams on how to actually become AI-driven, and which skills become more valuable in this new era. 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