Prasanna

How many of you in the audience are developer?

Raise hands.

OK.

I expected a little bit more.

I mean, about 15% to 20%.

I hated to break it to you guys that I was a developer myself.

Most of us think that pushing code is equal to product.

I'm sorry.

Pushing code is not equal to product.

A product is a problem that you're solving for a group of people.

Often the group is called, a fancy name is given to it, called as the ideal customer persona.

Just, you know, you group them in a certain way.

And then you refer to that using a shorthand name.

Often that shorthand name is called as a category.

But of course, you know, if you're designing a chair or you're building a product like a chair, you're not going to say, hey, what problem does a chair solve?

You're going to be like, yeah, this is chair.

I want ergonomic chair, or I want a chair with a wheel.

But imagine the day when chair was getting designed for the first time ever.

At that particular point in time, we did not have the common mental model of the word called chair.

We were perhaps having this conversation about, OK, we're trying to make sure that we're able to elevate someone