Ritcha Ranjan

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Where AI Works: Conversations at the Intersection of AI and Industry · Judgment is the New Bottleneck · 7 May 2026 podcast

And at Google I got a chance to work on everything from ads to workspace.

to payments and really cut my teeth as a product manager in that company and was working with AI, I would say far before AI was cool.

And uh that journey led me to Microsoft, where I got a chance to work on multiple products, including Copilot for Office.

And that journey led me over to Expedia where I am today.

Yeah, I I wish I could say I'd planned out each and every move, but really it's always the problem that attracts me.

And so I just kept finding more and more interesting problems at each role I took within each company or between companies.

And honestly, I think a lot of career is luck.

And so I've been fairly lucky, I would say, to date with both great problem spaces as well as wonderful managers.

Different.

So I think in each of those shifts that you know you mentioned, um, really what you see is that there's a some sort of democratization to access for a wider audience than before.

So if you think of things like the PC, it really brought compute into people's homes and unlocked a whole set of scenarios.

When you look at the internet, the internet really made information broadly available.

Mobile brought it all into our hands and made it accessible anywhere in the world.

And so just like that, to me, AI is a really big democratizer in terms of intelligence and capabilities.

It allows people to do things that they couldn't do before.

I am unfortunately not a painter or an artist, but yet with AI, I can make logos, I can make images, I can make art out of it.

The world's best singer, but using AI, I can craft very cute 60th birthday songs for friends for their special occasions.

And so it's really taken what was skills that were once held by potentially smaller groups of people and enabled other people to do it.

And in doing so, it's really changed what we can do on a day-to-day basis.

Different, do you think, from kind of these prior shifts?

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