Tom Verrilli

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) · 2 Aug 2026 podcast

What's really cool with a bunch of the AI tooling right now is as they're describing, oh, I'm having a problem, you can literally be watching the code base live

and work out is that actually a bug that's happening right now, right now?

Or is that a comprehension gap where it doesn't work as expected?

And suddenly you've got this video artifact of someone using your product.

You can be analyzing the code base in real time and you can be just talking kind of through AI to the code base to understand what's actually happening.

And it's like...

Honestly, my second week at Whatnot, I remember sitting in a room watching, so Whatnot for those not familiar, kind of commerce, largely auction platform, but live commerce platform.

And there's varieties of different ways to run an auction, but one of them is what's called sudden death, which is like when the timer ends, it ends.

Otherwise, the classic auction environment, somebody bids in the last five seconds, it adds 10 seconds back on the clock.

And a seller can decide what option model they want.

And I was sitting there watching a seller who was like, these are taking too long.

I wish this seven second timer was actually three seconds because I want to move more product.

And I watched two engineers in the office look at each other and be like, that's a conflict.

We could totally do that.

And so they went and updated it in real time and then jumped in the chat of a show and just said, refresh your app.

And then all of a sudden, bang, it was operating that way.

And I was like, cool, I'm with my people.

I'm in like the right place because that's the level of like responsiveness that you can get.

in a live environment.

And obviously, AI means that that's really easy for lots of people to take on.

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