Tech Founder Mari Zumbro on Building High Trust Online Communities and AI in Product Development

In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, we continue our series on AI in product development with an interview with Mari Zumbro, Co-Founder and COO of the tech startup Filament. An active participant in the open-source community, Filament describes itself as a new communication platform with the goal of accelerating global innovation with leaders who are thinking deeply about “how different communities and organizations can mutually benefit and look for arrangements that benefit the public good.” 

In this conversation, we discuss:  

• How to build high-performing product development teams that effectively leverage AI to achieve exceptional results. 

• What it takes to create work cultures where teams feel “safe to create.” 

• Why “product development is a team sport.”  

• The larger benefits and hidden problems of AI, including its impact on the environment. 

• Leadership behaviors and practices that keep teams in a generative space, putting people before AI and keeping them at the center of work design.