After two decades inside the world’s top companies, Gokul Rajaram says credentials, the very thing that built his career, may no longer matter.
In Episode 6 of The Library of Minds, Dara sits down with Gokul to explore why experience can hold teams back in the AI era and what first-principles thinkers are doing differently.
He also shares the frameworks behind some of the most important products and companies of our time, including how to find truth at the root cause of any problem, when to ignore data, and why the best founders build monocultures before they build companies.
“If you’re building for everyone, you’re not building for anyone.” — Gokul Rajaram
What’s Inside the Episode
How Gokul helped create Google’s billion-dollar ad model
Why he believes most product teams talk to customers the wrong way
When to kill a product even if users love it
The new moat that matters most in the AI era
How the best founders make fast, high-stakes decisions
To find out how he does it and why experience might be slowing your team down, you will have to listen.
Step Inside Gokul’s Mind
Gokul has created a Digital Mind on Delphi, a conversational version of himself you can actually talk to.
Ask him how he decides when to trust data, what makes a business model unstoppable, or how to design teams that scale.
Try asking:
What is the right time to kill a product?
How should I prioritize customer segments?
What is the only moat that still matters in AI?
Delphi
Open your mind.
