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a16z|Sep 16, 2026 16:07
Lightfield co-founder and CEO Keith Peiris on why AI ends swim lanes and makes everyone a generalist: "One of the things I regret about Tome that we've definitely fixed with Lightfield is... Henry, my co-founder, says this all the time: We had a lot of people playing house." "You have the product leader and the marketing leader and the CS leader, and they all have their swim lanes, and they get really mad if someone gives them feedback about something in their swim lane." "Because of that, we were slowed to a crawl. Maybe put another way, it was impossible to pivot." "So we're like, none of that. No one has a swim lane. Everyone owns product and everyone owns customer success... We have 40 people at the company. Everyone shows up to the same standup every morning. We stack rank the most important problems... and then whoever's free just takes them." "Because of the age that we're in... We have this environment where basically everyone is a generalist. Engineers run projects, designers run projects, CSMs run projects." @keithpeiris @joeschmidtiv
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