
Episode #5
The Product Leaders Podcast | Season 6 | Michelle Wright
In this episode, host Ben Moulton sits down with Michelle Wright, a fractional product leader with a background spanning banking, startups and fintech, for her second appearance on the podcast. Ben and Michelle explore the changing economics of AI and what it means for product teams as the industry shifts from experimentation to real commercial pressure. Michelle shares insights from Little Lenny's, her own AI built passion project, as a live example of how fast individuals can now build and ship.They cover the end of the AI subsidy era, the growing gap between frontier and open source models, and why companies should treat AI cost the same way they treat headcount. They also explore why engineers are seeing faster productivity gains than PMs, and what that means for team ratios and structure.Michelle argues the fundamentals of good product management, framing the right problem, judging value and viability, holding the system view, matter more than ever. She closes with thoughts on organisational redesign and what leaders need to think about over the next 12 to 24 months as AI becomes core to how teams operate.You can connect with Michelle Wright on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellereimanwright/You can also connect with the host, Ben Moulton, on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-moulton/Want to hear more? Subscribe for more episodes of The Product Leaders Podcast.

