#80: March event at Beam. See you there!
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Next up, weâre heading to Beam for an evening of building, sharing, and connecting and weâd love to have you there.
What is Beam?
Beam GmbH is a venture builder that partners with founders to create and grow new companies from the ground up. Every year, the team identifies and validates dozens of real business problems and turns the most promising ones â mainly in B2B and logistics â into startup opportunities. Founders get early access to customers, funding, and a strong expert network to test ideas and build MVPs fast. If youâre curious, check them out at Beamberlin.
Weâre bringing together around 40 people from the community for a focused evening on one of the hardest things in product: the 0 to 1 journey. If youâre a builder â someone working on early-stage ideas, running experiments, or trying to figure out whatâs actually worth building â this one is for you. The goal isnât to hear polished success stories. Itâs to sit in a room with people whoâve been through it and get honest about what worked, what didnât, and why. The reasoning behind the decisions matters just as much as the outcomes, and thatâs exactly the kind of conversation we want to create space for.
Our speakers
đ€ Abhishekkumar Savita Rai is a technology and product leader with international experience across Southeast Asia and Germany. He specializes in building and scaling tech-driven products across cloud, fintech, e-commerce, and health-tech â heâll bring a sharp perspective on what it takes to move fast in complex environments.
đ€ Daniel Quiter is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Kiezbote, a sustainable city logistics provider combining digital solutions with fair working conditions. Daniel will share how he applies structured, evidence-based methods to test assumptions and build practical, socially responsible solutions in an early-stage environment.
đ° Product Leadersâ Wisdom
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The AI-Native Shift: Reimagining Product Teams and Operations
In Growth Unhinged, Justin Norris challenges the traditional âoperatorâ role, arguing that AI-native individuals must move beyond manual âglue work.â The unique takeaway is treating AI not as a tool, but as a team-level Chief of Staff. He illustrates how a modern product team can offload operational complexity to machines, allowing members to reclaim their headspace for high-level strategic judgment and organizational alignment.
Also, Kyle Poyar highlights a radical shift in team performance, detailing how an AI-native growth team managed 514 experiments in a single year. This isnât just about faster tools; itâs about a structural redesign where engineers act as AI operators. The article reveals how shifting the operational burden to AI agents allows teams to break human-scale limitations, turning monthly learning cycles into daily ones.
Brian Balfour argues that since AI makes code âcheap,â the traditional large product team is becoming a liability. He advocates for a shift toward smaller, data-centric team structures. The standout insight: a teamâs competitive moat is no longer its output, but its proprietary data. He explains why AI-native teams must pivot from âbuilding featuresâ to âmanaging learning flowsâ to stay relevant in an automated world.
đȘ Open Roles
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From our DJ Marco DâAvila
Interesting, how do I register to the event. I might know some one validating a business model adjacent to fashion, reverse logistics,and clothing landfills.