Hemal Shah

I just published “The Modern Day Good Product Manager/Bad Product” @hemal/the-modern-day-good-product-manager-bad-product-d5b537398e3a#.osznjycvx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@hemal/the-mod…

@saumil 100% agree. It’s a tops down transformation! The best leaders, will lead by example.

This meme is so tired already. Any CEO that treats AI adoption the same as adopting a rando SaaS tool - which I suspect is common - is destined to see no gains. You have to lean all the way in. You have to learn the tools and the terminology. You have to be evangelical, not lackadaisical. And even then you have a shot, not a guarantee. That’s what it takes.

ChatGPT for Excel is here! GPT-5.4 is shockingly good at performing Excel manipulations. In particular, it's been impressive at handling work when thrown into complex existing spreadsheets. Available for Plus, Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu users! chatgpt.com/apps/spreadshe…

Introducing Prism powered by Codex — now bringing compute, analysis and creation in one surface for Scientists & Researchers. Excited to see how this can accelerate faster hypothesis testing, and new idea generation. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

@max_a_schwarzer @MillionInt @polynoamial Will miss working with you Max, congrats on the next adventure!

I've decided to leave OpenAI. I'm incredibly proud of all the work I've been part of here, from helping create the reasoning paradigm with @MillionInt, scaling up test-time compute with @polynoamial, working on RL algorithms with my fellow strawberries, shipping o1-preview (which started life as of one of my derisking runs), to post-training o1 and o3 with @ericmitchellai, @yanndubs and many others. I'm most proud of having led the post-training team here for the last year -- the team has done incredible work and shipped some really smart models, including GPT-5, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3-Codex. OpenAI has genuinely some of the most talented researchers I have ever met, and I have learned more than I could have imagined knowing since I joined as a new grad. I want to thank @markchen90 @FidjiSimo @sama @merettm for all their support over my time here, and too many collaborators to name for the insights, ideas, and just plain fun we have had working together. After leading post-training for a year, though, I'm longing to start fresh and return to IC research work. I've been thinking about going back to technical research for quite some time, and I genuinely believe my colleagues and team here are set up to succeed going forward without me. I'm personally very excited for my next chapter -- I'm proud to be joining @AnthropicAI to get back into the weeds in RL research, and I'm looking forward supporting my friends there at this important time. Many of people I most trust and respect have joined Anthropic over the last couple of years, and I'm excited to work with them again. I have also been very impressed with Anthropic's talent, research taste and values, and I'm excited to be part of what the company does next!

@steipete @OpenAI @openclaw This is so exciting! Welcome to OpenAI 💪🏽

I'm joining @OpenAI to bring agents to everyone. @OpenClaw is becoming a foundation: open, independent, and just getting started.🦞 steipete.me/posts/2026/ope…

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@morganb No notes, loved reading these 🙏🏽 - happy birthday man!

I turn 50 next month and have been reflecting on what I’ve learned so far and how I want to live next. I wrote down a few thoughts here: docs.google.com/document/d/1NR…

@ivanhzhao has such a gift for reflecting on the past as a way to think about the future. Love this!

Holiday Zooms are elite content. Talking corporate strategy with childhood soccer participation trophies in the background and a parent off screen yells asking if they should cut the crusts off your sandwich.

So excited to share Company Knowledge - an evolution of bringing context into ChatGPT, powered by a new retrieval model! Give it a try and let us know what you think: openai.com/index/introduc…

I'm SO excited to have @AriX, @conradev and the entire Software Applications team to OpenAI. These are some of the most thoughtful, and talented builders...watch this space 🚀

🌟 Big news: Full MCP support is LIVE for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu! • Build & test your own connectors (or connect any remote MCP server) • Take action — not just search • Publish connectors across your org In beta today. We can’t wait to see what you build!

So excited about this - introducing a Slack connector inside of ChatGPT (one of the most useful connectors for my day to day), AND, having ChatGPT inside of Slack helps me pull information where the conversation is happening. I’d love to hear how you use them!🚀

@reah_ai @OpenAI Legendary — congrats my man!

marry your best friend ✔️ drop a dj set at your own wedding ✔️ back in time for @OpenAI dev day 🕠

One of the coolest products you’ll see this year.

Looking for a high 🖐️ today 👀

@nikitabier @X 🔥🔥🔥 LFG!

Ladies and gentlemen, I've officially posted my way to the top: I'm joining @X as Head of Product. 𝕏 is the most important social network in the world. It's where internet culture originates and where the world's most influential people convene. Finding my community and building an audience on 𝕏 has impacted my life more than any single thing: it's unlocked friendships, professional opportunities and it's even where I met my girlfriend. While I already spend every waking hour on this app, I'll now be spending that time helping others unlock that same value. And we'll certainly be leveraging the power of Grok to create hyper-relevant timelines and help people understand everything that's happening. Thanks @elonmusk and the 𝕏 team for inviting me to work on the product that I live and breathe.

@nikitabier @dickc Dulls in comparison to his evergreen wisdom: “Undermine authority, consolidate power.” - @dickc

The most important lesson I ever learned about dealmaking was the line @dickc told me: “Every great deal dies three deaths.” Once you understand that, you will be emotionally prepared for each crisis.

One of my favorite products to improve personal productivity. Another hit from a legendary team.

@nikitabier You are the most unhinged man I’ve ever met.

Ladies and gentlemen, I pleased to announce my latest app: Introducing Explode · Send disappearing texts & photos inside iMessage · Only the sender needs the app: Drop them right into your chats · Screenshots are blocked too Why did we build it? Explode is a spite app. Yes, an app to spite Snapchat. Two years ago, I met with Snapchat’s CEO to discuss acquiring my previous company. I openly shared how fast we were growing. Just a week later—over the Thanksgiving holiday—Snapchat kicked our app off the SnapKit platform, abruptly halting our growth. As Ghengis Khan once said: the greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies, rob them of their wealth and see them bathed in tears. Get Explode below ⬇️