Product managers juggle up to 122 distinct activities, yet no good tools exist to truly understand customer needs at scale. Fredrik Stockman, CEO and Co-Founder of Version Lens, has been building software since 1996, starting with IRC bots and TI-83 calculator apps, then working at Nokia and studying at KTH before launching startups in 2011. In 2022, he founded Version Lens to tackle this gap with a Product Discovery Co-pilot powered by GPT technology.
At Gathering #8, Fredrik took the audience on a foundational tour of what GPTs actually are, where they genuinely excel, and where they mislead. He then connected those insights to the concrete product decisions Version Lens has made and the lessons the team learned building AI-first in a space with zero best practices.
What GPTs Truly Are (and Are Not)
Fredrik grounded the entire talk by stripping GPTs down to their core mechanism: guessing the next word. That is the one thing they do, and they are incredibly good at it. He broke down the acronym to show what each letter actually means and where the real innovation lies.
