SCOUT· 66%1h 21m·2026-08-30·TechnologyAI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
Tara Seshan leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI (alongside previous podcast guest Andrew Ambrosino, who’s her engineering manager). Before OpenAI, Tara spent over six years at Stripe, where she joined as one of the first five product managers. She went on to lead product for Watershed, which Time…
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