# Asha Sharma

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Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Asha Sharma (EVP & CEO, Xbox) talking, from an interview on Lenny's Podcast published Aug 28, 2025.

- Role: EVP & CEO, Xbox

## What Asha Sharma said

- [AI winners move from adoption to measurable growth](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-winners-move-from-adoption-to-measurable-growth/)
  Lenny's Podcast · Aug 28, 2025 · 7 min
  > “And we saw a massive difference from when we used, you know, synthetic fine tuning to when we annotated 600,000 patient physician interactions by experts” — Asha Sharma · [15:25](https://realalpha.app/v/J9UWaltU-7Q/?t=925)
- [Agents could turn org charts into work charts](https://realalpha.app/s/agents-could-turn-org-charts-into-work-charts/)
  Lenny's Podcast · Aug 28, 2025 · 5 min
  > “And so I think that when all of that happens, the work chart, the org chart starts to become the work chart.” — Asha Sharma · [21:44](https://realalpha.app/v/J9UWaltU-7Q/?t=1304)
- [Microsoft plans around seasons, not fixed roadmaps](https://realalpha.app/s/microsoft-plans-around-seasons-not-fixed-roadmaps/)
  Lenny's Podcast · Aug 28, 2025 · 4 min
  > “And so a season, which is very uncomfortable, can be denoted by a set of secular changes that are happening in the industry or that are happening from customers.” — Asha Sharma · [31:26](https://realalpha.app/v/J9UWaltU-7Q/?t=1886)
- [Post-training could draw more investment than pre-training](https://realalpha.app/s/post-training-could-draw-more-investment-than-pre-training/)
  Lenny's Podcast · Aug 28, 2025 · 5 min
  > “Like, I believe we will see, you know, just as much money spent on post-training as we will on pre-training and in the future more on post-training.” — Asha Sharma · [44:57](https://realalpha.app/v/J9UWaltU-7Q/?t=2697)
- [AI products are becoming living feedback loops](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-products-are-becoming-living-feedback-loops/)
  Lenny's Podcast · Aug 28, 2025 · 5 min
  > “Because these models are so effective at this point, you want to start to tune them to certain types of outcomes, whether it's price or performance or quality.” — Asha Sharma · [5:47](https://realalpha.app/v/J9UWaltU-7Q/?t=347)
- [Platforms win through foundational systems, not feature count](https://realalpha.app/s/platforms-win-through-foundational-systems-not-feature-count/)
  Lenny's Podcast · Aug 28, 2025 · 4 min
  > “And the single most important thing that we could have done and did during my time there was create a matching platform” — Asha Sharma · [36:43](https://realalpha.app/v/J9UWaltU-7Q/?t=2203)
- [AI interfaces are shifting toward composability](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-interfaces-are-shifting-toward-composability/)
  Lenny's Podcast · Aug 28, 2025 · 4 min
  > “I think that there's a bunch of trends that are kind of working in the favor for like the future of products being about composability and not the canvas.” — Asha Sharma · [17:09](https://realalpha.app/v/J9UWaltU-7Q/?t=1029)
- [Satya Nadella uses optimism to renew team commitment](https://realalpha.app/s/satya-nadella-uses-optimism-to-renew-team-commitment/)
  Lenny's Podcast · Aug 28, 2025 · 2 min
  > “I've learned that optimism is a renewable resource.” — Asha Sharma · [39:46](https://realalpha.app/v/J9UWaltU-7Q/?t=2386)

## The episode

- [How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma](https://realalpha.app/v/J9UWaltU-7Q/) · Lenny's Podcast · Aug 28, 2025