Vahid Jozi

Fractional CPO - Board member

Is your product organization failing to move revenue, retention, or valuation? Product not delivering against the plan you sold the board? I step in as a senior product leader without full-time exec cost or risk.

I am the Founder and Managing Partner of FractionalCPO, a product leadership and growth consulting firm that doesn't just advise, but embeds. We work with Private Equity and high-growth enterprises to transition or augment product leadership and drive revenue growth from product.

Companies die from focusing on trying to improve metrics instead of focusing on delivering customer value. They often lack the operational velocity to turn strategy into enterprise value. We don't do performative roadmaps or endless committees. We identify the bottleneck, install high-velocity systems, and execute until the metrics move. We’ve been doing this successfully for a decade, helping clients through growth, exits, and IPOs.

🌐 Website: [FractionalCPO.com]

A bit about me:

- Builder: 4x founder and former exec (exits & failures included)
- Global: Lived in 16+ countries before university
- Discipline: 2nd-degree black belt in Taekwondo & avid meditator
- Loyalty: The guy you call when you need a ride to the airport or an ear to hear
- I’m serious about your business, but not too serious as a person.

One of my core beliefs is the power of a tribe — people who show up for each other, without being asked — which inspired me to create the Helpful Podcast, where I dig into the messiness of building, failing, and the people who show up when it counts.

🎙 Podcast: [Helpful.Show]

Let’s connect and build something real.

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A Hardware enable SaaS (HESaaS) platform for video IoT serving the likes of NASA, Disney, Fedex

the 3 types of CPOs i've worked with:



1. startup CPO: the chaos wrangler

builds the plane while it's falling. does everything from user interviews to writing specs to making coffee runs.
never sleeps. lives on adrenaline and hope.

2. scale-up CPO: the process architect

turns madness into method. builds teams and frameworks faster than engineers build features.
specializes in saying "we need a system for that."

3. enterprise CPO: the alignment wizard

navigates political landscapes like a pro diplomat. translates innovation into business speak.
spends 80% of time in meetings about meetings.

which one are you? or which one do you work with?

Revenue growth through product leadership

Product & Business Leader | Scaling Growth & Digital Transformation | Ex-Pro Athlete Applying Sports Principles to Drive Business Excellence | Leadership & Peak Performance Advocate

Product Manager with 8+ years building AI/ML, digital and SaaS products from 0→1, and scaling product and teams from 1→10, with proven ability to scale operations 1000%+ while maintaining lean teams. Track record includes $600K ARR recovery in 30 days, scaling from 0 to $7MM revenue with 3-person ops team, and driving $30MM+ enterprise impact.

Specializing in product-led growth, operational excellence, and AI-powered solutions for health tech, B2B SaaS, and Utilities Industry.

Known for systems thinking, collaborative leadership, and high-velocity execution. I bring customer obsession to every product decision, with proven platform thinking that scales from startup to enterprise.

Currently: Building AI-powered health and longevity products to gain hands on experience with Agentic products.

Let's connect - I specialize in making the impossible look inevitable.

Robin Ayme

OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Health.

I'm building a voice AI health companion in the longevity space.

My first reaction? A pit in my stomach.

Then I read the announcement. And I'm now genuinely excited.

This is exactly what power users have been doing for 2 years. Connect WHOOP. Upload labs. Ask questions.

OpenAI just productized it for 230 million weekly health queries.

What ChatGPT Health is today:
→ Connect Apple Health, wearables, medical records
→ Ask questions, get personalized answers
→ Encrypted and isolated from other chats

What it's not (yet):
→ Proactive
→ Behavior change focused
→ Designed to ask YOU the right questions

Most people don't know what to ask about their health.

They don't think "my HRV dropped 15%, what should I change?"

They just feel tired. Or off. Or stuck.

Right now, ChatGPT Health is a brilliant encyclopedia you query.

But here's where I think this is heading:

Pulse.

OpenAI's daily briefing feature is the unlock. Imagine waking up to:

"Your sleep dropped 20% this week. You have a high-stakes meeting Thursday. Here's a wind-down protocol for tonight and a gym session to optimize your HRV before then."

That's not Q&A. That's proactive health coaching.

The shift from "ask me anything" to "here's what you need to know today" changes everything.

And the ChatGPT App layer is about to explode.

Remember when Apple Health launched and thousands of apps got built on top? Same opportunity here.

ChatGPT Health becomes infrastructure.
Vertical apps get built for longevity protocols, metabolic coaching, post-surgery recovery, sport-specific performance.

The real unlock? When this connects outward. Not just insights but actions - gym classes booked, clinic appointments scheduled based on your DEXA trends.

Who this validates:
Function Health (literally a launch partner), the $10B+ longevity market, niche B2B plays, behavior change platforms.

Who should be nervous:
Generic symptom checkers. "Upload labs, get interpretation" apps. Superpower and InsideTracker will need to double down on what makes them different. The commodity layer just got commoditized.

The honest risks:
AI hallucinations in health advice are real. Privacy concerns aren't going away - even if a strong effort has been done here in terms of separation of concerns. 
Bertalan Meskó, MD, PhD highlighted it nicely. 

But the upside for underserved users who can't afford concierge medicine? Massive.

What this changes for me:
Not much, honestly. or at least I don't know yet. 
I think it’s hard to compete against OpenAI. There is still a spot for niches (think HYBRD or Noom)

Data plus AI was always just foundation. The hard part is the last mile - getting someone to actually change.

OpenAI just built the infrastructure. And that's exciting

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Building AI Health & Longevity Products | Cross-functional Leader | 0→1 + Scale Expert | Ex-Pro-Athlete

The PM/engineer line is blurring

Every day a new AI coding tool or update drops. PMs are shipping features themselves. Engineers are making product calls in the prompt.

Everyone becomes 10x more efficient - that's exciting. 

The walls are coming down.

But here's what's actually happening: the skills are merging, not disappearing. PMs who understand architecture and design patterns make better decisions. Engineers who think in user problems and added value write better code.

The tools just accelerated what was always true: the best builders do both.
Hum hum (Entrepreneurs). 

What you can't skip: the fundamentals. Database structure. System constraints. The scars from real production systems and 100s of customer interviews. These aren't technical trivia. They're judgment.

Using Claude Code is the same skill as leading a dev team. You need to know when the output is wrong. You need context. You need taste.

You can't replace customer interviews by asking chatGPT what to build. 

I've spent the last two years getting back to technical roots while keeping the product eye. Building something at the intersection of what I know and what I care about. Best decision I made to stay updated (even if every 2 weeks I feel behind). 

The future isn't PMs replacing engineers or engineers ignoring product. It's both roles converging into something new.

The question isn't which side you're on. It's whether you're building the full stack of skills.

Your body is a prediction machine that's stuck in the past.

We don't diagnose disease until symptoms show up.

By then, the damage is already done.

The human brain can't process 50,000 research papers. Your doctor can't hold years of biomarkers in memory and spot the pattern. So we wait. We react. We lose.

But what if we didn't have to?

ChatGPT and Claude just added health connections. OpenAI acquired health data infrastructure. Everyone's moving in at once.

Here's what's actually happening.

We're building a continuous observer for your body.

Feed an AI system your DNA, your biomarkers over time, wearables data, sensors. Let it run. It doesn't get tired. Doesn't forget. Doesn't need to read thousands of papers.

It sees the pattern before the disease does.

It surfaces signals that come months or maybe years before you feel sick. It catches the drift before it becomes irreversible.

You stop treating disease.

You start treating probability.

This is why the labs are moving so fast.

This isn't about optimization. It's about flipping medicine on its head. From reactive to predictive. From treating what's broken to catching what's breaking.

The future of health isn't in the hospital. It's in the constant flow of data through a system that actually understands what's shifting.

The question isn't whether AI will transform healthcare.

The question is: what happens to the old system when it does?

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