Deep Nishar
Confidence 0.70 · 1 source · last confirmed 2026-05-05
Technologist and investor. Senior product executive at Google (2003–2008); chief product officer at LinkedIn (2009–2014). Currently active as an investor in enterprise-AI and software companies; his disclosed investments include Anthropic, Figma, Glean, and Slack.
Appears in this wiki via
- 2026-05-05-nishar-nohria-end-of-one-size-fits-all — co-author with Nitin Nohria of The End of One-Size-Fits-All Enterprise Software (HBR.org Digital, 23 April 2026). Introduces the four-model framework — Build / Compose / Collaborate / Buy Outcomes — for the firm-boundary decision under generative-ai. See enterprise-ai-adoption for the wiki’s running synthesis of adoption frameworks.
Source-quality note
Nishar holds investor positions in companies that stand to benefit from the framework he and Nohria prescribe — most directly Anthropic (whose foundation-model APIs are the “Build” model’s substrate). The article is prescriptive practitioner writing, not independent research. Read accordingly when its specific data points (e.g., $37B / 40% AI-generated code / >1/3 of companies replacing SaaS) become load-bearing for downstream wiki claims; the original embedded links are the data trail.
Open questions
- The May 2025 prior article Nishar/Nohria reference (the thesis they are explicitly correcting on pace) is not yet ingested. Worth tracing once located — it is the supersession candidate for this 2026 piece.
- Nishar’s broader investment thesis on enterprise AI; his views on ai-agents and outcome-based pricing models.
- His relationships to other Anthropic / Slack / Figma material in the wiki — currently a single-source entity.