Venture capitalist Sarah Tavel, a partner at Benchmark and former Pinterest team member, argued in a podcast with Dan Shipper in the first week of August 2026 that current AI products like ChatGPT are too complex for average users. She predicted the next hit AI product will be social, driven by user-generated-content communities where a tiny minority of skilled prompt and personality creators democratize expertise, powered by status-seeking incentives and a layer of trust the current custom GPT ecosystem lacks. Tavel framed consumer web history as a slider between backend and front-end value, citing Google as "95% deeply deeply technical" and noting that later winners like Snap and Instagram had CEOs who "weren't technical at all. They were product geniuses." She sees the same sequence replaying in AI, with ChatGPT as a research lab that "accidentally built the biggest consumer technology product of all time." Her most concrete prediction was that someone will build a "personal AI home"—a destination holding blood tests, supplements, and information about your kids—which may cannibalize ChatGPT's personal usage while ChatGPT and Claude keep the work bucket.