Richard Abi Chahla
Richard Abi Chahla is a product strategist, tech entrepreneur, and founder of Purple Brains.
With 18+ years across more than 15 industries, including SaaS, healthcare, fintech, agtech, and AI, he helps teams validate ideas and build and grow successful products with the minimum risk and resources as a hands-on fractional individual contributor.
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July 7, 2026
S6E1: Nobody Said No with Richard Abi Chahla
What happens when you spend eight months building something impressive, only to discover the people who promised to use it actually don't want it? Richard Abi Chahla knows that moment. The deflation. The walk back to the team. The hard conversation about wasted months and sweat equity. In this conversation, Richard shares what he learned from that 2016 failure and how he now uses AI not to build faster, but to learn faster. We dig into the messy reality of validating your riskiest assumptions fi...
Guest: Richard Abi Chahla