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Lenny's PodcastPodcastAllow the Fear: J.M. Nickels on Conscious Leadership, Strategy, and Choosing Your Life's Objective FunctionHost Lenny RachitskyA product leader who built Uber Pool and led commercialization at Waymo explains how inner work, first-principles futures, and an explicit life objective function make better leaders and better products.
26:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcastGet to the Punchline: How Figma's Slides Team Won Trust Instead of Just a Green LightHost Lenny RachitskyFigma's Mika and Yuki explain why the standard PM playbook for product reviews backfires — and the tactics they used instead to get Figma Slides built, funded and launched.
1:17:46ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShopify’s Anti-Playbook: Optimize for Churn, Hold Experiments for Years, and Ban KPIsHost Lenny RachitskyArchie Abrams explains how Shopify grows by lowering barriers, measuring cohort GMV, running multi-year holdouts, and letting a 100-year vision guide core product.
1:12:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersOne Wish From a Genie: A Stanford Professor's Method for Getting Off AutopilotGuest Graham Weaver · Host Lenny RachitskyGraham Weaver, a Stanford GSB lecturer and founder of Alpine Investors, shares practical exercises for working out what you actually want to do with your life and staying with it long enough to succeed.
1:22:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersRadical Self-Inquiry: Jerry Colonna on Growing Up Without Feeling Like CrapGuest Jerry Colonna · Host Lenny RachitskyExecutive coach Jerry Colonna explains why leadership and resilience come from honest inner work, not just practical skills, and how unexamined childhood patterns quietly shape our teams and companies.
1:36:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcastUnderstaff on Purpose, Never Be Chill: Matt MacInnis on Leading Rippling Through EntropyHost Lenny RachitskyRippling's chief product officer and longtime COO explains why extraordinary outcomes demand extraordinary effort, and the frameworks he uses to hire, set process and keep intensity high.
1:18:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCuriosity Loops: Ada Chen Rekhi's Method for Better Decisions and a Career You Won't RegretGuest Ada Chen Rekhi · Host Lenny RachitskyAn executive coach and Notejoy co-founder on structured advice-gathering, values exercises, explore-and-exploit careers, coaching and co-founding with a spouse.
1:21:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersScaling People: Claire Hughes Johnson on Building the Company Behind the ProductGuest Claire Hughes Johnson · Host Lenny RachitskyStripe's former COO explains why operating structure, self-awareness and plain-spoken management matter as much as product-market fit.
1:14:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe User Research Reckoning: Why Most Research Is the Wrong KindGuest Judd Antin · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Airbnb head of research Judd Antin explains why the UX research field is shrinking, what kind of research actually moves the business, and how PMs and researchers can fix the system together.
1:38:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersRun Toward the Pain: Ben Horowitz on Hesitation, Confidence and Leading a Company Through the AbyssGuest Ben Horowitz · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Andreessen Horowitz co-founder talks about the psychology of being a CEO, what product managers get wrong about leadership, whether AI is a bubble, and why the US must stay in the AI race.
1:12:18ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Lego Inside Notion: Ivan Zhao on Lost Years, Small Teams, and Horizontal BetsHost Lenny RachitskyIvan Zhao explains how Notion survived its lost years, stayed lean, corrected a non-Lego product detour, and built a horizontal platform now being reshaped by AI.
2:14:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBrains at Work: A Neuroscience Playbook for Meetings, Influence and Team CultureGuest Evan LaPointe · Host Lenny RachitskyCORE Sciences founder Evan LaPointe turns the brain's safety, reward and purpose systems into practical advice for meetings, relationships, culture and focus.
53:42ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Missing Middle: Why Product Teams Work Hard Without a StrategyHost Lenny RachitskyMelissa Perri explains how product organizations scale strategy, hire their first CPO, write a usable vision, and use product operations to make it last.
1:08:37ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBeing Strategic Is a Simple Why Plus a Big Change: Anneka Gupta on Product LeadershipGuest Anneka Gupta · Host Lenny RachitskyRubrik's chief product officer shares how she defines strategy, makes decisions, works with founders, gives feedback and keeps a positive mindset.
1:17:55ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Quiet Advantage: How Introverts Can Thrive Without Pretending to Be ExtrovertsHost Lenny RachitskySusan Cain explains what introversion really is and offers practical ways to build visibility, run meetings, parent quiet kids, and design a career around your temperament.
1:18:47ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBefriend the Voice in Your Head: Executive Coach Joe Hudson on Emotions, Enjoyment and ExperimentsGuest Joe Hudson · Host Lenny RachitskyJoe Hudson, a coach to leaders at OpenAI, SpaceX and Apple, explains how to work with your inner critic, welcome your emotions and replace "should" with "want".
1:19:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersAnalytics With a Seat at the Table: How DoorDash Builds a Centralized Data TeamGuest Jessica Lachs · Host Lenny RachitskyDoorDash analytics chief Jessica Lachs explains why she keeps data scientists in one central org, how she hires for curiosity, and how she picks metrics that actually move a business.
1:08:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSmall Teams, Hard Problems First: How Rippling's Jeremy Henrickson Keeps Velocity at ScaleGuest Jeremy Henrickson · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Rippling product chief and former Coinbase CPO on small teams, designing for the hardest case, fast decisions, and going all the way to the ground.
1:33:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSell Before You Tell: Wes Kao's Tactics for Communication That Actually LandsHost Lenny RachitskyExecutive-communication teacher Wes Kao breaks down the frameworks — sales before logistics, signposting, MOO, CEDAF — that turn clear thinking into buy-in.
1:29:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFive Customers, Three Prototypes, One Day: How to Find Your Bullseye CustomerHost Lenny RachitskyMichael Margolis of GV explains how to narrow to the customer most likely to adopt first — and how to prove it with a one-day research sprint.
1:31:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcastPerfect Is Creepy: What a Child Psychologist Knows About Leading Difficult AdultsHost Lenny RachitskyDr. Becky Kennedy explains how the principles she uses to raise resilient kids apply to managers, teams and colleagues.
1:01:12ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Failure Dividend: What Leaders from Airbnb, Google, Pets.com, Quibi, Duolingo, and Toast Learned from Their Worst MomentsHost Lenny RachitskyA compilation of product leaders' most searing failures—and the operating lessons they extracted from them.
48:18ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStop Writing Solutions as Opportunities: Teresa Torres on Opportunity Solution Trees and Weekly Customer InterviewsGuest Teresa Torres · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Continuous Discovery Habits explains how to structure a messy product problem, collect customer stories every week, and make better bets with small amounts of data.
1:04:59ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersWhat Makes a Top 1% Product Manager, and What Working Backwards Really MeansGuest Ian McAllister · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Amazon product leader Ian McAllister revisits his famous PM post and explains why most teams misuse Amazon's working backwards process.Load moreShowing 24 of 57