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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersNo Investors, 24 Profitable Years: Jason Fried on Staying Small, Trusting Your Gut and Making Money FirstGuest Jason Fried · Host Lenny RachitskyThe 37signals co-founder explains how a 75-person, investor-free company has out-earned far larger rivals, and why he builds products in two-person, six-week cycles.
1:35:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 3 speakersMake Time: Pick a Daily Highlight and Build Barriers Against DistractionGuest Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky · Host Lenny RachitskyJake Knapp and John Zeratsky walk through their four-step Make Time framework (highlight, laser, energize, reflect) and close with a short look at the design sprint.
1:34:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFifteen People, Four Products, Zero Handwritten Code: Inside Every's AI-First CompanyGuest Dan Shipper · Host Lenny RachitskyEvery CEO Dan Shipper explains how his small team uses Claude Code, an AI operations lead and compounding engineering to do the work of a much larger company.
1:19:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcastMercury Said It Didn’t Need PMs—Then It Built a Product Org and a Multi-Product EngineHost Lenny RachitskyA product leader’s guide to hiring the first PMs, matching PM archetypes to stage, investing in quality, and building new product lines without letting the core smother them.
1:36:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBe a Willow Tree: Julie Zhuo on Managing Agents, Teams of Builders, and Data That DiagnosesGuest Julie Zhuo · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Facebook head of design and Sundial founder explains how management skills carry over to AI tools, why she hires no product managers, and what new managers still get wrong.
1:54:03ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStarving on Purpose: What Atlassian Learned About Building New Products Inside a GiantGuest Tanguy Crusson · Host Lenny RachitskyTanguy Crusson walks through HipChat, Statuspage and Jira Product Discovery to explain why zero-to-one is so hard in a large company and how Atlassian's Point A incubator made room for it.
1:01:41ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Outsource the Learning: Pete Kazanjy's Case for Founder-Led SalesGuest Pete Kazanjy · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Founding Sales explains why B2B founders should sell for a long time themselves, how to know when to hire, and how to get better at selling.
1:29:12ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Next Distribution Platform Is Coming, and ChatGPT Is the Likeliest HostGuest Brian Balfour · Host Lenny RachitskyReforge founder Brian Balfour lays out the four-step cycle every distribution platform follows, why he expects ChatGPT to open the next one, and how startups and incumbents should bet.
56:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDeals Don’t Die From Competition—They Die From IndecisionHost Lenny RachitskyMatt Dixon distills 2.5 million sales conversations into the JOLT method for frozen buyers and the Challenger lesson on teaching insight.
1:21:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcastGitLab’s Public-by-Default Playbook: Short Toes, Clear Outcomes, and a Platform Built to ShipHost Lenny RachitskyDavid DeSanto explains how GitLab turns radical transparency, remote-first operations, and breadth-then-depth product strategy into a faster DevSecOps platform.
1:16:09ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Free Users to Enterprise Contracts: The Product-Led Sales PlaybookHost Lenny RachitskyElena Verna explains how product-led sales turns self-serve usage into enterprise pipeline, and what product, sales, marketing, data, and tooling must change to make it work.
1:23:43ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersScripts for the Hard Stuff: How an Executive Coach Handles Feedback, Firing and Founder FightsGuest Alisa Cohn · Host Lenny RachitskyAlisa Cohn walks through word-for-word scripts for difficult workplace conversations, a three-question meeting close, and a founder "prenup" of questions to settle before you start a company.
1:38:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Physics of Viral Consumer Apps: Nikita Bier on Latent Demand, Teen Networks, and Fighting a HoaxHost Lenny RachitskyNikita Bier traces his path from Politify to tbh and Gas, extracting repeatable tactics for consumer app growth, product design, and surviving breakout chaos.
1:07:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHow Notion Built a Community That Sold Its Product for ItGuest Camille Ricketts · Host Lenny RachitskyCamille Ricketts, Notion's first marketing hire, explains how community-led growth and content marketing actually work in practice.
1:11:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFear Gives Bad Advice: An Executive Coach's Playbook for Firing, Layoffs and FocusGuest Matt Mochary · Host Lenny RachitskyExecutive coach Matt Mochary tells Lenny Rachitsky how he helps CEOs act through fear, let people go humanely, run layoffs, innovate inside big companies and audit their energy.
1:05:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Arctic Code Vault to Autocomplete: How GitHub Copilot Went From Moonshot to ProductGuest Ryan J. Salva · Host Lenny RachitskyGitHub VP of product Ryan J. Salva explains how a small research team's experiment became Copilot, and what it took to scale it responsibly.
45:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Four Questions Shreyas Doshi Wishes He Had Asked Himself SoonerHost Lenny RachitskyA live conversation about scope, strategy, taste, and listening as the hidden drivers of product leadership.
1:37:19ENLenny's PodcastPodcastImpact, Inquiry and Letting Fires Burn: Vlad Loktev's Playbook from a Decade Inside AirbnbHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Airbnb homes GM and new Index Ventures partner Vlad Loktev tells Lenny Rachitsky how he prioritizes, disagrees, scales teams and keeps his balance in hypergrowth.
1:22:43ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWhy You Won't Know a Great Name When You See It: Inside Lexicon's Naming ProcessHost Lenny RachitskyDavid Placek of Lexicon Branding explains how his team names brands like Sonos, Azure, Windsurf and Vercel, and how founders can do it on a budget.
1:09:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersKill Your Own Project, Diversify Your Growth: Noam Lovinsky's Lessons from YouTube, Thumbtack, Facebook and GrammarlyGuest Noam Lovinsky · Host Lenny RachitskyGrammarly's chief product officer walks through four very different chapters of his career and the principles each one taught him.
1:27:45ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFast Beats Right: Claire Vo on the CPTO Role, Moving Like a Startup and What AI Will Take From PMsGuest Claire Vo · Host Lenny RachitskyLaunchDarkly's chief product officer and ChatPRD creator shares career advice, her playbook for pace and standards, and a view on which product skills AI will replace.
1:16:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHow Ramp Reached $100M in Revenue with 50 People: Velocity, Single-Threaded Teams and Context Over ControlGuest Geoff Charles · Host Lenny RachitskyRamp's VP of Product Geoff Charles explains to Lenny Rachitsky how a culture of velocity, tiny focused teams and radically empowered engineers drove one of the fastest SaaS growth runs on record.
1:12:52ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Google+ to the Tabbed Inbox: How to Build Products on Evidence, Not OpinionGuest Itamar Gilad · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Google product manager Itamar Gilad contrasts a failed social network with a hit Gmail feature and walks through the GIST framework from his book Evidence-Guided.
1:24:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcastIntelligence for Heavy Machines: Qasar Younis on Why Physical AI Will Change Farms, Mines and Roads FirstHost Lenny RachitskyThe Applied Intuition co-founder explains why the biggest near-term AI impact is in vehicles and industrial machines, and shares the values, reading habits and management philosophy behind a quiet $15 billion company.Load moreShowing 24 of 372