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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Social Radar: How Jessica Livingston Read Founders in Ten-Minute InterviewsGuest Jessica Livingston · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Y Combinator co-founder explains what she looked for in early-stage founders, the Airbnb interview she never forgot, and why she started her own podcast.
59:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Nature of Product: Why Feature Factories Lose to Empowered TeamsHost Lenny RachitskyMarty Cagan explains why feature teams and real product teams are different animals, how companies lose product mojo as they scale, and what product managers must protect to do the job well.
1:10:54ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFuel and Engine: A Practical Playbook for Hiring Your First B2B MarketerGuest Emily Kramer · Host Lenny RachitskyMarketing leader and investor Emily Kramer explains how to diagnose what your startup's marketing needs, who to hire, and how product and marketing teams can work well together.
1:34:01ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersQuality Is Growth: Stripe's Katie Dill on Beauty, Walking the Store and Building Design TeamsGuest Katie Dill · Host Lenny RachitskyStripe's head of design explains why beauty and function work together, how Stripe operationalises quality across 15 critical user journeys, and what she has learned leading design at Airbnb, Lyft and Stripe.
58:12ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersProduct Management in a Newsroom: Equanimity, Dress Rehearsals and Journalists as CustomersGuest Upasna Gautam · Host Lenny RachitskyCNN product manager Upasna Gautam explains how her team builds a content management system for journalists amid constant breaking news, and how mindfulness shapes the way she leads.
1:07:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcastMinimal Lovable Products, the Airbnb Plus Post-Mortem, and the Trust Bank: Product Lessons from Jiaona ZhangHost Lenny RachitskyWebflow's SVP of Product on the mistakes new PMs make, why Airbnb Plus never had a path, roadmap-as-story, OKRs that stretch instead of sandbag, surviving WeWork, and how to spend your first 90 days.
1:32:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDevin's Scott Wu on Building an AI Software Engineer and Turning Coders into ArchitectsGuest Scott Wu · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Cognition co-founder explains how his 15-person team uses fleets of Devins to build Devin, what the product can and can't do, and why he expects more engineers, not fewer.
55:48ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersWhen to Invent a Category, and How Miro Rebranded Itself into OneGuest Barbra Gago · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Miro CMO Barbra Gago explains how category creation, a rushed rebrand and opinionated software work in practice.
1:25:11ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside Miro's Product Machine: Empathy, Competition and a Biweekly Demo Party That Saved Three MonthsGuest Varun Parmar · Host Lenny RachitskyMiro chief product officer Varun Parmar walks Lenny Rachitsky through the company's product values, org design, competitive philosophy, planning cadence and growth model.
1:31:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersLovable's Growth Playbook: Give It Away, Ship Daily and Recapture Product-Market Fit Every Three MonthsGuest Elena Verna · Host Lenny RachitskyElena Verna, head of growth at Lovable, explains why most of her 15-20 years of growth experience no longer applies to a company that passed $200 million ARR in under a year.
22:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTen Regrets: Marty Cagan on What He Got Wrong About ProductHost Lenny RachitskyAt Lenny and Friends Summit, Marty Cagan revisits his decades of product advice and names the ten things he would change.
1:01:05ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Most Popular Product Lessons of the Year, From Positioning to Hard ConversationsHost Lenny RachitskyA countdown of Lenny's ten most downloaded episodes, distilled into practical lessons on positioning, analytics, growth, career leverage, product leadership, and management.
50:03ENLenny's PodcastPodcastCopilot Is a Copilot, Not a Pilot: Inbal Shani on the Future of AI in Software DevelopmentHost Lenny RachitskyGitHub's chief product officer explains what AI changes for developers, what it does not replace, and how teams should adopt it.
1:22:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPower Is a Tool: Stanford's Jeffrey Pfeffer on the Seven Rules of Getting AheadGuest Jeffrey Pfeffer · Host Lenny RachitskyStanford organizational behavior professor Jeffrey Pfeffer walks Lenny Rachitsky through the seven rules of power, the homework that makes them stick, and the price power exacts.
1:17:25ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDon't Trust the Process: How Design Work Is Being Rebuilt Around Engineers and AgentsHost Lenny RachitskyClaude Cowork design lead Jenny Wen explains why the classic discovery-to-mock workflow is fading, what designers do instead, and who she wants to hire.
1:47:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Fever Dream to Wilderness: Drew Houston on Dropbox's Three ErasGuest Drew Houston · Host Lenny RachitskyDropbox's co-founder and CEO gives a candid account of explosive growth, the Google Photos shock, a painful pivot to productivity, and the personal and organizational reset that followed.
2:01:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBuild the Sales Team Like a Founder: Jason Lemkin on Hiring, Comp and Keeping Product CloseGuest Jason Lemkin · Host Lenny RachitskySaaStr founder Jason Lemkin walks through when to hire your first reps, who to hire, how to pay them, how product and sales should work together, and why customer-hostile tactics don't compound.
1:37:47ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersYou Can Patch a Bug, but You Can't Patch a Brain: Why AI Guardrails FailGuest Sander Schulhoff · Host Lenny RachitskyAdversarial-robustness researcher Sander Schulhoff explains why prompt injection and jailbreaks remain unsolved, why guardrail products don't deliver, and what teams can do instead.
1:18:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShipyards, Sharp Problems and Humility: Two Veteran Product Leaders on the PM Role in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyOji and Ezinne Udezue explain how product management is changing, which skills matter now, and what the companies winning with AI do differently.
1:41:44ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersZig When Others Zag: HubSpot Co-founder Dharmesh Shah on Simplicity, Culture as a Product and Building a Company Around Your StrengthsGuest Dharmesh Shah · Host Lenny RachitskyThe HubSpot co-founder and CTO explains why he has never had a direct report, how he measures laughs per minute, and the first-principles habits behind HubSpot's contrarian choices.
1:02:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStop Being the Arrogant Doctor: Andy Raskin on Pitching a Movement, Not a ProductGuest Andy Raskin · Host Lenny RachitskyStrategic narrative consultant Andy Raskin explains the five-part story structure behind pitches at Salesforce, Zuora and Gong, and how to make it your company's north star.
1:10:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersA Billion Dollars, No VC, Under 100 People: Surge AI's Edwin Chen on Data Quality and Where AI Is HeadingGuest Edwin Chen · Host Lenny RachitskySurge AI's founder explains how a bootstrapped team built the leading human-data company, why he distrusts benchmarks, and how reinforcement learning environments are the next frontier.
1:16:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFaster, But for What? Nicole Forsgren on Measuring Developer Productivity in the AI EraGuest Nicole Forsgren · Host Lenny RachitskyThe creator of DORA and SPACE explains why most productivity metrics mislead, how AI changes flow and trust, and how to build a developer experience program that proves its value.
1:04:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersOnboarding Is Growth's Biggest Lever: Lessons from Airtable's Former Head of GrowthGuest Lauryn Isford · Host Lenny RachitskyLauryn Isford on rethinking experimentation, choosing a hard-to-reach activation metric, reverse trials, and the PLG funnel.Load moreShowing 24 of 372