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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSurviving the Next Crisis: Waze Co-Founder Uri Levine on Cash Shocks, Lost Product-Market Fit and Never Giving UpGuest Uri Levine · Host Lenny RachitskyUri Levine explains how founders should diagnose a startup crisis, act within days, keep their teams on board and decide whether to pivot or shut down.
1:13:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersOKRs Are a Vitamin, Not a Medicine: Christina Wodtke on Making Goals Actually WorkGuest Christina Wodtke · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Stanford lecturer and author of Radical Focus explains what OKRs are really for, why they fail, and how to run a healthy weekly cadence.
1:17:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStick With It: Chris Hutchins on Big Product Bets and Building a Top Business PodcastGuest Chris Hutchins · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Wealthfront product lead behind All the Hacks explains how to run bold bets inside a company and how to launch, grow and sustain a podcast.
1:21:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSearch Isn't Dying, It's Expanding: Robby Stein on Google's AI Mode and Building Products RelentlesslyGuest Robby Stein · Host Lenny RachitskyGoogle Search's VP of Product explains how AI Overviews, Lens and AI Mode fit together, and the product principles he carried from Instagram Stories to Google.
1:30:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Make Me Think: Stewart Butterfield on Utility Curves, Taste and the Case Against Removing FrictionGuest Stewart Butterfield · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Flickr and Slack co-founder explains how he judged features, why comprehension matters more than click counts, and how large organizations drift into busywork.
1:07:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersIf the Model Is the Product, the Eval Is the PRD: Inside Mercor's RiseGuest Brendan Foody · Host Lenny RachitskyMercor CEO Brendan Foody explains why AI labs will pay almost anything for expert-written evals, how his company grew from $1 million to a $400 million run rate in 16 months, and what that means for jobs and founders.
1:33:55ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersGetting Startup Press Without a Rolodex: A Practical PR PlaybookGuest Emilie Gerber · Host Lenny RachitskyPR agency founder Emilie Gerber walks through which outlets to target, how to write a three-sentence pitch, and how to judge whether press is worth the effort.
1:35:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside ChatGPT: How a Hackathon Project Became the World's Most Used AI ProductGuest Nick Turley · Host Lenny RachitskyNick Turley, head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, explains how the product was built, why shipping fast beats polishing first, and where it goes next.
1:11:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHow to Get ChatGPT to Recommend Your Product: A Practical Guide to Answer Engine OptimizationGuest Ethan Smith · Host Lenny RachitskyGraphite CEO Ethan Smith explains how AEO differs from SEO, which levers move the needle, and how to measure and test what works.
1:23:15ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCamille Fournier on Rewrites, One-on-Ones and Building Platform TeamsGuest Camille Fournier · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of The Manager's Path explains what annoys engineers about PMs, why rewrites are a trap, how to move into management, and what makes platform teams work.
1:08:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCastle or Shack? Hamilton Helmer on Which Business Advantages Actually LastGuest Hamilton Helmer · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of 7 Powers explains how to tell real, durable competitive power from things that merely feel like an advantage, and when founders should start looking for it.
1:23:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMost Ideas Fail: Ronny Kohavi on Running A/B Tests You Can TrustGuest Ronny Kohavi · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments explains failure rates, overall evaluation criteria, sample ratio mismatch, Twyman's law and how to build an experimentation culture.
1:24:56ENLenny'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.
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.
1:32:32ENLenny'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.
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.
1:47:31ENLenny'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.Load moreShowing 24 of 223