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Lenny's PodcastPodcastSkip the Funnel of Doom: Cursor's Playbook for Hiring the Top 50Host Lenny RachitskyAdam Ward, Cursor's head of talent, explains how to scope, map and relentlessly pursue the best people instead of hiring whoever survives a recruiting funnel.
1:15:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Zero-Day Marketing Exploits Behind Breakout StartupsHost Lenny RachitskyAlistair Croll explains how founders can find unfair distribution advantages by subverting platforms, norms, and regulations—without actually being evil.
1:27:23ENLenny's PodcastPodcastGoing All In on AI at Cisco: Jeetu Patel on Platforms, Packet Loss and Telling People the TruthHost Lenny RachitskyCisco's president and chief product officer explains how a 90,000-person company went AI-first, what Cisco does in the AI infrastructure stack, and the leadership and career lessons behind it.
1:27:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFour Levels of Product-Market Fit: First Round's Playbook for B2B FoundersGuest Todd Jackson · Host Lenny RachitskyTodd Jackson of First Round Capital walks through a staged framework for finding product-market fit, the benchmarks for each stage, and the four Ps you can change when you're stuck.
1:00:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInflict Pain, But Do It With a Smile: Julia Schottenstein on dbt's Rise and the Art of Getting AcquiredGuest Julia Schottenstein · Host Lenny RachitskyA former NEA investor turned dbt Cloud product leader explains why dbt won, how to approach M&A and pricing, and how venture habits make her a better PM.
1:22:03ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersWin Where Rivals Say "Life's Too Short": Roger Martin on the Five Questions of StrategyGuest Roger Martin · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Playing to Win author walks through his strategy choice cascade, explains why differentiation or low cost is non-negotiable, and shows how to start fixing strategy one gap at a time.
1:10:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside the New York Times' Plan to Build the Essential SubscriptionGuest Alex Hardiman · Host Lenny RachitskyChief Product Officer Alex Hardiman on bundling news, games, cooking and sports, working alongside journalists, and measuring impact against a mission.
2:14:15ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersEric Ries on the Lean Startup After 12 Years: What MVPs Really Mean, When to Pivot, and Building Companies for Human FlourishingGuest Eric Ries · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of The Lean Startup revisits misconceptions about MVPs and pivots, offers advice for stuck founders, and argues that governance, not just product, decides whether companies do good.
1:37:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInside Palantir's Founder Factory: Forward-Deployed Engineers, Ontologies and Deliberately Off-Putting HiringHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Palantir engineer Nabeel Qureshi explains how a services-heavy company became a data-platform giant, and why it keeps producing founders and product leaders.
1:22:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBarrels, Undiscovered Talent and Ugly Babies: Keith Rabois on Building Companies in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyKhosla Ventures' Keith Rabois explains how he spots talent, why he avoids customer feedback for consumer products, and how AI is reshaping product, design and engineering roles.
1:03:09ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCanva's Co-Founder on Joyful Products, Giving Away Your Lego, and Growing to $2.3 BillionGuest Cameron Adams · Host Lenny RachitskyCameron Adams, Canva's co-founder and chief product officer, explains how product obsession, coaching culture, onboarding, SEO, localization, freemium and AI shaped one of the fastest-growing profitable software companies.
1:24:19ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Product Owner Trap: Why SAFe Creates Order-Takers and How to Build Real Product Management at ScaleHost Lenny RachitskyMelissa Perri explains the history of Scrum and SAFe, why product owners often become backlog clerks, and how large organizations can reconnect product work to customer value.
1:05:20ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPolite Interest Is Not Demand: How Wiz Found Product-Market Fit, and Then Made Some NoiseGuest Raaz Herzberg · Host Lenny RachitskyRaaz Herzberg, Wiz's CMO and VP of product strategy, tells how the company's early pivot worked, why she moved from product into marketing, and what she learned along the way.
1:08:53ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPlay the Long Game: A Top Recruiter's Playbook for Hiring and Becoming a Product LeaderGuest Lauren Ipsen · Host Lenny RachitskyRecruiter Lauren Ipsen explains how founders should hire their first senior product leader, how PMs should build their careers, and what recruiters often get wrong.
1:40:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Keeper of the Flame: Figma's Mihika Kapoor on Vision, Conviction, and Building Zero to One Inside a CompanyHost Lenny RachitskyA Figma PM's field guide to crafting a vision people can see, engineering hype honestly, and keeping a new idea alive inside a large company.
1:31:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcastGive Away Your Legos: Molly Graham's Handbook for Leading Through HypergrowthHost Lenny RachitskyMolly Graham walks through the frameworks she built at Google, Facebook, Quip and CZI, from giving away your Legos and the J-curve to the waterline model and six rules for goals.
1:41:43ENLenny's PodcastPodcastPumping Heat Into the Infinite Game: Tobi Lütke on First Principles and Human PotentialHost Lenny RachitskyShopify's founder explains how dissatisfaction with the status quo, long time horizons, and unquantifiable taste drive better products and companies.
1:21:25ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStrategy Before Goals: Ravi Mehta's Product Strategy Stack, Tinder Lessons and Selective MicromanagementGuest Ravi Mehta · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Tinder CPO Ravi Mehta on how startups differ from big companies, how to layer mission, strategy, roadmap and goals, and how product leaders can grow.
55:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHumble, Customer-Obsessed and Relentless: Inside DoorDash's CultureGuest Keith Yandell · Host Lenny RachitskyDoorDash executive Keith Yandell explains how the company hires for culture, leads through crises, and manages people, from WeDash deliveries to a "how to work with me" document.
57:19ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMarc Benioff on Beginner's Mind, Agentforce and Staying a Startup After 25 YearsGuest Marc Benioff · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Salesforce co-founder talks Steve Jobs, a legendary launch stunt, what an AI agent actually is, and how he leads through reinvention.
1:21:48ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSeeing Like a Designer: Jessica Hische on Logos, Brands and Knowing When Good Enough Is EnoughGuest Jessica Hische · Host Lenny RachitskyLettering artist Jessica Hische walks through her refresh of Lenny's logo and explains how founders can read type, time a rebrand and avoid overspending on brand.
1:12:07ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSystems Thinkers Over Specialists: Netflix CPTO Elizabeth Stone on Talent, AI and Excellence as an Operating SystemHost Lenny RachitskyNetflix's chief product and technology officer explains why blurred roles are still a storming phase, what skills she is hiring for, and how the company keeps a high bar as AI changes how work gets done.
46:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInvest Profits, Not People: What Mixpanel Learned from Spreading Too Thin and Refocusing on Its CoreGuest Vijay Iyengar · Host Lenny RachitskyMixpanel's head of product Vijay Iyengar on cutting back to one analytics product, how his team plans and prioritizes, and why you should track events from your servers.
1:21:01ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMake It Explicit: Annie Duke on Deciding Better and Quitting SoonerGuest Annie Duke · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer poker champion Annie Duke explains how independent input, shorter feedback loops, pre-mortems with kill criteria and a willingness to quit improve decisions at companies and in life.Load moreShowing 24 of 184