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Lenny'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.
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.
1:22:39ENLenny'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.
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.
1:12:07ENLenny'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.
1:31:41ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Worst Model You'll Ever Use: Kevin Weil on Building Products at OpenAI's PaceGuest Kevin Weil · Host Lenny RachitskyOpenAI's chief product officer explains how evals, light planning, fine-tuned model ensembles and a small PM team shape the way the company ships.
1:28:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBret Taylor on Failing Forward: From Google Local to Google Maps to Sierra's AgentsGuest Bret Taylor · Host Lenny RachitskyThe co-creator of Google Maps and FriendFeed's like button on career mindset, the future of coding, where AI startups should build, and why agents will bring outcome-based pricing.
1:52:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInside Anthropic's Growth Team: Big Bets, Automated Experiments and Firefighting SuccessHost Lenny RachitskyAmol Avasare, Anthropic's Head of Growth, explains how a roughly 40-person team handles hypergrowth, automates experimentation with Claude, and rethinks the PM and engineer ratio.
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.
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.
1:10:32ENLenny'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.
1:34:57ENLenny'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.
1:36:24ENLenny'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.
1:24:24ENLenny'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.
1:36:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSmiling Exhaustion: Inside the Tech Worker Sentiment Survey as AI's Honeymoon FadesHost Lenny RachitskyNoam Segal and Lenny Rachitsky walk through the second annual Tech Worker Sentiment Survey, which captured about 6,000 people in tech and found a workforce split down the middle by AI.
1:55:10ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSEO After AI Overviews: Treat Search as a Product, Not a Keyword GameGuest Eli Schwartz · Host Lenny RachitskyGrowth advisor Eli Schwartz explains how AI answers are swallowing top-of-funnel search, and why the winners will be the teams that build for the buyer's journey.
1:09:01ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakers"We Might Be Wrong, But We Are Not Confused": How LinkedIn's Tomer Cohen Rebuilt the Feed Around AIGuest Tomer Cohen · Host Lenny RachitskyLinkedIn's chief product officer explains the clarity-first mantra behind the feed turnaround, his AI-first approach to product, and the conviction-driven career path that took him to the top.
1:25:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersClimbing the Next Hill: How Slack's Product Chief Keeps a Mature Product InnovatingGuest Noah Weiss · Host Lenny RachitskySlack CPO Noah Weiss on working with product-minded founders, incubating new bets, reviving self-service growth and what great PMs actually do.
1:20:12ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe 10X Growth Advisor: Impact, Hiring, SEO and the End of Search as We Know ItGuest Luc Levesque · Host Lenny RachitskyShopify's chief growth officer Luc Levesque explains how to hire and use growth advisors, why SEO can define a company, and what AI answers mean for search traffic.
1:24:01ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Sandwich Math to Expert Data: Scale AI's CEO on What Actually Makes Models SmarterHost Lenny RachitskyJason Droege explains what really happened with Meta's investment in Scale AI, how data labeling turned into expert work, and what Uber Eats taught him about building businesses.
1:28:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFish Where the Fish Are: Andrew Wilkinson on Boring Businesses, AI Agents and Why Money Didn't Make Him HappyGuest Andrew Wilkinson · Host Lenny RachitskyThe co-founder of Tiny, the "Berkshire Hathaway of the internet", explains how to pick a startup idea, how he runs his life on AI agents, and what actually changed his happiness.
45:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSeth Godin on Taste, Tension, and the Four Choices That Shape StrategyHost Lenny RachitskySeth Godin explains how product leaders can build taste, make and keep a brand promise, choose the right customers and distribution, and design remarkable products that spread.
1:33:33ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Art of Influence: Treat Your Executive Like Your Most Important UserHost Lenny RachitskyWebflow product leader and former Slack chief of staff Jessica Fain explains how executives really decide, and why influence matters even more in the age of AI.
1:23:01ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Meteor Is Coming: Intercom's Paul Adams on Going All In on AIGuest Paul Adams · Host Lenny RachitskyIntercom's chief product officer talks about the failures that shaped him, how Intercom ripped up its strategy after ChatGPT, and the simple frameworks he uses to decide what to build.Load moreShowing 24 of 45