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Lenny's PodcastPodcastThe Context Makes the Irrational Rational: Bob Moesta's Guide to Jobs to Be DoneHost Lenny RachitskyBob Moesta explains how struggling moments create demand, how to interview customers like an investigator, and how to design products and sales processes around the progress people are trying to make.
1:28:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuild First, Then Product Manage: Kevin Yien's Unorthodox PM PlaybookHost Lenny RachitskyKevin Yien shares contrarian PM lessons on starting as a builder, writing for clarity, decision logs, unsell emails, research automation and career resilience.
1:31:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Super IC Playbook: 12 Years of Product Leverage Without ManagementHost Lenny RachitskyTal Raviv explains why he stayed an individual-contributor PM for 12 years, how he uses AI and self-reliant teams to scale his impact, and what failure has taught him.
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.
19:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcastJudgment Is the Craft: Robby Stein's Three-Chapter Playbook for Product Managers in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyGoogle Search's Robby Stein says a PM's core skill is decision making, and walks through how to understand people, diagnose root causes and polish the craft, with AI helping at each step.
1:24:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFewer PMs, More Reps: Whatnot's CPO on Why Senior Product People Should Go Back to Doing the WorkHost Lenny RachitskyTom Verrilli explains why Whatnot built its product team on the premise that it regrets product management exists, and what that means for hiring, AI tooling and the shape of the role.
1:54:54ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSlow Down, Ask Questions, Sell the Vacation: An Executive Negotiator's PlaybookHost Lenny RachitskyJacob Warwick explains how senior operators win bigger offers by treating a job search like an enterprise sale and negotiating collaboratively rather than confrontationally.
1:21:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSpeed Is a Symptom of Competence: How Linear Builds Beloved B2B SoftwareHost Lenny RachitskyNan Yu explains Linear’s operating principles for fast iteration, resisting bloat, discovering emotional customer pain, and making product management a go-to-market discipline.
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.
1:07:32ENLenny'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.
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.
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.
1:18:05ENLenny's PodcastPodcastAllow the Fear: J.M. Nickels on Conscious Leadership, Strategy, and Choosing Your Life's Objective FunctionHost Lenny RachitskyA product leader who built Uber Pool and led commercialization at Waymo explains how inner work, first-principles futures, and an explicit life objective function make better leaders and better products.
26:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcastGet to the Punchline: How Figma's Slides Team Won Trust Instead of Just a Green LightHost Lenny RachitskyFigma's Mika and Yuki explain why the standard PM playbook for product reviews backfires — and the tactics they used instead to get Figma Slides built, funded and launched.
1:17:46ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShopify’s Anti-Playbook: Optimize for Churn, Hold Experiments for Years, and Ban KPIsHost Lenny RachitskyArchie Abrams explains how Shopify grows by lowering barriers, measuring cohort GMV, running multi-year holdouts, and letting a 100-year vision guide core product.
1:36:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcastUnderstaff on Purpose, Never Be Chill: Matt MacInnis on Leading Rippling Through EntropyHost Lenny RachitskyRippling's chief product officer and longtime COO explains why extraordinary outcomes demand extraordinary effort, and the frameworks he uses to hire, set process and keep intensity high.
1:12:18ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Lego Inside Notion: Ivan Zhao on Lost Years, Small Teams, and Horizontal BetsHost Lenny RachitskyIvan Zhao explains how Notion survived its lost years, stayed lean, corrected a non-Lego product detour, and built a horizontal platform now being reshaped by AI.
53:42ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Missing Middle: Why Product Teams Work Hard Without a StrategyHost Lenny RachitskyMelissa Perri explains how product organizations scale strategy, hire their first CPO, write a usable vision, and use product operations to make it last.
1:17:55ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Quiet Advantage: How Introverts Can Thrive Without Pretending to Be ExtrovertsHost Lenny RachitskySusan Cain explains what introversion really is and offers practical ways to build visibility, run meetings, parent quiet kids, and design a career around your temperament.
1:33:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSell Before You Tell: Wes Kao's Tactics for Communication That Actually LandsHost Lenny RachitskyExecutive-communication teacher Wes Kao breaks down the frameworks — sales before logistics, signposting, MOO, CEDAF — that turn clear thinking into buy-in.
1:29:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFive Customers, Three Prototypes, One Day: How to Find Your Bullseye CustomerHost Lenny RachitskyMichael Margolis of GV explains how to narrow to the customer most likely to adopt first — and how to prove it with a one-day research sprint.
1:31:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcastPerfect Is Creepy: What a Child Psychologist Knows About Leading Difficult AdultsHost Lenny RachitskyDr. Becky Kennedy explains how the principles she uses to raise resilient kids apply to managers, teams and colleagues.Load moreShowing 24 of 28