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Lenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Rowing to Steering: Inside OpenAI's Push Toward Persistent AI CoworkersHost Lenny RachitskyTara Seshan, who leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI, explains how PM work changes when agents do the rowing and people do the steering.
1:26:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastStart Small, Earn Autonomy: What 50+ AI Product Deployments Taught Two BuildersHost Lenny RachitskyAishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam explain why AI products need a different build process, and how to grow agent autonomy step by step without losing customer trust.
1:25:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcastCodex Is Not Just a Coding Tool: OpenAI's Plan for an Agent That Behaves Like a TeammateHost Lenny RachitskyCodex product lead Alexander Embiricos explains the 20x growth, why every useful agent may need to write code, and why human review speed is the real bottleneck.
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.
1:08:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTaste, Authenticity and Small Pods: Instagram's Adam Mosseri on Building Products in an AI WorldHost Lenny RachitskyThe head of Instagram explains how Meta's product teams are shrinking, why human judgment and creator identity matter more as AI content grows, and what he learned from his biggest failures.
48:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDylan Field on Taste, Simplicity, and Designing Through the AI HypeHost Lenny RachitskyFigma's CEO explains how intuition, feedback, and relentless simplification shape products—and why craft matters more as AI generates more software.
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.
1:09:54ENLenny'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.
1:24:19ENLenny'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.
1:40:40ENLenny'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.
1:33:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastEvals Are the New PRDs: Inside Anthropic's Research Product TeamHost Lenny RachitskyDianne Penn, Anthropic's head of product for research and Labs, explains how the company found its identity, how her team turns user feedback into evals, and why human judgment still matters.
1:24:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDelight Is Not Confetti: A Practical Framework for Emotional Product DesignHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Spotify, Chrome and Google Meet product manager Nesrine Changuel explains how to make products that serve emotional and functional needs at once.
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.
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.
48:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcastNotebookLM's Accidental Podcast Hit: A 20% Project, a Tiny Team, and a Remixable AI EditorHost Lenny RachitskyRaiza Martin explains how NotebookLM's Audio Overviews became a viral demo, how Google Labs let a tiny team ship like a startup, and where the product goes next.
28:48ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWhy Claude Still Needs a PM: Anthropic's Product Leaders on Judgment, Agents and Parallel BetsHost Lenny RachitskyAt the Lenny and Friends Summit, Anthropic's Ami Vora and Mike Krieger tell Dan Shipper how the product role is changing when technology shifts every couple of months.
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.
1:19:25ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInside Mercado Libre: How 18,000 Engineers Ship 30,000 Changes a Day Without an Army of PMsHost Lenny RachitskySebastian Barrios, formerly head of product and engineering at Mercado Libre and now SVP of Engineering at Roblox, explains how a Latin American giant runs engineering and product as one team.
21:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSharpen the Knife: Why Simplicity Wins in Product, Story, and LifeHost Lenny RachitskyA product leader’s case for building the one indispensable thing, using familiar patterns, and telling the story customers already know.
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.
1:22:43ENLenny's PodcastPodcastA Colleague With Its Own Computer: How a Small Team Built Grok Bot in a MonthHost Lenny RachitskyRoman Ugarte of SpaceXAI explains the decisions, hand-held onboarding and product philosophy behind Grok Bot, and what Cursor's culture taught him about staying ahead.
1:30:59ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe SEO Playbook: Why Topics Beat Keywords and Shipping Beats StrategyHost Lenny RachitskyEthan Smith, CEO of Graphite, explains when SEO is worth investing in, how to reverse-engineer the page types Google rewards, and why most SEO strategies never get built.
1:27:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastAgency Over Job Titles: Notion's Max Schoening on Building in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyNotion's head of product on why designers should code, why agency separates the people who thrive, and what makes a product great.Load moreShowing 24 of 94