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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.
1:31:41ENLenny'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.
1:22:43ENLenny'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.
1:20:53ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Die: Y Combinator's Dalton Caldwell on Keeping a Startup AliveGuest Dalton Caldwell · Host Lenny RachitskyThe YC group partner on pivots, tarpit ideas, why investors say no, how to talk to customers, and what he hopes founders will build next.
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.
1:08:08ENLenny'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.
1:49:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Unfair Fight: How Breakthrough Startups Escape the PresentHost Lenny RachitskyMike Maples Jr. explains how breakthrough startups combine inflections, non-consensus insights, and founder-future fit, then act through movements, storytelling, and disagreeableness.
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.
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.
1:10:32ENLenny'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.
1:36:24ENLenny'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.
1:29:12ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Next Distribution Platform Is Coming, and ChatGPT Is the Likeliest HostGuest Brian Balfour · Host Lenny RachitskyReforge founder Brian Balfour lays out the four-step cycle every distribution platform follows, why he expects ChatGPT to open the next one, and how startups and incumbents should bet.
1:08:07ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersContext Is All You Need: Inside OpenAI with Logan KilpatrickGuest Logan Kilpatrick · Host Lenny RachitskyOpenAI's head of developer relations on GPTs, prompting, how the company ships fast, and where startups can build without being steamrolled.
1:39:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastRust-Proofing a Company: Eric Ries on Why Success Corrupts and Governance ProtectsHost Lenny RachitskyThe author of The Lean Startup explains why good companies go bad, and the charters, trusts and habits that keep a mission intact.
1:25:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShip Weekly, Cut Scope, and Keep a Secret Roadmap: How Captions Builds in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyGaurav Misra explains how a modern AI startup turns constant model progress into weekly shipped products, technical debt as leverage, and talking-video tools for non-professionals.
1:19:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcastLoops, Local Maxima and Ambition: Anish Acharya on How AI Rewires Companies and Consumer ProductsHost Lenny Rachitskya16z's Anish Acharya argues that companies will become stacks of AI loops guided by human intuition, and that the biggest consumer prize is a loop that makes people happier.
1:31:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastZero to $80M in Six Months: How a Solo Founder Bootstrapped Base44 to a Wix ExitHost Lenny RachitskyMaor Shlomo explains how he built and grew the AI app builder Base44 without outside funding, the stack and habits that let one person compete with well-funded rivals, and how the Wix acquisition came together.
1:28:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSeven Years in the Making: How StackBlitz Turned Bolt into a $40M ARR Overnight SuccessGuest Eric Simons · Host Lenny RachitskyStackBlitz CEO Eric Simons explains how a browser-based operating system, a bootstrapped team and a better Claude model turned a nearly bankrupt company into one of the fastest-growing products ever.
1:42:11ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTwenty Agents, 1.2 Humans: Inside SaaStr's AI-Run Sales TeamHost Lenny RachitskyJason Lemkin explains how SaaStr replaced a ten-person go-to-market team with AI agents, what it took to train them, and who survives the shift.
1:11:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcastAfter Code: Cursor's CEO on Logic Design, Custom Models and Why One Winner Will Take the MarketHost Lenny RachitskyMichael Truell explains how Cursor went from a mechanical-engineering pivot to a $300M ARR product, and where he thinks programming is heading.
18:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuild a Lab Inside Your Product Team: Dan Shipper on Keeping Up With a Moving AI FrontierHost Lenny RachitskyEvery CEO Dan Shipper explains how a tiny, disposable-experiment lab can coexist with a focused product team, and how to move winners from one into the other.
1:09:48ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersLovable's Anton Osika on Building "the Last Piece of Software" With 18 PeopleGuest Anton Osika · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Lovable CEO demos an AI software engineer live and explains how a tiny, obsessive team reached explosive growth.
1:04:09ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersA Developer in Your Pocket: Replit's Amjad Masad on What Happens When Everyone Can Build SoftwareGuest Amjad Masad · Host Lenny RachitskyReplit's co-founder demos an agent that builds a full-stack app in minutes, then explains what it means for product managers, designers, engineers and founders.
1:16:05ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Founder Is the Product: A Tactical Guide to Founder-Led SalesHost Lenny RachitskyJen Abel walks through outbound messaging, first calls, co-authored scoping, procurement, and closing for early-stage founders.Load moreShowing 24 of 30