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1:10:27ENHard Skills, Soft Skills and Mentors: Jules Walter's Playbook for Growing as a PMGuest Jules Walter · Host Lenny RachitskyYouTube product lead Jules Walter explains how he builds IQ and EQ skills, asks for honest feedback, and recruits mentors with the smallest possible ask.
1:01:00ENControl Over Attention: How Substack Builds Product for Writers and ReadersGuest Sachin Monga · Host Lenny RachitskySubstack's head of product, Sachin Monga, explains the principle behind the company's roadmap, the story of the Recommendations feature, and what he thinks the next era of writing on the internet looks like.
1:26:22ENStart 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.
1:15:29ENThe 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.
1:27:13ENFour 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.
1:21:35ENLook Outside the Building: Shaun Clowes on Why Most PMs Fall Short and How AI Changes the JobGuest Shaun Clowes · Host Lenny RachitskyConfluent's chief product officer explains how to become a far better product manager, why data matters more than models, and what AI will and won't do to SaaS.
1:35:11ENDon't Chase the Fake Rabbit: A Meta Product Leader's Guide to a 60-Year PM CareerGuest Nikhyl Singhal · Host Lenny RachitskyNikhyl Singhal walks through early, mid and late career for product managers, from avoiding ex-growth companies to finding a North Star for "act three".
1:08:29ENTaste, 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.
48:08ENDylan 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.
1:10:40ENInside 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.
1:54:40ENLearning to Take a Punch: Whoop's Hilary Gridley on Leading Through Fear, Ego and Hard ProblemsGuest Hilary Gridley · Host Lenny RachitskyWhoop's head of core product explains how she coaches product teams to handle setbacks, understand how leaders think, build habits through reward loops, and protect their own energy in an AI-anxious era.
1:16:34ENHow Wise Earns 70% of Its Growth by Word of MouthGuest Nilan Peiris · Host Lenny RachitskyWise chief product officer Nilan Peiris explains how NPS, a 10x-better mindset and a very unusual product culture turned customers into the company's main acquisition channel.
1:09:54ENThe 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.
1:28:40ENBuild 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.
1:03:09ENCanva'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.
1:24:19ENThe 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.
1:05:46ENHire for Balance, Fix Onboarding, Evaluate Companies Rigorously: Adam Fishman's Growth PlaybookGuest Adam Fishman · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Lyft, Patreon and Imperfect Foods growth leader lays out a four-part competency model for hiring growth talent, explains why onboarding is the most underrated retention lever, and shares a "people, mission, financials" framework for choosing where to work.
1:31:22ENThe 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.
1:08:53ENPlay 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.
1:07:25ENAlgorithms Need People: Adriel Frederick on Judgment, Diverse Teams and Growing ProductsGuest Adriel Frederick · Host Lenny RachitskyA product leader from Facebook, Lyft and Reddit explains why algorithmic products still need human judgment, how diverse teams move faster, and how to find the "marginal user".
1:40:40ENThe 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.
56:15ENPredictably Irrational: How Behavioral Science Reshapes Product DesignGuest Kristen Berman · Host Lenny RachitskyKristen Berman of Irrational Labs explains her three-B framework and the experiments behind TikTok, One Medical and a failed budgeting feature.
1:32:09ENImpact First: How Product Teams Escape the Low-Impact Death SpiralGuest Matt LeMay · Host Lenny RachitskyMatt LeMay explains why product teams must tie their work directly to business-critical outcomes, and the three steps for doing it whatever their company looks like.
1:21:25ENStrategy 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.
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