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Lenny's PodcastPodcastGive Away Your Legos, Except the Ones AI Doesn't DeserveHost Lenny RachitskyMolly Graham revisits her famous career advice for a world of AI, grief, burnout and fast-changing jobs.
1:49:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Call It Strategy, Call It an Action Agenda: Richard Rumelt on Diagnosing the CruxGuest Richard Rumelt · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Good Strategy Bad Strategy and The Crux explains the kernel of strategy, where competitive power comes from, and why organizations so often fail to choose.
1:12:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCoaching Product Managers: Five Ingredients, Honest Storytelling, and the Case for CommunityGuest Petra Wille · Host Lenny RachitskyProduct leadership coach Petra Wille explains how to develop PMs, why storytelling is a career skill, and how communities of practice scale learning.
1:39:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCraft Over Metrics: How Linear Builds Software with One PM and No A/B TestsGuest Karri Saarinen · Host Lenny RachitskyLinear co-founder and CEO Karri Saarinen explains how a roughly 50-person, profitable company runs on taste, ownership, paid work trials and a deliberately slow, focused growth path.
53:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersManage Up, Get Specific, Say No by Trading Off: Wes Kao's Playbook for Clearer WorkGuest Wes Kao · Host Lenny RachitskyMaven co-founder Wes Kao walks Lenny Rachitsky through five ideas on writing, teaching, managing your boss and declining requests, after a tour of her path from the Gap to Seth Godin's altMBA.
1:13:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe CEO Is the Chief Product Officer: Brian Chesky's Airbnb Operating SystemHost Lenny RachitskyAirbnb's CEO explains how he rebuilt product management, planning, and launches around functional teams, one roadmap, and leaders who stay in the details.
59:20ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Trello to The Knot: Roles, Velocity and the Question "What Are You Optimizing For?"Guest Nikita Miller · Host Lenny RachitskyNikita Miller, head of product at The Knot Worldwide, on aligning cross-functional roles, shipping with urgency, working remotely and balancing life and work.
1:22:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSimplify, Follow Up, Carry the Water: What Separates Great Product ManagersGuest Maggie Crowley · Host Lenny RachitskyToast VP of Product and former Olympic speed skater Maggie Crowley on the three habits of the best PMs, how she writes strategy, and why "data-driven" can be a red flag.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersRoblox's 20-Year Bet: Building the Holodeck with Native AI ModelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilRoblox CEO Dave Baszucki explains how 13 billion monthly hours of 3D interaction data could power smarter NPCs, virtual doppelgängers and a cloud-native future for games.
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Lex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersHow IBM Watson Won Jeopardy: A Moonshot Built on Engineering, Not a BreakthroughGuest David Ferrucci · Host Lex FridmanDavid Ferrucci tells Lex Fridman how he talked IBM into the Jeopardy challenge and how his team built Watson's search, scoring and confidence machinery in about four years.
1:34:06ENLenny's PodcastPodcastRide the Models: Dan Shipper's Bets on Super-Agents, Codex, SaaS and the Human Jobs AI CreatesHost Lenny RachitskyEvery CEO Dan Shipper makes a dozen predictions for how work will look in a year, from company-wide Slack agents to why the AI job apocalypse isn't coming.
11:59ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersFrom a Side Project to TensorFlow's Core: François Chollet on How Keras Came to BeGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanThe creator of Keras recalls why he built it in 2015 around recurrent networks, how it moved onto TensorFlow, and what TensorFlow 2.0 means for its design.
1:14:37ENLenny's PodcastPodcastLead Like You Own the Next Play: Brian Halligan's Playbook for Founder CEOs in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskySequoia's in-house CEO coach and HubSpot co-founder on hiring spiky talent, the LOCKS framework, the future of go-to-market, and the "Halliganisms" he learned the hard way.
1:02:11ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuild Like a Lab: Josh Woodward on Finding, Testing and Killing Product Ideas in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyThe head of Google Labs, the Gemini app and AI Studio explains how to spot ideas that are almost possible, read early product-market fit in people's eyes, and run a frontier team inside a large company.
1:53:54ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom "Worst Idea I've Ever Heard" to $100M ARR: How Gamma Grew Profitably with a Tiny TeamGuest Grant Lee · Host Lenny RachitskyGamma CEO Grant Lee walks through product-market fit, micro-influencer marketing, rapid prototype testing, pricing and lean hiring behind an AI presentation tool with over 50 million users.
1:21:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSelling the Mario-on-Blast: Jen Abel's Playbook for Growing Enterprise Sales from $1M to $10M ARRHost Lenny RachitskyEnterprise sales veteran Jen Abel explains why startups should chase tier-one logos, price near $100K, sell vision instead of problems, and hire salespeople who can act like founders.
1:24:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPeople Hire Products: Bob Moesta on Struggling Moments, Context and the Real Jobs to Be DoneGuest Bob Moesta · Host Lenny RachitskyThe co-creator of Jobs to Be Done explains how to find the moment customers change behavior, how to interview them, and where the framework doesn't fit.
1:02:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThink Rigorously, Decide Fast: Lessons from Stripe's Culture and Retool's Innovation MachineGuest Eeke de Milliano · Host Lenny RachitskyRetool's head of product and early Stripe PM Eeke de Milliano on first-principles thinking, protecting innovation, right-sizing process and building a balanced product team.
1:13:44ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersTalent Density First: Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone on Candor, Keepers and High StandardsGuest Elizabeth Stone · Host Lenny RachitskyA conversation with Netflix's CTO, a trained economist, about her fast rise, how she holds a high bar, and how Netflix's culture and data organization actually work.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastOne Set of Weights, Fourteen Medical Tasks: Inside Google's Multimodal Med-PaLM MHost Nathan LabenzVivek Natarajan and Tao Tu explain how Google built a single generalist biomedical model that reads images, genomics and text, and what it will take to put it in front of patients.
1:03:10ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastPause Tokens, Analogical Prompts and Ring Attention: A Tour of the Transformer's Next UpgradesHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Trey Kollmer walk through five recent papers on pausing, backspacing, prompting, streaming and long-context training, and sketch how they might combine into a more capable model.
1:25:25ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersExplore, Exploit, Retain: How Albert Cheng Grows Duolingo, Grammarly and Chess.com-Style Subscription ProductsGuest Albert Cheng · Host Lenny RachitskyA veteran of three of the best-loved consumer subscription apps explains his explore-and-exploit framework, what retention really demands, and why he wants 1,000 experiments a year.
1:31:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHow Snyk Grew from a Node.js Niche to a Developer Security GiantGuest Ben Williams · Host Lenny RachitskyBen Williams, VP of Product at Snyk, explains the community, loops, team structure and data foundations behind the company's product-led growth.
1:12:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersLazy, Vain, Selfish Users and the Rule of Three: An Indian Product Leader's PlaybookGuest Anuj Rathi · Host Lenny RachitskyAnuj Rathi of Jupiter Money walks through how product management took shape in India, and the frameworks he uses for onboarding, working backwards, strategy and marketplaces.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,498