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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersWhat Makes a Top 1% Product Manager, and What Working Backwards Really MeansGuest Ian McAllister · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Amazon product leader Ian McAllister revisits his famous PM post and explains why most teams misuse Amazon's working backwards process.
1:27:03ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBe the Hero of Your Own Story: Superpowers, Kryptonite and the Leader's JourneyGuest Donna Lichaw · Host Lenny RachitskyExecutive coach Donna Lichaw explains how the stories leaders tell themselves shape their impact, and how to find strengths, reframe imposter syndrome and set goals.
1:39:23ENLenny's PodcastPodcastProven, Better, New: Mark Pincus on Copying Smartly, Killing Hope and Building an Internet TreasureHost Lenny RachitskyThe Zynga founder shares the framework behind his hit games, why starting small beats starting big, and what he sees coming for consumer apps in the age of AI.
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Lex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersEvery Champion Wants to Quit: Jimmy Pedro on Judo, Fathers, Injury and the Fight to Keep the Sport Alive in AmericaGuest Jimmy Pedro · Host Lex FridmanThe American judo great and coach talks about his demanding father, a career-threatening neck injury, a comeback at the Olympics, his training system, and why he fears for judo's future.
17:19ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Atoms to Data Centers: How a Modern Processor Finds Parallelism in a Serial ProgramGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanJim Keller walks through the layers of abstraction in computer design, from transistors to out-of-order execution, branch prediction and deterministic answers.
1:35:09ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersReverse-Engineering the Child: Josh Tenenbaum's Case for Human-Like AIGuest MIT AGI · Host Lex FridmanMIT cognitive scientist Josh Tenenbaum argues that real machine intelligence needs models of the world, built by studying how babies think and learn, not just better pattern recognition.
1:31:55ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInnovate, Don't Optimize: Lovable's Growth Chief on Rewriting the Playbook for AIHost Lenny RachitskyElena Verna explains how Lovable reached $200M ARR in under a year with about 100 people, and which growth habits she had to throw away to get there.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastPeter Deng on Why AI Pricing, Evals and Voice Are Still MisunderstoodHost Jacob EffronA product leader's guide to pricing AI around work, making evals the spec, and why voice and proactive agents are underrated
55:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcastHow Product Leaders Sell Ideas, Simplify Products, and Build Growth LoopsHost Lenny RachitskyEventbrite’s chief product officer explains how to communicate upward, protect product-market fit, and turn early growth hacks into scalable loops.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersThe Vulnerability Flood: Cloudflare's CTO on Security, Agent Traffic and an AI-First CompanyHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCloudflare CTO Dane Knecht tells Sarah Guo how AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, why agents need a new economic model for the web, and how Cloudflare is reorganizing around AI.
1:23:59ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFascinating, Tell Me More: Faire CPO Ami Vora on Disagreeing Well and Leading ImperfectlyGuest Ami Vora · Host Lenny RachitskyFaire's chief product officer explains how she handles disagreement, runs product reviews, uses metaphors to align teams and accepts that senior leadership means choosing between imperfect options.
1:18:09ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Reactive to Creative: Ken Norton on the Inner Work of Product LeadershipGuest Ken Norton · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Google product leader and executive coach Ken Norton explains why mindset, not more frameworks, unlocks the next level of leadership.
1:14:06ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWindsurf's Bet: Build the IDE That Makes Today's IDE Look DumbHost Lenny RachitskyVarun Mohan explains how Windsurf pivoted from GPU infrastructure to an agentic code editor, why it forked VS Code, and how he thinks about models, hiring, enterprise sales, and the future of software work.
1:34:14ENLenny'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.
43:44ENNo 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.
32:41ENLex 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,497