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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.
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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.
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.
1:12:17ENLenny'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.
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.
1:25:25ENLenny'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.
1:12:29ENLenny'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.
1:07:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMake a Podcast to Build for Podcasters: Maya Prohovnik on Dogfooding, Gut Calls and Anchor's Unscalable HacksGuest Maya Prohovnik · Host Lenny RachitskySpotify's head of podcast product and Anchor's employee number one explains how she dogfoods, balances intuition with data, and keeps a startup mindset inside a giant company.
1:15:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersShipping Real Apps Without Writing Code: A Non-Technical PM's Cursor and Claude Code WorkflowGuest Zevi Arnovitz · Host Lenny RachitskyZevi Arnovitz, a product manager with no technical background, walks Lenny Rachitsky through the slash-command workflow he uses to build and ship products with AI.
1:10:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersReteaming Is Inevitable: Heidi Helfand on Five Ways Teams Change and How to Do It WellGuest Heidi Helfand · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Dynamic Reteaming explains why stable teams are a myth, how to run reorgs transparently, and when an isolated team is the right tool.
30:20ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDraw the Circle: Julie Zhuo’s Five-Step Playbook for Influencing Hard Product DecisionsHost Lenny RachitskyA practical process for turning prioritization fights into shared learning, evidence gathering, and clear decision ownership.
1:06:47ENLenny's PodcastPodcastStop Pushing Customers Through a Funnel: Georgiana Laudi's Customer-Led Growth PlaybookHost Lenny RachitskyHow to replace pirate metrics with customer research, jobs-to-be-done, measurable value milestones, and messaging that actually converts.
1:01:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFocus Wisely: How Calendly Grew from a Free Viral Tool into a Product-Led Business with a Sales TeamGuest Annie Pearl · Host Lenny RachitskyCalendly's chief product officer Annie Pearl explains how the company picks its customers, plans its roadmap, and layers sales on top of product-led growth.
1:10:02ENLenny's PodcastPodcastLocal CEOs and Wow Products: Inside Revolut's Forge for Product LeadersHost Lenny RachitskyRevolut's global head of product, Dmitry Zlokazov, explains how ownership, depth, polish and raw intellect shape the product owners who ship across 50 countries.
1:30:53ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersObviously Awesome in Practice: April Dunford's Playbook for B2B Product PositioningGuest April Dunford · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Obviously Awesome explains how to tell whether positioning is broken, how to rebuild it step by step, and why one persona matters more than the rest.