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Lenny's PodcastPodcastThe Failure Dividend: What Leaders from Airbnb, Google, Pets.com, Quibi, Duolingo, and Toast Learned from Their Worst MomentsHost Lenny RachitskyA compilation of product leaders' most searing failures—and the operating lessons they extracted from them.
1:19:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcastProduct Ops Is the Operating System Your Product Team Is MissingHost Lenny RachitskyMelissa Perri and Denise Tilles explain how product operations frees product managers from busywork, improves decision speed, and scales product organizations without adding unnecessary overhead.
1:36:53ENLenny's PodcastPodcastIdeology, Restraint and the Core: Peter Sellis on Building Product Teams That WinHost Lenny RachitskySnapchat's first PM and former Discord head of product speaks candidly about team design, why the median PM is weak, and where consumer growth really comes from.
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.
20:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcastProduct Management Is Dead. What Comes Next Is an AI-Powered Triple ThreatHost Lenny RachitskyClaire argues that AI is collapsing the PM craft and replacing the product triad with multi-skilled leaders backed by agents, tools and a culture of automation.
1:55:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcastPlan Your Chess Moves: Peter Deng on Building Products Used by BillionsHost Lenny RachitskyThe former product leader at OpenAI, Instagram, Uber and Facebook explains how he scales products, assembles teams and hires people who eventually don't need him.
1:44:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcastMarc Andreessen on Why AI Arrives Just in Time, and Why You Should Not Be FungibleHost Lenny RachitskyThe a16z co-founder argues that AI lands in an economy starved of productivity growth and short of workers, and explains how individuals, parents and founders should respond.
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.
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.
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.
1:14:06ENLenny'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.
1:13:28ENLenny'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.
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.
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.
1:21:35ENLenny'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.
1:45:19ENLenny's PodcastPodcastStop Having All the Answers: An Executive Coach's Playbook for Tough Talks, Co-Founders and EnergyHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Stripe and Pinterest HR leader Rachel Lockett teaches Lenny Rachitsky the practical coaching, conflict and career-design skills she uses with tech CEOs, including two live demonstrations.
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.
1:42:30ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Genie Has Three Wishes: How a Non-Coder Became Lovable's Professional Vibe CoderHost Lenny RachitskyLazar Jovanovic explains the planning files, parallel prototypes and debugging routine he uses to ship production software with AI, and why judgment and taste now matter more than code.
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.
24:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Rituals Behind Great Decisions: Eigenquestions, Dory/Pulse, and the Forum That Replaces Standing MeetingsHost Lenny RachitskyHow Coda and other companies design decision rituals—from eigenquestions and two-way write-ups to multi-threaded forums and proactive stakeholder tags.
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.
1:17:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Audience Is the Hero: Nancy Duarte's Playbook for Stories That Move PeopleHost Lenny RachitskyA practical guide to empathy-led presentations, contrast structures, visual alignment, and calming presentation nerves.Load moreShowing 24 of 146