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Lenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Purpose to Product: Ebi Atawodi’s Playbook for a Vision That ShipsHost Lenny RachitskyHow YouTube Studio’s vision was built, socialized, and turned into live products—plus a practical playbook for product managers at any level.
1:22:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFall in Love With the Problem: Uri Levine on Product-Market Fit, Fundraising, and Firing FastHost Lenny RachitskyA tactical founder playbook covering problem validation, product-market fit, fundraising narratives, hard hiring decisions, and user understanding.
1:11:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuild the Skeleton Before the Makeup: Deel’s Playbook for $0 to $295M ARRHost Lenny RachitskyMeltem Kuran Berkowitz explains how Deel used question-answering communities, disciplined SEO, long-tail paid bets and revenue-accountable hiring to scale.
21:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcastRowing or Steering: How Atlassian's PMs Became AI BuildersHost Lenny RachitskyAtlassian CPO Tamar Yehoshua explains, through three internal projects, when product managers should write code and when they should guide the team.
1:33:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSell Before You Tell: Wes Kao's Tactics for Communication That Actually LandsHost Lenny RachitskyExecutive-communication teacher Wes Kao breaks down the frameworks — sales before logistics, signposting, MOO, CEDAF — that turn clear thinking into buy-in.
1:31:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcastPerfect Is Creepy: What a Child Psychologist Knows About Leading Difficult AdultsHost Lenny RachitskyDr. Becky Kennedy explains how the principles she uses to raise resilient kids apply to managers, teams and colleagues.
1:01:12ENLenny'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.
1:16:05ENLenny'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.
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.
1:14:37ENLenny'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.
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Lex FridmanPodcastZuckerberg and Fridman Roll: Why Two Busy Leaders Are Training Jiu-JitsuHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman shares footage of a training session with Mark Zuckerberg and explains why martial arts matter for people who run big companies.
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.
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.
1:17:24ENLenny'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.