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1:17:55ENThe Quiet Advantage: How Introverts Can Thrive Without Pretending to Be ExtrovertsHost Lenny RachitskySusan Cain explains what introversion really is and offers practical ways to build visibility, run meetings, parent quiet kids, and design a career around your temperament.
1:14:34ENInside the Frontier Lab: How Karina Nguyen Builds Products by Training the ModelGuest Karina Nguyen · Host Lenny RachitskyOpenAI researcher Karina Nguyen explains synthetic data, evals, how Canvas and Tasks were made, and which human skills matter as models get smarter.
1:09:48ENLovable's Anton Osika on Building "the Last Piece of Software" With 18 PeopleGuest Anton Osika · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Lovable CEO demos an AI software engineer live and explains how a tiny, obsessive team reached explosive growth.
1:18:47ENBefriend the Voice in Your Head: Executive Coach Joe Hudson on Emotions, Enjoyment and ExperimentsGuest Joe Hudson · Host Lenny RachitskyJoe Hudson, a coach to leaders at OpenAI, SpaceX and Apple, explains how to work with your inner critic, welcome your emotions and replace "should" with "want".
1:06:22ENWhen AI Writes 90% of the Code: Anthropic's CPO on New Bottlenecks, Builders and MCPHost Lenny RachitskyMike Krieger on how product work changes inside Anthropic, why he shut down Artifact, and where AI founders can build without being squashed.
1:46:35ENHire Your Agents Like Employees: Claire Vo's Field Guide to Running Nine OpenClawsHost Lenny RachitskyClaire Vo explains how she went from losing her family calendar to OpenClaw to running a team of specialized agents across her business, podcast, course and household.
1:19:56ENAnalytics With a Seat at the Table: How DoorDash Builds a Centralized Data TeamGuest Jessica Lachs · Host Lenny RachitskyDoorDash analytics chief Jessica Lachs explains why she keeps data scientists in one central org, how she hires for curiosity, and how she picks metrics that actually move a business.
1:19:34ENFei-Fei Li on ImageNet, World Models and Why Everyone Has a Role in AIHost Lenny RachitskyThe scientist often called the godmother of AI traces how big data sparked deep learning, explains why spatial intelligence is the next frontier, and shows what World Labs' first product, Marble, can do.
1:14:51ENLeaving Uber to Write Full Time: Gergely Orosz on Building The Pragmatic EngineerGuest Gergely Orosz · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of the top engineering newsletter on Substack explains why he walked away from a big-tech career, what a week of full-time writing really looks like, and what it takes to make it work.
1:08:32ENSmall Teams, Hard Problems First: How Rippling's Jeremy Henrickson Keeps Velocity at ScaleGuest Jeremy Henrickson · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Rippling product chief and former Coinbase CPO on small teams, designing for the hardest case, fast decisions, and going all the way to the ground.
1:22:31ENFall 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.
1:27:00ENStay on Your Side of the Net: Carole Robin's Stanford Playbook for Exceptional RelationshipsGuest Carole Robin · Host Lenny RachitskyThe longtime teacher of Stanford GSB's "Touchy Feely" course explains disclosure, vulnerability, feedback and inquiry as learnable leadership skills.
1:40:03ENDo More Per Minute: Shopify's Farhan Thawar on Intensity, Hard Paths and Hiring by DoingGuest Farhan Thawar · Host Lenny RachitskyShopify's head of engineering explains how pair programming, relentless check-ins, deleted code and job trials keep a 10,000-person company moving fast.
1:24:03ENBuilding a Marketplace: Lessons from Lyft and Thumbtack on Liquidity, Supply and ControlGuest Benjamin Lauzier · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Thumbtack product and growth VP Benjamin Lauzier explains how to start a marketplace, measure its health, and grow supply cleverly, drawing on his years at Lyft.
1:11:51ENBuild 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.
1:46:33ENFrom Chaos to a Failure Map: A Hands-On Primer on AI EvalsGuest Hamel Husain, Shreya Shankar · Host Lenny RachitskyHamel Husain and Shreya Shankar walk Lenny Rachitsky through a real error-analysis workflow, from reading traces to building a trustworthy LLM judge.
1:04:09ENA Developer in Your Pocket: Replit's Amjad Masad on What Happens When Everyone Can Build SoftwareGuest Amjad Masad · Host Lenny RachitskyReplit's co-founder demos an agent that builds a full-stack app in minutes, then explains what it means for product managers, designers, engineers and founders.
1:23:36ENYou Are Not a Marketplace Founder (Yet): A Stanford Professor on Friction, Data and ExperimentsGuest Ramesh Johari · Host Lenny RachitskyRamesh Johari explains what marketplaces really sell, why prediction is not decision-making, and how experiments and rating systems should be designed.
1:12:04ENBeyond the Chat Box: OpenAI's Head of Design on Adaptive Interfaces and the Designer's FutureHost Lenny RachitskyIan Silber, head of product design at OpenAI, discusses designer anxiety, shifting roles, designing for a billion very different users, and where ChatGPT and Codex are headed.
1:56:31ENSpeak Before You Think: Tristan de Montebello's Games and Methods for Becoming a Better SpeakerGuest Tristan de Montebello · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Ultraspeaking co-creator explains why speaking is a meta skill, then walks Lenny Rachitsky through live practice games and two methods for preparing talks.
1:33:38ENSell 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.
1:19:50ENIt's 1997 for AI: Benedict Evans on Why It's a Huge Deal, but Only as Big as the InternetHost Lenny RachitskyAnalyst Benedict Evans explains why he thinks AI is as big as the internet or mobile and no bigger, and what that means for jobs, model companies, distribution and the backlash.
1:24:37ENTools Exist to Solve Problems: Austin Hay's Practical Guide to Marketing TechnologyGuest Austin Hay · Host Lenny RachitskyRamp's head of marketing technology explains what MarTech is, where it sits in the org, how to build the data stack, and how to hire for it.
1:29:39ENFive Customers, Three Prototypes, One Day: How to Find Your Bullseye CustomerHost Lenny RachitskyMichael Margolis of GV explains how to narrow to the customer most likely to adopt first — and how to prove it with a one-day research sprint.
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