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1:38:00ENRun Toward the Pain: Ben Horowitz on Hesitation, Confidence and Leading a Company Through the AbyssGuest Ben Horowitz · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Andreessen Horowitz co-founder talks about the psychology of being a CEO, what product managers get wrong about leadership, whether AI is a bubble, and why the US must stay in the AI race.
1:12:19ENThe Three W's: A Practical Framework for Growing as a Product ManagerGuest Vikrama Dhiman · Host Lenny RachitskyGojek's head of product Vikrama Dhiman explains what separates fast-rising PMs from stalled ones, and how to move into product from another discipline.
1:02:33ENEmpathy, Half-Built Products and Staying Power: Scott Belsky on Product Sense in the Age of AIGuest Scott Belsky · Host Lenny RachitskyAdobe's chief strategy officer explains how he builds product intuition, why he kills features, how AI could change creative work, and when a founder should quit.
1:45:10ENShape Up in Real Life: Fixed Time, Variable Scope, and the Shaping Session That Makes It WorkGuest Ryan Singer · Host Lenny RachitskyRyan Singer, author of Shape Up, explains appetites, six-week time boxes and live shaping sessions, and why copying Basecamp's method without its conditions fails.
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.
1:24:37ENTools 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.
1:38:33ENPrice Before Product: Madhavan Ramanujam's Masterclass on Monetizing InnovationGuest Madhavan Ramanujam · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Monetizing Innovation walks product teams through willingness-to-pay research, segmentation, pricing models, benefit messaging and behavioral pricing.
48:18ENStop Writing Solutions as Opportunities: Teresa Torres on Opportunity Solution Trees and Weekly Customer InterviewsGuest Teresa Torres · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Continuous Discovery Habits explains how to structure a messy product problem, collect customer stories every week, and make better bets with small amounts of data.
1:25:15ENProduct Management Theater and the Road Out: Marty Cagan on TRANSFORMEDGuest Marty Cagan · Host Lenny RachitskyThe SVPG founder explains why many PM roles are really project management, how AI raises the stakes, and how companies can move from feature teams to empowered product teams.
1:35:17ENLove, Not Just Like: How Nubank Builds Products Customers Tell Their Friends AboutGuest Jag Duggal · Host Lenny RachitskyNubank's chief product officer Jag Duggal explains the culture, metrics and strategy discipline behind a bank that grows mostly through word of mouth.
1:31:49ENBlue Loops, Eigenquestions and Golden Rituals: Shishir Mehrotra's Playbook for Growth and Great TeamsGuest Shishir Mehrotra · Host Lenny RachitskyCoda's co-founder and CEO explains how his product grows through two loops, how to find the one question that settles many others, and how to hire for the right kind of thinking.
1:33:23ENProduct-Led Growth Is Really Data-Led Growth: A Practical PlaybookGuest Hila Qu · Host Lenny RachitskyGrowth advisor Hila Qu explains how to add a PLG motion, from avoiding common pitfalls and auditing your funnel to choosing tools and building the team.
1:04:59ENWhat 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.
1:18:09ENFrom 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.
1:12:17ENCoaching 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.
1:39:50ENCraft 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.
53:08ENManage 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.
59:20ENFrom 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.
1:22:34ENSimplify, 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.
1:24:56ENPeople 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.
1:02:56ENThink 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.
1:25:25ENExplore, 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.
1:12:29ENLazy, 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.
1:07:36ENMake 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.
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