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Lenny's PodcastPodcastWrite Your Last Roadmap: Claire Vo on Building When Code Is CheapHost Lenny RachitskyIn a talk at the Lenny and Friends Summit, Claire Vo argues that cheap AI execution has made feature roadmaps dangerous and that teams should plan around convictions and evidence instead.
1:26:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCare Personally, Challenge Directly: Kim Scott on Making Feedback a Team SuperpowerGuest Kim Scott · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Radical Candor explains the framework, the mistakes most managers make, and a step-by-step routine for asking for, giving and rewarding feedback.
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Lex FridmanPodcastRule 30 and Richard Feynman: Stephen Wolfram on Intuition Versus Computational ExperimentHost Lex FridmanWolfram recalls working with Feynman at Thinking Machines, why Feynman hid his calculations, and how building a computer language changed his approach to science.
45:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSeth Godin on Taste, Tension, and the Four Choices That Shape StrategyHost Lenny RachitskySeth Godin explains how product leaders can build taste, make and keep a brand promise, choose the right customers and distribution, and design remarkable products that spread.
1:12:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersOne Wish From a Genie: A Stanford Professor's Method for Getting Off AutopilotGuest Graham Weaver · Host Lenny RachitskyGraham Weaver, a Stanford GSB lecturer and founder of Alpine Investors, shares practical exercises for working out what you actually want to do with your life and staying with it long enough to succeed.
1:31:26ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMake Individual Contributors Love You First: Inside Figma's Bottom-Up Growth PlaybookGuest Claire Butler · Host Lenny RachitskyClaire Butler, Figma's 10th employee and first marketer, explains the two-step go-to-market motion behind Figma's growth: win over individual contributors, then help them spread the product through their companies.
20:45ENLenny's PodcastPodcast17 Interview Questions That Reveal How Candidates ThinkHost Lenny RachitskyLenny distills favorite interview questions from more than 100 podcast guests into a practical guide for hiring and being hired.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersBeyond GPT-7: The Customization Toolkit, Meta's Open Source Bet and the Return of Consumer AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn a host-only episode, the No Priors hosts map the six levers for 10x to 100x better AI, explain fine-tuning, RAG and AI feedback, and ask why consumer social is suddenly interesting again.
1:41:33ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTwo Days to a Founding Hypothesis: Inside the Foundation SprintHost Lenny RachitskyDesign Sprint creators Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky walk through a scripted 10-hour process that pins down customer, differentiation and approach before a startup builds anything.
1:42:05ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSlow Down to Grow Faster: Bangaly Kaba on Understand Work, Adjacent Users and Career ChoicesGuest Bangaly Kaba · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Instagram head of growth and current YouTube product director explains how to choose where to work, why teams should invest in understanding before executing, and how he found growth levers at Facebook, Instagram and Instacart.
1:25:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Skip, the Sidecar, and the Rabbit You Should Never Catch: Nikhyl Singhal on Building a 60-Year Product CareerHost Lenny RachitskyMeta and former Credit Karma product leader Nikhyl Singhal explains how to plan a career backwards from the job after next, spot ex-growth companies, diagnose a stalled promotion, and survive the success you've been chasing.
1:37:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMove Fast, Own the Details: What Binance, Agoda and N26 Taught Mayur Kamat About ProductGuest Mayur Kamat · Host Lenny RachitskyN26's Chief Product Officer on running products through daily meetings, choosing jobs by strengths and compounding, and why experiments beat strategy decks.
59:19ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Layering Game: Elena Verna on Product-Led Growth, Product-Led Sales, and Smarter FreemiumHost Lenny RachitskyA growth strategist explains how B2B companies should sequence product-led and sales-led motions without crushing the user engine that created them.
1:21:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBad Friction, Good Friction: Laura Schaffer on User Psychology and Growth ExperimentsGuest Laura Schaffer · Host Lenny RachitskyThe new head of growth at Amplitude explains how she built a growth team at Twilio, why most experiments fail, and why the user's state of mind decides what converts.
1:19:52ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Pixels to Steering Wheels: Convolutional Networks and End-to-End DrivingHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture explains how convolutional neural networks work, where deep learning helps a self-driving car, and how to train a network to steer from video.
12:53ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersPrinciples, Not Black Boxes: Ray Dalio on When to Trust AIGuest Ray Dalio · Host Lex FridmanRay Dalio explains how Bridgewater turns human thinking into algorithms, why machine learning is risky when the future differs from the past, and why writing down principles is the route to better decisions.
1:16:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSharp Problems, Real Virality: Oji Udezue's Playbook for Product-Led GrowthGuest Oji Udezue · Host Lenny RachitskyTypeform's chief product officer draws on Microsoft, Atlassian, Calendly and Twitter to explain how to pick a problem, find your ICP, onboard users and earn word of mouth.
1:31:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersEvery Problem Is Our Problem: How HubSpot's Chris Miller Grew a PLG Engine and HimselfGuest Chris Miller · Host Lenny RachitskyHubSpot's VP of Product for Growth and AI on the traits of great growth PMs, the myths of product-led growth, and how HubSpot's flywheel really works.
13:30ENLex FridmanPodcastDistance, Jabs and Three Rules: Georges St-Pierre Teaches Lex Fridman Wrestling and Ground DefenseHost Lex FridmanA training session in which the former champion explains how takedowns and ground fighting differ between MMA and jiu-jitsu.
1:33:14ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersEarn the Right to Decide: Reference Customers, Coaching and the Craft of Product ManagementGuest Christian Idiodi · Host Lenny RachitskySVPG partner Christian Idiodi explains why product managers get disliked, how to build products with 25 reference customers, and how leaders can coach and promote people well.
1:07:48ENLenny's PodcastPodcastMost Productivity Metrics Are a Lie: Nicole Forsgren on Measuring Developer Experience in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyThe creator of DORA and SPACE explains why lines of code and old pipeline metrics fall short with AI, and how to start improving developer experience by listening, surveying and tying results to what leaders care about.
17:21ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersHow Alexa Learned to Hear From Across the Room: Rohit Prasad on Far-Field Speech and IntentGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanAlexa's head scientist recalls the early days of the Echo, when far-field speech recognition seemed unsolvable and there were no customers to collect data from.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastBuilding a Friend, Not an Assistant: Replika's Eugenia Kuyda on Conversational AI and Its LimitsHost Nathan LabenzThe founder of Replika explains why she treats conversation as the product itself, how the company measures emotional outcomes, and why it pulled back from erotic roleplay.
1:33:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersWorking Backwards: How Amazon Turned Customer Obsession into a Repeatable Operating SystemGuest Bill Carr · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Amazon VP Bill Carr explains the PR/FAQ, single-threaded leaders, input metrics, disagree-and-commit and Bar Raisers, and how other companies can adopt them.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,491