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Lenny's PodcastPodcastAllow the Fear: J.M. Nickels on Conscious Leadership, Strategy, and Choosing Your Life's Objective FunctionHost Lenny RachitskyA product leader who built Uber Pool and led commercialization at Waymo explains how inner work, first-principles futures, and an explicit life objective function make better leaders and better products.
53:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersA Roadmap Is a Prototype of Your Strategy: Janna Bastow on Now, Next, LaterGuest Janna Bastow · Host Lenny RachitskyThe inventor of the Now/Next/Later roadmap explains why timelines mislead, how to launch without fixed dates, and what she learned from building Mind the Product and ProdPad.
26:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcastGet to the Punchline: How Figma's Slides Team Won Trust Instead of Just a Green LightHost Lenny RachitskyFigma's Mika and Yuki explain why the standard PM playbook for product reviews backfires — and the tactics they used instead to get Figma Slides built, funded and launched.
42:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Product Discipline Behind a Driverless RideHost Lenny RachitskyShweta Shrivastava of Waymo explains how autonomous-driving products earn trust, measure safety, and sustain long-term investment.
1:17:46ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShopify’s Anti-Playbook: Optimize for Churn, Hold Experiments for Years, and Ban KPIsHost Lenny RachitskyArchie Abrams explains how Shopify grows by lowering barriers, measuring cohort GMV, running multi-year holdouts, and letting a 100-year vision guide core product.
23:57ENLenny'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.
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.
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.
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.
1:33:14ENLenny'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.
1:33:33ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Art of Influence: Treat Your Executive Like Your Most Important UserHost Lenny RachitskyWebflow product leader and former Slack chief of staff Jessica Fain explains how executives really decide, and why influence matters even more in the age of AI.
1:35:07ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTony Fadell on Taste, Opinionated Product Decisions, and Refusing to Surrender to AIHost Lenny RachitskyThe iPod and iPhone veteran explains how v1 products get built on informed opinion, why marketing is part of the product, and where AI helps or hurts builders.
1:24:30ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Curation to Recommendation to Generation: Spotify's Gustav Söderström on Rethinking ProductGuest Gustav Soderstrom · Host Lenny RachitskySpotify's co-president and CPO/CTO explains the AI DJ, a bruising homepage redesign, why squads gave way to VP-level autonomy, and what generative music might mean.
1:17:44ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStart at Chapter One: Casey Winters on Executive Communication, Unsexy Work and Growth LoopsGuest Casey Winters · Host Lenny RachitskyEventbrite CPO Casey Winters shares what he has learned about product leadership, simplicity at scale, strategy as the great career filter, and the current state of growth.
18:02ENLenny's PodcastPodcastYour Career Is the Most Important Product You'll Ever ShipHost Lenny RachitskyA product-leadership framework for navigating dozens of jobs, building career stories, avoiding burnout, and turning reputation into opportunity.
1:25:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShipping in Days: How Claude Code's Head of Product Runs a Team at AI SpeedHost Lenny RachitskyCat Wu, Head of Product for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, explains how the PM role, hiring, tooling and culture change when features go from idea to users in a week or less.
1:36:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcastUnderstaff on Purpose, Never Be Chill: Matt MacInnis on Leading Rippling Through EntropyHost Lenny RachitskyRippling's chief product officer and longtime COO explains why extraordinary outcomes demand extraordinary effort, and the frameworks he uses to hire, set process and keep intensity high.
1:03:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBring the Insight: How a Young Product Leader Earns Trust at AsanaGuest Paige Costello · Host Lenny RachitskyAsana's Paige Costello on planning, the Double Diamond process, coaching PMs, and what holds new product managers back.
1:18:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCuriosity Loops: Ada Chen Rekhi's Method for Better Decisions and a Career You Won't RegretGuest Ada Chen Rekhi · Host Lenny RachitskyAn executive coach and Notejoy co-founder on structured advice-gathering, values exercises, explore-and-exploit careers, coaching and co-founding with a spouse.
1:21:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBehind the Wheel: How Uber's Product Chief Dogfoods His Way to Better ProductsHost Lenny RachitskySachin Kansal on extreme dogfooding, shipping fast, Uber's hybrid autonomy strategy and making gut calls against the data.
1:21:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Opposite of Play Is Fear: How Jira's Head of Product Builds Safe, Fast-Moving TeamsGuest Megan Cook · Host Lenny RachitskyMegan Cook of Atlassian on psychological safety, remote work habits, winning buy-in, and how a 12,000-person company keeps launching new products.
1:35:27ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSacred Cows Are Your Roadmap: Kayvon Beykpour on Reviving Twitter's Product CultureGuest Kayvon Beykpour · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former head of product at Twitter on meeting Elon Musk, being fired during paternity leave, shipping through a risk-averse culture, and the lessons of Periscope.Load moreShowing 24 of 146