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1:15:13ENFrom Intern to VP of Design: Julie Zhuo on Imposter Syndrome, Writing and Building Product SenseGuest Julie Zhuo · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Facebook head of design Julie Zhuo talks with Lenny Rachitsky about growing through discomfort, writing as a thinking tool, running product reviews, giving design feedback, becoming a manager and hiring designers.
1:40:44ENEvery Dysfunctional Team Looks Alike, Every Great One Looks Different: Lessons from John Cutler's Years Inside Hundreds of Product TeamsGuest John Cutler · Host Lenny RachitskyAfter four years as Amplitude's product evangelist, John Cutler explains what really separates high-performing product teams, why online frameworks need context, and how to keep learning loops turning in messy companies.
1:25:34ENClimbing the Next Hill: How Slack's Product Chief Keeps a Mature Product InnovatingGuest Noah Weiss · Host Lenny RachitskySlack CPO Noah Weiss on working with product-minded founders, incubating new bets, reviving self-service growth and what great PMs actually do.
1:29:52ENTurning Ambiguity into Clarity: Coda CPO Lane Shackleton on the Principles and Rituals of Great Product TeamsGuest Lane Shackleton · Host Lenny RachitskyFrom Alaskan mountain guide and AdWords ad reviewer to Chief Product Officer, Lane Shackleton shares the principles, meeting rituals and career habits he has collected from studying great product people.
1:26:50ENIntuition Is a Hypothesis Generator: Dylan Field on Taste, Simplicity and Shipping FastGuest Dylan Field · Host Lenny RachitskyFigma's CEO talks with Lenny Rachitsky, live at Config, about how he builds product taste, why simplicity is everyone's job, and what the early years of Figma taught him.
1:47:22ENStrategy Is Not a Gift: A Five-Phase Playbook You Can Run in 8–12 WeeksGuest Chandra Janakiraman · Host Lenny RachitskyChandra Janakiraman, CPO of VRChat, walks through an operator's recipe for building product strategy, from leadership interviews to a three-pillar rollout, plus a longer "big S" process for aspirational futures.
53:40ENA 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.
42:16ENThe 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.
45:16ENSeth 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.
1:41:33ENTwo 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.
1:42:05ENSlow 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.
1:25:50ENThe 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.
1:37:56ENMove 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.
59:19ENThe 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.
1:33:14ENEarn 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.
1:33:28ENWorking 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.
1:33:33ENThe 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.
1:07:32ENReplacing the PM with the Full-Stack Builder: How LinkedIn Is Rebuilding Product Development for AIHost Lenny RachitskyLinkedIn's chief product officer Tomer Cohen explains the full-stack builder model, the custom agents behind it, and the culture work that decides whether it succeeds.
1:17:44ENStart 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.
1:25:34ENShipping 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.
1:09:56ENWhen Anyone Can Build Anything, Taste Becomes the Product JobHost Lenny RachitskyCodex desktop lead Andrew Ambrosino on how AI has inverted product development, why roles are blurring but shouldn't vanish, and where Codex and ChatGPT are headed.
1:03:21ENBring 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.
1:21:57ENBehind 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.
1:11:26ENManage Your Career Like a Product: Deb Liu on Resilience, Introversion and Big SwingsGuest Deb Liu · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Facebook VP and current Ancestry CEO explains how to keep learning, bounce back from failure, build new businesses inside large companies, and plan a career with intention.
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