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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFind the Must-Have Users First: Sean Ellis on Product-Market Fit and Sustainable GrowthGuest Sean Ellis · Host Lenny RachitskyThe creator of the Sean Ellis test and the ICE framework explains how to measure product-market fit, learn from the users who love you, and then grow in the right order.
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.
1:42:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersJournalists Don't Care About You: A Magazine Editor's Field Guide to Getting PressGuest Jason Feifer · Host Lenny RachitskyEntrepreneur editor-in-chief Jason Feifer explains how to prepare, pick the right writer, and pitch a story that an editor will actually say yes to.
1:03:27ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFind the Cultural Erogenous Zone: A Comms Playbook for Making Ideas SpreadGuest Lulu Cheng Meservey · Host Lenny RachitskyLulu Cheng Meservey, the former Substack comms head, explains how underdog startups can build their own audiences, take smarter risks and shape messages people want to repeat.
1:28:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSeven Years in the Making: How StackBlitz Turned Bolt into a $40M ARR Overnight SuccessGuest Eric Simons · Host Lenny RachitskyStackBlitz CEO Eric Simons explains how a browser-based operating system, a bootstrapped team and a better Claude model turned a nearly bankrupt company into one of the fastest-growing products ever.
1:18:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDelta 4, Dharma and Second-Order Thinking: Kunal Shah's Philosophy of Building in IndiaGuest Kunal Shah · Host Lenny RachitskyCRED founder Kunal Shah explains his product framework, why India's market behaves differently, and the habits of curiosity he credits for his success.
1:14:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersLeaving 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.
1:23:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersYou 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.
1:28:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBuild for Feelings, Not Graphs: Inside The Browser Company's Product PhilosophyGuest Josh Miller · Host Lenny RachitskyJosh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company, explains how Arc is built around emotions, values, a tiny-but-unusual team and a bet on the internet as the next computer.
1:39:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCraft 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.
1:10:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersReteaming Is Inevitable: Heidi Helfand on Five Ways Teams Change and How to Do It WellGuest Heidi Helfand · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Dynamic Reteaming explains why stable teams are a myth, how to run reorgs transparently, and when an isolated team is the right tool.
1:13:52ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPunching Above Your Weight: Airtable's Early Marketing Playbook, From Billboards to ChampionsGuest Zoelle Egner · Host Lenny RachitskyAirtable's employee number 11, Zoelle Egner, explains how a 15-person company earned enterprise trust, built word of mouth and chose where to spend scarce marketing effort.
1:30:53ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersObviously Awesome in Practice: April Dunford's Playbook for B2B Product PositioningGuest April Dunford · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Obviously Awesome explains how to tell whether positioning is broken, how to rebuild it step by step, and why one persona matters more than the rest.
1:06:10ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersColumn B Thinking: How Melanie Perkins Built Canva by Starting From the DreamGuest Melanie Perkins · Host Lenny RachitskyCanva's co-founder and CEO explains how working backward from a wild vision, rejection from over a hundred investors and a two-year rewrite shaped a company valued above $42 billion.