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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside Duolingo's Streak: What 600+ Experiments Taught One Retention TeamGuest Jackson Shuttleworth · Host Lenny RachitskyDuolingo group product manager Jackson Shuttleworth walks through the history, wins, wrong turns and operating habits behind the single feature he calls the company's biggest growth lever.
1:26:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Achiever's Trap: A Growth Leader on Burnout, Healing and Letting the Old Self GoGuest Andy Johns · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Facebook, Twitter and Wealthfront growth leader Andy Johns explains how achievement became his survival strategy, why it broke down, and the four steps he sees in deep personal change.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Long Leash and the Narrow Fences: Eric Ries and Jeremy Howard on Building AI’s Edison LabHost Jacob EffronEric Ries and Jeremy Howard discuss Lean Startup discipline in AI, Answer.AI’s for-profit R&D lab model, efficient fine-tuning, language-heavy applications, and AI safety regulation.
1:17:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Plan Your Career, Follow the Best People: Tamar Yehoshua on Product Leadership in the AI EraGuest Tamar Yehoshua · Host Lenny RachitskyGlean's president of product and technology on career choices, what she learned from Bezos, Butterfield and Benioff, working with engineering partners, and how AI will change product work.
1:25:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMake Things People Want: What 600 YC Startups Taught Gustaf AlströmerGuest Gustaf Alstromer · Host Lenny RachitskyA Y Combinator group partner and early Airbnb growth lead explains why startups fail, what successful founders share, and why climate tech has become a real business.
17:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDon't Become a Software Factory: Why Context Is the Real ProductHost Lenny RachitskyLinear CEO Karri Saarinen argues that as AI automates execution, product teams must protect the learning that makes great products possible.
1:04:48ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSkills Over Titles: How LinkedIn's Hari Srinivasan Rewired Hiring Around What People Can DoGuest Hari Srinivasan · Host Lenny RachitskyLinkedIn's VP of product for Talent Solutions explains skills-first hiring, running a web of interlocking marketplaces, and how to get hired as a product manager.
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Lex FridmanPodcastTake Back MIT: Eric Weinstein on Broken Institutions and the Scientists Who Should Reclaim ThemHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from their longer conversation, Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman argue over whether MIT can be won back from its administrators, and what it means to be betrayed by the institutions we trust.
19:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuild the Factory, Not Just the Product: How Ramp Chases Bottlenecks Across the Whole Development LoopHost Lenny RachitskyRamp CPO Geoff Charles walks through the AI agents his team built for every stage of product development, and what they mean for the PM's role.
1:42:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Operating Lessons Brian Balfour Keeps Returning ToHost Lenny RachitskyReforge’s founder and CEO shares hard-won lessons on hiring, planning, growth systems, and defining who you are not for.
1:16:53ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersEngineering Leadership After ZIRP: Strategy, Systems and AccountabilityGuest Will Larson · Host Lenny RachitskyCarta CTO Will Larson on how engineering management changed after the zero-interest-rate era, and the habits he relies on now: systems models, written strategy, shared incentives and honest values.
1:55:10ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSEO After AI Overviews: Treat Search as a Product, Not a Keyword GameGuest Eli Schwartz · Host Lenny RachitskyGrowth advisor Eli Schwartz explains how AI answers are swallowing top-of-funnel search, and why the winners will be the teams that build for the buyer's journey.
1:11:50ENLex FridmanPodcastData Is Everything: Teaching Self-Driving Cars to Understand the Human Behind the WheelHost Lex FridmanIn an MIT lecture, Lex Fridman shows how deep learning can sense pedestrians, driver posture, gaze, emotion and cognitive load, and why that matters for human-centered autonomy.
1:09:01ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakers"We Might Be Wrong, But We Are Not Confused": How LinkedIn's Tomer Cohen Rebuilt the Feed Around AIGuest Tomer Cohen · Host Lenny RachitskyLinkedIn's chief product officer explains the clarity-first mantra behind the feed turnaround, his AI-first approach to product, and the conviction-driven career path that took him to the top.
17:10ENLex FridmanPodcastBitcoin’s puzzle is a Byzantine agreement machineHost Lex FridmanVitalik Buterin explains how proof of work turns a fault-tolerance thought experiment into a shared ledger, and why a 50 percent attack and quantum mining are less simple than they sound.
1:38:45ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWhen Coding Stops Being the Bottleneck: Inside Anthropic's Claude Code and Cowork TeamsHost Lenny RachitskyFiona Fung, who leads the teams behind Claude Code and Cowork, describes how an engineering org that ships roughly eight times more code manages quality, hiring, metrics and culture.
1:24:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSelling the Opportunity: How Founders Take Enterprise Sales From $1M to $10M ARRGuest Jen Abel · Host Lenny RachitskyJen Abel explains why startups should chase tier-one logos, price near $100K, hire salespeople who can "cosplay a founder", and sell vision instead of problems.
1:31:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFive Habits of Thought for Better Product Work: Shreyas Doshi on Pre-Mortems, LNO, and Opportunity CostGuest Shreyas Doshi · Host Lenny RachitskyProduct leader Shreyas Doshi walks through the ideas that changed how he works, from imagining failure in advance to choosing the best use of your time rather than a merely good one.
1:15:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom 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.
1:24:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Wrong Maths of Marketing: Rory Sutherland on Why Great Products Need Psychology, Timing, and FameHost Lenny RachitskyOgilvy's Rory Sutherland explains why rational product logic fails, how idiosyncrasy and timing shape adoption, and why brand fame compounds non-linearly.
1:09:00ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Meeting Is the Moat: Fireflies.ai’s Path to 16 Million UsersHost Jacob EffronKrish Ramani explains how Fireflies.ai turned AI note-taking into a meeting chief of staff, why he avoids fine-tuning, and how a startup competes with Microsoft, Zoom, and Google.
10:16ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersReasoning Without Logic: Yann LeCun on Teaching Neural Networks to ThinkGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun explains why he believes neural networks can reason, and what memory, recurrence and continuous representations would need to look like.
30:30ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Bitcoin Magazine to Ethereum 2.0: Vitalik Buterin on Building a World ComputerHost Lex FridmanVitalik Buterin traces Ethereum's origin in the Bitcoin community, the governance fights that followed, and the proof-of-stake and sharding upgrades still to come.
58:19ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastRunway's Chris Valenzuela on Why Taste Beats Tools in Generative MediaHost Jacob EffronChris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway, explains why generative media is still early, how taste and iteration shape the work, and what has to change before AI media becomes a new art form.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,491