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Lenny's PodcastPodcastImpact, Inquiry and Letting Fires Burn: Vlad Loktev's Playbook from a Decade Inside AirbnbHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Airbnb homes GM and new Index Ventures partner Vlad Loktev tells Lenny Rachitsky how he prioritizes, disagrees, scales teams and keeps his balance in hypergrowth.
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.
26:42ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSeeing the Matrix as a Product Leader: Scott Belsky’s Cardinal Rules for Products People LoveHost Lenny RachitskyScott Belsky distills hard-won lessons on simplicity, defaults, empathy, talent and taste in the age of AI.
1:18:05ENLenny'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.
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.
1:25:50ENLenny'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.
1:33:33ENLenny'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.
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.
1:21:57ENLenny'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.
1:32:06ENLenny's PodcastPodcastHow monday.com Turned a Competitor's Surprise Launch into a New Operating SystemHost Lenny RachitskyChief Product and Technology Officer Daniel Lereya explains how impossible goals, radical transparency and timeboxed deadlines took monday.com past $1 billion in ARR.
40:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuilding AI Products When the Ground Keeps MovingHost Lenny RachitskyOpenAI's Kevin Weil and Anthropic's Mike Krieger discuss how AI product management differs from traditional software, from evals and enterprise buyers to computer use, reasoning models, and proactive agents.
1:22:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcastCold DMs, Dinner-Party Communities, and the Case Against Jobs-to-Be-DoneHost Lenny RachitskyAarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan on techno-optimism, relationship-driven careers, content creation, imposter syndrome, executive reviews, and why real products are trade-offs.
21:48ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDon't Build Zombie UI: Katie Dill on Scaling Intent and Craft in the AI Building BoomHost Lenny RachitskyStripe's head of design argues that as AI lets everyone build, a clear point of view, encoded standards, ruthless editing and real creative ambition are what keep products from turning generic.
53:42ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Missing Middle: Why Product Teams Work Hard Without a StrategyHost Lenny RachitskyMelissa Perri explains how product organizations scale strategy, hire their first CPO, write a usable vision, and use product operations to make it last.
1:17:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Three Flavors of AI Product Management — and What Separates the Top 5%Host Lenny RachitskyAman Khan, director of product at Arize AI, explains how PMs can break into AI, prototype their way to influence, and thrive as a long-term individual contributor.
18:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuild a Lab Inside Your Product Team: Dan Shipper on Keeping Up With a Moving AI FrontierHost Lenny RachitskyEvery CEO Dan Shipper explains how a tiny, disposable-experiment lab can coexist with a focused product team, and how to move winners from one into the other.
1:14:41ENLenny's PodcastPodcastCaring Deeply, Measuring Clearly: Melissa Tan on Building High-Performing Growth TeamsHost Lenny RachitskyA growth leader's guide to hiring, developing, and organizing teams—from Dropbox's early lessons to Webflow's operating rhythms.Load moreShowing 24 of 64