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Lenny's PodcastPodcastThe Four Questions Shreyas Doshi Wishes He Had Asked Himself SoonerHost Lenny RachitskyA live conversation about scope, strategy, taste, and listening as the hidden drivers of product leadership.
1:37:19ENLenny'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.
1:09:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersKill Your Own Project, Diversify Your Growth: Noam Lovinsky's Lessons from YouTube, Thumbtack, Facebook and GrammarlyGuest Noam Lovinsky · Host Lenny RachitskyGrammarly's chief product officer walks through four very different chapters of his career and the principles each one taught him.
1:12:52ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Google+ to the Tabbed Inbox: How to Build Products on Evidence, Not OpinionGuest Itamar Gilad · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Google product manager Itamar Gilad contrasts a failed social network with a hit Gmail feature and walks through the GIST framework from his book Evidence-Guided.
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.
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.
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.
1:15:13ENLenny'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.
1:40:44ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersEvery 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.
1:25:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersClimbing 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.
1:29:52ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersTurning 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.
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.
1:41:59ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDesign Is Clear Thinking Made Visible: Bob Baxley on Culture, Tenets and Software as a MediumGuest Bob Baxley · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Apple, Pinterest and ThoughtSpot design leader Bob Baxley explains how design culture works, why teams should delay drawing the first picture, and why building good software is a moral obligation.
1:26:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersIntuition 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.
1:47:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStrategy 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.
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.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 133