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Lenny's PodcastPodcastShipyards, Sharp Problems and Humility: Two Veteran Product Leaders on the PM Role in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyOji and Ezinne Udezue explain how product management is changing, which skills matter now, and what the companies winning with AI do differently.
1:41:44ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersZig When Others Zag: HubSpot Co-founder Dharmesh Shah on Simplicity, Culture as a Product and Building a Company Around Your StrengthsGuest Dharmesh Shah · Host Lenny RachitskyThe HubSpot co-founder and CTO explains why he has never had a direct report, how he measures laughs per minute, and the first-principles habits behind HubSpot's contrarian choices.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersChips, Agents and a Reckoning: Sarah Guo and Elad Gil on the 2023 AI BoomHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe hosts answer listener questions on the GPU crunch, how soon enterprises will ship AI products, how to build agents, and what 2024 holds for tech valuations.
1:02:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStop Being the Arrogant Doctor: Andy Raskin on Pitching a Movement, Not a ProductGuest Andy Raskin · Host Lenny RachitskyStrategic narrative consultant Andy Raskin explains the five-part story structure behind pitches at Salesforce, Zuora and Gong, and how to make it your company's north star.
44:30ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersOpen the Front Door: Emil Michael on Rebuilding U.S. Defense Around Startups, AI and Supply ChainsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Pentagon's research and engineering chief explains his six technology priorities, the rapid launch of GenAI.mil, and why new entrants and domestic manufacturing are now urgent.
1:10:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersA Billion Dollars, No VC, Under 100 People: Surge AI's Edwin Chen on Data Quality and Where AI Is HeadingGuest Edwin Chen · Host Lenny RachitskySurge AI's founder explains how a bootstrapped team built the leading human-data company, why he distrusts benchmarks, and how reinforcement learning environments are the next frontier.
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Lex FridmanPodcastCars That Drive Empty: Emilio Frazzoli on Why Self-Driving Needs Rules, Not Just DataHost Lex FridmanThe nuTonomy CTO explains why full autonomy and shared fleets are where the value lies, and why the hardest open problem is deciding how vehicles should behave.
1:16:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFaster, But for What? Nicole Forsgren on Measuring Developer Productivity in the AI EraGuest Nicole Forsgren · Host Lenny RachitskyThe creator of DORA and SPACE explains why most productivity metrics mislead, how AI changes flow and trust, and how to build a developer experience program that proves its value.
1:04:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersOnboarding Is Growth's Biggest Lever: Lessons from Airtable's Former Head of GrowthGuest Lauryn Isford · Host Lenny RachitskyLauryn Isford on rethinking experimentation, choosing a hard-to-reach activation metric, reverse trials, and the PLG funnel.
1:49:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersNo Investors, 24 Profitable Years: Jason Fried on Staying Small, Trusting Your Gut and Making Money FirstGuest Jason Fried · Host Lenny RachitskyThe 37signals co-founder explains how a 75-person, investor-free company has out-earned far larger rivals, and why he builds products in two-person, six-week cycles.
1:35:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 3 speakersMake Time: Pick a Daily Highlight and Build Barriers Against DistractionGuest Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky · Host Lenny RachitskyJake Knapp and John Zeratsky walk through their four-step Make Time framework (highlight, laser, energize, reflect) and close with a short look at the design sprint.
1:34:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFifteen People, Four Products, Zero Handwritten Code: Inside Every's AI-First CompanyGuest Dan Shipper · Host Lenny RachitskyEvery CEO Dan Shipper explains how his small team uses Claude Code, an AI operations lead and compounding engineering to do the work of a much larger company.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Robot That Folded the Laundry: Physical Intelligence’s Three FrontiersHost Jacob EffronKarol Hausman and Danny Driess explain how robot foundation models moved from coded primitives to web-scale pretraining, and why performance is now the hard gate.
1:19:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcastMercury Said It Didn’t Need PMs—Then It Built a Product Org and a Multi-Product EngineHost Lenny RachitskyA product leader’s guide to hiring the first PMs, matching PM archetypes to stage, investing in quality, and building new product lines without letting the core smother them.
1:36:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBe a Willow Tree: Julie Zhuo on Managing Agents, Teams of Builders, and Data That DiagnosesGuest Julie Zhuo · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Facebook head of design and Sundial founder explains how management skills carry over to AI tools, why she hires no product managers, and what new managers still get wrong.
1:54:03ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStarving on Purpose: What Atlassian Learned About Building New Products Inside a GiantGuest Tanguy Crusson · Host Lenny RachitskyTanguy Crusson walks through HipChat, Statuspage and Jira Product Discovery to explain why zero-to-one is so hard in a large company and how Atlassian's Point A incubator made room for it.
1:01:41ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Outsource the Learning: Pete Kazanjy's Case for Founder-Led SalesGuest Pete Kazanjy · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Founding Sales explains why B2B founders should sell for a long time themselves, how to know when to hire, and how to get better at selling.
1:29:12ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Next Distribution Platform Is Coming, and ChatGPT Is the Likeliest HostGuest Brian Balfour · Host Lenny RachitskyReforge founder Brian Balfour lays out the four-step cycle every distribution platform follows, why he expects ChatGPT to open the next one, and how startups and incumbents should bet.
56:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDeals Don’t Die From Competition—They Die From IndecisionHost Lenny RachitskyMatt Dixon distills 2.5 million sales conversations into the JOLT method for frozen buyers and the Challenger lesson on teaching insight.
1:21:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcastGitLab’s Public-by-Default Playbook: Short Toes, Clear Outcomes, and a Platform Built to ShipHost Lenny RachitskyDavid DeSanto explains how GitLab turns radical transparency, remote-first operations, and breadth-then-depth product strategy into a faster DevSecOps platform.
1:11:47ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Three-Hour Battlefield: Rahul Vohra on Why Email Survives and Agents Will Inherit the InboxHost Jacob EffronSuperhuman's CEO explains how AI features are designed, why email addresses remain company infrastructure, and how agents may federate across the tools professionals live in.
1:16:09ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Free Users to Enterprise Contracts: The Product-Led Sales PlaybookHost Lenny RachitskyElena Verna explains how product-led sales turns self-serve usage into enterprise pipeline, and what product, sales, marketing, data, and tooling must change to make it work.
1:23:43ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersScripts for the Hard Stuff: How an Executive Coach Handles Feedback, Firing and Founder FightsGuest Alisa Cohn · Host Lenny RachitskyAlisa Cohn walks through word-for-word scripts for difficult workplace conversations, a three-question meeting close, and a founder "prenup" of questions to settle before you start a company.
1:10:12ENLex FridmanPodcastGrandpa Lex Visits Night City: A Rusty Gamer's First Hours in Cyberpunk 2077Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman plays the opening stretch of Cyberpunk 2077 on release day, narrating character creation, shaky driving, tutorials, cyberware surgery and his verdict.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,488