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Lenny's PodcastPodcastThe Positioning Fix: Why Great B2B Products Still Need a Story Buyers Can RepeatHost Lenny RachitskyApril Dunford explains how to diagnose weak positioning, build differentiated value, and turn it into a sales narrative that wins B2B deals.
1:49:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Unfair Fight: How Breakthrough Startups Escape the PresentHost Lenny RachitskyMike Maples Jr. explains how breakthrough startups combine inflections, non-consensus insights, and founder-future fit, then act through movements, storytelling, and disagreeableness.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastShipping Finn: Intercom's Product Playbook for the ChatGPT EraHost Jacob EffronDes Traynor explains how Intercom pivoted to AI, shipped Finn, built guardrails, and turned customer support into a product lab for LLMs.
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.
1:21:34ENLenny'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.
1:16:09ENLenny'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.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastFrom Email Client to AI Agent: How Shortwave Rebuilt Itself for the Tidal WaveHost Nathan LabenzShortwave CEO Andrew Lee explains the agent architecture, caching economics and tiny-team culture behind the company's hockey-stick growth.
1:22:43ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWhy You Won't Know a Great Name When You See It: Inside Lexicon's Naming ProcessHost Lenny RachitskyDavid Placek of Lexicon Branding explains how his team names brands like Sonos, Azure, Windsurf and Vercel, and how founders can do it on a budget.
1:24:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcastIntelligence for Heavy Machines: Qasar Younis on Why Physical AI Will Change Farms, Mines and Roads FirstHost Lenny RachitskyThe Applied Intuition co-founder explains why the biggest near-term AI impact is in vehicles and industrial machines, and shares the values, reading habits and management philosophy behind a quiet $15 billion company.
40:00ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Winds of Change: How Mistral Plans to Win the Open-Model EraHost Jacob EffronArthur Mensch explains Mistral's open-source strategy, enterprise distribution, model research, and views on AI regulation and sovereignty.
1:00:10ENUnsupervised 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.
1:42:00ENLenny'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.
1:24:36ENLenny'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.
1:24:01ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Sandwich Math to Expert Data: Scale AI's CEO on What Actually Makes Models SmarterHost Lenny RachitskyJason Droege explains what really happened with Meta's investment in Scale AI, how data labeling turned into expert work, and what Uber Eats taught him about building businesses.
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.
45:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSeth Godin on Taste, Tension, and the Four Choices That Shape StrategyHost Lenny RachitskySeth Godin explains how product leaders can build taste, make and keep a brand promise, choose the right customers and distribution, and design remarkable products that spread.
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.
1:41:33ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTwo Days to a Founding Hypothesis: Inside the Foundation SprintHost Lenny RachitskyDesign Sprint creators Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky walk through a scripted 10-hour process that pins down customer, differentiation and approach before a startup builds anything.
1:40:51ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastBuilding a Friend, Not an Assistant: Replika's Eugenia Kuyda on Conversational AI and Its LimitsHost Nathan LabenzThe founder of Replika explains why she treats conversation as the product itself, how the company measures emotional outcomes, and why it pulled back from erotic roleplay.
1:19:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWise and Curious: Chip Conley on Mentoring Brian Chesky, Dying Nine Times and Learning to Love MidlifeHost Lenny RachitskyThe hotelier who became Airbnb's "modern elder" at 52 on working for a founder in founder mode, why age diversity is a team asset, and what a near-death experience taught him.
1:07:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcastReplacing the PM with the Full-Stack Builder: How LinkedIn Is Rebuilding Product Development for AIHost Lenny RachitskyLinkedIn's chief product officer Tomer Cohen explains the full-stack builder model, the custom agents behind it, and the culture work that decides whether it succeeds.
54:05ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastServal's Jake Stout on Outbuilding ServiceNow: Mirror the System of Record, Bet on Code, and Ship Before the Incumbent Can Book a MeetingHost Jacob EffronHow an AI-native employee-support startup attacks a legacy ITSM incumbent with velocity, code-generated workflows and a permissions-first architecture.
1:39:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastRust-Proofing a Company: Eric Ries on Why Success Corrupts and Governance ProtectsHost Lenny RachitskyThe author of The Lean Startup explains why good companies go bad, and the charters, trusts and habits that keep a mission intact.Load moreShowing 24 of 122