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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside $3.5 Billion of Paid Growth: Creative Testing, Attribution Humility and Channel DiversificationGuest Jonathan Becker · Host Lenny RachitskyJonathan Becker of Thrive Digital explains how performance marketing really works after the privacy shifts, and where creative, measurement and AI fit in.
1:22:43ENLenny's PodcastPodcastA Colleague With Its Own Computer: How a Small Team Built Grok Bot in a MonthHost Lenny RachitskyRoman Ugarte of SpaceXAI explains the decisions, hand-held onboarding and product philosophy behind Grok Bot, and what Cursor's culture taught him about staying ahead.
1:40:04ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCompanies Are Equations: Tom Conrad on Pandora, Quibi and the Math Behind Product SuccessGuest Tom Conrad · Host Lenny RachitskyA veteran of Apple, Pandora, Snap, Pets.com and Quibi explains what hits and disasters taught him about choosing teams, business-model math, burnout and why not everyone should found a company.
1:48:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Compete for the 24%: Christopher Lochhead on Designing and Dominating Your Own CategoryGuest Christopher Lochhead · Host Lenny RachitskyThe self-styled Godfather of Category Design explains why the "better" product usually loses, how to reframe a problem with new language, and how to launch with word of mouth.
1:30:59ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe SEO Playbook: Why Topics Beat Keywords and Shipping Beats StrategyHost Lenny RachitskyEthan Smith, CEO of Graphite, explains when SEO is worth investing in, how to reverse-engineer the page types Google rewards, and why most SEO strategies never get built.
1:22:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersName It, Position It, Give It a Personality: A Startup Brand Playbook from Gmail and Square Veteran Arielle JacksonGuest Arielle Jackson · Host Lenny RachitskyArielle Jackson explains how early-stage founders should pick a name, define purpose, positioning and personality, land press coverage, and know when to hire a marketer.
1:27:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastAgency Over Job Titles: Notion's Max Schoening on Building in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyNotion's head of product on why designers should code, why agency separates the people who thrive, and what makes a product great.
1:20:53ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Die: Y Combinator's Dalton Caldwell on Keeping a Startup AliveGuest Dalton Caldwell · Host Lenny RachitskyThe YC group partner on pivots, tarpit ideas, why investors say no, how to talk to customers, and what he hopes founders will build next.
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Citadel SecuritiesPodcastJensen Huang on AI Factories, Digital Workers and Why the Build-Out Has Barely BegunNvidia's CEO tells a room of institutional investors how accelerated computing led to AI factories, and where agentic AI, robotics and sovereign AI go next.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastAdobe's Firefly Bet: A Billion Beta Images, Creative Control, and Trust at ScaleHost Jacob EffronAdobe's Alexandre explains how Firefly moved from research to product, how Adobe balances creative control with generative speed, and why trust and feedback loops are central to its AI strategy.
1:03:10ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersGrowth in the Physics of a Market: Lessons from Gojek, Kumu and Southeast Asia's Super AppsGuest Crystal Widjaja · Host Lenny RachitskyCrystal Widjaja, who built Gojek's growth team and now leads product at Kumu, shares scrappy experiments, retention benchmarks, analytics pitfalls and hiring advice.
1:23:46ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSurviving the Next Crisis: Waze Co-Founder Uri Levine on Cash Shocks, Lost Product-Market Fit and Never Giving UpGuest Uri Levine · Host Lenny RachitskyUri Levine explains how founders should diagnose a startup crisis, act within days, keep their teams on board and decide whether to pivot or shut down.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastBuilding a World Model of Life: Biohub's Alex Rives on Why Better Measurement Must Come Before Virtual CellsHost Nathan LabenzBiohub's head of science explains why today's virtual cell models fall short, how a $1.8 billion data push aims to fix it, and what a five-year information-level model of the cell could unlock.
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Lex FridmanPodcastPave Your Own Path: Lex Fridman on Impostor Syndrome, Envy and GratitudeHost Lex FridmanIn an Ask Me Anything episode, Lex Fridman answers listeners' questions about self-doubt by arguing against comparison, for finding your own passion, and for pairing self-criticism with gratitude.
18:45ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Sean Carroll Thinks Many-Worlds Is the Cleanest Version of Quantum MechanicsGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanThe Caltech physicist explains how Everett's idea works, answers the energy-conservation objection, and compares it with its rivals.
1:13:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersOKRs Are a Vitamin, Not a Medicine: Christina Wodtke on Making Goals Actually WorkGuest Christina Wodtke · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Stanford lecturer and author of Radical Focus explains what OKRs are really for, why they fail, and how to run a healthy weekly cadence.
1:53:14ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastWorth Thousands, Priced at $20: Zvi Mowshowitz on OpenAI's Flurry, Gemini Bets, Deepfakes and a Compute CapHost Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz and Nathan Labenz survey OpenAI's launch spree, AI pricing and bundling, data pollution, deepfakes, the reversal curse, calls to cap training compute, and Amazon's Anthropic deal.
1:17:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStick With It: Chris Hutchins on Big Product Bets and Building a Top Business PodcastGuest Chris Hutchins · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Wealthfront product lead behind All the Hacks explains how to run bold bets inside a company and how to launch, grow and sustain a podcast.
1:21:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSearch Isn't Dying, It's Expanding: Robby Stein on Google's AI Mode and Building Products RelentlesslyGuest Robby Stein · Host Lenny RachitskyGoogle Search's VP of Product explains how AI Overviews, Lens and AI Mode fit together, and the product principles he carried from Instagram Stories to Google.
1:03:24ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastWhy Sora Bet on People, Not Just PixelsHost Jacob EffronThe Sora team explains how a video model became a social creation network, what cameos revealed about human creativity, and why the next frontier is world simulation.
1:30:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Make Me Think: Stewart Butterfield on Utility Curves, Taste and the Case Against Removing FrictionGuest Stewart Butterfield · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Flickr and Slack co-founder explains how he judged features, why comprehension matters more than click counts, and how large organizations drift into busywork.
1:52:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInside Anthropic's Growth Team: Big Bets, Automated Experiments and Firefighting SuccessHost Lenny RachitskyAmol Avasare, Anthropic's Head of Growth, explains how a roughly 40-person team handles hypergrowth, automates experimentation with Claude, and rethinks the PM and engineer ratio.
1:07:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersIf the Model Is the Product, the Eval Is the PRD: Inside Mercor's RiseGuest Brendan Foody · Host Lenny RachitskyMercor CEO Brendan Foody explains why AI labs will pay almost anything for expert-written evals, how his company grew from $1 million to a $400 million run rate in 16 months, and what that means for jobs and founders.
1:33:55ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersGetting Startup Press Without a Rolodex: A Practical PR PlaybookGuest Emilie Gerber · Host Lenny RachitskyPR agency founder Emilie Gerber walks through which outlets to target, how to write a three-sentence pitch, and how to judge whether press is worth the effort.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,487