Results
52 articlesSort
1:36:49ENMission, Retention and an Owl With Attitude: How Duolingo Grew From 3 Million to 200 Million Users Without Paid AdsGuest Gina Gotthilf · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Duolingo growth lead Gina Gotthilf on organic growth, brand voice, her career B-sides, and why she is betting on Latin American startups.
1:52:49ENInside 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.
1:25:11ENInside Miro's Product Machine: Empathy, Competition and a Biweekly Demo Party That Saved Three MonthsGuest Varun Parmar · Host Lenny RachitskyMiro chief product officer Varun Parmar walks Lenny Rachitsky through the company's product values, org design, competitive philosophy, planning cadence and growth model.
1:31:29ENLovable's Growth Playbook: Give It Away, Ship Daily and Recapture Product-Market Fit Every Three MonthsGuest Elena Verna · Host Lenny RachitskyElena Verna, head of growth at Lovable, explains why most of her 15-20 years of growth experience no longer applies to a company that passed $200 million ARR in under a year.
1:04:21ENOnboarding 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.
1:16:09ENFrom 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.
1:38:21ENThe Physics of Viral Consumer Apps: Nikita Bier on Latent Demand, Teen Networks, and Fighting a HoaxHost Lenny RachitskyNikita Bier traces his path from Politify to tbh and Gas, extracting repeatable tactics for consumer app growth, product design, and surviving breakout chaos.
1:07:36ENHow Notion Built a Community That Sold Its Product for ItGuest Camille Ricketts · Host Lenny RachitskyCamille Ricketts, Notion's first marketing hire, explains how community-led growth and content marketing actually work in practice.
1:28:32ENInside Duolingo's Streak: What 600+ Experiments Taught One Retention TeamGuest Jackson Shuttleworth · Host Lenny RachitskyDuolingo group product manager Jackson Shuttleworth walks through the history, wins, wrong turns and operating habits behind the single feature he calls the company's biggest growth lever.
1:44:26ENFind the Must-Have Users First: Sean Ellis on Product-Market Fit and Sustainable GrowthGuest Sean Ellis · Host Lenny RachitskyThe creator of the Sean Ellis test and the ICE framework explains how to measure product-market fit, learn from the users who love you, and then grow in the right order.
1:31:26ENMake Individual Contributors Love You First: Inside Figma's Bottom-Up Growth PlaybookGuest Claire Butler · Host Lenny RachitskyClaire Butler, Figma's 10th employee and first marketer, explains the two-step go-to-market motion behind Figma's growth: win over individual contributors, then help them spread the product through their companies.
59:19ENThe Layering Game: Elena Verna on Product-Led Growth, Product-Led Sales, and Smarter FreemiumHost Lenny RachitskyA growth strategist explains how B2B companies should sequence product-led and sales-led motions without crushing the user engine that created them.
1:16:16ENSharp Problems, Real Virality: Oji Udezue's Playbook for Product-Led GrowthGuest Oji Udezue · Host Lenny RachitskyTypeform's chief product officer draws on Microsoft, Atlassian, Calendly and Twitter to explain how to pick a problem, find your ICP, onboard users and earn word of mouth.
1:31:24ENEvery Problem Is Our Problem: How HubSpot's Chris Miller Grew a PLG Engine and HimselfGuest Chris Miller · Host Lenny RachitskyHubSpot's VP of Product for Growth and AI on the traits of great growth PMs, the myths of product-led growth, and how HubSpot's flywheel really works.
1:24:50ENCrossing the Chasm, Explained by Its Author: Start Small, Win a Segment, Then ScaleGuest Geoffrey Moore · Host Lenny RachitskyGeoffrey Moore walks through the technology adoption lifecycle, the four go-to-market playbooks that fit each stage, and the mistakes that keep B2B startups stuck.
1:08:36ENStorytelling, Customer Proximity and Community: How Figma's CPO Thinks About Building Great ProductGuest Yuhki Yamashita · Host Lenny RachitskyYuhki Yamashita on product storytelling, owning the why, staying close to customers, rethinking OKRs, hiring, and community-led growth at Figma.
1:12:18ENThe Lego Inside Notion: Ivan Zhao on Lost Years, Small Teams, and Horizontal BetsHost Lenny RachitskyIvan Zhao explains how Notion survived its lost years, stayed lean, corrected a non-Lego product detour, and built a horizontal platform now being reshaped by AI.
1:35:10ENTen Growth Tactics That Never Work, According to Elena VernaGuest Elena Verna · Host Lenny RachitskyGrowth leader Elena Verna runs through the growth plays she sees companies waste money on, the three frameworks she trusts instead, and her case for career optionality.
1:09:38ENRyan Hoover on Experiments, Launches and the Mask Every Founder WearsGuest Ryan Hoover · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Product Hunt founder and Weekend Fund investor talks about starting small, raising money for a reason, launching well, his own regrets and how he now invests.
1:35:17ENLove, Not Just Like: How Nubank Builds Products Customers Tell Their Friends AboutGuest Jag Duggal · Host Lenny RachitskyNubank's chief product officer Jag Duggal explains the culture, metrics and strategy discipline behind a bank that grows mostly through word of mouth.
1:08:16ENPick the Right Growth Engine: Yuriy Timen on Virality, SEO and Paid for Subscription ProductsGuest Yuriy Timen · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Grammarly growth lead Yuriy Timen explains how to tell which acquisition channel fits your product, and how a tighter funding climate is reshuffling the playbook.
1:33:23ENProduct-Led Growth Is Really Data-Led Growth: A Practical PlaybookGuest Hila Qu · Host Lenny RachitskyGrowth advisor Hila Qu explains how to add a PLG motion, from avoiding common pitfalls and auditing your funnel to choosing tools and building the team.
1:31:55ENInnovate, Don't Optimize: Lovable's Growth Chief on Rewriting the Playbook for AIHost Lenny RachitskyElena Verna explains how Lovable reached $200M ARR in under a year with about 100 people, and which growth habits she had to throw away to get there.
1:25:25ENExplore, Exploit, Retain: How Albert Cheng Grows Duolingo, Grammarly and Chess.com-Style Subscription ProductsGuest Albert Cheng · Host Lenny RachitskyA veteran of three of the best-loved consumer subscription apps explains his explore-and-exploit framework, what retention really demands, and why he wants 1,000 experiments a year.
Load moreShowing 24 of 52









