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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStrategy Before Goals: Ravi Mehta's Product Strategy Stack, Tinder Lessons and Selective MicromanagementGuest Ravi Mehta · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Tinder CPO Ravi Mehta on how startups differ from big companies, how to layer mission, strategy, roadmap and goals, and how product leaders can grow.
55:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHumble, Customer-Obsessed and Relentless: Inside DoorDash's CultureGuest Keith Yandell · Host Lenny RachitskyDoorDash executive Keith Yandell explains how the company hires for culture, leads through crises, and manages people, from WeDash deliveries to a "how to work with me" document.
1:33:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastEvals Are the New PRDs: Inside Anthropic's Research Product TeamHost Lenny RachitskyDianne Penn, Anthropic's head of product for research and Labs, explains how the company found its identity, how her team turns user feedback into evals, and why human judgment still matters.
1:24:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDelight Is Not Confetti: A Practical Framework for Emotional Product DesignHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Spotify, Chrome and Google Meet product manager Nesrine Changuel explains how to make products that serve emotional and functional needs at once.
57:19ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMarc Benioff on Beginner's Mind, Agentforce and Staying a Startup After 25 YearsGuest Marc Benioff · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Salesforce co-founder talks Steve Jobs, a legendary launch stunt, what an AI agent actually is, and how he leads through reinvention.
1:21:48ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSeeing Like a Designer: Jessica Hische on Logos, Brands and Knowing When Good Enough Is EnoughGuest Jessica Hische · Host Lenny RachitskyLettering artist Jessica Hische walks through her refresh of Lenny's logo and explains how founders can read type, time a rebrand and avoid overspending on brand.
1:06:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersWhat Product Ops Really Does: Pendo's Christine Itwaru on a Role Built to Free Up PMsGuest Christine Itwaru · Host Lenny RachitskyA long-time product ops leader at Pendo explains the job, how it differs from PM, program management and product marketing, when to hire for it, and how to move into it.
1:39:47ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPaint the Destination: Ebi Atawodi on Crafting and Selling a Product VisionGuest Ebi Atawodi · Host Lenny RachitskyYouTube's director of product for creator experience shares concrete formats, workshops and habits for building a vision, plus what she learned about culture at Uber, Netflix and Google.
1:12:07ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSystems Thinkers Over Specialists: Netflix CPTO Elizabeth Stone on Talent, AI and Excellence as an Operating SystemHost Lenny RachitskyNetflix's chief product and technology officer explains why blurred roles are still a storming phase, what skills she is hiring for, and how the company keeps a high bar as AI changes how work gets done.
46:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInvest Profits, Not People: What Mixpanel Learned from Spreading Too Thin and Refocusing on Its CoreGuest Vijay Iyengar · Host Lenny RachitskyMixpanel's head of product Vijay Iyengar on cutting back to one analytics product, how his team plans and prioritizes, and why you should track events from your servers.
1:21:01ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMake It Explicit: Annie Duke on Deciding Better and Quitting SoonerGuest Annie Duke · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer poker champion Annie Duke explains how independent input, shorter feedback loops, pre-mortems with kill criteria and a willingness to quit improve decisions at companies and in life.
1:31:41ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Worst Model You'll Ever Use: Kevin Weil on Building Products at OpenAI's PaceGuest Kevin Weil · Host Lenny RachitskyOpenAI's chief product officer explains how evals, light planning, fine-tuned model ensembles and a small PM team shape the way the company ships.
1:36:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMission, 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.
19:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcastJudgment Is the Craft: Robby Stein's Three-Chapter Playbook for Product Managers in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyGoogle Search's Robby Stein says a PM's core skill is decision making, and walks through how to understand people, diagnose root causes and polish the craft, with AI helping at each step.
1:38:14ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Conductor's Playbook: Naomi Gleit on Growth, Clarity, and Building at MetaHost Lenny RachitskyMeta's head of product explains how she created her own luck, built the early growth playbook, and runs complex product teams with extreme clarity.
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Lex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersVision or Lidar, Human or Machine: Lex Fridman's 2019 Map of the Self-Driving RaceGuest Self-Driving Cars · Host Lex FridmanThe opening lecture of MIT's 6.S094 course surveys 2018's milestones, the industry's optimistic predictions, and the beliefs about driving and humans that will decide who wins.
1:14:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersTwin Turbines: How Product and Operations Built Uber and OpendoorGuest Brian Tolkin · Host Lenny RachitskyOpendoor's head of product and design, Brian Tolkin, on what an ops-first career teaches about building products, running reviews and staying calm.
11:51ENLex FridmanPodcastBuilding a Brain: Paola Arlotta on the Choreography of Human Brain DevelopmentHost Lex FridmanA Harvard stem cell biologist walks through how the embryo builds the cerebral cortex, why order and environment matter, and why development continues into our twenties.
48:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcastNotebookLM's Accidental Podcast Hit: A 20% Project, a Tiny Team, and a Remixable AI EditorHost Lenny RachitskyRaiza Martin explains how NotebookLM's Audio Overviews became a viral demo, how Google Labs let a tiny team ship like a startup, and where the product goes next.
28:48ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWhy Claude Still Needs a PM: Anthropic's Product Leaders on Judgment, Agents and Parallel BetsHost Lenny RachitskyAt the Lenny and Friends Summit, Anthropic's Ami Vora and Mike Krieger tell Dan Shipper how the product role is changing when technology shifts every couple of months.
1:28:53ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersMachine Learning for Business Students: Powerful, Narrow, and Easier to Fool Than You ThinkGuest MIT Sloan · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman's non-technical MIT Sloan lecture explains how machine learning works, why it is so capable at perception, and where it still breaks in the real world.
1:34:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFounder Is an Attitude, CEO Is a Craft: Jonathan Lowenhar on Failure Modes, Magic Box Exits and HiringGuest Jonathan Lowenhar · Host Lenny RachitskyEnjoy The Work's Jonathan Lowenhar lays out the skills founders must learn to become CEOs, from avoiding common failure modes to selling a company, hiring, go-to-market and trusting intuition.
1:24:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFewer PMs, More Reps: Whatnot's CPO on Why Senior Product People Should Go Back to Doing the WorkHost Lenny RachitskyTom Verrilli explains why Whatnot built its product team on the premise that it regrets product management exists, and what that means for hiring, AI tooling and the shape of the role.
11:11ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersYann LeCun on Benchmarks, Interactive Environments, and Why Human Intelligence Is Not GeneralGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2019 clip, LeCun defends benchmarks as a test of AI claims, explains why interactive environments break the usual train-test protocol, and argues that "general intelligence" is a misnomer.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,486