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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFour Levels of Product-Market Fit: First Round's Playbook for B2B FoundersGuest Todd Jackson · Host Lenny RachitskyTodd Jackson of First Round Capital walks through a staged framework for finding product-market fit, the benchmarks for each stage, and the four Ps you can change when you're stuck.
1:21:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersLook Outside the Building: Shaun Clowes on Why Most PMs Fall Short and How AI Changes the JobGuest Shaun Clowes · Host Lenny RachitskyConfluent's chief product officer explains how to become a far better product manager, why data matters more than models, and what AI will and won't do to SaaS.
1:35:11ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Chase the Fake Rabbit: A Meta Product Leader's Guide to a 60-Year PM CareerGuest Nikhyl Singhal · Host Lenny RachitskyNikhyl Singhal walks through early, mid and late career for product managers, from avoiding ex-growth companies to finding a North Star for "act three".
1:10:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside the New York Times' Plan to Build the Essential SubscriptionGuest Alex Hardiman · Host Lenny RachitskyChief Product Officer Alex Hardiman on bundling news, games, cooking and sports, working alongside journalists, and measuring impact against a mission.
1:54:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersLearning to Take a Punch: Whoop's Hilary Gridley on Leading Through Fear, Ego and Hard ProblemsGuest Hilary Gridley · Host Lenny RachitskyWhoop's head of core product explains how she coaches product teams to handle setbacks, understand how leaders think, build habits through reward loops, and protect their own energy in an AI-anxious era.
1:16:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHow Wise Earns 70% of Its Growth by Word of MouthGuest Nilan Peiris · Host Lenny RachitskyWise chief product officer Nilan Peiris explains how NPS, a 10x-better mindset and a very unusual product culture turned customers into the company's main acquisition channel.
1:03:09ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCanva's Co-Founder on Joyful Products, Giving Away Your Lego, and Growing to $2.3 BillionGuest Cameron Adams · Host Lenny RachitskyCameron Adams, Canva's co-founder and chief product officer, explains how product obsession, coaching culture, onboarding, SEO, localization, freemium and AI shaped one of the fastest-growing profitable software companies.
1:05:46ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHire for Balance, Fix Onboarding, Evaluate Companies Rigorously: Adam Fishman's Growth PlaybookGuest Adam Fishman · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Lyft, Patreon and Imperfect Foods growth leader lays out a four-part competency model for hiring growth talent, explains why onboarding is the most underrated retention lever, and shares a "people, mission, financials" framework for choosing where to work.
1:08:53ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPlay the Long Game: A Top Recruiter's Playbook for Hiring and Becoming a Product LeaderGuest Lauren Ipsen · Host Lenny RachitskyRecruiter Lauren Ipsen explains how founders should hire their first senior product leader, how PMs should build their careers, and what recruiters often get wrong.
1:07:25ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersAlgorithms Need People: Adriel Frederick on Judgment, Diverse Teams and Growing ProductsGuest Adriel Frederick · Host Lenny RachitskyA product leader from Facebook, Lyft and Reddit explains why algorithmic products still need human judgment, how diverse teams move faster, and how to find the "marginal user".
56:15ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPredictably Irrational: How Behavioral Science Reshapes Product DesignGuest Kristen Berman · Host Lenny RachitskyKristen Berman of Irrational Labs explains her three-B framework and the experiments behind TikTok, One Medical and a failed budgeting feature.
1:32:09ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersImpact First: How Product Teams Escape the Low-Impact Death SpiralGuest Matt LeMay · Host Lenny RachitskyMatt LeMay explains why product teams must tie their work directly to business-critical outcomes, and the three steps for doing it whatever their company looks like.
1:21:25ENLenny'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.
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.
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.
1:31:41ENLenny'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.
1:14:40ENLenny'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.
1:22:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStop Chasing AI News: Chip Huyen on What Actually Makes AI Products BetterGuest Chip Huyen · Host Lenny RachitskyAuthor of AI Engineering walks through pre-training, post-training, RL, evals and RAG, then explains what separates companies that get value from AI from those that stall.
2:35:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSilence, Sharpies and Support Tickets: Jeff Weinstein's Product Playbook from StripeGuest Jeff Weinstein · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Stripe payments and Atlas product lead explains how he finds burning customer problems, picks metrics that matter, keeps quality high, and gets new products shipped inside a big company.
48:02ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Do AI for AI's Sake: Marily Nika's Starter Guide to AI Product ManagementGuest Marily Nika · Host Lenny RachitskyMeta product lead Marily Nika explains what a model is, when AI is worth building, how PMs can learn, and what working with research scientists is really like.
1:05:10ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersYou Can't Do Homework to Become a Great PM: Fareed Mosavat on Reps, Sponsors and the Leadership CanyonGuest Fareed Mosavat · Host Lenny RachitskyReforge's Fareed Mosavat explains why product management can only be learned on real products, and what trips people up when they move from IC to leader.
1:03:42ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Hamster Wheel and the Patron of the Arts: Inside Spotify's Push to Monetize FandomGuest Camille Hearst · Host Lenny RachitskySpotify's head of fan monetization, Camille Hearst, on why creators struggle to charge, how platforms and marketplaces really work, and what she learned from Patreon, selling her startup and a first day at Apple.Load moreShowing 24 of 151