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55:08ENOne Model Inside 38 Products: Paige Bailey on How Google Trains and Ships PaLM 2Host Nathan LabenzAt Google I/O in May 2023, PaLM 2 arrived already running in more than two dozen products — and its lead product manager walks through what that actually took.
48:08ENDylan Field on Taste, Simplicity, and Designing Through the AI HypeHost Lenny RachitskyFigma's CEO explains how intuition, feedback, and relentless simplification shape products—and why craft matters more as AI generates more software.
1:09:54ENThe Context Makes the Irrational Rational: Bob Moesta's Guide to Jobs to Be DoneHost Lenny RachitskyBob Moesta explains how struggling moments create demand, how to interview customers like an investigator, and how to design products and sales processes around the progress people are trying to make.
1:28:40ENBuild First, Then Product Manage: Kevin Yien's Unorthodox PM PlaybookHost Lenny RachitskyKevin Yien shares contrarian PM lessons on starting as a builder, writing for clarity, decision logs, unsell emails, research automation and career resilience.
1:22:39ENBarrels, Undiscovered Talent and Ugly Babies: Keith Rabois on Building Companies in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyKhosla Ventures' Keith Rabois explains how he spots talent, why he avoids customer feedback for consumer products, and how AI is reshaping product, design and engineering roles.
1:24:19ENThe Product Owner Trap: Why SAFe Creates Order-Takers and How to Build Real Product Management at ScaleHost Lenny RachitskyMelissa Perri explains the history of Scrum and SAFe, why product owners often become backlog clerks, and how large organizations can reconnect product work to customer value.
1:31:22ENThe Super IC Playbook: 12 Years of Product Leverage Without ManagementHost Lenny RachitskyTal Raviv explains why he stayed an individual-contributor PM for 12 years, how he uses AI and self-reliant teams to scale his impact, and what failure has taught him.
1:40:40ENThe Keeper of the Flame: Figma's Mihika Kapoor on Vision, Conviction, and Building Zero to One Inside a CompanyHost Lenny RachitskyA Figma PM's field guide to crafting a vision people can see, engineering hype honestly, and keeping a new idea alive inside a large company.
1:24:50ENDelight 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.
1:38:14ENThe 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.
48:58ENNotebookLM'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.
1:24:58ENFewer 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.
1:21:08ENSpeed Is a Symptom of Competence: How Linear Builds Beloved B2B SoftwareHost Lenny RachitskyNan Yu explains Linear’s operating principles for fast iteration, resisting bloat, discovering emotional customer pain, and making product management a go-to-market discipline.
1:05:39ENThe 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.
59:50ENThe Nature of Product: Why Feature Factories Lose to Empowered TeamsHost Lenny RachitskyMarty Cagan explains why feature teams and real product teams are different animals, how companies lose product mojo as they scale, and what product managers must protect to do the job well.
1:07:32ENMinimal Lovable Products, the Airbnb Plus Post-Mortem, and the Trust Bank: Product Lessons from Jiaona ZhangHost Lenny RachitskyWebflow's SVP of Product on the mistakes new PMs make, why Airbnb Plus never had a path, roadmap-as-story, OKRs that stretch instead of sandbag, surviving WeWork, and how to spend your first 90 days.
1:01:05ENThe Most Popular Product Lessons of the Year, From Positioning to Hard ConversationsHost Lenny RachitskyA countdown of Lenny's ten most downloaded episodes, distilled into practical lessons on positioning, analytics, growth, career leverage, product leadership, and management.
1:18:22ENShipyards, Sharp Problems and Humility: Two Veteran Product Leaders on the PM Role in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyOji and Ezinne Udezue explain how product management is changing, which skills matter now, and what the companies winning with AI do differently.
1:19:24ENMercury 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.
1:38:21ENThe 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.
45:34ENThe Four Questions Shreyas Doshi Wishes He Had Asked Himself SoonerHost Lenny RachitskyA live conversation about scope, strategy, taste, and listening as the hidden drivers of product leadership.
1:37:19ENImpact, Inquiry and Letting Fires Burn: Vlad Loktev's Playbook from a Decade Inside AirbnbHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Airbnb homes GM and new Index Ventures partner Vlad Loktev tells Lenny Rachitsky how he prioritizes, disagrees, scales teams and keeps his balance in hypergrowth.
42:16ENThe Product Discipline Behind a Driverless RideHost Lenny RachitskyShweta Shrivastava of Waymo explains how autonomous-driving products earn trust, measure safety, and sustain long-term investment.
45:16ENSeth 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.
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