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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 8, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Hardest Part of Learning Is Getting Yourself to StartHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDuolingo CEO Luis von Ahn tells Sarah Guo how two-minute lessons, streaks, an 83 percent accuracy target, and large language models turned language study into a consumer product.
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Lex Fridman· Feb 10, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAella's 500,000-person survey, and why she still fears looking stupidGuest Aella · Host Lex FridmanThe independent sex researcher and sex worker tells Lex Fridman why anyone can run a study, why childhood fetish stories feel true, and why she would not press a button that ends wanting.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPaid Growth, Step by Step: Shopify's Performance Marketing Lead on Tests, Signal and Team DesignGuest Timothy Davis · Host Lenny RachitskyTimothy Davis walks through when to start paid, how to run signs-of-life tests, which platforms to try, what to measure and who to hire first.
1:34:55ENLenny'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.
1:03:10ENLenny'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.
1:23:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMost Ideas Fail: Ronny Kohavi on Running A/B Tests You Can TrustGuest Ronny Kohavi · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments explains failure rates, overall evaluation criteria, sample ratio mismatch, Twyman's law and how to build an experimentation culture.
1:04:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersOnboarding 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.
1:12:52ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Google+ to the Tabbed Inbox: How to Build Products on Evidence, Not OpinionGuest Itamar Gilad · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Google product manager Itamar Gilad contrasts a failed social network with a hit Gmail feature and walks through the GIST framework from his book Evidence-Guided.
1:28:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside 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.
1:17:18ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside Ramp's Growth Engine: Velocity, Payback Period and Failing ConclusivelyGuest Sri Batchu · Host Lenny RachitskyRamp's head of growth Sri Batchu explains how the fastest-growing SaaS company in history organizes its growth teams, picks metrics, runs experiments and hires.
1:23:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersYou Are Not a Marketplace Founder (Yet): A Stanford Professor on Friction, Data and ExperimentsGuest Ramesh Johari · Host Lenny RachitskyRamesh Johari explains what marketplaces really sell, why prediction is not decision-making, and how experiments and rating systems should be designed.
48:18ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStop Writing Solutions as Opportunities: Teresa Torres on Opportunity Solution Trees and Weekly Customer InterviewsGuest Teresa Torres · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Continuous Discovery Habits explains how to structure a messy product problem, collect customer stories every week, and make better bets with small amounts of data.
1:24:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPeople Hire Products: Bob Moesta on Struggling Moments, Context and the Real Jobs to Be DoneGuest Bob Moesta · Host Lenny RachitskyThe co-creator of Jobs to Be Done explains how to find the moment customers change behavior, how to interview them, and where the framework doesn't fit.
1:25:25ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersExplore, 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.