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1:20:47ENMatt Swulinski on Building and Measuring a Product-Led Growth EngineGuest Matt Swulinski · Host Harry StebbingsThe growth leader shares lessons from Superhuman, Wispr Flow and Viktor on paid acquisition, creative testing, referrals and AI-assisted workflows.
46:08ENComputers Beat Humans at Chess 30 Years Ago. Chess.com Still Has 250 Million PlayersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilChess.com CEO Erik Allebest tells Sarah Guo how a $56,000 domain became a $200 million business, and why superhuman AI made chess more popular, not obsolete.
1:57:54ENCliff Weitzman on Speechify, AI Tools and Learning Through IterationGuest Cliff Weitzman · Host Harry StebbingsThe Speechify founder discusses growth experiments, engineering culture, personal health experiences and the promise and risks he sees in AI.
1:03:40ENAndrew Dudum on Hims & Hers, Preventive Care and Building a Public CompanyGuest Andrew Dudum · Host Harry StebbingsThe Hims & Hers CEO discusses management, healthcare distribution, marketing and expansion. His medical and commercial claims are presented as his views, not independently verified evidence.
1:10:56ENElena Verna on Lovable’s Growth, Trust and Product-Led MarketingGuest Elena Verna · Host Harry StebbingsLovable’s head of growth discusses employee-led social channels, meaningful engagement, pricing and the limits of paid acquisition.
1:17:01ENDeel CEO Alex Bouaziz on Fundraising, Acquisitions and Global PayrollGuest Alex Bouaziz · Host Harry StebbingsBouaziz discusses Deel’s financing, hands-on leadership, acquisition playbook and the company’s ambitions amid a dispute with Rippling.
1:24:26ENJohannes Reck on Building GetYourGuide Through Growth and CrisisGuest Johannes Reck · Host Harry StebbingsThe travel marketplace founder discusses early pivots, fundraising mistakes, pandemic survival and the challenge of scaling in Europe.
1:42:04ENPaid 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.
1:01:00ENControl Over Attention: How Substack Builds Product for Writers and ReadersGuest Sachin Monga · Host Lenny RachitskySubstack's head of product, Sachin Monga, explains the principle behind the company's roadmap, the story of the Recommendations feature, and what he thinks the next era of writing on the internet looks like.
53:17ENCharge Sooner, Price Higher, Never Set It and Forget It: Naomi Ionita on MonetizationGuest Naomi Ionita · Host Lenny RachitskyMenlo Ventures partner and former Evernote growth leader Naomi Ionita explains when to start charging, how to set and evolve prices, and what a "modern growth stack" looks like.
1:05:46ENHire 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.
1:07:25ENAlgorithms 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".
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.
1:26:31ENSelling in a Downturn: Bravado CEO Sahil Mansuri on Forecasts, Comp Plans, Retention and Warm IntrosGuest Sahil Mansuri · Host Lenny RachitskySahil Mansuri, founder of the sales community Bravado, lays out how B2B founders should change quotas, compensation, customer focus and deal-closing tactics when the market turns.
1:11:57ENKeeping Commerce Human: Etsy's Tim Holley on Ten Years of Marketplace GrowthGuest Tim Holley · Host Lenny RachitskyEtsy's VP of product on the 2017 culture reset, the face-mask surge, balancing buyers and sellers, and how his product teams are built.
1:34:55ENInside $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.
1:03:10ENGrowth 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.
1:17:35ENStick With It: Chris Hutchins on Big Product Bets and Building a Top Business PodcastGuest Chris Hutchins · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Wealthfront product lead behind All the Hacks explains how to run bold bets inside a company and how to launch, grow and sustain a podcast.
1:11:56ENHow to Get ChatGPT to Recommend Your Product: A Practical Guide to Answer Engine OptimizationGuest Ethan Smith · Host Lenny RachitskyGraphite CEO Ethan Smith explains how AEO differs from SEO, which levers move the needle, and how to measure and test what works.
55:48ENWhen to Invent a Category, and How Miro Rebranded Itself into OneGuest Barbra Gago · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Miro CMO Barbra Gago explains how category creation, a rushed rebrand and opinionated software work in practice.
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.
1:29:12ENThe Next Distribution Platform Is Coming, and ChatGPT Is the Likeliest HostGuest Brian Balfour · Host Lenny RachitskyReforge founder Brian Balfour lays out the four-step cycle every distribution platform follows, why he expects ChatGPT to open the next one, and how startups and incumbents should bet.
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.
1:55:10ENSEO After AI Overviews: Treat Search as a Product, Not a Keyword GameGuest Eli Schwartz · Host Lenny RachitskyGrowth advisor Eli Schwartz explains how AI answers are swallowing top-of-funnel search, and why the winners will be the teams that build for the buyer's journey.
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