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Lex Fridman· Jun 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersApple Was a $5 Billion Company in Debt When Tony Fadell Built the iPodGuest Tony Fadell · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Thermostat, about the decisions, fights, and luck behind those products.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Rowing to Steering: Inside OpenAI's Push Toward Persistent AI CoworkersHost Lenny RachitskyTara Seshan, who leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI, explains how PM work changes when agents do the rowing and people do the steering.
1:26:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastStart Small, Earn Autonomy: What 50+ AI Product Deployments Taught Two BuildersHost Lenny RachitskyAishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam explain why AI products need a different build process, and how to grow agent autonomy step by step without losing customer trust.
1:08:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTaste, Authenticity and Small Pods: Instagram's Adam Mosseri on Building Products in an AI WorldHost Lenny RachitskyThe head of Instagram explains how Meta's product teams are shrinking, why human judgment and creator identity matter more as AI content grows, and what he learned from his biggest failures.
48:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDylan 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.
1:10:40ENLenny'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.
1:37:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInside Palantir's Founder Factory: Forward-Deployed Engineers, Ontologies and Deliberately Off-Putting HiringHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Palantir engineer Nabeel Qureshi explains how a services-heavy company became a data-platform giant, and why it keeps producing founders and product leaders.
1:09:54ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe 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.
1:28:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuild 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.
1:24:19ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe 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.
1:31:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe 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.
1:40:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe 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.
1:32:09ENLenny'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.
1:24:50ENLenny'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.
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.
1:31:41ENLenny'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.
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.
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.Load moreShowing 24 of 133