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Lenny's PodcastPodcastThe Zero-Day Marketing Exploits Behind Breakout StartupsHost Lenny RachitskyAlistair Croll explains how founders can find unfair distribution advantages by subverting platforms, norms, and regulations—without actually being evil.
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.
1:30:59ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe SEO Playbook: Why Topics Beat Keywords and Shipping Beats StrategyHost Lenny RachitskyEthan Smith, CEO of Graphite, explains when SEO is worth investing in, how to reverse-engineer the page types Google rewards, and why most SEO strategies never get built.
1:52:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInside Anthropic's Growth Team: Big Bets, Automated Experiments and Firefighting SuccessHost Lenny RachitskyAmol Avasare, Anthropic's Head of Growth, explains how a roughly 40-person team handles hypergrowth, automates experimentation with Claude, and rethinks the PM and engineer ratio.
1:01:05ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe 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.
1:16:09ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Free Users to Enterprise Contracts: The Product-Led Sales PlaybookHost Lenny RachitskyElena Verna explains how product-led sales turns self-serve usage into enterprise pipeline, and what product, sales, marketing, data, and tooling must change to make it work.
1:38:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe 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.
1:42:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Operating Lessons Brian Balfour Keeps Returning ToHost Lenny RachitskyReforge’s founder and CEO shares hard-won lessons on hiring, planning, growth systems, and defining who you are not for.
1:17:46ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShopify’s Anti-Playbook: Optimize for Churn, Hold Experiments for Years, and Ban KPIsHost Lenny RachitskyArchie Abrams explains how Shopify grows by lowering barriers, measuring cohort GMV, running multi-year holdouts, and letting a 100-year vision guide core product.
59:19ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Layering Game: Elena Verna on Product-Led Growth, Product-Led Sales, and Smarter FreemiumHost Lenny RachitskyA growth strategist explains how B2B companies should sequence product-led and sales-led motions without crushing the user engine that created them.
1:22:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcastCold DMs, Dinner-Party Communities, and the Case Against Jobs-to-Be-DoneHost Lenny RachitskyAarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan on techno-optimism, relationship-driven careers, content creation, imposter syndrome, executive reviews, and why real products are trade-offs.
1:02:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Unreasonable Playbook Behind Gojek: Super Apps, Cash Vaults, and Brand as a MoatHost Lenny RachitskyKevin Aluwi explains how Gojek scaled across Southeast Asia by building brand, running brutal operations, and rejecting copycat strategy.
1:14:41ENLenny's PodcastPodcastCaring Deeply, Measuring Clearly: Melissa Tan on Building High-Performing Growth TeamsHost Lenny RachitskyA growth leader's guide to hiring, developing, and organizing teams—from Dropbox's early lessons to Webflow's operating rhythms.
1:22:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFall in Love With the Problem: Uri Levine on Product-Market Fit, Fundraising, and Firing FastHost Lenny RachitskyA tactical founder playbook covering problem validation, product-market fit, fundraising narratives, hard hiring decisions, and user understanding.
1:11:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuild the Skeleton Before the Makeup: Deel’s Playbook for $0 to $295M ARRHost Lenny RachitskyMeltem Kuran Berkowitz explains how Deel used question-answering communities, disciplined SEO, long-tail paid bets and revenue-accountable hiring to scale.
1:31:55ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInnovate, Don't Optimize: Lovable's Growth Chief on Rewriting the Playbook for AIHost Lenny RachitskyElena Verna explains how Lovable reached $200M ARR in under a year with about 100 people, and which growth habits she had to throw away to get there.
55:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcastHow Product Leaders Sell Ideas, Simplify Products, and Build Growth LoopsHost Lenny RachitskyEventbrite’s chief product officer explains how to communicate upward, protect product-market fit, and turn early growth hacks into scalable loops.
1:13:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe CEO Is the Chief Product Officer: Brian Chesky's Airbnb Operating SystemHost Lenny RachitskyAirbnb's CEO explains how he rebuilt product management, planning, and launches around functional teams, one roadmap, and leaders who stay in the details.
1:06:47ENLenny's PodcastPodcastStop Pushing Customers Through a Funnel: Georgiana Laudi's Customer-Led Growth PlaybookHost Lenny RachitskyHow to replace pirate metrics with customer research, jobs-to-be-done, measurable value milestones, and messaging that actually converts.
1:10:25ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSoftware Is Not a Moat: Evan Spiegel on Distribution, Ecosystems and a Design Team That Never Stops MakingHost Lenny RachitskySnap's CEO explains why distribution is the hard part of consumer tech, how a 9-to-12-person design team keeps innovating, and why 2026 is Snap's crucible year.