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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 13, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersComputers 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.
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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.
1:01:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersControl 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.
53:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCharge 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.
1:05:46ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHire 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.
1:07:25ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersAlgorithms 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".
1:36:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMission, 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.
1:26:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSelling 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.
1:11:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersKeeping 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.
1:34:55ENLenny'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.
1:17:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStick 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.
1:11:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHow 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.
55:48ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersWhen 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.
1:04:21ENLenny'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.
1:29:12ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe 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.
1:07:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHow 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.
1:55:10ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSEO 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.
1:44:26ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFind the Must-Have Users First: Sean Ellis on Product-Market Fit and Sustainable GrowthGuest Sean Ellis · Host Lenny RachitskyThe creator of the Sean Ellis test and the ICE framework explains how to measure product-market fit, learn from the users who love you, and then grow in the right order.
1:42:05ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSlow Down to Grow Faster: Bangaly Kaba on Understand Work, Adjacent Users and Career ChoicesGuest Bangaly Kaba · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Instagram head of growth and current YouTube product director explains how to choose where to work, why teams should invest in understanding before executing, and how he found growth levers at Facebook, Instagram and Instacart.
1:21:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBad Friction, Good Friction: Laura Schaffer on User Psychology and Growth ExperimentsGuest Laura Schaffer · Host Lenny RachitskyThe new head of growth at Amplitude explains how she built a growth team at Twilio, why most experiments fail, and why the user's state of mind decides what converts.
1:16:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSharp Problems, Real Virality: Oji Udezue's Playbook for Product-Led GrowthGuest Oji Udezue · Host Lenny RachitskyTypeform's chief product officer draws on Microsoft, Atlassian, Calendly and Twitter to explain how to pick a problem, find your ICP, onboard users and earn word of mouth.
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.
1:17:44ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStart at Chapter One: Casey Winters on Executive Communication, Unsexy Work and Growth LoopsGuest Casey Winters · Host Lenny RachitskyEventbrite CPO Casey Winters shares what he has learned about product leadership, simplicity at scale, strategy as the great career filter, and the current state of growth.Load moreShowing 24 of 40