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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 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.
1:32:09ENLenny'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.
1:06:40ENLenny'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.
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.
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.
2:35:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSilence, Sharpies and Support Tickets: Jeff Weinstein's Product Playbook from StripeGuest Jeff Weinstein · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Stripe payments and Atlas product lead explains how he finds burning customer problems, picks metrics that matter, keeps quality high, and gets new products shipped inside a big company.
1:28:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBret Taylor on Failing Forward: From Google Local to Google Maps to Sierra's AgentsGuest Bret Taylor · Host Lenny RachitskyThe co-creator of Google Maps and FriendFeed's like button on career mindset, the future of coding, where AI startups should build, and why agents will bring outcome-based pricing.
1:05:10ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersYou Can't Do Homework to Become a Great PM: Fareed Mosavat on Reps, Sponsors and the Leadership CanyonGuest Fareed Mosavat · Host Lenny RachitskyReforge's Fareed Mosavat explains why product management can only be learned on real products, and what trips people up when they move from IC to leader.
1:03:42ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Hamster Wheel and the Patron of the Arts: Inside Spotify's Push to Monetize FandomGuest Camille Hearst · Host Lenny RachitskySpotify's head of fan monetization, Camille Hearst, on why creators struggle to charge, how platforms and marketplaces really work, and what she learned from Patreon, selling her startup and a first day at Apple.
1:10:14ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersProgress Beats Pep Talks: Jason Shah on Leading Product Teams Through Web3's Ups and DownsGuest Jason Shah · Host Lenny RachitskyAlchemy's Jason Shah talks with Lenny Rachitsky about Web3 product management, working backwards, leadership habits, pushing back on a CEO, career paths and hiring.
1:40:04ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCompanies Are Equations: Tom Conrad on Pandora, Quibi and the Math Behind Product SuccessGuest Tom Conrad · Host Lenny RachitskyA veteran of Apple, Pandora, Snap, Pets.com and Quibi explains what hits and disasters taught him about choosing teams, business-model math, burnout and why not everyone should found a company.
1:30:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Make Me Think: Stewart Butterfield on Utility Curves, Taste and the Case Against Removing FrictionGuest Stewart Butterfield · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Flickr and Slack co-founder explains how he judged features, why comprehension matters more than click counts, and how large organizations drift into busywork.
1:23:15ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCamille Fournier on Rewrites, One-on-Ones and Building Platform TeamsGuest Camille Fournier · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of The Manager's Path explains what annoys engineers about PMs, why rewrites are a trap, how to move into management, and what makes platform teams work.
1:08:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCastle or Shack? Hamilton Helmer on Which Business Advantages Actually LastGuest Hamilton Helmer · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of 7 Powers explains how to tell real, durable competitive power from things that merely feel like an advantage, and when founders should start looking for it.
1:34:01ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersQuality Is Growth: Stripe's Katie Dill on Beauty, Walking the Store and Building Design TeamsGuest Katie Dill · Host Lenny RachitskyStripe's head of design explains why beauty and function work together, how Stripe operationalises quality across 15 critical user journeys, and what she has learned leading design at Airbnb, Lyft and Stripe.
58:12ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersProduct Management in a Newsroom: Equanimity, Dress Rehearsals and Journalists as CustomersGuest Upasna Gautam · Host Lenny RachitskyCNN product manager Upasna Gautam explains how her team builds a content management system for journalists amid constant breaking news, and how mindfulness shapes the way she leads.
1:25:11ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside Miro's Product Machine: Empathy, Competition and a Biweekly Demo Party That Saved Three MonthsGuest Varun Parmar · Host Lenny RachitskyMiro chief product officer Varun Parmar walks Lenny Rachitsky through the company's product values, org design, competitive philosophy, planning cadence and growth model.
1:02:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStop Being the Arrogant Doctor: Andy Raskin on Pitching a Movement, Not a ProductGuest Andy Raskin · Host Lenny RachitskyStrategic narrative consultant Andy Raskin explains the five-part story structure behind pitches at Salesforce, Zuora and Gong, and how to make it your company's north star.
1:54:03ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStarving on Purpose: What Atlassian Learned About Building New Products Inside a GiantGuest Tanguy Crusson · Host Lenny RachitskyTanguy Crusson walks through HipChat, Statuspage and Jira Product Discovery to explain why zero-to-one is so hard in a large company and how Atlassian's Point A incubator made room for it.Load moreShowing 24 of 67