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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.
1:15:29ENLenny'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.
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.
1:38:14ENLenny'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.
1:26:31ENLenny'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.
1:30:59ENLenny'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.
1:03:10ENLenny'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.
1:52:49ENLenny'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.
1:11:56ENLenny'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.
1:01:05ENLenny'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.
1:04:21ENLenny'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.
1:16:09ENLenny'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.
1:07:36ENLenny'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.Load moreShowing 24 of 60