Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career

By Lenny Rachitsky

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Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

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05.02.2024
This will make you a better decision maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit”, former pro poker player)
Annie Duke is a former professional poker player, a decision-making expert, and a special partner at First Round Capital. She is the author of Thinking in Bets (a national bestseller) and Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away...
04.28.2024
Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour
Kayvon Beykpour was the longest-serving head of product at Twitter and was GM of Twitter’s consumer division until the platform was acquired by Elon Musk. He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest...
04.25.2024
How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford GSB professor, “Touchy Feely”)
Carole Robin spent over 20 years teaching the Stanford Graduate School of Business course Interpersonal Dynamics, affectionately known as “Touchy Feely.” After leaving Stanford, she founded a nonprofit called Leaders in Tech, which applies the Touchy Feely principles to help...
04.21.2024
Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)
Mihika Kapoor is a design-engineer-PM hybrid at Figma, where she was an early PM on FigJam and is now spearheading development on a new product at the company that’s coming out this June. She’s known as the go-to person at...
04.18.2024
Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director)
Dalton Caldwell is Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator. Prior to YC, he was the co-founder and CEO of imeem (acquired by MySpace in 2009) and the co-founder and CEO of App.net. During his time at YC, he’s...
04.14.2024
The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)
David DeSanto is the chief product officer of GitLab, which is the largest remote-only company in the world. They share many of their team meetings on YouTube, and they’ve grown from being an open-source code management product competing with GitHub...
04.11.2024
A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)
Todd Jackson is a Partner at First Round Capital. Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018. Prior to Dropbox, Todd led...
04.07.2024
Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)
Claire Vo is the chief product officer at LaunchDarkly and the founder of ChatPRD, likely the most popular PM-specific AI product out there. Before LaunchDarkly, she was a longtime chief product officer at Color and Optimizely. Claire has founded and...
04.04.2024
Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO)
Dharmesh Shah is the co-founder and CTO of HubSpot (currently valued at $30 billion) and one of the most fascinating founders I’ve ever met. Dharmesh is the keeper of HubSpot’s Culture Code, built ChatSpot (an AI chatbot built on top...
03.31.2024
How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker)
Matt Abrahams is a renowned communication expert, with decades of teaching, coaching, and consulting experience. At Stanford University, he teaches a business school class on strategic communication. Beyond academia, he’s a sought-after keynote speaker and consultant, guiding presenters from IPO...
03.24.2024
Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more
Kunal Shah is one of the most well-known and admired product leaders in India. He is the CEO and founder of CRED, an Indian-based fintech startup valued at over $6 billion. Prior to CRED, he founded three other startups, including...
03.21.2024
The ultimate guide to PR | Emilie Gerber (founder of Six Eastern)
Emilie Gerber is the founder and CEO of Six Eastern, a top PR agency that’s worked with over 100 tech companies, from stealth startups to publicly traded companies. Before starting her own firm, she worked at Uber, where she led...
03.17.2024
The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack)
Noam Lovinsky has had a distinguished career in product, leaving an indelible mark at Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack, and currently as the chief product officer at Grammarly. At Facebook, Noam helped establish the New Product Experimentation team; at Thumbtack, he was...
03.10.2024
Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Marty Cagan is a luminary in the world of product. He’s the author of two of the most foundational books for product teams and product leaders (Inspired and Empowered), he’s the founder of Silicon Valley Product Group (one of the longest-running product advisory groups), and he’s...
03.07.2024
Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)
Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok. Prior to TikTok, Ray spent six years at Google helping scale Google Shopping globally. In our conversation, we discuss: • TikTok’s internal culture...
03.03.2024
Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)
Andrew Bosworth—or Boz, as most people know him—is the chief technology officer at Meta and head of Reality Labs, the company’s augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) organization, which he created in 2017. Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th...
02.25.2024
How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw (author of The Leader’s Journey)
Donna Lichaw is an internationally sought-after executive coach, keynote speaker, and best-selling author. She helps visionary founders, CEOs, and executive teams level up their leadership and scale their impact while staying true to their mission, purpose, and themselves. Donna works with...
02.22.2024
How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)
Elizabeth Stone is the chief technology officer of Netflix. She previously served as vice president of product data science and engineering, and as vice president of data and insights, at Netflix. Before Netflix, Elizabeth was vice president of science at...
02.18.2024
Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
Jason Lemkin created and runs SaaStr, the world’s largest community for B2B/SaaS founders, and is the managing director of SaaStr Fund, a $90 million venture capital firm specializing in early-stage enterprise investments. He is also the mastermind behind two major...
02.11.2024
Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (authors of Sprint and Make Time, co-founders of Character Capital)
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are the authors of best-selling books Sprint and Make Time. They have helped more than 300 teams design new products and bring them to market, including those at YouTube, Gusto, One Medical Group, and Slack....
02.08.2024
Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)
Logan Kilpatrick leads developer relations at OpenAI, supporting developers building with the OpenAI API and ChatGPT. He is also on the board of directors at NumFOCUS, the nonprofit organization that supports open source projects like Jupyter, Pandas, NumPy, and more....
02.04.2024
Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira)
Megan Cook is the head of product for Atlassian’s Jira software, which is used by 75% of Fortune 500 companies, has over 125,000 customers globally, over 15 different products, and is by far the most popular project management tool in...
01.28.2024
Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)
Jonny Miller is the founder of Nervous System Mastery, a course that has helped hundreds of founders and tech leaders cultivate calm, reduce nervousness, enhance resilience, and elevate their sense of aliveness. Having personally benefited from Jonny’s teachings, I’m especially...
01.25.2024
Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market
Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor, widely known for his seminal book Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, which many consider the most important book ever written on go-to-market strategy. Moore’s work is...
01.21.2024
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt
Richard Rumelt is a legend in the world of strategy. He’s the author of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy and The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists, both of which are often recommended by guests on this podcast. From his early days teaching...
01.18.2024
The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (author of Dynamic Reteaming)
Heidi Helfand is the author of Dynamic Reteaming, which outlines practical strategies for orchestrating successful team and company org changes. Her work is informed by more than 20 years in the tech industry at notable companies like AppFolio, Procore, and...
01.14.2024
Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)
Ethan Evans is a writer, career coach, course instructor, and retired VP at Amazon. During his 15 years at Amazon, he helped invent Prime Video, Amazon Video, the Amazon Appstore, Prime Gaming (formerly Twitch Prime), and Twitch Commerce. Prior to...
01.11.2024
How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)
Sam Schillace is deputy CTO and corporate vice president at Microsoft. Prior to working at Microsoft, Sam started a company called Writely, which was acquired by Google and became the foundation of what today is Google Docs. While at Google,...
01.07.2024
The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)
Will Larson is Chief Technology Officer at Carta. Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. He is the author of two foundational engineering career books, An Elegant Puzzle and Staff Engineer, and The...
01.04.2024
The UX research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)
Judd Antin has spent 15 years leading research and design teams at companies like Yahoo, Meta, and Airbnb. His direct reports have gone on to lead user research at Figma, Notion, Slack, Robinhood, Duolingo, AllTrails, and more. In our conversation,...
12.29.2023
Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)
Nir Eyal is the author of two best-selling books, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. He writes, consults, and teaches at the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. His...
12.27.2023
The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)
Sarah Tavel is a General Partner at Benchmark and sits on the boards of Chainalysis, Hipcamp, Rekki, Cambly, and Medely. She is a founding member of All Raise, the nonprofit organization working to accelerate the success of women in the venture-capital...
12.21.2023
The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
Christian Idiodi is a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group. After a long product career and founding multiple companies, Christian now spends his time working closely with product leaders at companies big and small to implement and improve their discipline...
12.17.2023
Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the maker of Basecamp and HEY. 37signals is a very different kind of company. With fewer than 80 employees, they have over 100,000 customers, generate tens of millions of dollars in...
12.15.2023
How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)
Matthew Dicks is a best-selling author, columnist, blogger, podcaster, playwright, and teacher. He wrote my all-time favorite book on storytelling, Storyworthy. He is an elementary school teacher by day and by night teaches storytelling and public speaking to individuals, corporations,...
12.13.2023
Failure
In this special compilation episode, we delve into failure—an overlooked source of wisdom. From freezing onstage in front of thousands of people, to coworkers staging an intervention, to huge product investments that went to zero, we’ve pulled our favorite stories...
12.10.2023
Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott
Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor, currently the #1 most recommended book on this podcast. The book has sold over 1 million copies and has been translated into 23 languages. Before writing, Kim was a CEO coach at...
12.07.2023
The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)
Anuj Rathi is the Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Jupiter Money, where he leads product management, marketing, design, growth, and analytics. Before Jupiter Money, Anuj served as the Senior Vice President of Revenue and Growth at Swiggy, VP of...
12.03.2023
Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
Ebi Atawodi is Director of Product Management for the Creator Experience at YouTube, former Head of Product at Uber, and a former Director of Product (Payments and EMEA) at Netflix. Known for crafting a strong, unified vision, Ebi empowers her...
12.01.2023
The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
Inbal Shani is the chief product officer at GitHub, where she leads core product management, along with product strategy, marketing, open source, and communities, including the development of GitHub Copilot. Prior to joining GitHub, she led engineering and product teams...
11.29.2023
My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests
This is a special episode of the podcast where I’ve curated my favorite interview questions that guests have shared, among over 100 podcast guests. Whether you’re a hiring manager, currently interviewing, or simply intrigued by the creative and perceptive questions...
11.26.2023
Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)
Tom Conrad is the CEO of Zero and on the board of Sonos. He began his career in engineering at Apple, where he helped build key features that remain in iOS today. Tom was previously the VP of Product at...
11.19.2023
Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)
Paul Millerd spent several years working in strategy consulting and on the “default path” before deciding to walk away to work on his own in 2017. His book, The Pathless Path, chronicles his own journey and deep dive into the...
11.19.2023
Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)
Paul Millerd spent several years working in strategy consulting and on the “default path” before deciding to walk away to work on his own in 2017. His book, The Pathless Path, chronicles his own journey and deep dive into the...
11.16.2023
The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
Melissa Perri is the CEO of Produx Labs, a product management training organization; author of the seminal PM book The Build Trap; and a former Harvard Business School professor of product management. Denise Tilles is the CPO at Grocket, Melissa’s...
11.12.2023
Brian Chesky’s new playbook
Brian Chesky is the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. Under Brian’s leadership, Airbnb has grown into a community of over 4 million hosts who have welcomed more than 1.5 billion guests across over 220 countries and regions. I had the...
11.09.2023
Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor, startup advisor)
Ramesh Johari is a professor at Stanford University focusing on data science methods and practice, as well as the design and operation of online markets and platforms. Beyond academia, Ramesh has advised some incredible startups, including Airbnb, Uber, Bumble, and...
11.05.2023
Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, Tripadvisor)
Maggie Crowley is VP of product at Toast and previously vice president and head of product at Charlie Health, senior director of product management at Drift, and a PM at TripAdvisor. She’s also the host of Build, a podcast dedicated...
11.02.2023
Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
Bill Carr is the co-author of Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon. With a background at Amazon of over 15 years, Bill played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s global digital music and video ventures, including...
10.29.2023
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE). He’s also a multi-time founder and currently advises startups, VC firms, and...

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career episodes:

This will make you a better decision maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit”, former pro poker player)

Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford GSB professor, “Touchy Feely”)

Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)

Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director)

The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)

Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO)

How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker)

Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more

The ultimate guide to PR | Emilie Gerber (founder of Six Eastern)

The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack)

Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)

Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw (author of The Leader’s Journey)

How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)

Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)

Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (authors of Sprint and Make Time, co-founders of Character Capital)

Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)

Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira)

Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)

Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt

The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (author of Dynamic Reteaming)

Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)

How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)

The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

The UX research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)

Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)

The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more

How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)

Failure

Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott

The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)

Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)

The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)

My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests

Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)

Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)

Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)

The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles

Brian Chesky’s new playbook

Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor, startup advisor)

Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, Tripadvisor)

Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)

Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)

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