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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky

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.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis

How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)

How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel

OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor

The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)

How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity

OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino

What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)

The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)

Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans

The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper

Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)

How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)

Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)

Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)

Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)

Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison

From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo

The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)

The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick (Executive Negotiator)

How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky

The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis

The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)

AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel

Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny

Sequoia CEO coach: Why it’s never been easier to start a company, and never been harder to scale one | Brian Halligan (co-founder, HubSpot)

“Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu

The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)

A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy

Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet

5 questions to ask when your product stops growing | Jason Cohen (2x unicorn founder)

The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)

How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam Lessin

Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and Amazon

The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale

We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)

10 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling)

The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff

The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth)

Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)

The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)

Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)

What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)

A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love | Rachel Lockett

Slack founder: Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield

The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots, and why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li

“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (CEO)

"Sell the alpha, not the feature": The enterprise sales playbook for $1M to $10M ARR | Jen Abel

The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins

How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. Prasanna

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren

Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field

Inside Google's AI turnaround: The rise of AI Mode, strategy behind AI Overviews, and their vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein (VP of Product, Google Search)

First interview with Scale AI’s CEO: $14B Meta deal, what’s working in enterprise AI, and what frontier labs are building next | Jason Droege

How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype)

Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators of the #1 eval course)

From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo (Facebook VP, Sundial CEO, The Making of a Manager author)

Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)

The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)

$46B of hard truths from Ben Horowitz: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear (a16z co-founder)

How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue

How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)

How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)

Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)

How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)