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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky 333 episodes
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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Mar 15, 2026 1h 54m

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

Jacob Warwick is an executive negotiation coach who helps senior operators negotiate better salary, equity, titles, and severance packages. He has worked wit...
Mar 12, 2026 1h 6m not processed

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

People have been asking me to sit on the other side of the mic for a long time. With my wife’s debut children’s book, Charts for Babies, coming out next mont...
Mar 8, 2026 1h 24m not processed

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

Qasar Younis is the co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, a $15 billion AI company that adds intelligence to cars, tractors, planes, submarines, and other...
Mar 1, 2026 1h 17m not processed

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

Jenny Wen leads design for Claude at Anthropic. Prior to this, she was Director of Design at Figma, where she led the teams behind FigJam and Slides. Before ...
Feb 26, 2026 1h 27m not processed

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

Jeetu Patel is the president and chief product officer at Cisco, where he leads a team of 30,000 people and is playing a central role in the massive AI infra...
Feb 19, 2026 1h 27m not processed

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

Boris Cherny is the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. What began as a simple terminal-based prototype just a year ago has transformed the role of...
Feb 15, 2026 1h 14m not processed

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)

Brian Halligan co-founded HubSpot, ran it as CEO for about 15 years, and now coaches Sequoia’s fastest-growing founders as their in-house CEO coach.We discus...
Feb 12, 2026 1h 19m not processed

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

Sherwin Wu leads engineering for OpenAI’s API platform, where roughly 95% of engineers use Codex, often working with fleets of 10 to 20 parallel AI agents.We...
Feb 8, 2026 1h 42m not processed

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

Lazar Jovanovic is a full-time professional vibe coder at Lovable. His job is to build both internal tools and customer-facing products purely using AI, whil...
Feb 1, 2026 1h 31m not processed

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

Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, the bestselling author of Good Inside, and the founder of a parenting platform used by millions. Known for her ...
Jan 29, 2026 1h 44m not processed

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

Marc Andreessen is a founder, investor, and co-founder of Netscape, as well as co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). In this con...
Jan 25, 2026 1h 46m not processed

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

Jason Cohen is a four-time founder (including two unicorns, one being WP Engine) and an investor in over 60 startups, and has been sharing his lessons on com...
Jan 18, 2026 1h 15m not processed

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

Zevi Arnovitz is a product manager at Meta with no technical background who has figured out how to build and ship real products using AI. His engineering tea...
Jan 15, 2026 1h 26m not processed

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

Sam Lessin is a partner at Slow Ventures, a former VP of Product at Facebook, and a two-time founder who’s now teaching etiquette to Silicon Valley’s founder...
Jan 11, 2026 1h 26m not processed

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

Aishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam have helped build and launch more than 50 enterprise AI products across companies like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and ...
Jan 4, 2026 1h 31m not processed

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

Molly Graham has worked for some of tech’s most effective leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Bret Taylor. Today s...
Jan 1, 2026 1h 42m not processed

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

Jason Lemkin is the founder of SaaStr, the world’s largest community for software founders, and a veteran SaaS investor who has deployed over $200 million in...
Dec 28, 2025 1h 36m not processed

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

Matt MacInnis is the chief product officer and former longtime COO at Rippling, a unified workforce management platform valued at over $16 billion.We discuss...
Dec 21, 2025 1h 32m not processed

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

Sander Schulhoff is an AI researcher specializing in AI security, prompt injection, and red teaming. He wrote the first comprehensive guide on prompt enginee...
Dec 18, 2025 1h 31m not processed

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

Elena Verna is the head of growth at Lovable, the leading AI-powered app builder that hit $200 million in annual recurring revenue in under a year with just ...
Dec 14, 2025 1h 25m not processed

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

Alexander Embiricos leads product on Codex, OpenAI’s powerful coding agent, which has grown 20x since August and now serves trillions of tokens weekly. Befor...
Dec 7, 2025 1h 10m not processed

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

Edwin Chen is the founder and CEO of Surge AI, the company that teaches AI what’s good vs. what’s bad, powering frontier labs with elite data, environments, ...
Dec 4, 2025 1h 7m not processed

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

Tomer Cohen is the longtime chief product officer at LinkedIn, where he’s pioneering the Full Stack Builder program, a radical new approach to product develo...
Nov 30, 2025 1h 26m not processed

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

Jeanne DeWitt Grosser built world-class GTM teams at Stripe, Google, and, most recently, Vercel, where she serves as COO and oversees marketing, sales, custo...
Nov 23, 2025 1h 45m not processed

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

Rachel Lockett is a sought-after executive coach and former HR leader at Stripe and Pinterest who now works with CEOs, founders, and tech leaders on emotiona...
Nov 20, 2025 1h 30m not processed

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

Stewart Butterfield is the co-founder of Slack and Flickr, two of the most influential products in internet history. After selling Slack to Salesforce in one...
Nov 16, 2025 1h 19m not processed

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

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is known as the “godmother of AI.” She’s been at the center of AI’s biggest breakthroughs for over two decades. She spearheaded ImageNet, the ...
Nov 13, 2025 1h 53m not processed

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

Grant Lee is the co-founder of Gamma, the AI-powered presentation tool that’s one of the hottest and most interesting AI startups in the world right now. The...
Nov 9, 2025 1h 21m not processed

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

Jen Abel is GM of Enterprise at State Affairs and co-founded Jellyfish, a consultancy that helps founders learn zero-to-one enterprise sales. She’s one of th...
Nov 2, 2025 1h 6m not processed

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

Melanie Perkins is CEO and co-founder of Canva, currently valued at over $42 billion, generating over $3 billion in annual revenue, with more than 240 millio...
Oct 26, 2025 1h 26m not processed

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

Dhanji R. Prasanna is the chief technology officer at Block (formerly Square), where he’s managed more than 4,000 engineers over the past two years. Under hi...
Oct 23, 2025 1h 22m not processed

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

Chip Huyen is a core developer on Nvidia’s Nemo platform, a former AI researcher at Netflix, and taught machine learning at Stanford. She’s a two-time founde...
Oct 19, 2025 1h 7m not processed

How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren

Nicole Forsgren created the most widely used frameworks for measuring developer productivity—DORA and SPACE. She wrote the foundational book Accelerate and i...
Oct 16, 2025 1h 26m not processed

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

Dylan Field is co-founder and CEO of Figma, a beloved tool used by every modern product team. Founded in 2012, Figma has expanded from a single design tool t...
Oct 10, 2025 1h 21m not processed

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)

Robby Stein is VP of Product at Google, where he oversees the core products of Google Search—including the new AI Overviews, AI Mode, search ranking, Google ...
Oct 9, 2025 1h 24m not processed

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

Jason Droege is the CEO of Scale AI, a company that provides foundational training data to every major AI lab. He previously co-founded Scour with Travis Kal...
Oct 5, 2025 1h 25m not processed

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

Albert Cheng has led growth at three of the world’s most successful consumer subscription companies: Duolingo, Grammarly, and Chess.com. A former Google prod...
Sep 28, 2025 1h 24m not processed

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

Nesrine Changuel helped build Spotify, Google Chrome, and Google Meet. Her work has helped her discover the importance of emotional connection in building su...
Sep 25, 2025 1h 46m not processed

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

Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar teach the world’s most popular course on AI evals and have trained over 2,000 PMs and engineers (including many teams at Open...
Sep 21, 2025 1h 36m not processed

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

Julie Zhuo is the former VP and Head of Design at Facebook (now Meta), author of the bestselling book The Making of a Manager, and co-founder of Sundial, an ...
Sep 18, 2025 1h 6m not processed

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

Brendan Foody is the CEO and co-founder of Mercor, the fastest-growing company in history to go from $1M to $500M in revenue (in just 17 months!). At 22, he ...
Sep 14, 2025 1h 11m not processed

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

Ethan Smith is the CEO of Graphite—the leading SEO growth agency—and my go-to expert on SEO. After 18 years of mastering traditional SEO, Ethan has been at t...
Sep 11, 2025 1h 37m not processed

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

Ben Horowitz is the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Silicon Valley’s largest and most influential venture capital firm, with over $46B in committed capita...
Sep 7, 2025 1h 18m not processed

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

Ezinne and Oji Udezue have over 50 years of combined product leadership experience at Microsoft, Twitter, Atlassian, WP Engine, Typeform, and Calendly. They’...
Aug 31, 2025 1h 40m not processed

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

Howie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Airtable, the no-code platform valued at around $12 billion. After a viral tweet declared “Airtable is dead” based on ...
Aug 28, 2025 57m not processed

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)

Asha Sharma leads AI product strategy at Microsoft, where she works with thousands of companies building AI products and has unique visibility into what’s wo...
Aug 24, 2025 1h 9m not processed

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

Garrett Lord is co-founder and CEO of Handshake, which started as a career network for college students and new grads but recently discovered something extra...
Aug 21, 2025 1h 23m not processed

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

Eoghan McCabe is the founder and CEO of Intercom, a customer service platform that has successfully pivoted to become an AI-first company with its agent prod...
Aug 17, 2025 1h 29m not processed

Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour (Reforge)

Brian Balfour is the founder of Reforge, the former VP of Growth at HubSpot, and a student (and teacher) of product growth. Brian has studied every major pla...
Aug 14, 2025 1h 32m not processed

The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay

Matt LeMay spent 13 years as a music critic at Pitchfork before becoming one of product management’s most influential voices. He’s consulted with companies f...
Aug 9, 2025 1h 35m not processed

Inside ChatGPT: The fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI)

Nick Turley is Head of ChatGPT, the fastest-growing product in history, with 700 million weekly active users (10% of the world’s population). He was part of ...
Aug 3, 2025 1h 19m not processed

Brian Chesky's secret mentor who died 9 times, started the Burning Man board, and built the world's first midlife wisdom school | Chip Conley (founder of MEA)

Chip Conley is the founder of Joie de Vivre hotels, the second-largest boutique hotel brand in the world. At age 52, he joined Airbnb as Head of Global Hospi...
Jul 31, 2025 1h 28m not processed

He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more

Bret Taylor’s legendary career includes being CTO of Meta, co-CEO of Salesforce, chairman of the board at OpenAI (yes, during that drama), co-creating both G...
Jul 27, 2025 1h 11m not processed

Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam

Madhavan Ramanujam is the world’s foremost expert on pricing and monetization strategy. As managing partner at Simon-Kucher, he helped over 250 companies, in...
Jul 20, 2025 1h 14m not processed

Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben Mann

Benjamin Mann is a co-founder of Anthropic, an AI startup dedicated to building aligned, safety-first AI systems. Prior to Anthropic, Ben was one of the arch...
Jul 17, 2025 1h 34m not processed

The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every. With just 15 people, Every publishes a daily AI newsletter, ships multiple AI products, and operates a millio...
Jul 13, 2025 1h 41m not processed

Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint (from the creators of the Design Sprint) | Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky (Character Capital)

Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are the co-creators of the Design Sprint (the famous five-day product innovation process) and authors of the bestselling book Sp...
Jul 6, 2025 1h 31m not processed

Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo

Maor Shlomo is the founder of Base44, an AI-powered app builder that he bootstrapped to an over $80 million acquisition by Wix in just six months. As a solo ...
Jul 3, 2025 1h 28m not processed

I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson (co‑founder of Tiny)

Andrew Wilkinson is the co‑founder of Tiny, a holding company that quietly owns more than three dozen profitable internet and consumer brands, including Drib...
Jun 29, 2025 1h 22m not processed

Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)

David Placek is the founder of Lexicon Branding, a company that focuses exclusively on the development of brand names for competitive advantage. Lexicon is b...
Jun 22, 2025 1h 55m not processed

From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

Peter Deng has led product teams at OpenAI, Instagram, Uber, Facebook, Airtable, and Oculus and helped build products used by billions—including Facebook’s N...
Jun 19, 2025 1h 37m not processed

AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

Sander Schulhoff is the OG prompt engineer. He created the very first prompt engineering guide on the internet (two months before ChatGPT’s release) and rece...
Jun 15, 2025 1h 54m not processed

How to build a team that can “take a punch”: A playbook for building resilient, high-performing teams | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)

Hilary Gridley is the Head of Core Product at WHOOP and a passionate thought leader in leveraging AI to elevate product teams and management practices. With ...
Jun 12, 2025 1h 41m not processed

35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond | Bob Baxley

Bob Baxley is a design leader who has shaped products used by billions at Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo, and ThoughtSpot. During his eight years at Apple, he led d...
Jun 8, 2025 1h 19m not processed

How Mercado Libre built Latin America's most valuable company: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, and their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios

Sebastian Barrios was the longtime head of product and engineering at Mercado Libre, the largest company in Latin America—valued at over $100 billion and hom...
Jun 5, 2025 1h 6m not processed

Anthropic’s CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)

Mike Krieger is the chief product officer of Anthropic and the co-founder of Instagram. After leaving Meta, he co-founded Artifact, an AI-powered news app th...
Jun 1, 2025 1h 21m not processed

Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal

Sachin Kansal is chief product officer at Uber, where he oversees the Rider, Driver, Delivery, Grocery, and New Verticals product lines used for 33 million d...
May 25, 2025 1h 14m not processed

Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman

Krithika Shankarraman was the first marketing hire at OpenAI and Stripe and led marketing at Retool. At OpenAI, she established marketing foundations for Cha...
May 22, 2025 1h 37m not processed

Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product)

Mayur Kamat is the chief product officer at N26—a $9 billion neobank serving over 7 million customers in 25 countries—where he leads product, design, data, a...
May 18, 2025 1h 1m not processed

Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI, you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada

Aparna Chennapragada is the chief product officer of experiences and devices at Microsoft, where she oversees AI product strategy for their productivity tool...
May 15, 2025 1h 10m not processed

How Revolut trains world-class product managers: The “local CEO” model, raw intellect over experience, and a cultural obsession with building wow products | Dmitry Zlokazov (Head of Product)

Dmitry Zlokazov is the head of product at Revolut, the $45 billion fintech giant operating in over 50 countries, serving more than 50 million customers, and ...
May 11, 2025 1h 37m not processed

How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)

Nabeel Qureshi is an entrepreneur, writer, researcher, and visiting scholar of AI policy at the Mercatus Center (alongside Tyler Cowen). Previously, he spent...
May 8, 2025 1h 22m not processed

How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna (CEO of Reboot, executive coach, former VC)

Jerry Colonna is a world-renowned executive coach, a former venture capitalist, and the co-founder and CEO of Reboot, an executive coaching firm that combine...
May 4, 2025 1h 32m not processed

Inside Devin: The world’s first autonomous AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code by end of year | Scott Wu (CEO and co-founder of Cognition)

Scott Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind Devin—the world’s first autonomous AI software engineer. Unlike other AI coding tools, De...
May 1, 2025 1h 11m not processed

The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)

Michael Truell is the co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor—the fastest-growing AI code editor in the world, reaching $300 million in an...
Apr 27, 2025 1h 32m not processed

Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

Daniel Lereya, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at monday.com, shares how he and his team realized they were being outpaced by competitors and how th...
Apr 22, 2025 47m not processed

Announcing a brand-new podcast: “How I AI” with Claire Vo 🔥

AI is rapidly changing how we live and work. It’s exciting, but also overwhelming. If you’re struggling to keep up, and wondering how to actually use these m...
Apr 20, 2025 1h 14m not processed

Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder and CEO)

Varun Mohan is the co-founder and CEO of Windsurf (formerly Codeium), an AI-powered development environment (IDE) that has been used by over 1 million develo...
Apr 13, 2025 1h 27m not processed

Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js)

Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 (one of the most popular AI app building tools), and the mind behind foundational JavaScript...
Apr 10, 2025 1h 31m not processed

OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter)

Kevin Weil is the chief product officer at OpenAI, where he oversees the development of ChatGPT, enterprise products, and the OpenAI API. Prior to OpenAI, Ke...
Apr 6, 2025 1h 33m not processed

Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor)

Wes Kao is an entrepreneur, coach, and advisor. She co-founded the live learning platform Maven, backed by First Round and a16z. Before Maven, Wes co-created...
Mar 30, 2025 1h 45m not processed

A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)

Ryan Singer is one of the earliest employees and the former Head of Strategy at 37signals (the makers of Basecamp), where he spent nearly two decades refinin...
Mar 27, 2025 1h 25m not processed

How to win in the AI era: Ship a feature every week, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and create magic your competitors can't copy | Gaurav Misra (CEO and co-founder of Captions)

Gaurav Misra is the co-founder and CEO of Captions, an AI-powered video creation company and one of the most successful consumer AI products in the world tod...
Mar 23, 2025 1h 25m not processed

Superhuman's secret to success: Ignoring most customer feedback, manually onboarding every new user, obsessing over every detail, and positioning around a single attribute: speed | Rahul Vohra (CEO)

Rahul Vohra is the founder and CEO of Superhuman. Prior to Superhuman, Rahul founded Rapportive, the first Gmail plug-in to scale to millions of users, which...
Mar 16, 2025 1h 17m not processed

The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet")

Susan Cain, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, shares a guide for how introverts can ...
Mar 13, 2025 1h 28m not processed

Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder and CEO of StackBlitz)

Eric Simons is the founder and CEO of StackBlitz, the company behind Bolt—the #1 web-based AI coding agent and one of the fastest-growing products in history...
Mar 9, 2025 1h 9m not processed

Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (co-founder and CEO)

Anton Osika is the co-founder and CEO of Lovable, which is building what they call “the last piece of software”—an AI-powered tool that turns descriptions in...
Mar 6, 2025 1h 12m not processed

Notion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to move fast, the joy and suffering of building horizontal, more | Ivan Zhao (CEO and co-founder)

Ivan Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Notion. Ivan shares the untold story of Notion, from nearly running out of database space during Covid to finding prod...
Mar 2, 2025 1h 34m not processed

The creator of WordPress opens up about becoming an internet villain, why he’s taking a stand, and the future of open source | Matt Mullenweg (founder and CEO, Automattic)

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, the open source platform powering a staggering 43% of the internet. He also serves as CEO of Automattic—the pa...
Feb 27, 2025 1h 47m not processed

An inside look at X’s Community Notes | Keith Coleman (VP of Product) and Jay Baxter (ML Lead)

Keith Coleman (VP of product) and Jay Baxter (founding ML engineer), the minds behind Community Notes, reveal how a small, scrappy team inside Twitter/X buil...
Feb 23, 2025 1h 24m not processed

How to find work you love | Bob Moesta (Jobs-to-be-Done co-creator, author of "Job Moves”)

Bob Moesta, co-creator of the Jobs to Be Done framework, recently published a new book, Job Moves. Drawing from interviews with over 1,000 people about their...
Feb 16, 2025 1h 23m not processed

A founder’s guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder, serial entrepreneur)

Uri Levine is a co-founder of Waze (which was acquired by Google for $1.3 billion in 2013), along with nine other companies (including another company he sol...
Feb 9, 2025 1h 14m not processed

OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen (Research at OpenAI, ex-Anthropic)

Karina Nguyen leads research at OpenAI, where she’s been pivotal in developing groundbreaking products like Canvas, Tasks, and the o1 language model. Before ...
Feb 2, 2025 1h 41m not processed

Tobi Lütke’s leadership playbook: Playing infinite games, operating from first principles, and maximizing human potential (founder and CEO of Shopify)

Tobi Lütke is the founder and CEO of Shopify, a $130 billion business that powers over 10% of all U.S. e-commerce. Starting as a snowboard shop in 2004, Shop...
Jan 30, 2025 1h 21m not processed

Linear’s secret to building beloved B2B products | Nan Yu (Head of Product)

Nan Yu is the head of product at Linear, one of the most beloved and fastest-growing B2B SaaS products out there today, and the gold standard for high-perfor...
Jan 26, 2025 1h 47m not processed

An operator’s guide to product strategy | Chandra Janakiraman (CPO at VRChat, ex-Meta, Headspace, Zynga)

Chandra Janakiraman is the chief product officer, executive vice president, and a board member at VRChat. Previously, he was a product leader at Meta, where ...
Jan 19, 2025 1h 35m not processed

10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey)

Elena Verna is one of Silicon Valley’s most sought-after growth advisors and operators. She previously led growth at companies like Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox,...
Jan 16, 2025 1h 12m not processed

How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor, founder of Alpine Investors)

Graham Weaver teaches a top-rated course at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (GSB), where he often unexpectedly ends up helping students figure out wha...
Jan 12, 2025 1h 19m not processed

How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more | Rohini Pandhi (Mercury, Square)

Rohini Pandhi is a product leader at Mercury, and previously spent over seven years at Square/Block leading product work on Square payments, invoicing, and t...
Jan 9, 2025 1h 37m not processed

Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)

Drew Houston is the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Under his leadership, Dropbox has grown from a simple idea to a service used by over 700 million registere...
Jan 5, 2025 1h 23m not processed

Scripts for difficult conversations: Giving hard feedback, navigating defensiveness, the three questions you should end every meeting with, more | Alisa Cohn (executive coach)

Alisa Cohn is an executive coach who has worked with C-suite executives at startups like Venmo, Etsy, Wirecutter, and DraftKings, and Fortune 500 companies l...
Jan 2, 2025 56m not processed

Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure, autonomy, trust, and more | Eilon Reshef (co-founder and CPO)

Eilon Reshef is the co-founder and chief product officer at Gong, one of the most ubiquitous B2B products in the world. In our conversation, we discuss:• Gon...
Dec 29, 2024 1h 21m not processed

Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)

Shaun Clowes is the chief product officer at Confluent and former CPO at Salesforce’s MuleSoft and at Metromile. He was also the first head of growth at Atla...
Dec 22, 2024 57m not processed

Behind the founder: Marc Benioff

Marc Benioff is the co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, the second-largest software company in the world. He started programming at age 15, selling his first p...
Dec 19, 2024 1h 40m not processed

How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)

Farhan Thawar is the head of engineering at Shopify, where he oversees more than 1,000 engineers and a platform that powers over 10% of all U.S. e-commerce. ...
Dec 15, 2024 1h 28m not processed

Behind the product: Duolingo streaks | Jackson Shuttleworth (Group PM, Retention Team)

Jackson Shuttleworth is a Group PM at Duolingo, where he leads the retention team and the powerful streak feature. The streak feature, which gamifies consecu...
Dec 8, 2024 45m not processed

Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more

Seth Godin is a legend. He’s a marketer, teacher, entrepreneur, and author of more than 20 books, including Purple Cow, Permission Marketing, and Linchpin. H...
Dec 5, 2024 1h 34m not processed

How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work)

Jonathan Lowenhar is the co-founder of Enjoy The Work, an executive coaching firm that helps founders become great CEOs. Over the past decade, Enjoy The Work...
Dec 1, 2024 1h 29m not processed

Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at Google Ventures)

Michael Margolis has been a UX research partner at Google Ventures (GV) for nearly 15 years. He has developed a unique approach to helping startups identify ...
Nov 24, 2024 1h 16m not processed

The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)

Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJELLYFISH, where she and her team have worked with over 300 early-stage founders to learn how to sell, do early customer disco...
Nov 21, 2024 1h 4m not processed

Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, a browser-based coding environment that allows anyone to write and deploy code. Replit has 34 million users ...
Nov 17, 2024 1h 5m not processed

Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)

Raaz Herzberg is the chief marketing officer and VP of product strategy at Wiz. Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup hist...
Nov 14, 2024 1h 17m not processed

Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)

Aman Khan is Director of Product at Arize AI, an observability company for AI engineers at companies like Uber, Instacart, and Discord. Previously he was an ...
Nov 10, 2024 1h 24m not processed

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri (author, founder of Product Institute)

Melissa Perri is the founder of Product Institute, author of Escaping the Build Trap, and host of the Product Thinking Podcast. She has worked with startups,...
Nov 7, 2024 1h 17m not processed

Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, prioritizes intuition, and builds toward a 100-year vision | Archie Abrams (VP Product, Head of Growth at Shopify)

Archie Abrams is the VP of Product and Head of Growth at Shopify, where he leads a 600+ person growth org across product, design, engineering, data, ops, and...
Nov 3, 2024 1h 15m not processed

Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll (author, advisor, entrepreneur)

Alistair Croll is the co-author of the best-selling book Lean Analytics and a longtime product manager, entrepreneur, and startup advisor. He was also instru...
Oct 31, 2024 45m not processed

4 questions Shreyas Doshi wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google

Shreyas Doshi is a former product leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google, and Yahoo. He’s now a full-time advisor and coach to founders and executives. Shreyas is...
Oct 27, 2024 1h 38m not processed

Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, why PMs are like conductors, and more | Naomi Gleit

Naomi Gleit is head of product at Meta, joined as employee #29, and is the longest-serving executive at Meta other than Mark Zuckerberg. She’s been at the ce...
Oct 20, 2024 1h 21m not processed

How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische (Lettering Artist, Author)

Jessica Hische is a lettering artist and New York Times bestselling author based in Oakland, California. She specializes in typographical work for logos, fil...
Oct 17, 2024 1h 8m not processed

Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, harnessing founder mode, and more | Anneka Gupta (Chief Product Officer at Rubrik)

Anneka Gupta is the Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, a leading B2B cybersecurity company. She previously spent 11 years at LiveRamp, where she was the Presid...
Oct 13, 2024 1h 56m not processed

Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome your speaking anxiety | Tristan de Montebello (CEO & co-founder of Ultraspeaking)

Tristan de Montebello is the co-creator of Ultraspeaking, the most effective method I’ve come across for rapidly improving communication and presentation ski...
Oct 10, 2024 48m not processed

Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)

Raiza Martin is a senior product manager for AI at Google Labs, where she leads the team behind NotebookLM, an AI-powered research tool that includes a delig...
Oct 6, 2024 1h 18m not processed

Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)

JM Nickels is a Senior Director of Product Management at Uber. Previously, he was Head of Product for Commercialization at Waymo and led product teams at Doo...
Oct 3, 2024 1h 24m not processed

Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconventional product advice | Alex Komoroske (Stripe, Google)

Alex Komoroske is a strategic leader who merges the practice, theory, and mindset necessary to tackle complex problems. He spent 13 years at Google, where he...
Sep 29, 2024 1h 24m not processed

How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, and more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack, Reforge)

Benjamin Lauzier has been building and scaling marketplaces for almost 15 years. He was the VP of product and growth at Thumbtack, where he rebuilt the produ...
Sep 26, 2024 1h 17m not processed

Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua (Product at Glean, ex-Google and Slack)

Tamar Yehoshua is the president of product and technology at Glean. Prior to joining Glean, Tamar was chief product officer at Slack, where she led product, ...
Sep 22, 2024 1h 31m not processed

Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Product Lead at Riverside)

Tal Raviv is a product manager at Riverside, where he joined as its first PM. Over his 12-year career as an individual contributor, Tal has been an early PM ...
Sep 19, 2024 1h 55m not processed

Rethinking SEO in the age of AI | Eli Schwartz (SEO advisor, author)

Eli Schwartz is a leading SEO consultant and the author of Product-Led SEO. He has worked with industry giants like Zapier, Tinder, Coinbase, Quora, LinkedIn...
Sep 15, 2024 1h 23m not processed

The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (author of “The Manager’s Path,” ex-CTO at Rent the Runway)

Camille Fournier is the author of The Manager’s Path, which many consider the definitive guide for navigating one’s career path in tech. Camille was previous...
Sep 12, 2024 1h 51m not processed

Land your dream job in today’s market: negotiation tactics, job search councils, and more | Phyl Terry (Author, “Never Search Alone”)

Phyl Terry is the author of Never Search Alone, which I’ve seen so many people reference as the most impactful guide they read for finding a job. Phyl was on...
Sep 8, 2024 1h 9m not processed

How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)

Tomer Cohen is the chief product officer at LinkedIn, responsible for setting the company’s product strategy, leading product development, user experience de...
Sep 5, 2024 1h 44m not processed

The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author of “Hacking Growth”)

Sean Ellis is one of the earliest and most influential thinkers and operators in growth. He coined the term “growth hacking,” invented the ICE prioritization...
Sep 1, 2024 1h 37m not processed

Airbnb’s Vlad Loktev on embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, poking the bear, and “impact, impact, impact” (Partner at Index Ventures, Airbnb GM/VP Product)

Vlad Loktev spent 10 years at Airbnb, where he started as an IC PM and quickly advanced to lead the core Airbnb marketplace business and then GM the entire h...
Aug 25, 2024 1h 38m not processed

How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps (co-founder of TBH, Gas, advisor, investor)

Nikita Bier is one of the most in-demand consumer, social, and growth experts in the world. He’s the co-founder of TBH (sold to Meta for more than $30 millio...
Aug 22, 2024 1h 11m not processed

Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and why you should PM your career like you PM your product | Deb Liu (CEO of Ancestry, ex-Facebook, PayPal, eBay)

Deb Liu is the CEO of Ancestry and former longtime VP of Product at Facebook. At Facebook, Deb led the creation of Facebook Marketplace, developed the first ...
Aug 18, 2024 1h 28m not processed

Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more | Kevin Yien (Stripe, Square, Mutiny)

Kevin Yien leads product for merchant experiences at Stripe. Before that, he meandered his way from being a technical designer to a product manager, built th...
Aug 11, 2024 2h 14m not processed

Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences)

Evan LaPointe is the founder of CORE Sciences, which teaches companies and individuals how our brains work and how that translates to improved collaboration,...
Aug 8, 2024 1h 18m not processed

How embracing emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (executive coach, Art of Accomplishment)

Joe Hudson is one of the most sought-after executive coaches in Silicon Valley. He is the founder of Art of Accomplishment, a transformational coaching progr...
Aug 4, 2024 1h 14m not processed

Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)

Brian Tolkin is the Head of Product at Opendoor. Previously, he was one of the early employees at Uber, where he was instrumental in launching and growing Ub...
Jul 28, 2024 1h 42m not processed

The ultimate guide to performance marketing | Timothy Davis (Shopify)

Timothy Davis has led performance marketing for all of Shopify for the past 2.5 years, and as a consultant has helped companies like Pinterest, LinkedIn, Red...
Jul 25, 2024 1h 22m not processed

5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)

Roger Martin is one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and the author of Playing to Win, one of the most beloved books on strategy. He’s written exte...
Jul 21, 2024 1h 24m not processed

What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)

Rory Sutherland is widely regarded as one of the most influential (and most entertaining) thinkers in marketing and behavioral science. He’s the vice chairma...
Jul 14, 2024 1h 19m not processed

Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)

Jessica Lachs is the global head of analytics and data science at DoorDash, where she’s built one of the largest and most respected data organizations in tec...
Jul 11, 2024 2h 35m not processed

Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)

Jeff Weinstein is a product lead at Stripe, where he helped grow their payment APIs to hundreds of billions in volume and transformed the way founders start ...
Jul 7, 2024 1h 49m not processed

Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics)

Mike Maples, Jr. is a legendary early-stage startup investor and a co-founder and partner at Floodgate. He’s made early bets on transformative companies like...
Jun 30, 2024 48m not processed

Dylan Field live at Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design

Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, the collaborative design platform that has revolutionized how product teams work. In my first-ever live podca...
Jun 27, 2024 1h 24m not processed

The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of Y Combinator, author, podcast host)

Jessica Livingston is a co-founder of Y Combinator, the first and most successful startup accelerator. Y Combinator has funded over 5,000 companies, 200 of w...
Jun 23, 2024 1h 23m not processed

Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)

Ami Vora is the Chief Product Officer of Faire, which connects independent retailers and brands around the world. Before Faire, Ami spent over 15 years at Me...
Jun 16, 2024 1h 54m not processed

Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)

Tanguy Crusson is the product lead for Jira Product Discovery at Atlassian. In his more than 10 years at the company, he has been instrumental in taking seve...
Jun 13, 2024 1h 22m not processed

The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (author of 7 Rules of Power, professor at Stanford GSB)

Jeffrey Pfeffer teaches the single most popular (and somewhat controversial) class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business: The Paths to Power. He’s also t...
Jun 9, 2024 1h 22m not processed

Lessons from a two-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor, and 20-time company board member | Uri Levine (co-founder of Waze)

Uri Levine is the co-founder of Waze, the world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app, acquired by Google for over $1 billion. He’s also found...
Jun 2, 2024 1h 3m not processed

Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and running profitably | Cameron Adams (co-founder and CPO)

Cameron Adams is the co-founder and chief product officer of Canva. Canva is one of the world’s most valuable private software companies, used by 95% of Fort...
May 30, 2024 56m not processed

The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon (author of The Challenger Sale and The JOLT Effect)

Matt Dixon is one of the world’s foremost experts in sales and the author of The Challenger Sale, which sold over a million copies worldwide and was a #1 Ama...
May 26, 2024 1h 42m not processed

Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Instacart)

Bangaly Kaba was an early growth PM at Facebook, head of growth at Instagram, and VP of Product at Instacart and is currently Director of Product at YouTube ...
May 19, 2024 1h 13m not processed

Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM at Slack)

Kenneth Berger coaches startup leaders on how to prevent burnout, advocate for their desired lifestyle, and make a meaningful impact on the world. He’s spent...
May 16, 2024 1h 35m not processed

Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google, Quantcast)

Jag Duggal is chief product officer at Nubank, a decacorn neobank founded in Brazil. It’s valued at over $30 billion, is bigger than Coinbase, Robinhood, Aff...
May 12, 2024 1h 12m not processed

A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)

Vikrama Dhiman heads all things product at Gojek, including product management, design, program management, and research, across Indonesia, Singapore and Ind...
May 5, 2024 1h 8m not processed

Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)

Hamilton Helmer is one of the world’s leading experts on business strategy and the author of the seminal book 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy,...
May 2, 2024 1h 21m not processed

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 Be...
Apr 28, 2024 1h 35m not processed

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...
Apr 25, 2024 1h 26m not processed

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.” Aft...
Apr 21, 2024 1h 40m not processed

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 compan...
Apr 18, 2024 1h 20m not processed

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...
Apr 14, 2024 1h 21m not processed

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 YouTub...
Apr 11, 2024 1h 27m not processed

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, guidin...
Apr 7, 2024 1h 27m not processed

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 LaunchDar...
Apr 4, 2024 1h 41m not processed

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 ...
Mar 31, 2024 1h 11m not processed

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 busines...
Mar 24, 2024 1h 18m not processed

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 o...
Mar 21, 2024 1h 33m not processed

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 com...
Mar 17, 2024 1h 9m not processed

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 office...
Mar 10, 2024 1h 25m not processed

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 ...
Mar 7, 2024 1h 12m not processed

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 help...
Mar 3, 2024 1h 42m not processed

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 rea...
Feb 25, 2024 1h 27m not processed

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 ...
Feb 22, 2024 1h 13m not processed

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 pres...
Feb 18, 2024 2h 1m not processed

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...
Feb 11, 2024 1h 35m not processed

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 t...
Feb 8, 2024 1h 8m not processed

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...
Feb 4, 2024 1h 21m not processed

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 ...
Jan 28, 2024 1h 14m not processed

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, enh...
Jan 25, 2024 1h 24m not processed

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 Mainstr...
Jan 21, 2024 1h 49m not processed

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 whic...
Jan 18, 2024 1h 10m not processed

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 ...
Jan 14, 2024 1h 21m not processed

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...
Jan 11, 2024 1h 27m not processed

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 acquire...
Jan 7, 2024 1h 16m not processed

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 D...
Jan 4, 2024 1h 14m not processed

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 resea...
Dec 29, 2023 1h 24m not processed

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 Yo...
Dec 27, 2023 1h 50m not processed

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 Rais...
Dec 21, 2023 1h 33m not processed

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 wor...
Dec 17, 2023 1h 49m not processed

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 employee...
Dec 15, 2023 1h 42m not processed

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, Storywort...
Dec 13, 2023 1h 1m not processed

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 coworker...
Dec 10, 2023 1h 26m not processed

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 trans...
Dec 7, 2023 1h 12m not processed

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 J...
Dec 3, 2023 1h 39m not processed

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 (Paymen...
Dec 1, 2023 50m not processed

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 communi...
Nov 29, 2023 20m not processed

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 y...
Nov 26, 2023 1h 40m not processed

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 t...
Nov 19, 2023 1h 4m not processed

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, ...
Nov 16, 2023 1h 19m not processed

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 Busin...
Nov 12, 2023 1h 13m not processed

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 ...
Nov 9, 2023 1h 23m not processed

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 ...
Nov 5, 2023 1h 22m not processed

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,...
Nov 2, 2023 1h 33m not processed

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...
Oct 29, 2023 2h 14m not processed

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 Exchan...
Oct 26, 2023 1h 23m not processed

What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)

Paul Adams is the longtime chief product officer at Intercom, where he leads the product management, product design, data science, and research teams. Before...
Oct 22, 2023 1h 30m not processed

A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch)

April Dunford is a speaker, mentor, podcaster, best-selling author, and beloved returning guest to the show. Last year, she joined me on the pod to discuss p...
Oct 19, 2023 1h 36m not processed

Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo)

Gina Gotthilf is a co-founder and the COO of Latitud, a startup platform supporting the next generation of iconic tech startups in Latin America. Previously,...
Oct 15, 2023 1h 34m not processed

Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)

Katie Dill is the Head of Design at Stripe. Previously, she was Head of Experience Design at Airbnb and Head of Design at Lyft. Katie has been named one of B...
Oct 12, 2023 1h 42m not processed

How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine)

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Oct 8, 2023 1h 39m not processed

Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)

Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, an issue-tracking tool that has quickly become the fastest-growing and most beloved in the world. Before ...
Oct 5, 2023 1h 42m not processed

Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life

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Oct 1, 2023 1h 29m not processed

What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)

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Sep 28, 2023 1h 7m not processed

Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Spotify’s Head of Podcast Product)

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Sep 24, 2023 1h 16m not processed

How to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise)

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Sep 21, 2023 1h 12m not processed

Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)

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Sep 17, 2023 1h 48m not processed

How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, Category Pirates, more)

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Sep 14, 2023 1h 16m not processed

Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform, Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian)

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Sep 10, 2023 1h 26m not processed

When enough is enough | Andy Johns (ex-FB, Twitter, Quora)

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Sep 7, 2023 1h 31m not processed

An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)

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Sep 3, 2023 1h 11m not processed

Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)

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Aug 27, 2023 1h 11m not processed

An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)

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Aug 24, 2023 1h 9m not processed

The ultimate guide to JTBD | Bob Moesta (co-creator of the framework)

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Aug 20, 2023 1h 3m not processed

Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst (Spotify, Patreon, Apple, YouTube)

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Aug 13, 2023 1h 24m not processed

The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)

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Aug 10, 2023 1h 31m not processed

Relentless curiosity, radical accountability, and HubSpot’s winning growth formula | Christopher Miller (VP of Product, Growth and AI)

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Aug 6, 2023 1h 16m not processed

Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)

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Jul 30, 2023 1h 16m not processed

How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, GitHub, Google)

This episode is brought to you by DX—a platform for measuring and improving developer productivity.—Dr. Nicole Forsgren is a developer productivity and DevOp...
Jul 27, 2023 1h 23m not processed

The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)

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Jul 23, 2023 1h 25m not processed

The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)

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Jul 16, 2023 1h 4m not processed

LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)

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Jul 13, 2023 1h not processed

M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs)

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Jul 9, 2023 1h 3m not processed

How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)

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Jul 2, 2023 1h 7m not processed

Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork and Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang (Webflow, WeWork, Airbnb, Dropbox)

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Jun 25, 2023 1h 17m not processed

Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)

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Jun 18, 2023 1h 14m not processed

Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)

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Jun 15, 2023 1h 20m not processed

Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

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Jun 11, 2023 1h 25m not processed

Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)

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Jun 4, 2023 1h 8m not processed

Moving fast and navigating uncertainty | Jeremy Henrickson (Rippling, Coinbase)

Brought to you by Miro—A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Mixpanel—Product analytics that everyone can trust, use, and affo...
Jun 1, 2023 1h 17m not processed

Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks

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May 28, 2023 1h 2m not processed

The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin

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May 21, 2023 1h 24m not processed

Lessons from scaling Spotify: The science of product, taking risky bets, and how AI is already impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström (Co-President, CPO, and CTO at Spotify)

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May 18, 2023 1h 2m not processed

Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance)

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May 14, 2023 52m not processed

Frameworks for product differentiation, team building, and thinking from first principles | Ayo Omojola (Carbon Health, Cash App)

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May 7, 2023 1h 34m not processed

Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)

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May 4, 2023 1h 29m not processed

Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

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Apr 30, 2023 1h 7m not processed

How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian, Miro, Segment, 1Password)

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Apr 23, 2023 1h 16m not processed

The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna

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Apr 20, 2023 1h 25m not processed

An inside look at how Miro builds product: Lessons on outmaneuvering competitors, team structure, product quality, and moving fast | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)

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Apr 16, 2023 1h 18m not processed

How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn, SurveyMonkey)

Brought to you by Sprig—Product insights that drive product success.—Ada Chen Rekhi is an executive coach and co-founder of Notejoy. She helps founders scale...
Apr 13, 2023 1h 1m not processed

How to build a cult-like brand | Laura Modi (Bobbie)

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Apr 9, 2023 42m not processed

Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)

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Apr 6, 2023 59m not processed

Driving alignment and urgency within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller (The Knot, Trello)

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Apr 2, 2023 1h 33m not processed

The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)

Brought to you by Amplitude—Build better products | Miro—A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Ahrefs—Improve your website’s S...
Mar 30, 2023 1h 17m not processed

Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Canva, Reddit, Grubhub)

Brought to you by Amplitude—Build better products | Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments | Ahrefs—Improve your website's SEO for free—Casey Winters is a ...
Mar 26, 2023 1h 2m not processed

Taxi mafias, cash vaults, and 100% MoM growth: The story behind Southeast Asia’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)

Brought to you by Coda—Meet the evolution of docs | Rows—The spreadsheet where data comes to life | Lenny’s Job Board—Hire the best product people. Find the ...
Mar 23, 2023 1h 3m not processed

Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard)

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Mar 19, 2023 1h 28m not processed

Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)

Brought to you by Writer—Generative AI for the enterprise | Dovetail—Bring your customer into every decision | Linear—The new standard for modern software de...
Mar 16, 2023 1h 13m not processed

The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)

Brought to you by Miro—A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Dovetail—Bring your customer into every decision | Writer—Generat...
Mar 12, 2023 1h 22m not processed

Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi

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Mar 9, 2023 1h 21m not processed

Career frameworks, A/B testing mistakes, counterintuitive onboarding tips, selling to developers | Laura Schaffer (VP of Growth at Amplitude)

Brought to you by Public—Invest in stocks, treasuries, crypto, and more | Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments | Writer—Generative AI for the enterprise—...
Mar 5, 2023 1h 21m not processed

Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO of Stripe)

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Mar 2, 2023 1h 25m not processed

Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)

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Feb 26, 2023 1h 1m not processed

Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth | Annie Pearl (CPO)

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Feb 23, 2023 58m not processed

An inside look at how CNN builds product | Upasna Gautam

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Feb 19, 2023 1h 13m not processed

10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell)

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Feb 16, 2023 1h 6m not processed

Understanding the role of product ops | Christine Itwaru (Pendo)

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Feb 12, 2023 1h 4m not processed

Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)

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Feb 9, 2023 55m not processed

Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)

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Feb 5, 2023 48m not processed

AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)

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Feb 2, 2023 1h 2m not processed

How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe)

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Jan 29, 2023 1h 13m not processed

Lessons from Airtable’s unconventional growth strategy | Zoelle Egner

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Jan 26, 2023 46m not processed

An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar (Head of Product)

Brought to you by Pando—Always on employee progression (https://www.pando.com/lenny), Notion—One workspace. Every team (https://www.notion.com/lennyspod), an...
Jan 19, 2023 1h 21m not processed

Building your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)

Ravi was previously CPO at Tinder, Product Director at Facebook, and VP of Product at Tripadvisor. Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Outpace, a coaching ...
Jan 15, 2023 1h 40m not processed

What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (Amplitude, The Beautiful Mess)

John Cutler writes the popular and beloved product newsletter The Beautiful Mess. For many years, he was a Product Evangelist at Amplitude, which led him to ...
Jan 12, 2023 53m not processed

How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)

Naomi Ionita is a Partner at the venture capital firm, Menlo Ventures. She started her career in engineering in 2002, shifted to product in 2006, and built p...
Jan 8, 2023 1h 8m not processed

An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)

Yuhki Yamashita is Chief Product Officer at Figma. Prior to Figma, he was Head of Design of Uber’s New Mobility efforts, and before that a product manager at...
Jan 5, 2023 1h 10m not processed

Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)

Jules Walter is a product leader at YouTube and co-founder of both the Black Product Managers Network and Codepath.org. Previously, he led monetization and m...
Dec 29, 2022 1h 1m not processed

Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year

If you ever wanted to distill 3,310 hours of knowledge into 60 minutes, then this episode is for you. For the last 6 months, Lenny’s Podcast has been downloa...
Dec 18, 2022 1h 17m not processed

Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)

Chris Hutchins recently left his position as Head of New Product Strategy at Wealthfront to focus full-time on his podcast, All the Hacks. If you’re thinking...
Dec 15, 2022 1h 1m not processed

Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)

Pete Kazanjy is the author of Founding Sales: The Early Stage Go-to-Market Handbook and the founder of Modern Sales Pros, an invite-only peer learning commun...
Dec 11, 2022 1h 7m not processed

How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts (Notion, First Round Capital)

Camille Ricketts began her career in journalism, at the Wall Street Journal, in 2006. In 2010 she joined Tesla, where she worked in communications alongside ...
Dec 8, 2022 1h 38m not processed

The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)

Madhavan Ramanujam is a senior partner at Simon-Kucher, where he works with tier-one tech companies like Uber, Asana, and LinkedIn to help them develop their...
Dec 4, 2022 1h 26m not processed

How to hit revenue targets in a recession | Sahil Mansuri (Bravado)

Sahil Mansuri is the CEO of Bravado, the world’s largest online sales community. Sahil is passionate about sales, and his experience dates all the way back t...
Dec 1, 2022 1h 30m not processed

The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)

Ethan Smith is the CEO of Graphite, a boutique growth agency that’s helped companies like MasterClass, Thumbtack, Robinhood, Medium, and Honey develop and ex...
Nov 27, 2022 1h 12m not processed

How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People)

Petra Wille is an independent product leadership coach who’s been helping product teams expand their skill sets since 2013. She’s also the author of Strong P...
Nov 20, 2022 1h 4m not processed

What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)

Ian McAllister is the Senior Director of Product for Vehicles at Uber. Before moving to Uber, Ian spent over a decade directing teams at Amazon, where he cre...
Nov 17, 2022 1h 14m not processed

Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)

Gergely Orosz writes the #1 technology newsletter at Substack, called The Pragmatic Engineer. He started his career as a software developer in the U.K., spen...
Nov 13, 2022 1h 7m not processed

An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO at The New York Times)

Alex Hardiman is Chief Product Officer at the New York Times, where she oversees the company’s news, cooking, games, audio and advertising products. Previous...
Nov 10, 2022 1h 11m not processed

How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)

Matt Mochary, CEO of Mochary Method, is a full-time executive coach who has worked with some of the biggest names in tech and finance, including investor Nav...
Nov 6, 2022 1h 31m not processed

How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)

Ben Williams is VP of Product at Snyk, an industry-leading security platform for developers, last valued at $8.5b. He’s also a product and growth advisor wit...
Nov 3, 2022 1h 8m not processed

Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, General Catalyst)

Lauren Ipsen is one of the most well-known and respected executive recruiters in the industry, having placed over 90 senior product leaders at companies incl...
Oct 30, 2022 1h 1m not processed

Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)

Sachin Monga is the Head of Product at Substack, a platform that I personally use every day, and love. Before Substack, Sachin co-founded an app called Cocoo...
Oct 27, 2022 55m not processed

Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp)

Barbra Gago is the founder and CEO of Pando, where she’s democratizing career progression. Previously she worked as the Chief Marketing Officer and Global He...
Oct 23, 2022 1h 5m not processed

How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Zynga, Pixar)

Fareed Mosavat is Chief Development Officer at Reforge, where he leads production, content, and new-product experiences. Previously, he led growth and produc...
Oct 20, 2022 1h 7m not processed

Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)

Adriel Frederick is VP of Product Management at Reddit X, where he helps incubate and scale new products. He is a former Product Lead at Facebook, as well as...
Oct 16, 2022 53m not processed

Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)

Janna Bastow is a former product manager, and currently the CEO and co-founder of ProdPad. She also co-founded Mind the Product, a community for PMs, which h...
Oct 13, 2022 1h 5m not processed

How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)

Adam Fishman has decades of experience building and scaling some incredible businesses, like Lyft, Patreon, and Imperfect Foods. He is currently an Executive...
Oct 9, 2022 1h 4m not processed

Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier (Faire, Thumbtack, Reforge)

Dan Hockenmaier is an expert on marketplace strategy and growth. He was previously the Director of Growth at Thumbtack as well as a partner at Reforge, where...
Oct 2, 2022 56m not processed

Using behavioral science to improve your product | Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs)

Kristen Berman is the CEO and co-founder of Irrational Labs, where she helps companies like Google, Airbnb, PayPal, Microsoft, and LinkedIn improve their pro...
Sep 29, 2022 1h 6m not processed

Customer-led growth | Georgiana Laudi (Forget The Funnel)

Georgiana Laudi is the co-founder and CEO of a consulting agency called Forget The Funnel, where she helps SaaS companies scale and improve conversion rates ...
Sep 25, 2022 59m not processed

Growth tactics, retention strategies, and becoming a better writer | Julian Shapiro (Demand Curve, Hyper, Webflow, TechCrunch)

Julian Shapiro is widely known as the founder of Demand Curve, where he’s helped thousands of companies figure out their growth strategy. He also wrote the g...
Sep 18, 2022 1h 10m not processed

Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)

Jason Shah has led product teams at Amazon, Airbnb, Microsoft, and Yammer and currently leads the product team at Alchemy (one of the most important web3 inf...
Sep 15, 2022 1h 9m not processed

When and how to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)

Adam Grenier is the former Head of Growth Marketing and Innovation at Uber, where he helped build Uber’s growth infrastructure from the ground up. He is also...
Sep 11, 2022 1h 10m not processed

How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1)

Emily Kramer led and built the marketing teams at Asana, Carta, Ticketfly, and Astro (acquired by Slack). These days, she’s the co-founder of MKT1, where she...
Sep 4, 2022 1h 4m not processed

The role of AI in product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub, Copilot)

Ryan J. Salva is the VP of Product at GitHub, where he led the incubation and launch of Copilot. Copilot uses OpenAI’s ML engine to suggest code and entire f...
Sep 1, 2022 1h 8m not processed

How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)

Yuriy Timen was Global Head of Marketing and Growth at Grammarly, and is now a full-time growth advisor, having worked with more than a dozen companies, incl...
Aug 28, 2022 53m not processed

Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, Seth Godin, Section4)

Wes Kao has worked with Seth Godin (where she co-founded the altMBA and served as executive director), David Perell on his Write of Passage course, Professor...
Aug 21, 2022 59m not processed

The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group

What are common diseases of product teams, and how do you avoid them? Why should you focus less on problem discovery and more on solution discovery? How do ...
Aug 18, 2022 1h 22m not processed

The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, Marketer in Residence at First Round Capital)

What makes a great brand? After working at Google and Square, Arielle Jackson has spent the past eight years consulting startups on how to create powerful me...
Aug 14, 2022 1h 31m not processed

The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft

Shishir Mehrotra is the co-founder and CEO of Coda, and formerly head of product and engineering at YouTube. In this episode, he shares his insights on growt...
Aug 7, 2022 1h 9m not processed

How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund

Thousands of new products launch each year, but very few make it. Ryan Hoover has seen thousands of products launched over the course of his time running Pro...
Aug 4, 2022 1h 11m not processed

How to own your career growth and become a powerful product leader | Deb Liu, Ancestry (ex-Facebook, PayPal)

Do you put as much time into your career planning as you do into your product planning? Deb Liu has had an extraordinary career path, from Ebay and PayPal, t...
Jul 31, 2022 1h 3m not processed

How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu

You don’t need lots of employees to achieve impressive growth—but you do need a unique approach to hiring and structuring your team, and accurately measuring...
Jul 28, 2022 53m not processed

How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri

Every company wants to develop a winning strategy—but what are signs your strategy isn’t working, and how do you change course? Melissa Perri has worked trai...
Jul 24, 2022 1h 14m not processed

How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google

Advancing as a product leader requires new skills and a new mindset. Ken Norton is an executive coach who works with some of the top people in product to hel...
Jul 21, 2022 55m not processed

How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite

The people who rise fastest in product know how to sell their ideas to customers, and also to their coworkers. Casey Winters, the Chief Product Officer at Ev...
Jul 18, 2022 1h not processed

Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on translating vision into goals, operationalizing product quality, second-order decisions, brainstorming, influence, and much more

Nickey Skarstad is a Director of Product Management at Duolingo, where she is leading a stealth 0 → 1 product. Prior to Duolingo, she was VP of Product at Th...
Jul 14, 2022 1h 4m not processed

Manik Gupta (ex-CPO Uber, Google Maps) on how to build consumer apps, why it’s useful to be optimistic about technology, creating inflections in your PM career, the changing CPO role, and more

Manik Gupta has led two of the most successful consumer products in history—Google Maps, where he was Director of product for the Maps team, and Uber, where ...
Jul 11, 2022 59m not processed

Merci Grace (ex-Head of Growth at Slack) on PLG, interviewing, storytelling, building a diverse team, hiring salespeople, building a growth team, and much more

Merci Grace has been a founder, an investor (at Lightspeed Ventures), head of product and growth (at Slack), and is now a founder again (Panobi). She’s also ...
Jul 5, 2022 1h 1m not processed

Sanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the inside story of how Airbnb made it through Covid; what he’s learned from Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, and Kevin Systrom; much more

Sanchan Saxena is VP of Product at Coinbase. Before Coinbase, Sanchan was Head of Product and GM at Airbnb, founder and Head of Product of Instagram Shopping...
Jun 30, 2022 47m not processed

Teresa Torres on how to interview customers, automating continuous discovery, the opportunity solution tree framework, making the case for user research, common interviewing mistakes, and much more

Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable system for continuous discovery that helps...
Jun 27, 2022 49m not processed

Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid

Brandon Chu is VP of Product at Shopify, where he leads the app platform ecosystem, new initiatives group, and M&A investments. Brandon helped scale Shopify’...
Jun 23, 2022 59m not processed

Elena Verna on how B2B growth is changing, product-led growth, product-led sales, why you should go freemium not trial, what features to make free, and much more

Elena Verna has led growth at some of today’s most successful B2B businesses, including Miro as CMO, Surveymonkey as SVP of Growth, and now at Amplitude as i...
Jun 20, 2022 59m not processed

Gibson Biddle on his DHM product strategy framework, GEM roadmap prioritization framework, 5 Netflix strategy mini case studies, building a personal board of directors, and much more

Before getting into teaching full-time, Gibson Biddle was VP of Product at Netflix and CPO at Chegg (a textbook rental and homework help company). He now spe...
Jun 16, 2022 49m not processed

Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more

Jackie Bavaro is the author of the best-selling books Cracking the PM Interview and Cracking the PM Career. She was most recently at Asana, where she joined ...
Jun 13, 2022 1h 2m not processed

Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started angel investing, more

Gokul Rajaram serves on the executive team at DoorDash, where he leads the Caviar product line. Previously he worked at Square, where he was also on the exec...
Jun 9, 2022 1h not processed

April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process

April Dunford is the author of the best-selling book Obviously Awesome, a definitive guide to product positioning. She spent 25 years leading marketing, prod...
Jun 7, 2022 1h 16m not processed

Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking

Shreyas Doshi is a treasure trove of knowledge and tactical insights on product, strategy, psychology, leadership, and life. Over the course of his career, h...
Jun 7, 2022 1h 11m not processed

Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management

Julie Zhuo is the co-founder of Sundial, a company that helps builders make meaningful use of data to fulfill their mission. With over 400K followers across ...
Jun 5, 2022 3m not processed

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Welcome to the very first episode of Lenny’s Podcast!Every week, Lenny Rachitsky will interview world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover con...
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