Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
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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341 episodes
Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel
Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and CEO of Snap, is one of the very few people in the world who has successfully built and scaled a lasting consumer soci...
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
Cat Wu is Head of Product for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, building one of the most important AI products of this generation. Before joining A...
Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
Nikhyl Singhal is the founder of The Skip, a community for senior product leaders; a former product exec at Meta, Google, and Credit Karma; and a many...
Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)
Keith Rabois was an early executive at PayPal (part of the famous PayPal Mafia), COO at Square, VP of Corporate Development at LinkedIn, and an early...
Anthropic’s $1B to $19B growth run: how Claude became the fastest-growing AI product in history | Amol Avasare
Amol Avasare is Head of Growth at Anthropic, which is going through the most unprecedented growth trajectory in history—scaling from $1 billion to ove...
An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison
Simon Willison is a prolific independent software developer, a blogger, and one of the most visible and trusted voices on the impact AI is having on b...
From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo
Claire Vo is the host of our sister podcast, “How I AI,” a former product executive and engineer, and founder of an AI startup called ChatPRD. Claire...
The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)
Jessica Fain is a product leader at Webflow and former Chief of Staff to the CPO at Slack, where she worked alongside April Underwood and many past po...
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 wor...
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 ne...
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, an...
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....
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 A...
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...
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.
“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 ag...
Getting paid to vibe code: Inside the 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 A...
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 f...
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 t...
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...
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 engineer...
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...
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
Aishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam have helped build and launch more than 50 enterprise AI products across companies like OpenAI, Google, Amazo...
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....
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 mil...
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.
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...
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 wit...
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...
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, environ...
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...
The future of AI-powered sales with Vercel COO, Jeanne DeWitt
Jeanne DeWitt Grosser built world-class GTM teams at Stripe, Google, and, most recently, Vercel, where she serves as COO and oversees marketing, sales...
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 e...
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...
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 ImageNe...
“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 n...
"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 on...
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...
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. U...
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...