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Lenny Rachitsky · Business

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth (private feed for [email protected])

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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OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux

04 Oct 2026
37m
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Autonomous AI agents are poised to become the primary interface for internet activity, fundamentally shifting work from manual, screen-bound tasks to persistent, goal-oriented systems. Tibo Sottiaux, a key figure at OpenAI, highlights the development of "Dots," an AI system designed to learn individual preferences and ...

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The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham

27 Sep 2026
1h 34m
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The "Give Away Your Legos" career framework, which emphasizes delegating responsibilities to scale, requires significant nuance in an AI-driven landscape. While the core principle of evolving alongside rapid change remains valid, delegating to AI differs from delegating to humans because it retains the burden of oversi...

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

20 Sep 2026
1h 36m
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Product management requires a shift toward high-ambition, "long-term greedy" strategies that prioritize core product value over excessive collaboration. Peter Sellis, former product leader at Snapchat and Discord, advocates for designing teams with clear ideological cultures and defined decision-making structures, like...

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

08 Sep 2026
1h 22m
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GrokBot represents a shift in AI product design by treating agents as autonomous, long-lived colleagues rather than simple chat interfaces. By providing each agent with its own cloud-based computer, the product enables users to delegate complex, multi-step tasks—such as sourcing talent or managing sales workflows—witho...

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

06 Sep 2026
1h 19m
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AI is not creating a permanent underclass; rather, it is amplifying human agency and ambition by unbundling skill from desire. Anish Acharya, a general partner at A16Z, argues that the most effective organizations are shifting toward "loop-based" structures where AI agents handle routine execution, allowing humans to f...

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

30 Aug 2026
1h 21m
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How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel

23 Aug 2026
1h 24m
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Enterprise sales success relies on a rigorous, 15-step process rather than the traditional five-step CRM pipeline. Securing the first meeting requires targeting the C-suite or N-1 level with a concise, value-driven pitch that highlights "alpha"—the specific, transformative advantage a product provides. The initial 30-m...

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

16 Aug 2026
1h 12m
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The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor

09 Aug 2026
1h 30m
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This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

02 Aug 2026
1h 24m
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Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

26 Jul 2026
1h 33m
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Product management in the AI era requires shifting from static documentation to dynamic, test-driven development where "evals" serve as the new PRDs. Dianne Penn, Head of Product for Anthropic’s research and labs, emphasizes that building frontier models necessitates hands-on experimentation and "sweating the tokens" t...

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

19 Jul 2026
1h 12m
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How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

12 Jul 2026
1h 36m
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The second annual tech worker sentiment survey reveals a deeply bifurcated industry where AI is fundamentally altering professional identity, burnout levels, and career trajectories for 6,000 tech employees. Half of the workforce feels energized and amplified by new tools, while the other half reports feeling destabili...

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Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity

09 Jul 2026
1h 8m
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OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino

28 Jun 2026
1h 9m
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What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)

21 Jun 2026
1h 38m
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The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)

14 Jun 2026
1h 39m
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Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

07 Jun 2026
1h 35m
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A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans

31 May 2026
1h 19m
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Artificial intelligence represents a fundamental technological shift comparable to the internet or mobile, yet it remains in an early, experimental phase analogous to 1997. While fears of a "jobpocalypse" persist, historical precedent suggests that automation consistently unlocks new, unforeseen employment opportunitie...

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

24 May 2026
1h 34m
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