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

How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano

An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)

Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)

Large language models function as complex, "grown" systems rather than traditionally programmed software, necessitating interpretability research to decode their inscrutable internal mathematical operations. By analyzing intermediate activations, researchers uncover how models develop generalizable concepts—such as geo...

Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)

Every company must adopt a "labs" mindset to remain competitive as AI capabilities evolve rapidly. This operational shift requires teams to maintain independence from existing business units, allowing them to experiment at the technological frontier. Rather than relying on scheduled design sprints, innovation stems fro...

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity

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

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