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Lenny's Podcast · Business

Lenny's Podcast

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.

Episodes

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

19 Jan 2025
1h 35m
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Elena Verna, a B2B growth expert, shares ten growth strategies and tactics that commonly fail despite continued investment. These include prematurely hiring a head of growth before achieving product-market fit, expecting growth teams to reverse business slowdowns rooted in core product issues, and redesigning marketing...

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Crafting A Compelling Product Vision (Ebi Atawodi) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

18 Jan 2025
22m
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How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor)

16 Jan 2025
1h 12m
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The podcast explores how to live a more intentional life by escaping "autopilot mode." Graham Weaver, a Stanford business school professor and private equity CEO, shares frameworks to help people identify their passions and overcome limiting beliefs. One key exercise involves envisioning a genie granting a wish for gua...

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How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more

12 Jan 2025
1h 19m
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Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)

09 Jan 2025
1h 47m
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In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, host Lenny interviews Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox, about the company's 18-year journey. Houston describes Dropbox's early viral growth, the challenges of competing with tech giants like Apple and Google, and the strategic shifts the company underwent, including focusing on p...

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Scripts for navigating difficult conversations | Alisa Cohn (executive coach)

05 Jan 2025
1h 23m
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Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure, autonomy, trust, and more

02 Jan 2025
56m
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Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO at Confluent)

29 Dec 2024
1h 21m
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Behind the founder: Marc Benioff

22 Dec 2024
57m
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How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)

19 Dec 2024
1h 40m
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Organizational intensity and velocity at scale depend on prioritizing high-output work cadences over mere hours logged. Maintaining a "crafter’s paradise" requires engineering practices like pair programming and aggressive code deletion, which keep systems simple and resilient. Choosing the "hard path" in decision-maki...

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

15 Dec 2024
1h 28m
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In this podcast episode, we explore the incredible success of Duolingo's Streaks feature, a straightforward daily lesson tracking system that has played a key role in boosting the company's valuation to $14 billion. The conversation focuses on the development of Streaks, featuring insights from over 600 A/B tests condu...

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How To Win Friends & Influence Decisions (Julie Zhuo) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

12 Dec 2024
30m
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Making and Leading Products People Love (Scott Belsky) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

11 Dec 2024
26m
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Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more

08 Dec 2024
45m
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Building effective strategy and brand identity requires deep empathy, clear promises, and a precise understanding of the systems in which products operate. Seth Godin, a veteran marketer and author, emphasizes that good taste involves anticipating user needs before they are articulated, while high standards require rel...

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

05 Dec 2024
1h 34m
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Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)

01 Dec 2024
1h 29m
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The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)

24 Nov 2024
1h 16m
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Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

21 Nov 2024
1h 4m
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How To Do The Product Review Right (By Doing It Wrong) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

20 Nov 2024
26m
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Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)

17 Nov 2024
1h 5m
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Wiz achieved unprecedented growth by hitting $100 million in ARR within 18 months of founding, largely due to a strategic pivot from network security to cloud security. Raaz Herzberg, Wiz’s CMO and VP of Product Strategy, emphasizes that early-stage success depends on identifying genuine customer "pull"—where prospects...

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