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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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The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack)

17 Mar 2024
1h 9m
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This podcast episode discusses various aspects of career success, emphasizing the importance of authenticity, focus, resilience, and adaptability. The guest speakers share their personal experiences and insights on navigating careers, building relationships, prioritizing business goals, and diversifying growth channels...

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Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)

10 Mar 2024
1h 25m
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This podcast episode explores the challenges and trends in product management and leadership. It highlights the factors driving product management theater and leadership theater, emphasizing the need for a focus on outcomes rather than processes. The episode discusses the differences between feature teams and product t...

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Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)

07 Mar 2024
1h 12m
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This podcast episode delves into the secrets behind TikTok's meteoric rise across various markets worldwide, highlighting the importance of understanding local cultures and adapting products accordingly. The culture of TikTok, with its emphasis on context, collaboration, and ownership, has been instrumental in its succ...

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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

03 Mar 2024
1h 42m
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This podcast episode discusses various aspects of leadership and professional development, including the importance of mentorship, seeking help, and effective communication. It also explores Meta's culture of transparency and the debate over the level of involvement that founders and executives should have in the detai...

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How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw (author of The Leader’s Journey)

25 Feb 2024
1h 27m
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This podcast episode explores the power of storytelling, self-awareness, and self-leadership in effective leadership, emphasizing the need for genuine connection, listening, and embracing diversity. It delves into the functional side of imposter syndrome and kryptonite, encouraging individuals to leverage their superpo...

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How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)

22 Feb 2024
1h 13m
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This podcast episode features Elizabeth, the CTO of Netflix, who holds a Ph.D. in economics and discusses her unique perspective and contributions in the tech industry. She highlights the importance of context switching, learning, and navigating complex problem spaces. Elizabeth emphasizes the advantages of having econ...

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Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)

18 Feb 2024
2h 1m
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This podcast delves into the multifaceted world of sales for startups, exploring key aspects such as hiring the right sales reps and VPs of Sales, setting up effective compensation plans, and fostering alignment between sales and product teams. It emphasizes the importance of tailored strategies for different stages of...

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Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (authors of Sprint and Make Time, co-founders of Character Capital)

11 Feb 2024
1h 35m
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This podcast episode focuses on a unique approach to productivity, challenging conventional efficiency-focused advice and emphasizing the need to change defaults and prioritize tasks truly matter. It introduces the "Make Time" framework, which includes identifying highlights, structuring the day, and managing distracti...

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Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)

08 Feb 2024
1h 8m
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This podcast episode explores the experiences of OpenAI employees during a period of change, the potential of AI tools in enhancing business efficiency, the use of GPTs for planning and prompt engineering, the importance of providing context to AI models, the benefits and capabilities of Custom prompts, the unique appr...

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Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira)

04 Feb 2024
1h 21m
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This podcast episode explores various strategies implemented by Atlassian, such as Fight Club, peer feedback, and six-monthly on-site events, to foster a culture of collaboration and innovation in product development. It also discusses challenges and strategies for effective remote work, including dedicated time for de...

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Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)

28 Jan 2024
1h 14m
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This podcast episode comprehensively explores the significance of breathwork, interoception, and somatic practices in managing anxiety, stress, and emotional well-being. The discussion emphasizes the connection between the body and mind and provides various techniques to calm and energize the body, release emotional de...

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Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market

25 Jan 2024
1h 24m
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This podcast episode unfolds the intricate journey of an early-stage technology business as it navigates market adoption and revenue growth. The discussion explores the pain points and challenges faced by startups while defining their target audience, securing marquee customers, and dealing with the chasm between visio...

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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt

21 Jan 2024
1h 49m
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This podcast episode explores the essence of strategy, emphasizing the importance of diagnosis, focus, and power in formulating and implementing effective strategies. It delves into various aspects, including recognizing and avoiding bad strategies, leveraging network effects, learning from historical analogies, and ad...

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The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (author of Dynamic Reteaming)

18 Jan 2024
1h 10m
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This podcast episode delves into the dynamics of reteaming, the concept of involving employees in reorgs, and the patterns of team changes within organizations. It emphasizes the importance of embracing change, recognizing opportunities, maintaining transparency, and focusing on the people layer to effectively navigate...

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Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)

14 Jan 2024
1h 21m
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This podcast episode focuses on the "magic loop," a five-step strategy for career growth that involves setting goals, discussing them with managers, and working together to achieve them. It also highlights the importance of taking ownership of one's career, building relationships with managers, and demonstrating invent...

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How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)

11 Jan 2024
1h 27m
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This podcast episode emphasizes the significance of optimism, risk-taking, and embracing failure in driving innovation. It highlights the importance of understanding user value, experimenting with new technologies, and being persistent in pursuing ideas. The speakers also discuss the transformative potential of generat...

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The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

07 Jan 2024
1h 16m
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This podcast covers a wide range of topics, including the changing dynamics between engineers and companies, the importance of systems thinking, the art of writing, and the challenges of measuring engineering productivity. The takeaways focus on the importance of treating engineers as peers, using systems thinking to u...

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The UX research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)

04 Jan 2024
1h 14m
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This podcast episode delves into the complex world of user research, highlighting its challenges and proposing strategies to maximize its impact on product development. It emphasizes the need for researchers to adopt a more comprehensive approach, integrating insights from various disciplines, developing diverse skills...

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Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)

29 Dec 2023
1h 24m
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This podcast explores the concepts of distraction vs traction, and offers strategies for improving personal productivity. The speaker identifies internal triggers as the main cause of distraction and provides four key steps to overcoming them, including mastering internal triggers, making time for traction, hacking bac...

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The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)

27 Dec 2023
1h 50m
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Retention is key for consumer products, particularly social platforms, as it generates growth and makes them self-perpetuating. To achieve retention, it's crucial to create engaging UX loops, refine core actions based on data analysis and strive for a minimum viable happiness that ensures customer satisfaction. Once a ...

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