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.
The conversation centers on the transformative impact of AI across various sectors, with Marc Andreessen as the guest. He argues that AI's development coincides with critical global needs, such as declining population growth and slow economic progress. Andreessen envisions AI as a tool for individual empowerment, enabl...
Jason Cohen, a four-time founder, outlines a framework for addressing stalled product growth. He emphasizes that customer churn is the most critical factor, requiring a deep understanding of why customers leave, beyond superficial reasons like pricing. Cohen suggests calculating the "maximum customer size" based on chu...
This interview features Zevi Arnovitz, a PM at Meta with no formal technical background, who shares his innovative workflow for building real products using AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code. Arnovitz emphasizes the importance of AI as a tool for empowerment, particularly for non-technical individuals, and details h...
The podcast explores the importance of etiquette for founders and professionals, particularly in building trust and projecting confidence. Sam Lessin, partner at Slow Ventures and former VP of Product at Facebook, argues that mastering etiquette can provide a competitive edge. He emphasizes the need to approach social ...
Building AI products differs significantly from traditional software development due to non-determinism and the agency-control trade-off. Companies should adopt a "problem-first" approach, beginning with minimal autonomy and gradually increasing AI agency while decreasing human control to calibrate behavior effectively...
Molly Graham, a leader known for advising high-growth companies, shares frameworks for navigating rapid scale. She emphasizes "giving away your Legos"—releasing responsibilities to embrace new challenges—and introduces "Bob," a metaphor for managing the negative emotions accompanying change, recommending a two-week buf...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Lenny Rachitsky interviews Jason Lemkin, founder and CEO of SaaStr, about the transformative impact of AI on sales and go-to-market strategies. Jason shares his experience of shifting the SaaStr sales team to primarily AI agents, discusses the changing roles of sales professionals, a...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Lenny Rachitsky interviews Matt MacInnis, Chief Product Officer at Rippling, about achieving extraordinary results through extraordinary efforts. MacInnis shares his management philosophies, including the importance of understaffing projects, escalating issues, and maintaining intens...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, host Lenny Rachitsky interviews Sander Schulhoff, an AI security researcher, about the significant security vulnerabilities in current AI systems. Schulhoff argues that AI guardrails are ineffective against prompt injection and jailbreaking attacks, emphasizing that the industry's re...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Elena Verna, Head of Growth at Lovable, discusses the unique growth strategies employed by AI companies, highlighting how traditional growth playbooks no longer fully apply. Elena shares Lovable's impressive growth stats, reaching $200 million ARR in under a year with a small team, a...
In this interview, Lenny Rachitsky speaks with Alexander Embiricos, product lead for Codex at OpenAI, about the development and future of Codex, OpenAI's coding agent. Embiricos describes Codex as an AI teammate for software engineers, emphasizing its potential for proactivity and integration into the software developm...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Lenny Rachitsky interviews Edwin Chen, founder and CEO of Surge AI, about Surge's extraordinary success as a bootstrapped AI data company that hit $1 billion in revenue in under four years with a small team. Edwin shares his contrarian views on building a company, emphasizing the imp...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Tomer Cohen, Chief Product Officer at LinkedIn, discusses the "Full Stack Builder" model, a new approach to product development that leverages AI to empower individuals across different functions to take products from idea to launch. Cohen explains the necessity for this model due to...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Lenny interviews Jeanne Grosser, COO at Vercel and former CPO at Stripe, about go-to-market strategies. Jeanne defines go-to-market as any function touching a customer or making revenue, including marketing, sales, customer success, and support. She discusses the rise of the go-to-ma...
In this interview-style podcast, Lenny interviews Rachel Lockett, an executive coach, about leadership, burnout, and team dynamics. Lockett shares insights on coaching versus advising, active listening, and asking powerful questions using the GROW model. She emphasizes the importance of aligning work with personal stre...
In this interview, Stewart Butterfield, founder of Flickr and Slack, discusses product and leadership wisdom, including utility curves, the "owner's delusion," and hyper-realistic work-like activities. He emphasizes the importance of creating value for customers, focusing on comprehension over friction in product desig...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Lenny interviews Dr. Fei-Fei Li, often called the "godmother of AI," about the history, present, and future of artificial intelligence. Dr. Li discusses the early days of AI, the "AI winter," and her work creating ImageNet, which helped spark the current AI revolution. She emphasizes...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Grant Lee, CEO and co-founder of Gamma, shares the story of building his AI-powered presentation and website design tool to over $100M ARR and a $2B valuation, despite initial investor skepticism. Grant discusses finding product-market fit by focusing on a magical onboarding experien...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, host Lenny Rachitsky interviews Jen Abel, co-founder of Jellyfish and GM of Enterprise at State Affairs, about strategies for scaling enterprise sales from $1M to $10M ARR. Jen shares counterintuitive advice, such as targeting Tier 1 logos early, pricing deals around $100K, and focus...
In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Lenny interviews Melanie Perkins, the CEO and co-founder of Canva, about her journey building the company. Melanie shares insights into Canva's "column B thinking," which involves envisioning a desired future and working backward to create it, and the importance of setting "crazy big...
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