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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
by Lenny Rachitsky · English
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 grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamHow “give away your Legos” (Molly Graham’s career advice about delegating projects/ownership during growth) applies in the AI era—arguing that change is still hard, but the old “make yourself…27 Sep 2026 · 1 h 34 min
90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter SellisPeter Sellis (ex-Snap and Discord product chief) gives “unfiltered” product leadership advice, arguing for founder-like decision-making, high-autonomy team design, and a contrarian view that most…20 Sep 2026 · 1 h 37 min
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)How SpaceXAI’s GrokBot was built in ~1 month and launched ~3 weeks later, focusing on “colleague-pilled” knowledge work agents: cloud-first, long-lived bots with their own computers, minimal…8 Sep 2026 · 1 h 23 min
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The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamHow “give away your Legos” (Molly Graham’s career advice about delegating projects/ownership during growth) applies in the AI era—arguing that change is still hard, but the old “make yourself…27 Sep 2026 · 1 h 34 min · 38 chapters
90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter SellisPeter Sellis (ex-Snap and Discord product chief) gives “unfiltered” product leadership advice, arguing for founder-like decision-making, high-autonomy team design, and a contrarian view that most…20 Sep 2026 · 1 h 37 min · 37 chapters
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)How SpaceXAI’s GrokBot was built in ~1 month and launched ~3 weeks later, focusing on “colleague-pilled” knowledge work agents: cloud-first, long-lived bots with their own computers, minimal…8 Sep 2026 · 1 h 23 min · 33 chapters
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)Anish Acharya argues AI fears about a “permanent underclass” are mostly a dark fantasy; AI progress is likely slow-takeoff, diffusion is gradual, and many problems aren’t purely intelligence-bound.6 Sep 2026 · 1 h 19 min · 36 chapters
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)The “third era” of AI products—moving from chat to agentic work to persistent AI coworkers that can run long tasks with you.30 Aug 2026 · 1 h 22 min · 33 chapters
How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen AbelA step-by-step playbook for closing $100K+ enterprise deals, walking through the enterprise sales lifecycle (about 15 steps) with a focus on “alpha” (executive-relevant information edge) rather than…23 Aug 2026 · 1 h 25 min · 27 chapters
OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian SilberIan Silber, Head of Product Design at OpenAI, discusses why designers feel unusually unhappy amid AI-driven change, and argues this is the “best time in history” to be a designer.16 Aug 2026 · 1 h 12 min · 28 chapters
The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at CursorHow to build “high talent density” teams by avoiding the “funnel of doom” (remainder-based hiring) and instead treating hiring like executive recruiting: define “top 1%,” map the top ~50 candidates,…9 Aug 2026 · 1 h 31 min · 36 chapters
This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)Tom Verrilli argues that product management should be a specialist function, not a default layer in every team.2 Aug 2026 · 1 h 25 min · 34 chapters
Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne PennAnthropic’s product-and-research evolution, how token “maxing”/experimentation changes product management, and how Labs and research teams turn user feedback into model improvements.26 Jul 2026 · 1 h 34 min · 35 chapters
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)How GenAI is reshaping product, engineering, design, and data science roles at Netflix—moving teams faster via prototyping, AI-assisted analysis, and “paved paths,” while preserving craft excellence,…19 Jul 2026 · 1 h 12 min · 32 chapters
How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)A 2026 “tech worker AI sentiment survey” (about 6,000 respondents) on how AI is affecting burnout, optimism, layoffs, productivity/quality, and professional identity.12 Jul 2026 · 1 h 36 min · 32 chapters
Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticityAdam Mosseri (Instagram head) discusses how AI will change product development at Meta/Instagram, how Instagram’s recommender systems work (including “your algorithm” agency), and why AI content is…9 Jul 2026 · 1 h 8 min · 23 chapters
OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew AmbrosinoHow OpenAI’s Codex app is changing product work—shifting effort from implementation to “taste” and curation, and reshaping product teams toward agentic, overlapping roles.28 Jun 2026 · 1 h 10 min · 25 chapters
What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)How AI has transformed software engineering at Anthropic—coding throughput is no longer the bottleneck—so teams must focus on verification, quality, accountability, and higher-level management…21 Jun 2026 · 1 h 39 min · 36 chapters
The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)Mark Pincus (Zynga founder) explains his “Proven Better New” product-idea framework and related principles: instincts vs ideas, copying “proven” patterns to reduce risk, staying humble to find…14 Jun 2026 · 1 h 39 min · 32 chapters
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony FadellTony Fadell (Father of the iPod and iPhone) discusses how to build taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era—arguing for human-led decision-making, starting from customer pain, and treating…7 Jun 2026 · 1 h 35 min · 31 chapters
A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict EvansAI’s near-term impact is being misunderstood; it’s as transformative as the internet/mobile, but adoption is uneven and enterprise change takes years.31 May 2026 · 1 h 20 min · 34 chapters
The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan ShipperThe “AI paradox” Dan Shipper argues against an AI jobpocalypse: more automation increases the amount and complexity of human work.24 May 2026 · 1 h 34 min · 40 chapters
Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)The “AI hardware boom” and why the next frontier after software saturation is the physical world—robotics, drones, manufacturing, and AR glasses—plus the real engineering and supply-chain constraints…17 May 2026 · 1 h 39 min · 40 chapters
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup authorEric Ries argues that “corruption” in companies is structural, not just ethical failure: success creates incentives and governance dynamics that can strip founders of control and push firms toward…10 May 2026 · 1 h 39 min · 40 chapters
Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)How “agency” (the ability to change your environment) matters more than raw skills in the AI era; how AI shifts product work toward faster prototyping, code-thinking, and malleable software; and why…3 May 2026 · 1 h 27 min · 38 chapters
Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelEvan Spiegel explains why distribution—not just product-market fit—is the hardest moat for consumer social apps, and how Snap builds durable advantages through ecosystems, platform thinking, and…26 Apr 2026 · 1 h 10 min · 29 chapters
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)How Anthropic’s product team (especially for Cloud Code and Co-work) ships AI-native features extremely fast, and what PM skills and processes are changing as model capabilities accelerate.23 Apr 2026 · 1 h 26 min · 37 chapters