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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky
Product Management
Product Development
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Artificial Intelligence
Openai
AI Tools
Airbnb
User Experience
Innovation
Public Speaking
Technology
Product Market Fit
Productivity
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Atlassian
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Chatgpt
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Product-Market Fit

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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Mark Pincus founded Zynga—the company behind Words With Friends, FarmVille, and Zynga Poker—and has arguably created more hit consumer products than anyone in history. At Zynga, eight of 10 major game launches became massive hits, reaching over a bil... more

Tony Fadell created the iPod, co-created the iPhone, and founded Nest (which he sold to Google for $3.2 billion). He’s co-authored over 300 patents, was part of the legendary team at General Magic, and wrote one of the most important and inspiring bo... more

Benedict Evans is an independent analyst and former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he spent years as their in-house “thinker” tracking the most important technology trends. For the past six years, he’s been publishing deeply researched present... more

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Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a media and software company that’s become a living laboratory for the future of work. Everyone at his company of about 30 people is an AI early adopter; from editors to ops people, they use AI to do mu... more

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Recent Guests

Mark Pincus
Founder of Zynga
Zynga
Episode: The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)
Tony Fadell
Entrepreneur, designer, inventor; co-creator of iPod/iPhone/Nest
Build Collective; former Apple executive
Episode: Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell
Benedict Evans
Tech analyst, former partner at Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) and longtime observer of AI and tech trends
Independent analyst / former A16Z analyst
Episode: A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans
Dan Shipper
CEO and Founder of Every
Every
Episode: The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper
Caitlin Kalinowski
Hardware leader with experience at Apple, Meta, OpenAI
Former Apple/Meta/OpenAI hardware leader
Episode: Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
Eric Ries
Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible
Author
Episode: How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author
Max Schoening
Head of Product at Notion; former product leader at Google, Heroku, and GitHub
Notion
Episode: Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)
Evan Spiegel
CEO and co-founder of Snap
Snap Inc.
Episode: Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel
Cat Wu
Head of Product for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic
Anthropic
Episode: How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)

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Lenny
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4.9 out of 5 stars from 8k ratings
  • Add video version

    Now that apple music supports video, it would be great if you publish videos here too.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    MHTB32
    United States2 months ago
  • Game-changing pod!

    I’m a Head of Product and this podcast is the best source of content I’ve come across in the last year. Insightful conversations, great Qs from Lenny, fantastic guests. This pod has genuinely transformed the way I work through intro’ing me to AI workflows. If you are interested in product / software and how to prepare yourself for the future of our industry: listen, listen, listen!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Paul Cruch
    United Kingdom3 months ago
  • So good

    Best product school

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    kimberely shoe
    United States3 months ago
  • Everyone can learn from this podcast!

    This is one podcast that I never miss an episode of. Lenny is a master at interviewing and has some of the best minds on his podcast. Highly recommend this for everyone. No notes! Thanks Lenny ❤️

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Crossta
    Canada3 months ago
  • Best podcast of the show

    Podcast Addict
    5
    cukrus
    3 months ago

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Overall high quality and practical takeaways for product folks.
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Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
Q: What are the biggest challenges in hardware right now and how should teams think about them?
Key challenges include supply chain reliability, memory and silicon availability, actuators, and the need to plan upfront goals and stay disciplined about changes. She emphasizes prototyping with off-the-shelf parts initially, prioritizing hardest components first, and designing for mass production from the start.
Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
Q: Where do you think things go in terms of future hardware—are AR glasses or something else the future?
Caitlin argues that AR glasses are part of the future but stresses that the path includes a broader shift through autonomous systems, robotics, and manufacturing, with emphasis on solving practical constraints like input methods, safety, and cost. She believes the field will require diverse robot types for different tasks rather than a single generic humanoid.
Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare
Q: Can you share how your Growth team is structured and how you manage the balance between small bets and big bets?
The Growth org is organized into horizontals (Growth Platform, Monetization) and audience-focused pods (B2B Growth, CodeCode Growth, Knowledge Worker Growth, API Growth). They allocate roughly 70% to large swings and 30% to smaller optimizations, driven by the exponential value of AI-enabled product capabilities and the need to diffuse that value across users.
Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare
Q: What does activation look like in an AI-first product, and how have you approached onboarding to improve it?
Activation is defined as day zero/day one product experience. They focused on improving onboarding quality (as Mercury did) to lift activation; they also leverage data to tailor recommendations and reduce friction where it adds value, while maintaining necessary steps to help users understand the product's relevance.
The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis
Q: What advice do you have for founders who aren't seeing traction early and feel pressure to hype their company publicly?
Good companies tend to gain traction early and sustain it over a decade by ensuring the foundation—co-founders, market, phase—fits the product and customer needs; if early signals are not informing a clear path, consider a hard reset or reorientation rather than forcing premature success.

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A practical, high-signal interview show featuring world-class product leaders, growth experts, and AI/product practitioners. Episodes consistently explore how to build, ship, and scale products in an AI-enabled landscape, with deep dives into organization design, product strategy, growth mechanics, and governance. Guests range from hardware leaders and platform founders to investor operators, often sharing actionable frameworks, real-world case studies, and tactical playbooks for product management, growth, and leadership. A standout trait is the focus on concrete methods—whether deploying AI agents at work, structuring teams for speed, or shaping influence with executives—delivered through thoughtful questioning and useful takeaways for pr... more

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6. Eric Ries
7. Max Schoening
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