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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky
Product Management
Product Development
Leadership
Artificial Intelligence
Entrepreneurship
Openai
AI Tools
User Experience
Innovation
Public Speaking
Product Market Fit
Productivity
Company Culture
Chatgpt
Software Engineering
Airbnb
Atlassian
Facebook
Technology
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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Molly Graham is back for round two, and this one is even more powerful. Molly has spent more than 20 years helping organizations and the humans inside them navigate growth and change. She’s held leadership roles at Google, Facebook, Quip, and the Cha... more

Peter Sellis was the first product manager at Snapchat, where he spent seven years building one of the most beloved consumer products in history. He went on to serve as Head of Product at Discord, where he helped drive some of the fastest user growth... more

Roman Ugarte helped incubate and build Grok Bot, the popular new knowledge-work agent from SpaceXAI. A small, isolated team took it from first line of code to a working internal product in four weeks, and to a hugely successful public launch just thr... more

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Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has focused on consumer investing. Anish is one of the most insightful, thought-provoking, and in-the-weeds product investors I’ve met, and this conversation will get your min... more

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Recent Guests

Peter Sellis
Former head of product at Discord and first PM at Snapchat
Snapchat; Discord
Episode: 90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis
Roman Ugarte
Product lead for Grok Bot
SpaceXAI
Episode: How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Anish Acharya
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) focusing on consumer investing
a16z
Episode: Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
Tara Seshan
Leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI
OpenAI
Episode: AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)
Ian Silber
Head of Product Design at OpenAI
OpenAI
Episode: OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber
Adam Ward
Head of Talent at Cursor, former global recruiting leader at Pinterest and Facebook
Cursor
Episode: The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
Tom Verrilli
Chief Product Officer at Whatnot; former CPO at Twitch; former Director of Product Growth at Twitter
Whatnot
Episode: This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
Dianne Penn
Head of Product for the AI Research and Labs Teams at Anthropic
Anthropic
Episode: Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn
Elizabeth Stone
Product and Technology Officer at Netflix
Netflix
Episode: Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)

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Lenny
Host of the show, guiding the interview and discussion.

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 8.2k ratings
  • Good guests; mighty superficial

    This podcast seems like a vanity stage, where known guests are invited to aggrandize themselves. Lenny doesn’t ask any controversial questions, doesn’t push back on anything; he exists there just to soft-ball questions to his interviewees and utter “Amazing” at least once per answers.

    That interesting information surfaces from this podcast is despite Lenny’s efforts.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    PhilipMat
    United States21 days ago
  • Data center locations

    This is an excellent podcast for practical tips. Highly recommend.

    Lenny, can data centers be located away from cities? People do not want the noise and air pollution from generators. People do not want to compete for electricity and water.

    Why can’t data centers be built out in the desert? Why can’t we place them in land that is unusable for neighborhoods? Let’s put data centers out in the middle of nowhere.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    BGDem
    United Statesa month ago
  • Not living in the future

    Some good episodes, but way overcommitted to the AI hype train, and doesn’t challenge his guests. I’ve heard “you are living the future” too many times now.

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    👾 Andrés 👾
    Australia2 months ago
  • An operator's masterclass, twenty minutes at a time

    Lenny does the homework, gets out of the way, and pulls answers you can apply Monday morning instead of rehearsed highlight reels. His conversations have directly sharpened how I run my leadership team and, honestly, inspired me to get back behind a mic myself. If you build companies for a living, this is the best return on time you'll find.

    I've founded three companies, exited four times, and now run operations at a SaaS company, and I still walk away from almost every episode with something I... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    jaminbrazil
    United States2 months ago
  • Buzzwords and click bait

    Can’t really take any more references to “AI-pilled” guests. Gone the way of click bait.

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    NervousTickMotionOfTheHeadToTheLeft
    United States3 months ago

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Episodes are consistently actionable for product leaders and founders.
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90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis
Q: Why is collaboration sometimes a costly bottleneck, and how should leaders think about it?
He argues that collaboration creates coordination costs that slow progress, and suggests setting up teams with clear, autonomous roles and fast decision rights to maintain pace without sacrificing alignment.
90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis
Q: What are some counterintuitive lessons you've learned that go against common startup wisdom?
Sellis discusses prioritizing the best performers and pushing them to extreme accountability, arguing that nurturing star performers and making tough calls on underperformers can drive faster, more decisive progress than trying to elevate everyone equally.
Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn
Q: How do evals differ from PRDs in guiding product development at Anthropic?
Evals focus on real user feedback and measurable outcomes, serving as the primary mechanism to validate user value; PRDs remain useful for well-defined, broader problems where alignment and shared goals across large teams are crucial, but the day-to-day product decisions increasingly hinge on eval-driven findings.
Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity
Q: What have you learned from past big design changes at Instagram and how do you handle backlash?
Backlash is part of the process; the key is to communicate clearly about trade-offs, explain the rationale, and iterate thoughtfully to avoid repeating mistakes, while maintaining progress and relevance of the platform.
Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity
Q: How do you think about the balance between AI content and creator-driven content on Instagram?
A tailwind for Instagram is expected as people seek authenticity and individual creators, but the platform will still curate and rank content to ensure quality and trust. Transparency around AI usage and emphasis on the person behind the content remain important.

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Thoughtful, high-signal conversations with world-class product leaders and AI-focused practitioners. Episodes mix pragmatic product strategy, design leadership, talent acquisition, and enterprise go-to-market with a strong emphasis on AI-enabled workflows, rapid prototyping, and scalable teams. A notable throughline is how AI tools and large language models reshape product roles, leadership, and organizational culture, often pairing actionable playbooks with candid industry insights. The show frequently features hands-on frameworks for product discovery, growth, and hiring at scale, making it a go-to for listeners building or leading product organizations in tech, startups, and large platforms. A standout trait is the ability to blend star-... more

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1. Peter Sellis
2. Roman Ugarte
3. Anish Acharya
4. Tara Seshan
5. Ian Silber
6. Adam Ward
7. Tom Verrilli
8. Dianne Penn

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