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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky
Product Management
Leadership
Product Development
Artificial Intelligence
Entrepreneurship
Openai
AI Tools
User Experience
Public Speaking
Product Market Fit
Product-Market Fit
Chatgpt
Software Engineering
Company Culture
Airbnb
Atlassian
Facebook
Innovation
Growth Strategies
Women In Tech

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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Hector Serrano runs one of the most innovative and successful paid growth programs in Silicon Valley. As Head of Content at Wispr Flow, a leading AI voice-to-text tool, he built a roster of 50 creators who drive 500 to 600 paid user-generated content... more

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Rob Snyder is the author of The Power of Pull and writes the newsletter The Physics of Startups. He has advised more than 50 startups on growing from zero to $1 million in ARR, drawing on his own experience as a founder who spent two years pushing a ... more

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Emmanuel Ameisen is an interpretability researcher at Anthropic, where he looks inside LLMs like Claude to understand how they think. Before joining Anthropic, he spent years in applied ML at Stripe and Insight, and is the author of Building Machine ... more

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Josh Woodward is the head of Google Labs, the Gemini app, and AI Studio. He has spent over 17 years at Google and oversees its longest-running and largest labs team, whose products include NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook), Project Genie, and Flow. Hi... more

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Recent Guests

Hector Serrano
Head of Content at Wispr Flow and creator of its paid UGC program
Wispr Flow
Episode: How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano
Rob Snyder
Author of The Power of Pull and writer of The Physics of Startups newsletter
Episode: An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)
Emmanuel Ameisen
Interpretability researcher at Anthropic, formerly in applied machine learning at Stripe and Insight
Anthropic
Episode: Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)
Josh Woodward
Head of Google Labs, Gemini app, and AI Studio at Google
Google
Episode: Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)
Tibo Sottiaux
Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI
OpenAI
Episode: OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux
Molly Graham
Leadership expert, former Google/Facebook leader, host of WorkLife Podcast
Episode: The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
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)

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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 States2 months 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 States2 months 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 👾
    Australia3 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 States4 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 States5 months ago

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How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano
Q: What does a profile look like if you were to find someone like Hector to lead this work at your company?
He recommends looking for a hardworking, good person with some demonstrated experience making content and growing an audience, even if the following is relatively small. He also advises companies to give young hires room to experiment and improve.
How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano
Q: When do you think it makes sense to start investing in these inorganic channels?
Serrano says paid advertising can be valuable early, within budget, because it tests whether cold traffic will convert and can reveal messaging that may work organically.
An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)
Q: What is your advice for doing a great job on the sales call?
Snyder structures a call around discovering the buyer's project, urgency, options, and limitations, then briefly describing how the product might help. He advises treating the call as a way to learn whether there is pull, not as an opportunity to persuade someone who is not ready to buy.
An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)
Q: How can people use this framework to help them come up with ideas that are more likely to actually be successful?
Snyder recommends using the PULL framework to form a hypothesis about a specific person with an urgent project and inadequate alternatives, then getting firsthand experience with potential customers and testing whether they try to buy.
Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)
Q: Why is it so hard to catch a model thinking badly or trying to deceive us, and why is watching it not a complete solution to AI alignment?
Ameisen describes alignment as both shaping a model's behavior and checking what behavior was learned. Monitoring outputs can miss intentions or representations held only in intermediate computations, while interpretability can help investigate those internal signals and uncover unexpected behavior.

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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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