Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky

Product Management

Distraction

Technology

Focus

Productivity

Habit Formation

Crossing the Chasm

Airbnb

Gelt

Benchmark

Etsy

Evernote

Doordash

Emotional Regulation

Go-To-Market Strategy

Innovation

Psychological Safety

Bowling Pin Strategy

B2B Marketing

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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Publishes	Twice weekly	Episodes	338	Founded	4 years ago
Number of Listeners		Categories	EntrepreneurshipBusinessTechnology

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Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)

Keith Rabois was an early executive at PayPal (part of the famous PayPal Mafia), COO at Square, VP of Corporate Development at LinkedIn, and an early investor in Stripe, DoorDash, Airbnb, YouTube, Ramp, and Palantir. Currently he’s managing director ... more

12 Apr 2026 • 1 hr 22 min

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Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare

Amol Avasare is Head of Growth at Anthropic, which is going through the most unprecedented growth trajectory in history—scaling from $1 billion to over $19 billion in ARR in just 14 months. Previously, Amol worked on the growth teams at Mercury and M... more

5 Apr 2026 • 1 hr 52 min

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An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison

Simon Willison is a prolific independent software developer, a blogger, and one of the most visible and trusted voices on the impact AI is having on builders. He co-created Django, the web framework that powers Instagram, Pinterest, and tens of thous... more

2 Apr 2026 • 1 hr 39 min

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From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo

Claire Vo is the host of our sister podcast, “How I AI,” a former product executive and engineer, and founder of an AI startup called ChatPRD. Claire now runs her business, podcast, and family life with the help of nine OpenClaw agents running on mul... more

29 Mar 2026 • 1 hr 46 min

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Recent Guests

Amol Avasare

Head of Growth at Anthropic

Anthropic

Episode: Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare

Simon Willison

Software engineer, co-creator of Django, and AI/coding advocate

Independent / Open source

Episode: An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison

Claire Vo

Host of How I AI and experienced product leader

Founder of her AI startup; host of How I AI

Episode: From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo

Jessica Fain

Product leader with experience at Box, Slack, Brightwheel, and Webflow

Webflow (current)

Episode: The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)

Jacob Warwick

Professional negotiator for senior tech execs, athletes, and Hollywood celebrities

Think Warwick

Episode: The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick (Executive Negotiator)

Michelle Rial

Guest interviewer and author

Episode: How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky

Qasar Younis

Co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition

Episode: The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis

Jenny Wen

Head of design at Claude and Claude Cowork; former director of design at Figma

Anthropic/Claude

Episode: The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)

Jeetu Patel

Chief Product Officer and President at Cisco

Cisco

Episode: AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel

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Lenny

Host of Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 7.9k ratings

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!
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Paul Cruch
United Kingdom19 days ago
So good
Best product school
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kimberely shoe
United States25 days 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 ❤️
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Crossta
Canadaa month ago
Best podcast of the show
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a month ago
Insightful
Great moderator. Smart enough to ask thoughful questions but really lets the guests speak and get it out.
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Fans appreciate the pragmatic, playbook-like episodes that translate to real-world product work.

Listener feedback consistently highlights strong interviewers who draw out actionable takeaways.

Critiques point to occasional long-form episodes and perceived AI hype—some listeners want tighter focus.

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Spotify	#12	United States/Technology
Apple Podcasts	#20	United States/Technology
Spotify	#9	United Kingdom/Technology
Spotify	#194	Canada/Trending
Apple Podcasts	#13	United Kingdom/Technology
Apple Podcasts	#19	Canada/Technology

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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.

The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis

Q: So what was your philosophy of staying quiet and then starting to talk about your story after building quietly?

The approach is deliberate and rooted in radical pragmatism: focus on customers and product first, learn in private, and only later share a narrative when it truly serves the business and mission. It's about balancing the need to propagate ideas with maintaining focus on building something durable.

How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky

Q: Why did you pivot to a children's book later in your career?

To translate the chart-based approach into early learning concepts for kids, leveraging rhythm, opposites, and visuals to teach, inspired by things learned from writing adult books and wanting to reach younger audiences through intuitive charts.

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A practical, practitioner-focused show that features world-class product leaders, growth experts, and AI builders. Episodes center on concrete, actionable strategies for building, launching, and growing tech products, with recurring threads around compensation negotiation tactics, scalable design processes in AI-enabled environments, product-led growth, and leadership at scale. Listeners can expect candid frameworks, real-world anecdotes, and tactical playbooks—from negotiating top offers and structuring incentives to leveraging AI tools for non-technical product work and designing fast-moving product teams. Notably, guests range from execs and founders to design leaders and AI researchers, providing a broad view of modern technology leader... more

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3. Claire Vo
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7. Qasar Younis
8. Jenny Wen

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