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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky
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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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Jason Lemkin is the founder of SaaStr, the world’s largest community for software founders, and a veteran SaaS investor who has deployed over $200 million into B2B startups. After his last salesperson quit, Jason made a radical decision: replace his ... more

Matt MacInnis is the chief product officer and former longtime COO at Rippling, a unified workforce management platform valued at over $16 billion.

We discuss:

1. Why “extraordinary results demand extraordinary efforts”

2. Why you should deliberat... more

Sander Schulhoff is an AI researcher specializing in AI security, prompt injection, and red teaming. He wrote the first comprehensive guide on prompt engineering and ran the first-ever prompt injection competition, working with top AI labs and compan... more

Elena Verna is the head of growth at Lovable, the leading AI-powered app builder that hit $200 million in annual recurring revenue in under a year with just 100 employees. In this record fourth appearance on the podcast, Elena shares how the traditio... more

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Recent Guests

Matt MacInnis
Chief Product Officer at Rippling, formerly COO
Rippling
Episode: 10 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling)
Elena Verna
Head of Growth at Lovable
Lovable
Episode: The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth)
Alexander Embiricos
Product lead for Codex at OpenAI
OpenAI
Episode: Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)
Edwin Chen
Founder and CEO of Surge AI
Surge AI
Episode: The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)
Jeanne DeWitt
COO at Vercel with experience as Chief Product Officer at Stripe.
Vercel
Episode: What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Known as the godmother of AI, she is a leading figure in artificial intelligence and co-creator of ImageNet.
Stanford University
Episode: The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Jen Abel
Co-founder of Jjellyfish and GM of Enterprise at State Affairs
Jjellyfish and State Affairs
Episode: "Sell the alpha, not the feature": The enterprise sales playbook for $1M to $10M ARR | Jen Abel
Melanie Perkins
CEO and co-founder of Canva
Canva
Episode: The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins
Dhanji Prasanna
Chief Technology Officer at Block
Block
Episode: How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. Prasanna

Host

Lenny Rachitsky
Host of insightful discussions focused on product management and growth strategies, engaging experts from various sectors to highlight practical insights.

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 7.6k ratings
  • AI

    This show used to be so informative and interesting. Now it just becomes an ad channel for AI companies to promote their products. What happened to the hard questions? Are tech people this basic nowadays?

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    dennievn
    Canada18 days ago
  • Some nuggets but a lot of filler

    There are one or two great episodes but sadly too many episodes are way too long. And to be frank too many episodes should have been killed before releasing. E.g. the recent episode with Nicole Forsgren, it was 1 hour of waffle I don’t think anyone can have learnt anything from it. Never lower the bar on quality! To take another recent example the episode with Shreya and Hamel about evals: the useful information in this episode was excellent but could have been communicated in less than 5 minute... more

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    Ajrbrflwrjciwtbrkd
    United Kingdoma month ago
  • All AI buzzwords and hype now

    This podcast used to be a really valuable source of info and advice for Product Managers, but over the past year it’s degraded to just be shilling AI products and inviting the snake oil salespeople to sell their products. Lenny’s lost the plot with all the AI hype—go back to fundamentals, talk about AI only when it’s relevant, and stop inviting unrelatable corporate execs to build their brands.

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    johnkemnetz
    United States4 months ago
  • Great production, energy, guests

    Cutting edge and actionable content

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Abundance Minded
    United States4 months ago
  • Hit or miss

    Gets caught up in obvious hype too much. Wish he’d ask more probing questions.

    Apple Podcasts
    2
    nbsfmc
    United States5 months ago

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There are concerns regarding recent episodes focusing too heavily on AI buzzwords, leading some to request a return to foundational topics.
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Many have found the practical advice transformative for their careers, particularly in product management and growth.

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Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)
Q: What do you think people should be leaning into skill-wise as this becomes more and more of a thing in our workplace?
Emphasize being a doer who engages with the latest coding tools, focus on systems engineering skills, and maintain effective collaboration with teams.
Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)
Q: How do you think you win in this space?
Building a coding agent as a teammate that can participate actively in coding cycles, ultimately evolving to be a super assistant that automates much of the coding process.
Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
Q: How long did it take to get this in place for you to actually form your first team to build these initial agents?
I announced this internally at the end of last year, and we have now our first MVPs of those agents.
Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
Q: Why do people need to pay attention to what we're about to be talking about?
It really starts with kind of the basics. Technology has always been about empowerment and now we have this opportunity to make it about meritocracy.
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
Q: What has most changed in the world of go-to-market in the last few years?
Go-to-market strategies have shifted to being more consultative, especially with the rise of consumption-based business models and the impact of AI on sales processes.

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