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Jonathan Lowenhar argues that founding a company and serving as its CEO are distinct skills: founders must learn the craft of building and running a company as it grows. · He shares frameworks for planning toward a business milestone, nurturing a potential acquisition around a buyer’s future vision…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:34:36 min · 5 de December de 2024

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Jen Abel argues that founders should lead early sales to learn directly from customers, refine the product and market fit, and establish a repeatable sales motion. · She outlines a sales process from prospecting and outreach through discovery, co-authoring a scope, procurement, and signature, with…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:16:05 min · 24 de November de 2024

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Raaz Herzberg describes how Wiz moved from an unclear network security idea to cloud security by listening more carefully to customer conversations and looking for concrete buying signals. · She explains how she moved from product leadership into marketing, where she prioritized customer understand…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:05:19 min · 17 de November de 2024

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Dario Amodei argues that scaling models has repeatedly improved capabilities and, if recent trends continue, could produce very powerful AI within a few years, while emphasizing that timelines remain uncertain. · He describes Claude’s model tiers, training and evaluation processes, computer-use cap…

Lex Fridman · 5:15:01 min · 11 de November de 2024

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Archie Abrams describes Shopify’s growth model as lowering barriers to starting a business and measuring the long-term GMV and value of merchant cohorts, rather than optimizing local conversion or retention rates. · Shopify pairs rapid experimentation with long-term holdouts, and uses results month…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:17:46 min · 7 de November de 2024

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Lenny presents interview questions from podcast guests, covering how candidates reason, handle ambiguity and setbacks, reflect on their work, and define impact. · A central example asks candidates to launch a fictional teleportation device, then limits them to two questions before they must propose…

Lenny's Podcast · 20:16 min · 31 de October de 2024

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Naomi Gleit recounts joining Facebook after repeatedly seeking an opening, then moving from marketing into product management by volunteering on projects. · She describes growth practices centered on retention, data instrumentation, reducing barriers, and clear shared goals. · Her leadership approa…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:38:14 min · 27 de October de 2024

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Tristan de Montebello argues that speaking is a trainable meta-skill, and that enjoyable, repeated practice helps people speak more naturally and confidently. · He demonstrates games for exploring emotional range, staying focused amid distractions, and speaking with conviction, then explains the Ac…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:56:30 min · 13 de October de 2024

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Alex Komoroske describes how he uses note-taking and regular reflection to develop ideas, and argues that AI changes product economics while making curiosity, play, and distinctive taste more valuable. · He recommends supporting emergent work through gardening, resilient organizational structures,…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:24:38 min · 3 de October de 2024

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Benjamin Lauzier explains how marketplaces connect independent sides, why founders should first prove core value and focus on the harder side, and how liquidity, quality, and supplier experience shape growth. · He shares Lyft examples involving rental cars, driver mentors, and peer recruiters, then…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:24:03 min · 29 de September de 2024

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Camille Fournier discusses ways product managers and engineers can work better together, why large rewrites often fail, and how engineering leaders can stay technically credible while moving into management. · She describes management as service work, argues for protecting focus and delegating, and…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:23:15 min · 15 de September de 2024

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Phyl Terry describes job search as a product problem: define what you want, learn what the market needs, and focus your candidate-market fit. · He recommends doing this with a Job Search Council, which he says helps job seekers manage anxiety, stay accountable, and ask for support. · He also outlin…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:51:29 min · 12 de September de 2024

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Deb Liu reflects on her product career and argues that people should keep learning, build resilience through setbacks, and plan their careers with intention. · She describes launching products inside large companies through patient iteration, and offers practices for helping introverts be heard, bu…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:11:25 min · 22 de August de 2024

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Kevin Yien argues that product management is about turning a team’s potential into customer value: aspiring PMs should first build experience in engineering, design or sales, write clearly, set useful constraints, and stay close to customers. · He shares practical approaches to feedback, decision l…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:28:40 min · 18 de August de 2024

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Brian Tolkin describes how product and operations teams can work together: operations bring direct customer and market insight, while technology can scale repeated processes. · He shares practices for product reviews, applying jobs to be done, testing with limited data, and making decisions under u…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:14:39 min · 4 de August de 2024

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Mike Maples, Jr. · argues that breakthrough startups find an unfair advantage by combining an external inflection, a non-obvious insight, and a founder suited to the future they are pursuing. · Founders then attract early believers through movements, storytelling, and a willingness to disagree, whi…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:49:13 min · 7 de July de 2024

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Dylan Field discusses design taste, product judgment, simplicity, product management, and Figma’s early years. · He describes intuition as a source of hypotheses to test, says teams should ship quickly and learn from feedback, and explains how Figma built relationships with designers through resear…

Lenny's Podcast · 48:08 min · 30 de June de 2024

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Tanguy Crusson describes why large companies can struggle to launch new products despite their resources, drawing on lessons from HipChat, Statuspage, and Jira Product Discovery. · He recommends validating assumptions early, keeping early teams focused and close to a small group of users, and setti…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:54:02 min · 16 de June de 2024

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Uri Levine argues that startups should begin with a problem founders care deeply about, validate it with people beyond their immediate circle, and keep iterating until users return. · He describes startup growth as a long sequence of uncertain phases that require focused priorities, and shares tact…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:22:31 min · 9 de June de 2024

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Canva co-founder Cameron Adams describes a product-led company that grew by focusing on a joyful user experience, investing in onboarding, and building SEO and localization journeys around users’ needs. · He explains Canva’s coaching culture, its “give away your Lego” approach to scaling teams, and…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:03:08 min · 2 de June de 2024