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Bangaly Kaba describes choosing work by assessing the impact he can have through his environment and skills, and recommends making time to understand problems before committing to solutions. · He shares approaches to coaching teams and managing change, then explains how flywheels and attention to a…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:42:05 min · 26 de May de 2024

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Kenneth Berger argues that asking for what you want helps people act with integrity, pursue meaningful goals, and learn from others’ responses, even when the answer is no. · He outlines a three-step process—articulate the desire, ask intentionally, and accept the response—while discussing complaint…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:13:36 min · 19 de May de 2024

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Hamilton Helmer explains how durable business power depends on both a benefit and a barrier, and argues that founders should consider strategy from the earliest stages while adapting their focus as a company develops. · He distinguishes meaningful powers from commonly mistaken claims such as brand…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:08:07 min · 5 de May de 2024

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Annie Duke argues that better decisions come from making assumptions and judgments explicit, gathering opinions independently, and using meetings to discuss differences before deciding. · She recommends shortening long feedback loops by tracking nearer-term signals, and using pre-mortems to define…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:21:01 min · 2 de May de 2024

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Kayvon Beykpour describes his time at Twitter, including being dismissed while on paternity leave, efforts to make the product culture more ambitious, and lessons from Twitter’s acquisitions and organizational structure. · He argues that teams need room to balance core improvements with riskier bet…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:35:27 min · 28 de April de 2024

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Mihika Kapoor describes how she develops and advances new products: stay close to users and teammates, make a shared vision tangible, build conviction while remaining open to feedback, and create momentum through demos and company forums. · She recommends cultivating team trust and culture, adaptin…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:40:40 min · 21 de April de 2024

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Todd Jackson presents a four-level framework for product-market fit (PMF), defining its dimensions as customer satisfaction, demand, and efficiency, with different priorities at each stage. · He recommends using the persona, problem, promise, and product—the “four Ps”—to diagnose stalls, and descri…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:27:12 min · 11 de April de 2024

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Claire Vo shares advice on steering a career by stating clear goals, solving company needs, and working in areas that match one’s strengths. · She describes ways to increase organizational pace, maintain high talent and product standards, and explains her view of the CPTO role. · She recounts build…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:27:45 min · 7 de April de 2024

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Kunal Shah explains his Delta 4 framework for judging whether a product is meaningfully more efficient than its alternative, then shares his views on how trust, income, time, and risk shape product building in India. · He describes CRED’s focus on a specific customer group and lessons about scaling…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:18:57 min · 24 de March de 2024

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Emilie Gerber argues that press can help with credibility, recruiting, and sales even when it does not directly drive signups; its value depends on the company, audience, and story. · She recommends concise, tailored pitches that connect a company to a topic reporters already cover, and stresses th…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:33:55 min · 21 de March de 2024

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Noam Lovinsky reflects on product leadership at YouTube, Thumbtack, Facebook, and Grammarly. · He emphasizes prioritizing the business, diversifying growth channels, creating room for small experiments, and balancing stretch assignments with work that gives you energy. · He also describes Grammarly…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:09:34 min · 17 de March de 2024

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Marty Cagan argues that many companies have confused project delivery with product management, leaving feature teams focused on shipping output rather than solving customer or business problems. · He describes the skills and leadership practices he believes product teams need, advises product manag…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:25:14 min · 10 de March de 2024

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Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth reflects on Facebook’s early intensity, his work on News Feed, and lessons about leadership, career growth, communication, and learning from failure. · He describes Meta’s open information culture and the costs of managing information, and gives his opinionated compar…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:42:21 min · 3 de March de 2024

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Donna Lichaw describes story-driven leadership: examine the stories people tell themselves, check them against feedback, and shape more useful ways of working with others. · She recommends finding strengths in energizing past experiences, understanding how difficult patterns may serve a purpose, an…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:27:03 min · 25 de February de 2024

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Jason Lemkin argues that B2B founders should learn to sell, follow the customer motion that actually works, and hire two early reps they would trust to sell their product. · He recommends waiting for repeatable sales before hiring a VP of Sales, keeping sales leaders involved with customers, and gi…

Lenny's Podcast · 2:01:57 min · 18 de February de 2024

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Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky describe *Make Time* as a flexible system for making room for meaningful work and life, built around choosing a daily highlight, reducing distractions, supporting energy, and reflecting. · They recommend changing defaults and adding friction to distraction rather than r…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:35:39 min · 11 de February de 2024

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Logan Kilpatrick describes OpenAI’s response to a disruptive leadership weekend, its fast-moving culture, and how the company weighs mission, reliability, and changing priorities. · He discusses custom GPTs, prompt context, emerging AI interfaces, enterprise use, and opportunities for builders, whi…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:08:06 min · 8 de February de 2024

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Megan Cook describes team practices for psychological safety and remote work, and explains how she builds support for ideas by involving stakeholders early, staying open to evidence, and starting small. · She discusses Atlassian’s customer feedback habits and staged process for new products, then r…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:21:08 min · 4 de February de 2024

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Jonny Miller describes managing nervousness through the body: changing breathing and other physical cues can shift a person’s state, which he says can affect thoughts and feelings. · He recommends building awareness of body signals, noticing early signs of burnout, and making room to recover after…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:14:15 min · 28 de January de 2024

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Geoffrey Moore describes Crossing the Chasm as a framework for moving disruptive technology from visionary early adopters to pragmatic customers who rely on peer references and need a compelling reason to buy. · He recommends establishing a marquee customer, then focusing on a beachhead that is big…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:24:49 min · 25 de January de 2024