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Paige Costello describes how Asana organizes product planning, uses a customer-centered Double Diamond process, and adapts that process for rapid LLM prototyping. · She recommends building trust through customer insight, curiosity, openness, and clear feedback, and shares lessons from coaching, man…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:03:20 min · 9 de July de 2023

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Jiaona Zhang describes product management as understanding user problems, focusing on what makes a product valuable, and turning ambitious goals into testable steps. · She reflects on Airbnb Plus and WeWork, recommends story-based roadmaps and ambitious OKRs, and shares lessons on earning trust and…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:07:32 min · 2 de July de 2023

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Melissa Tan reflects on growth at Dropbox and Webflow, describing how hiring, execution, clear go-to-market choices, and company-wide ownership shape growth. · She shares practical approaches to people management, talent development, PM interviews, team coordination, and early growth hiring. · She…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:14:41 min · 18 de June de 2023

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Luc Levesque argues that leaders should focus on measurable impact, become excellent at hiring, and use growth advisors to help identify and execute high-impact opportunities. · He recommends waiting for product-market fit before scaling growth, while allowing limited, contained user acquisition wh…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:20:12 min · 15 de June de 2023

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Nikhyl Singhal argues that product careers benefit from long-term planning, varied building experiences, honest feedback, and a clear view of what comes after reaching a major career goal. · He discusses signs of ex-growth companies, common barriers to promotion, how managers can support people, th…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:25:50 min · 11 de June de 2023

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Jeremy Henrickson describes how Coinbase handled 40x usage growth during 2017’s crypto boom and how Rippling maintains speed through small teams, direct leadership involvement, and fast decisions. · He explains Rippling’s compound-startup model, its approach of designing for complex future needs wh…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:08:32 min · 4 de June de 2023

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Nancy Duarte explains how empathy, story structure, and clear visuals can make presentations more persuasive. · She recommends treating the audience as the hero, moving between the current state and a possible future, and adapting the format to the audience and situation. · She also describes pract…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:17:24 min · 1 de June de 2023

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Andy Raskin describes a strategic narrative as a company-wide story that frames a shift from an old game to a new one, shows why the shift matters, defines a goal and its obstacles, and explains how the company helps people overcome them. · He says it can align sales, marketing, product, fundraisin…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:02:49 min · 28 de May de 2023

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Gustav Söderström describes Spotify’s shift from small autonomous squads to larger teams, with substantial strategic autonomy placed around the VP level and a more centralized product experience. · He discusses generative AI, the AI DJ, AI music and artists’ rights, and lessons from a Spotify home…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:24:30 min · 21 de May de 2023

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Scott Belsky argues that strong products start with empathy, clear onboarding and ruthless focus on the customer’s core task. · He expects AI to expand teams’ ability to explore possibilities and personalize experiences, while urging product leaders to experiment with the tools and keep writing. ·…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:02:33 min · 18 de May de 2023

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Ayo Omojola describes how Cash App grew by combining a small, focused team with a product that was faster in ways customers valued. · He shares lessons on hiring founders, building relationships, examining details and assumptions, and navigating healthcare markets, then describes Carbon Health’s in…

Lenny's Podcast · 52:09 min · 14 de May de 2023

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Jonathan Becker describes how Thrive Digital grew from a small consultancy into a 130-person agency managing about $500 million in annual ad spend. · He recommends treating paid acquisition as one part of a diversified channel mix, testing creative systematically, and measuring performance through…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:34:55 min · 7 de May de 2023

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Carilu Dietrich argues that hypergrowth depends on products people love, organic word of mouth, and leaders able to keep pace with rapid stages of growth. · She shares career advice on taking responsibility and choosing strong companies, and growth advice on sustained brand building, customer insig…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:07:19 min · 30 de April de 2023

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Elena Verna explains product-led sales (PLS) as turning self-serve product usage into a sales pipeline for larger, enterprise-level solutions. · She recommends qualifying accounts from meaningful usage signals, involving product, sales, marketing, and analytics, and first proving the motion manuall…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:16:09 min · 23 de April de 2023

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Varun Parmar describes Miro’s cross-functional, persona-focused product culture, emphasizing empathy, clear differentiation, speed, customer value, and quality. · He explains the team’s operating practices, including AMPED, product reviews, roadmaps, OKRs, design quality calibration, and Miro Conne…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:25:10 min · 20 de April de 2023

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Ada Chen Rekhi describes using curiosity loops and a personal values exercise to make decisions with better context and stronger alignment with what matters to you. · She recommends exploring early in your career, watching for whether a job still helps you learn, and considering coaching selectivel…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:18:27 min · 16 de April de 2023

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Shweta Shrivastava describes Waymo’s fully autonomous driving work, the software and simulation her teams build, and how safety, predictable behavior, and rider visibility help establish trust. · She says product managers in this technically complex, long-term work must handle ambiguity, understand…

Lenny's Podcast · 42:16 min · 9 de April de 2023

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Nikita Miller describes Trello’s evolution from a simple, broadly useful planning tool toward a more fully featured product, and explains how it served different needs from Jira. · She recommends clarifying cross-functional roles, pairing goals with shipped output, and using questions about deliver…

Lenny's Podcast · 59:20 min · 6 de April de 2023

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Hila Qu recommends combining product-led growth (PLG) with sales when each serves a different path to reach and convert customers. · She describes PLG as a sustained, data-led motion that needs a low-barrier product experience, fast time to value, self-service purchasing, and clear pricing. · Her g…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:33:22 min · 2 de April de 2023

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Casey Winters argues that product managers should use frameworks as tools, make decisions under uncertainty, and ship to learn, reserving research for consequential questions that remain unclear. · He discusses how founders and teams should adjust decision-making as expertise changes, why network e…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:17:44 min · 30 de March de 2023