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Kevin Aluwi describes how Gojek grew from an Indonesian motorcycle taxi service into a large on-demand platform, despite limited funding, cash-payment constraints, fraudulent third-party driver apps and physical threats to drivers. · He argues that strong consumer brands, operational ingenuity, loc…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:02:51 min · 26 de March de 2023

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Christina Wodtke describes OKRs as a way to focus teams on meaningful outcomes, align work with strategy, and build a recurring cycle of action and learning. · She recommends simple objectives and key results, weekly commitments and celebrations, and piloting OKRs with a strong multidisciplinary te…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:13:13 min · 16 de March de 2023

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Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan discuss how technology shaped their lives, building authentic relationships and communities, and putting work and ideas into public view. · They recommend starting small, being curious, and making content while staying honest about what you know; they also desc…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:22:51 min · 12 de March de 2023

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Laura Schaffer describes building career opportunities by sharing customer insights, then explains how Twilio experiments challenged assumptions about onboarding friction and developer behavior. · She recommends iterative validation, setting experiment criteria in advance, using qualitative evidenc…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:21:13 min · 9 de March de 2023

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Claire Hughes Johnson explains how writing *Scaling People* helped her organize lessons from Google and Stripe into practical guidance for building companies and managing people. · She emphasizes self-awareness, clear feedback, lightweight structures, consistent operating routines, and communicatio…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:21:17 min · 5 de March de 2023

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Gustaf Alströmer describes lessons from Airbnb and his work with more than 600 YC startups: founders need to talk to users, learn what customers value, build and iterate quickly, and keep making progress. · He discusses YC office hours, founder traits and common failure patterns, then explains clim…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:25:35 min · 2 de March de 2023

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Annie Pearl describes four routes into product management and emphasizes curiosity, customer problem solving, and demonstrating product skills. · At Calendly, she says clearer target customers, connected company OKRs, and staged planning helped teams focus and execute as the company expanded from p…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:01:48 min · 26 de February de 2023

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Upasna Gautam describes building CNN Digital’s content management platform with journalists and editors, whose breaking-news work requires flexible planning, regular collaboration, and rehearsals that test the platform under pressure. · She discusses CNN’s OKRs, roadmap structure, remote-team pract…

Lenny's Podcast · 58:11 min · 23 de February de 2023

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Patrick Campbell shares lessons from building ProfitWell, including aligning teams around company values and shipping expectations, matching funding choices to a company’s ambitions, and reviewing pricing regularly. · He distinguishes strategic from tactical retention, advocates regular customer re…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:13:37 min · 19 de February de 2023

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Lauryn Isford argues that growth teams should use experiments when they reduce meaningful risk or answer an important question, while keeping customer value at the center. · She describes Airtable’s onboarding redesign, which increased activation by 20%, and shares approaches to activation metrics,…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:04:20 min · 12 de February de 2023

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Keith Yandell describes how DoorDash’s founder-led culture, customer focus, and hands-on delivery program shaped his leadership. · He shares practices for leading teams outside one’s expertise, giving and receiving feedback, helping employees find their next roles, and making difficult decisions. ·…

Lenny's Podcast · 55:51 min · 9 de February de 2023

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Eeke de Milliano describes how Stripe and Retool made room for rigorous thinking and innovation through writing, customer contact, retrospectives, and time to explore ideas. · She recommends scaling process carefully, keeping early product bets small and independent, and balancing investment across…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:02:55 min · 2 de February de 2023

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Zoelle Egner describes how simple, customer-focused work helped VaccinateCA fill an urgent information gap, then shares lessons from Airtable and other roles on building trust, supporting customer champions, and growing with a small team. · Her recommendations include talking with customers regular…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:13:51 min · 29 de January de 2023

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Vijay Iyengar describes Mixpanel’s shift from expanding into adjacent products to refocusing engineering on core product analytics, first closing customer feature gaps quickly and then investing in product-wide design. · He shares how Mixpanel plans around customer problems, uses customer feedback…

Lenny's Podcast · 46:51 min · 26 de January de 2023

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Ravi Mehta describes how he moved from product leadership at large tech companies to founding Outpace, and shares frameworks for strategy, goal setting, product management skills, feedback, and leadership. · He also explains how Tinder used customer research to shape monetization features and how O…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:21:25 min · 19 de January de 2023

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John Cutler reflects on his four years as Amplitude’s product evangelist, the range of teams he encountered, and his move to Toast. · He argues that high-performing teams share traits such as strategic and structural coherence, but can achieve them through very different practices; improvement depe…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:40:44 min · 15 de January de 2023

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Naomi Ionita argues that pricing should evolve alongside the product: charge once users receive value, match plans to different customer segments and usage, and revisit pricing regularly. · She describes customer research and cross-functional experimentation as ways to set and test prices, while no…

Lenny's Podcast · 53:16 min · 12 de January de 2023

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Jules Walter describes his path from medical devices and a startup to growth, monetization, and mobile roles at Slack, then product leadership at YouTube, alongside co-founding CodePath and Black PMs. · He recommends building PM skills through deliberate practice, concrete outcomes, observation, fe…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:10:27 min · 5 de January de 2023

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Chris Hutchins describes lessons from developing new products at Wealthfront, including validating customer demand, communicating a clear vision, and pursuing high-impact bets. · He then explains the effort and uncertainty involved in podcasting, shares ways to choose a topic, find listeners, and e…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:17:35 min · 18 de December de 2022

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Pete Kazanjy argues that founders should personally sell until they can repeat a sales process and learn what customers need, then train a small group of early sellers before scaling. · He describes modern sales as measurable, iterative problem solving, with progress tracked through customer conver…

Lenny's Podcast · 1:01:41 min · 15 de December de 2022