Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky 342 episodes

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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May 3, 2026 1h 27m

Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)

Max Schoening is head of product at Notion, where he’s been especially effective at getting designers and PMs to ship code, prototype in the terminal, and la...

Apr 26, 2026 1h 10m

Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel

Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and CEO of Snap, is one of the very few people in the world who has successfully built and scaled a lasting consumer social prod...

Apr 23, 2026 1h 25m

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)

Cat Wu is Head of Product for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, building one of the most important AI products of this generation. Before joining Anthropi...

Apr 19, 2026 1h 35m

Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)

Nikhyl Singhal is the founder of The Skip, a community for senior product leaders; a former product exec at Meta, Google, and Credit Karma; and a many-time f...

Apr 12, 2026 1h 22m

Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)

Keith Rabois was an early executive at PayPal (part of the famous PayPal Mafia), COO at Square, VP of Corporate Development at LinkedIn, and an early investo...

Apr 5, 2026 1h 52m

Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare

Amol Avasare is Head of Growth at Anthropic, which is going through the most unprecedented growth trajectory in history—scaling from $1 billion to over $19 b...

Apr 2, 2026 1h 39m

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison

Simon Willison is a prolific independent software developer, a blogger, and one of the most visible and trusted voices on the impact AI is having on builders...

Mar 29, 2026 1h 46m

From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo

Claire Vo is the host of our sister podcast, “How I AI,” a former product executive and engineer, and founder of an AI startup called ChatPRD. Claire now run...

Mar 22, 2026 1h 33m

The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)

Jessica Fain is a product leader at Webflow and former Chief of Staff to the CPO at Slack, where she worked alongside April Underwood and many past podcast g...

Mar 15, 2026 1h 54m

The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick (Executive Negotiator)

Jacob Warwick is an executive negotiation coach who helps senior operators negotiate better salary, equity, titles, and severance packages. He has worked wit...

Mar 12, 2026 1h 6m

How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky

People have been asking me to sit on the other side of the mic for a long time. With my wife’s debut children’s book, Charts for Babies, coming out next mont...

Mar 8, 2026 1h 24m

The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis

Qasar Younis is the co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, a $15 billion AI company that adds intelligence to cars, tractors, planes, submarines, and other...

Mar 1, 2026 1h 17m

The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)

Jenny Wen leads design for Claude at Anthropic. Prior to this, she was Director of Design at Figma, where she led the teams behind FigJam and Slides. Before ...

Feb 26, 2026 1h 27m

AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel

Jeetu Patel is the president and chief product officer at Cisco, where he leads a team of 30,000 people and is playing a central role in the massive AI infra...

Feb 19, 2026 1h 27m

Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny

Boris Cherny is the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. What began as a simple terminal-based prototype just a year ago has transformed the role of...

Feb 15, 2026 1h 14m

Sequoia CEO coach: Why it’s never been easier to start a company, and never been harder to scale one | Brian Halligan (co-founder, HubSpot)

Brian Halligan co-founded HubSpot, ran it as CEO for about 15 years, and now coaches Sequoia’s fastest-growing founders as their in-house CEO coach. We disc...

Feb 12, 2026 1h 19m

“Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu

Sherwin Wu leads engineering for OpenAI’s API platform, where roughly 95% of engineers use Codex, often working with fleets of 10 to 20 parallel AI agents. ...

Feb 8, 2026 1h 42m

The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)

Lazar Jovanovic is a full-time professional vibe coder at Lovable. His job is to build both internal tools and customer-facing products purely using AI, whil...

Feb 1, 2026 1h 31m

A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy

Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, the bestselling author of Good Inside, and the founder of a parenting platform used by millions. Known for her ...

Jan 29, 2026 1h 44m

Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet

Marc Andreessen is a founder, investor, and co-founder of Netscape, as well as co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). In this con...

Jan 25, 2026 1h 46m

5 questions to ask when your product stops growing | Jason Cohen (2x unicorn founder)

Jason Cohen is a four-time founder (including two unicorns, one being WP Engine) and an investor in over 60 startups, and has been sharing his lessons on com...

Jan 18, 2026 1h 15m

The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)

Zevi Arnovitz is a product manager at Meta with no technical background who has figured out how to build and ship real products using AI. His engineering tea...

Jan 15, 2026 1h 26m

How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam Lessin

Sam Lessin is a partner at Slow Ventures, a former VP of Product at Facebook, and a two-time founder who’s now teaching etiquette to Silicon Valley’s founder...

Jan 11, 2026 1h 26m

Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and Amazon

Aishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam have helped build and launch more than 50 enterprise AI products across companies like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and ...

Jan 4, 2026 1h 31m

The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale

Molly Graham has worked for some of tech’s most effective leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Bret Taylor. Today s...

Jan 1, 2026 1h 42m

We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)

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 in...

Dec 28, 2025 1h 36m

10 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling)

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

Dec 21, 2025 1h 32m

The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff

Sander Schulhoff is an AI researcher specializing in AI security, prompt injection, and red teaming. He wrote the first comprehensive guide on prompt enginee...

Dec 18, 2025 1h 31m

The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth)

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 ...

Dec 14, 2025 1h 25m

Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)

Alexander Embiricos leads product on Codex, OpenAI’s powerful coding agent, which has grown 20x since August and now serves trillions of tokens weekly. Befor...

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