Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky 368 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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Nov 1, 2026 1h 27m

How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano

Hector Serrano runs one of the most innovative and successful paid growth programs in Silicon Valley. As Head of Content at Wispr Flow, a leading AI voice-to...

Oct 25, 2026 1h 25m

An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)

Rob Snyder is the author of The Power of Pull and writes the newsletter The Physics of Startups. He has advised more than 50 startups on growing from zero to...

Oct 18, 2026 1h 12m

Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)

Emmanuel Ameisen is an interpretability researcher at Anthropic, where he looks inside LLMs like Claude to understand how they think. Before joining Anthropi...

Oct 11, 2026 1h 2m

Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)

Josh Woodward is the head of Google Labs, the Gemini app, and AI Studio. He has spent over 17 years at Google and oversees its longest-running and largest la...

Oct 4, 2026 37m

OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux

Tibo Sottiaux leads ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI. Under his stewardship, OpenAI has shipped some of its most consequential consumer launches: Codex, ChatGPT W...

Sep 27, 2026 1h 34m

The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham

Molly Graham is back for round two, and this one is even more powerful. Molly has spent more than 20 years helping organizations and the humans inside them n...

Sep 20, 2026 1h 36m

90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis

Peter Sellis was the first product manager at Snapchat, where he spent seven years building one of the most beloved consumer products in history. He went on ...

Sep 8, 2026 1h 22m

How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)

Roman Ugarte helped incubate and build Grok Bot, the popular new knowledge-work agent from SpaceXAI. A small, isolated team took it from first line of code t...

Sep 6, 2026 1h 19m

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has focused on consumer investing. Anish is one of the most insightful, thought-pr...

Aug 30, 2026 1h 21m

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)

Tara Seshan leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI (alongside previous podcast guest Andrew Ambrosino, who’s her engineering manager). Before Ope...

Aug 23, 2026 1h 24m

How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel

Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJellyfish and GM of enterprise sales at State Affairs. She is widely regarded as one of the sharpest practitioners in enterpri...

Aug 16, 2026 1h 12m

OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

Ian Silber is the head of product design at OpenAI, where he has led the design of ChatGPT, Codex, and all of OpenAI’s product experience for the past three ...

Aug 9, 2026 1h 30m

The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor

Adam Ward is the Head of Talent at Cursor, one of the fastest-growing developer tools in history. Before joining Cursor, he founded Growth by Design, an inde...

Aug 2, 2026 1h 24m

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

Tom Verrilli is the chief product officer at Whatnot, a live shopping platform that’s become the fastest-growing U.S. marketplace business in history, with o...

Jul 26, 2026 1h 33m

Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

Dianne Penn is Head of Product for Anthropic’s AI Research and Labs teams. She joined in 2023 as Anthropic’s first technical product manager, when the entire...

Jul 19, 2026 1h 12m

Netflix CPTO on AI and the future of product and tech roles | Elizabeth Stone

Elizabeth Stone is the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) at Netflix, where she oversees Engineering, Product, and Design. Since her first appearanc...

Jul 12, 2026 1h 36m

How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

Noam Segal is a longtime research leader across Airbnb, Meta, Twitter, Zapier, Intercom, and Figma, a certified coach, AI builder, and my community research ...

Jul 9, 2026 1h 8m

Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity

Adam Mosseri is the Head of Instagram, where he oversees an app used by over 3 billion people. He also leads the team building Threads. Adam has run Instagra...

Jun 28, 2026 1h 9m

OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino

Andrew Ambrosino leads development of the Codex desktop app at OpenAI. Nearly 100% of OpenAI employees—not just engineers—now use Codex weekly. A lifelong bu...

Jun 21, 2026 1h 38m

Building the most AI-pilled engineering team in the world | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)

Fiona Fung leads the teams behind Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic (overseeing Boris Cherny and the entire engineering and PM team). Before Anthropic, she...

Jun 14, 2026 1h 39m

The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)

Mark Pincus founded Zynga—the company behind Words With Friends, FarmVille, and Zynga Poker—and has arguably created more hit consumer products than anyone i...

Jun 7, 2026 1h 35m

Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Tony Fadell created the iPod, co-created the iPhone, and founded Nest (which he sold to Google for $3.2 billion). He’s co-authored over 300 patents, was part...

May 31, 2026 1h 19m

A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans

Benedict Evans is an independent analyst and former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he spent years as their in-house “thinker” tracking the most import...

May 24, 2026 1h 34m

The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper

Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a media and software company that’s become a living laboratory for the future of work. Everyone at his compan...

May 17, 2026 1h 39m

Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)

Caitlin Kalinowski was most recently at OpenAI helping build their robotics and hardware teams from scratch. Prior to that, she was head of AR glasses and VR...

May 10, 2026 1h 39m

How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup, a book that reshaped how a generation of founders think about building companies. His new book, Incorruptible, e...

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...

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