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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

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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Recent Episodes

How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
September 07, 2025
How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
1 hr 18 min
AI Summary
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
August 31, 2025
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
1 hr 40 min
AI Summary
How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)
August 28, 2025
How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)
57 min
AI Summary
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)
August 24, 2025
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)
1 hr 9 min
AI Summary
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
August 21, 2025
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
1 hr 23 min
AI Summary
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour (Reforge)
August 17, 2025
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour (Reforge)
1 hr 29 min
AI Summary
The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
August 14, 2025
The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
1 hr 32 min
AI Summary
How ChatGPT accidentally became the fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI)
August 09, 2025
How ChatGPT accidentally became the fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI)
1 hr 35 min
AI Summary
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who died 9 times, started the Burning Man board, and built the world's first midlife wisdom school | Chip Conley (founder of MEA)
August 03, 2025
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who died 9 times, started the Burning Man board, and built the world's first midlife wisdom school | Chip Conley (founder of MEA)
1 hr 19 min
AI Summary
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
July 31, 2025
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
1 hr 28 min
AI Summary
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
July 27, 2025
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
1 hr 11 min
AI Summary
Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben Mann
July 20, 2025
Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben Mann
1 hr 14 min
AI Summary
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)
July 17, 2025
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)
1 hr 34 min
AI Summary
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint (from the creators of the Design Sprint) | Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky (Character Capital)
July 13, 2025
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint (from the creators of the Design Sprint) | Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky (Character Capital)
1 hr 41 min
AI Summary
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
July 06, 2025
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
1 hr 31 min
AI Summary
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson (co‑founder of Tiny)
July 03, 2025
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson (co‑founder of Tiny)
1 hr 28 min
AI Summary
Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)
June 29, 2025
Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)
1 hr 22 min
AI Summary
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng
June 22, 2025
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng
1 hr 55 min
AI Summary
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)
June 19, 2025
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)
1 hr 37 min
AI Summary
How to build a team that can “take a punch”: A playbook for building resilient, high-performing teams | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
June 15, 2025
How to build a team that can “take a punch”: A playbook for building resilient, high-performing teams | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
1 hr 54 min
AI Summary
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
June 12, 2025
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
1 hr 41 min
AI Summary
How Mercado Libre built Latin America's most valuable company: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, and their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
June 08, 2025
How Mercado Libre built Latin America's most valuable company: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, and their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
1 hr 19 min
AI Summary
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
June 05, 2025
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
1 hr 6 min
AI Summary
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
June 01, 2025
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
1 hr 21 min
AI Summary
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
May 25, 2025
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
1 hr 14 min
AI Summary
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product)
May 22, 2025
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product)
1 hr 37 min
AI Summary
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
May 18, 2025
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
1 hr 1 min
AI Summary
How Revolut trains world-class product managers: The “local CEO” model, raw intellect over experience, and a cultural obsession with building wow products | Dmitry Zlokazov (Head of Product)
May 15, 2025
How Revolut trains world-class product managers: The “local CEO” model, raw intellect over experience, and a cultural obsession with building wow products | Dmitry Zlokazov (Head of Product)
1 hr 10 min
AI Summary
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
May 11, 2025
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
1 hr 37 min
AI Summary
How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna (CEO of Reboot, executive coach, former VC)
May 08, 2025
How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna (CEO of Reboot, executive coach, former VC)
1 hr 22 min
AI Summary
Inside Devin: The world’s first autonomous AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code by end of year | Scott Wu (CEO and co-founder of Cognition)
May 04, 2025
Inside Devin: The world’s first autonomous AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code by end of year | Scott Wu (CEO and co-founder of Cognition)
1 hr 32 min
AI Summary
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)
May 01, 2025
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)
1 hr 11 min
AI Summary
Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)
April 27, 2025
Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)
1 hr 32 min
AI Summary
Announcing a brand-new podcast: “How I AI” with Claire Vo 🔥
April 22, 2025
Announcing a brand-new podcast: “How I AI” with Claire Vo 🔥
47 min
AI Summary
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder & CEO)
April 20, 2025
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder & CEO)
1 hr 14 min
AI Summary
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder & CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js)
April 13, 2025
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder & CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js)
1 hr 27 min
AI Summary
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter)
April 10, 2025
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter)
1 hr 31 min
AI Summary
Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor)
April 06, 2025
Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor)
1 hr 33 min
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
March 30, 2025
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
1 hr 45 min
How to win in the AI era: Ship a feature every week, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and create magic your competitors can't copy | Gaurav Misra (CEO and co-founder of Captions)
March 27, 2025
How to win in the AI era: Ship a feature every week, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and create magic your competitors can't copy | Gaurav Misra (CEO and co-founder of Captions)
1 hr 25 min
Superhuman's secret to success: Ignoring most customer feedback, manually onboarding every new user, obsessing over every detail, and positioning around a single attribute: speed | Rahul Vohra (CEO)
March 23, 2025
Superhuman's secret to success: Ignoring most customer feedback, manually onboarding every new user, obsessing over every detail, and positioning around a single attribute: speed | Rahul Vohra (CEO)
1 hr 25 min
The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet")
March 16, 2025
The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet")
1 hr 17 min