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Lenny's Podcast
358 episodes · by Lenny Rachitsky
About Lenny's Podcast
Lenny's Podcast is a podcast with 358 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. Lenny Rachitsky interviews world-class product leaders and growth experts about building products and growing careers. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Lenny's Podcast and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on Lenny's Podcast
Product Strategy Foundations Small-s Strategy Playbook Research-Heavy Preparation Pillar Selection and Prioritization Alignment and Rollout Big-S Future Strategy AI in Strategy Work Building Maven and Alt MBA
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Recent Episodes
How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel — August 23, 2026OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber — August 16, 2026The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor — August 09, 2026This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) — August 02, 2026Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn — July 26, 2026Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) — July 19, 2026How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal) — July 12, 2026Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity — July 09, 2026OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino — June 28, 2026What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams) — June 21, 2026The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga) — June 14, 2026Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell — June 07, 2026A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans — May 31, 2026The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper — May 24, 2026Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple) — May 17, 2026How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author — May 10, 2026Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion) — May 03, 2026Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel — April 26, 2026How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code) — April 23, 2026Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) — April 19, 2026Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures) — April 12, 2026Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare — April 05, 2026An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison — April 02, 2026From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo — March 29, 2026The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack) — March 22, 2026The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick (Executive Negotiator) — March 15, 2026How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky — March 12, 2026The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis — March 08, 2026The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude) — March 01, 2026AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel — February 26, 2026Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny — February 19, 2026Sequoia CEO coach: Why it’s never been easier to start a company, and never been harder to scale one | Brian Halligan (co-founder, HubSpot) — February 15, 2026“Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu — February 12, 2026The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder) — February 08, 2026A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy — February 01, 2026Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet — January 29, 20265 questions to ask when your product stops growing | Jason Cohen (2x unicorn founder) — January 25, 2026The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta) — January 18, 2026How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam Lessin — January 15, 2026Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and Amazon — January 11, 2026The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale — January 04, 2026We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) — January 01, 202610 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling) — December 28, 2025The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff — December 21, 2025The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth) — December 18, 2025Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead) — December 14, 2025The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI) — December 07, 2025Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO) — December 04, 2025What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google) — November 30, 2025A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love | Rachel Lockett — November 23, 2025
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