336 Episodes

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny's Podcast offers deeply researched advice on product, career, and growth. It features interviews with top leaders in tech, discussing topics like AI, design, and company scaling.

Episodes

Anthropic’s $1B to $19B growth run: how Claude became the fastest-growing AI product in history | Amol Avasare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)

Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)

What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)

A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love | Rachel Lockett

Slack founder: Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield

The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li

“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (CEO)

"Sell the alpha, not the feature": The enterprise sales playbook for $1M to $10M ARR | Jen Abel

The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins

How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. Prasanna

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)

How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren

Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field

Inside Google's AI turnaround: The rise of AI Mode, strategy behind AI Overviews, and their vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein (VP of Product, Google Search)

First interview with Scale AI’s CEO: $14B Meta deal, what’s working in enterprise AI, and what frontier labs are building next | Jason Droege

How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype)

Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators of the #1 eval course)

From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo (Facebook VP, Sundial CEO, The Making of a Manager author)

Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)

The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)

$46B of hard truths from Ben Horowitz: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear (a16z co-founder)

How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue

How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)

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)

Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)

How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)

Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour (Reforge)

The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay

Inside ChatGPT: The fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI)

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)

He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more

Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam

Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben Mann

The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)

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)

Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo

I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson (co‑founder of Tiny)

Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)

From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng

AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

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)

35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond | Bob Baxley

How Mercado Libre built Latin America's most valuable company: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, and their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios

Anthropic’s CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)

Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal

Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman

Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product)

Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI, you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada

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)

How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)

How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna (CEO of Reboot, executive coach, former VC)

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)

The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)

Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)