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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

2026
The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude) Mar 1 1h 17m 18 insights AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel Feb 26 1h 27m 26 insights Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny Feb 19 1h 27m 30 insights 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) Feb 15 1h 14m 27 insights “Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu Feb 12 1h 19m 11 insights The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder) Feb 8 1h 42m 20 insights A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy Feb 1 1h 31m 13 insights Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet Jan 29 1h 44m 18 insights 5 questions to ask when your product stops growing | Jason Cohen (2x unicorn founder) Jan 25 1h 46m 15 insights The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta) Jan 18 1h 15m 22 insights How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam Lessin Jan 15 1h 26m 55 insights Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and Amazon Jan 11 1h 26m 15 insights The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale Jan 4 1h 31m 29 insights We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) Jan 1 1h 42m 17 insights
2025
10 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling) Dec 28 1h 36m 29 insights The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff Dec 21 1h 32m 11 insights The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth) Dec 18 1h 31m 66 insights Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead) Dec 14 1h 25m 28 insights The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI) Dec 7 1h 10m 14 insights Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO) Dec 4 1h 7m 26 insights What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google) Nov 30 1h 26m 18 insights A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love | Rachel Lockett Nov 23 1h 45m 10 insights Slack founder: Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield Nov 20 1h 30m 23 insights The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li Nov 16 1h 19m 19 insights “Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (CEO) Nov 13 1h 53m 11 insights "Sell the alpha, not the feature": The enterprise sales playbook for $1M to $10M ARR | Jen Abel Nov 9 1h 21m 25 insights The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins Nov 2 1h 6m 16 insights How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. Prasanna Oct 26 1h 26m 27 insights Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix) Oct 23 1h 22m 20 insights How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren Oct 19 1h 7m 17 insights Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field Oct 16 1h 26m 34 insights 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) Oct 10 1h 21m 20 insights 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 Oct 9 1h 24m 22 insights How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) Oct 5 1h 25m 25 insights A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype) Sep 28 1h 24m 15 insights Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators of the #1 eval course) Sep 25 1h 46m 23 insights From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo (Facebook VP, Sundial CEO, The Making of a Manager author) Sep 21 1h 36m 33 insights Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor) Sep 18 1h 6m 24 insights The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite) Sep 14 1h 11m 25 insights $46B of hard truths from Ben Horowitz: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear (a16z co-founder) Sep 11 1h 37m 38 insights How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue Sep 7 1h 18m 17 insights How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO) Aug 31 1h 40m 28 insights 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) Aug 28 57m 11s 11 insights Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO) Aug 24 1h 9m 24 insights How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO) Aug 21 1h 23m 21 insights Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour (Reforge) Aug 17 1h 29m 13 insights The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay Aug 14 1h 32m 15 insights Inside ChatGPT: The fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI) Aug 9 1h 35m 21 insights 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) Aug 3 1h 19m 26 insights He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more Jul 31 1h 28m 30 insights Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam Jul 27 1h 11m 13 insights Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben Mann Jul 20 1h 14m 13 insights The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every) Jul 17 1h 34m 17 insights 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) Jul 13 1h 41m 22 insights Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo Jul 6 1h 31m 21 insights I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson (co‑founder of Tiny) Jul 3 1h 28m 46 insights Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding) Jun 29 1h 22m 23 insights From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng Jun 22 1h 55m 26 insights AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt) Jun 19 1h 37m 15 insights 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) Jun 15 1h 54m 14 insights 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond | Bob Baxley Jun 12 1h 41m 16 insights How Mercado Libre built Latin America's most valuable company: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, and their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios Jun 8 1h 19m 19 insights Anthropic’s CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram) Jun 5 1h 6m 29 insights Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal Jun 1 1h 21m 23 insights Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman May 25 1h 14m 50 insights Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product) May 22 1h 37m 15 insights Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI, you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada May 18 1h 1m 22 insights 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 1h 10m 16 insights How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir) May 11 1h 37m 27 insights 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 8 1h 22m 12 insights 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 4 1h 32m 14 insights The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO) May 1 1h 11m 24 insights Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer) Apr 27 1h 32m 16 insights Announcing a brand-new podcast: “How I AI” with Claire Vo 🔥 Apr 22 47m 44s 16 insights Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder and CEO) Apr 20 1h 14m 27 insights Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js) Apr 13 1h 27m 18 insights OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter) Apr 10 1h 31m 18 insights Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor) Apr 6 1h 33m 30 insights A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals) Mar 30 1h 45m 24 insights 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) Mar 27 1h 25m 31 insights 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) Mar 23 1h 25m 15 insights The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet") Mar 16 1h 17m 23 insights Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder and CEO of StackBlitz) Mar 13 1h 28m 41 insights Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (co-founder and CEO) Mar 9 1h 9m 15 insights Notion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to move fast, the joy and suffering of building horizontal, more | Ivan Zhao (CEO and co-founder) Mar 6 1h 12m 21 insights The creator of WordPress opens up about becoming an internet villain, why he’s taking a stand, and the future of open source | Matt Mullenweg (founder and CEO, Automattic) Mar 2 1h 34m 23 insights An inside look at X’s Community Notes | Keith Coleman (VP of Product) and Jay Baxter (ML Lead) Feb 27 1h 47m 19 insights How to find work you love | Bob Moesta (Jobs-to-be-Done co-creator, author of "Job Moves”) Feb 23 1h 24m 33 insights A founder’s guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder, serial entrepreneur) Feb 16 1h 23m 27 insights OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen (Research at OpenAI, ex-Anthropic) Feb 9 1h 14m 10 insights Tobi Lütke’s leadership playbook: Playing infinite games, operating from first principles, and maximizing human potential (founder and CEO of Shopify) Feb 2 1h 41m 20 insights Linear’s secret to building beloved B2B products | Nan Yu (Head of Product) Jan 30 1h 21m 10 insights An operator’s guide to product strategy | Chandra Janakiraman (CPO at VRChat, ex-Meta, Headspace, Zynga) Jan 26 1h 47m 20 insights 10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey) Jan 19 1h 35m 18 insights How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor, founder of Alpine Investors) Jan 16 1h 12m 14 insights How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more | Rohini Pandhi (Mercury, Square) Jan 12 1h 19m 34 insights Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox) Jan 9 1h 37m 32 insights Scripts for difficult conversations: Giving hard feedback, navigating defensiveness, the three questions you should end every meeting with, more | Alisa Cohn (executive coach) Jan 5 1h 23m 25 insights Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure, autonomy, trust, and more | Eilon Reshef (co-founder and CPO) Jan 2 56m 42s 11 insights
2024
Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian) Dec 29 1h 21m 13 insights Behind the founder: Marc Benioff Dec 22 57m 18s 25 insights How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng) Dec 19 1h 40m 42 insights Behind the product: Duolingo streaks | Jackson Shuttleworth (Group PM, Retention Team) Dec 15 1h 28m 31 insights Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more Dec 8 45m 16s 17 insights How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work) Dec 5 1h 34m 26 insights Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at Google Ventures) Dec 1 1h 29m 30 insights The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH) Nov 24 1h 16m 21 insights Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO) Nov 21 1h 4m 8 insights Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy) Nov 17 1h 5m 15 insights Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise) Nov 14 1h 17m 23 insights Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri (author, founder of Product Institute) Nov 10 1h 24m 23 insights Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, prioritizes intuition, and builds toward a 100-year vision | Archie Abrams (VP Product, Head of Growth at Shopify) Nov 7 1h 17m 18 insights Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll (author, advisor, entrepreneur) Nov 3 1h 15m 21 insights 4 questions Shreyas Doshi wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google Oct 31 45m 34s 5 insights Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, why PMs are like conductors, and more | Naomi Gleit Oct 27 1h 38m 34 insights How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische (Lettering Artist, Author) Oct 20 1h 21m 19 insights Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, harnessing founder mode, and more | Anneka Gupta (Chief Product Officer at Rubrik) Oct 17 1h 8m 31 insights Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome your speaking anxiety | Tristan de Montebello (CEO & co-founder of Ultraspeaking) Oct 13 1h 56m 16 insights Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs) Oct 10 48m 58s 22 insights Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash) Oct 6 1h 18m 19 insights Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconventional product advice | Alex Komoroske (Stripe, Google) Oct 3 1h 24m 21 insights How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, and more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack, Reforge) Sep 29 1h 24m 17 insights Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua (Product at Glean, ex-Google and Slack) Sep 26 1h 17m 57 insights Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Product Lead at Riverside) Sep 22 1h 31m 24 insights Rethinking SEO in the age of AI | Eli Schwartz (SEO advisor, author) Sep 19 1h 55m 25 insights The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (author of “The Manager’s Path,” ex-CTO at Rent the Runway) Sep 15 1h 23m 17 insights Land your dream job in today’s market: negotiation tactics, job search councils, and more | Phyl Terry (Author, “Never Search Alone”) Sep 12 1h 51m 37 insights How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn) Sep 8 1h 9m 14 insights The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author of “Hacking Growth”) Sep 5 1h 44m 50 insights Airbnb’s Vlad Loktev on embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, poking the bear, and “impact, impact, impact” (Partner at Index Ventures, Airbnb GM/VP Product) Sep 1 1h 37m 42 insights How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps (co-founder of TBH, Gas, advisor, investor) Aug 25 1h 38m 19 insights Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and why you should PM your career like you PM your product | Deb Liu (CEO of Ancestry, ex-Facebook, PayPal, eBay) Aug 22 1h 11m 17 insights Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more | Kevin Yien (Stripe, Square, Mutiny) Aug 18 1h 28m 19 insights Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences) Aug 11 2h 14m 24 insights How embracing emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (executive coach, Art of Accomplishment) Aug 8 1h 18m 12 insights Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber) Aug 4 1h 14m 37 insights The ultimate guide to performance marketing | Timothy Davis (Shopify) Jul 28 1h 42m 29 insights 5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker) Jul 25 1h 22m 20 insights What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author) Jul 21 1h 24m 23 insights Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash) Jul 14 1h 19m 25 insights Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead) Jul 11 2h 35m 23 insights Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics) Jul 7 1h 49m 18 insights Dylan Field live at Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design Jun 30 48m 7s 24 insights The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of Y Combinator, author, podcast host) Jun 27 1h 24m 21 insights Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG) Jun 23 1h 23m 27 insights Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery) Jun 16 1h 54m 16 insights The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (author of 7 Rules of Power, professor at Stanford GSB) Jun 13 1h 22m 22 insights Lessons from a two-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor, and 20-time company board member | Uri Levine (co-founder of Waze) Jun 9 1h 22m 37 insights Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and running profitably | Cameron Adams (co-founder and CPO) Jun 2 1h 3m 29 insights The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon (author of The Challenger Sale and The JOLT Effect) May 30 56m 39s 7 insights Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Instacart) May 26 1h 42m 20 insights Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM at Slack) May 19 1h 13m 11 insights Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google, Quantcast) May 16 1h 35m 19 insights A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek) May 12 1h 12m 18 insights Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers) May 5 1h 8m 12 insights This will make you a better decision-maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit,” former pro poker player) May 2 1h 21m 28 insights Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour Apr 28 1h 35m 20 insights How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford GSB professor, “Touchy Feely”) Apr 25 1h 26m 20 insights Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma) Apr 21 1h 40m 73 insights Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director) Apr 18 1h 20m 19 insights The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO) Apr 14 1h 21m 14 insights A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital) Apr 11 1h 27m 21 insights Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD) Apr 7 1h 27m 32 insights Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO) Apr 4 1h 41m 21 insights How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker) Mar 31 1h 11m 27 insights Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more Mar 24 1h 18m 15 insights The ultimate guide to PR | Emilie Gerber (founder of Six Eastern) Mar 21 1h 33m 21 insights The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack) Mar 17 1h 9m 20 insights Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group) Mar 10 1h 25m 54 insights Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations) Mar 7 1h 12m 13 insights Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO) Mar 3 1h 42m 22 insights How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw (author of The Leader’s Journey) Feb 25 1h 27m 17 insights How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO) Feb 22 1h 13m 27 insights Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) Feb 18 2h 1m 26 insights Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (authors of Sprint and Make Time, co-founders of Character Capital) Feb 11 1h 35m 20 insights Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations) Feb 8 1h 8m 31 insights Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira) Feb 4 1h 21m 26 insights Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery) Jan 28 1h 14m 17 insights Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market Jan 25 1h 24m 15 insights Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt Jan 21 1h 49m 19 insights The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (author of Dynamic Reteaming) Jan 18 1h 10m 21 insights Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon) Jan 14 1h 21m 16 insights How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs) Jan 11 1h 27m 19 insights The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg) Jan 7 1h 16m 15 insights The UX research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta) Jan 4 1h 14m 17 insights
2023
Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked) Dec 29 1h 24m 20 insights The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest) Dec 27 1h 50m 18 insights The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG) Dec 21 1h 33m 13 insights Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more Dec 17 1h 49m 47 insights How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy) Dec 15 1h 42m 34 insights Failure Dec 13 1h 1m 25 insights Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott Dec 10 1h 26m 14 insights The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart) Dec 7 1h 12m 26 insights Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber) Dec 3 1h 39m 21 insights The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub) Dec 1 50m 3s 25 insights My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests Nov 29 20m 45s 18 insights Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero) Nov 26 1h 40m 17 insights Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path) Nov 19 1h 4m 16 insights The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles Nov 16 1h 19m 30 insights Brian Chesky’s new playbook Nov 12 1h 13m 56 insights Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor, startup advisor) Nov 9 1h 23m 28 insights Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, Tripadvisor) Nov 5 1h 22m 30 insights Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards) Nov 2 1h 33m 17 insights Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology) Oct 29 2h 14m 56 insights What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom) Oct 26 1h 23m 19 insights A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch) Oct 22 1h 30m 23 insights Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo) Oct 19 1h 36m 51 insights Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft) Oct 15 1h 34m 21 insights How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine) Oct 12 1h 42m 24 insights Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO) Oct 8 1h 39m 26 insights Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life Oct 5 1h 42m 16 insights What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda) Oct 1 1h 29m 22 insights Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Spotify’s Head of Podcast Product) Sep 28 1h 7m 14 insights How to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise) Sep 24 1h 16m 18 insights Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft) Sep 21 1h 12m 20 insights How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, Category Pirates, more) Sep 17 1h 48m 32 insights Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform, Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian) Sep 14 1h 16m 17 insights When enough is enough | Andy Johns (ex-FB, Twitter, Quora) Sep 10 1h 26m 15 insights An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire) Sep 7 1h 31m 33 insights Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product) Sep 3 1h 11m 21 insights An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth) Aug 27 1h 11m 25 insights The ultimate guide to JTBD | Bob Moesta (co-creator of the framework) Aug 24 1h 9m 18 insights Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst (Spotify, Patreon, Apple, YouTube) Aug 20 1h 3m 22 insights The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway) Aug 13 1h 24m 67 insights Relentless curiosity, radical accountability, and HubSpot’s winning growth formula | Christopher Miller (VP of Product, Growth and AI) Aug 10 1h 31m 29 insights Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product) Aug 6 1h 16m 43 insights How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, GitHub, Google) Jul 30 1h 16m 13 insights The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon) Jul 27 1h 23m 19 insights The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google) Jul 23 1h 25m 52 insights LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn) Jul 16 1h 4m 24 insights M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs) Jul 13 1h 21 insights How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit) Jul 9 1h 3m 27 insights Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork and Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang (Webflow, WeWork, Airbnb, Dropbox) Jul 2 1h 7m 37 insights Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor) Jun 25 1h 17m 23 insights Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva) Jun 18 1h 14m 44 insights Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor) Jun 15 1h 20m 35 insights Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) Jun 11 1h 25m 28 insights Moving fast and navigating uncertainty | Jeremy Henrickson (Rippling, Coinbase) Jun 4 1h 8m 31 insights Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks Jun 1 1h 17m 28 insights The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin May 28 1h 2m 16 insights Lessons from scaling Spotify: The science of product, taking risky bets, and how AI is already impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström (Co-President, CPO, and CTO at Spotify) May 21 1h 24m 15 insights Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance) May 18 1h 2m 26 insights Frameworks for product differentiation, team building, and thinking from first principles | Ayo Omojola (Carbon Health, Cash App) May 14 52m 9s 15 insights Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital) May 7 1h 34m 28 insights Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe) May 4 1h 29m 46 insights How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian, Miro, Segment, 1Password) Apr 30 1h 7m 78 insights The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna Apr 23 1h 16m 31 insights An inside look at how Miro builds product: Lessons on outmaneuvering competitors, team structure, product quality, and moving fast | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro) Apr 20 1h 25m 26 insights How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn, SurveyMonkey) Apr 16 1h 18m 44 insights How to build a cult-like brand | Laura Modi (Bobbie) Apr 13 1h 1m 12 insights Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) Apr 9 42m 16s 25 insights Driving alignment and urgency within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller (The Knot, Trello) Apr 6 59m 20s 25 insights The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab) Apr 2 1h 33m 40 insights Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Canva, Reddit, Grubhub) Mar 30 1h 17m 13 insights Taxi mafias, cash vaults, and 100% MoM growth: The story behind Southeast Asia’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek) Mar 26 1h 2m 15 insights Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard) Mar 23 1h 3m 16 insights Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO) Mar 19 1h 28m 12 insights The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford) Mar 16 1h 13m 39 insights Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi Mar 12 1h 22m 34 insights Career frameworks, A/B testing mistakes, counterintuitive onboarding tips, selling to developers | Laura Schaffer (VP of Growth at Amplitude) Mar 9 1h 21m 16 insights Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO of Stripe) Mar 5 1h 21m 36 insights Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb) Mar 2 1h 25m 42 insights Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth | Annie Pearl (CPO) Feb 26 1h 1m 26 insights An inside look at how CNN builds product | Upasna Gautam Feb 23 58m 11s 11 insights 10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell) Feb 19 1h 13m 22 insights Understanding the role of product ops | Christine Itwaru (Pendo) Feb 16 1h 6m 14 insights Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable) Feb 12 1h 4m 17 insights Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber) Feb 9 55m 51s 15 insights AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google) Feb 5 48m 2s 40 insights How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe) Feb 2 1h 2m 23 insights Lessons from Airtable’s unconventional growth strategy | Zoelle Egner Jan 29 1h 13m 37 insights An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar (Head of Product) Jan 26 46m 2s 19 insights Building your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace) Jan 19 1h 21m 17 insights What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (Amplitude, The Beautiful Mess) Jan 15 1h 40m 13 insights How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures) Jan 12 53m 16s 15 insights An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma) Jan 8 1h 8m 28 insights Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack) Jan 5 1h 10m 32 insights
2022
Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year Dec 29 1h 1m 18 insights Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google) Dec 18 1h 17m 32 insights Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium) Dec 15 1h 1m 14 insights How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts (Notion, First Round Capital) Dec 11 1h 7m 19 insights The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher) Dec 8 1h 38m 56 insights How to hit revenue targets in a recession | Sahil Mansuri (Bravado) Dec 4 1h 26m 15 insights The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite) Dec 1 1h 30m 36 insights How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People) Nov 27 1h 12m 28 insights What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb) Nov 20 1h 4m 18 insights Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer) Nov 17 1h 14m 17 insights An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO at The New York Times) Nov 13 1h 7m 21 insights How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach) Nov 10 1h 11m 24 insights How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk) Nov 6 1h 31m 18 insights Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, General Catalyst) Nov 3 1h 8m 30 insights Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook) Oct 30 1h 1m 22 insights Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp) Oct 27 55m 47s 12 insights How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Zynga, Pixar) Oct 23 1h 5m 21 insights Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook) Oct 20 1h 7m 11 insights Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad) Oct 16 53m 39s 37 insights How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods) Oct 13 1h 5m 23 insights Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier (Faire, Thumbtack, Reforge) Oct 9 1h 4m 21 insights Using behavioral science to improve your product | Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs) Oct 2 56m 14s 24 insights Customer-led growth | Georgiana Laudi (Forget The Funnel) Sep 29 1h 6m 22 insights Growth tactics, retention strategies, and becoming a better writer | Julian Shapiro (Demand Curve, Hyper, Webflow, TechCrunch) Sep 25 59m 27s 15 insights Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy) Sep 18 1h 10m 18 insights When and how to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass) Sep 15 1h 9m 24 insights How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1) Sep 11 1h 10m 28 insights The role of AI in product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub, Copilot) Sep 4 1h 4m 36 insights How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable) Sep 1 1h 8m 19 insights Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, Seth Godin, Section4) Aug 28 53m 8s 15 insights The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group Aug 21 59m 50s 18 insights The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, Marketer in Residence at First Round Capital) Aug 18 1h 22m 25 insights The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft Aug 14 1h 31m 34 insights How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund Aug 7 1h 9m 28 insights How to own your career growth and become a powerful product leader | Deb Liu, Ancestry (ex-Facebook, PayPal) Aug 4 1h 11m 13 insights How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu Jul 31 1h 3m 19 insights How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri Jul 28 53m 42s 45 insights How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google Jul 24 1h 14m 29 insights How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite Jul 21 55m 5s 12 insights Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on translating vision into goals, operationalizing product quality, second-order decisions, brainstorming, influence, and much more Jul 18 1h 22 insights Manik Gupta (ex-CPO Uber, Google Maps) on how to build consumer apps, why it’s useful to be optimistic about technology, creating inflections in your PM career, the changing CPO role, and more Jul 14 1h 4m 29 insights Merci Grace (ex-Head of Growth at Slack) on PLG, interviewing, storytelling, building a diverse team, hiring salespeople, building a growth team, and much more Jul 11 59m 6s 15 insights Sanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the inside story of how Airbnb made it through Covid; what he’s learned from Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, and Kevin Systrom; much more Jul 5 1h 1m 20 insights Teresa Torres on how to interview customers, automating continuous discovery, the opportunity solution tree framework, making the case for user research, common interviewing mistakes, and much more Jun 30 47m 32s 14 insights Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid Jun 27 49m 49s 25 insights Elena Verna on how B2B growth is changing, product-led growth, product-led sales, why you should go freemium not trial, what features to make free, and much more Jun 23 59m 16s 14 insights Gibson Biddle on his DHM product strategy framework, GEM roadmap prioritization framework, 5 Netflix strategy mini case studies, building a personal board of directors, and much more Jun 20 59m 32s 34 insights Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more Jun 16 49m 2s 29 insights Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started angel investing, more Jun 13 1h 2m 33 insights April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process Jun 9 1h 10 insights Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking Jun 7 1h 16m 6 insights Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management Jun 7 1h 11m 17 insights Welcome to my new podcast! 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