Lenny's Podcast
Read bullet-point summaries of Lenny's Podcast on product strategy, growth, AI, startups, leadership, and career skills.
Episodes
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OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
Andrew Ambrosino, product and engineering lead for the Codex app at OpenAI, discusses how AI is fundamentally reshaping product development workflows, with 90%
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How the most AI-pilled product team builds products | Fiona Fung (Claude Code and Cowork)
Fiona Fung leads the teams behind Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, and has spent 25+ years as an engineer and engineering leader — at Microsoft (TypeScript
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Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)
Tony Fadell — co-creator of the iPod, iPhone, and Nest thermostat, author of Build, and founder of the Build Collective — shares decades of hard-won insight on
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A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans
Benedict Evans, a longtime tech analyst formerly at Andreessen Horowitz, argues that AI is as transformative as the internet or mobile—no more, no less—and that
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The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper
Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, returns to share his predictions for how AI will reshape work over the next year. His team of nearly 30 people — including
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Why the next AI boom is physical AI | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex-OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
Caitlin Kalinowski is one of Silicon Valley's most accomplished hardware leaders — she helped build the original unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Pro
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How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Ries
Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, returns 15 years later with Incorruptible, a book about why successful companies lose their way and how founders can
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AI era skills: Why cultivating agency matters more than job titles | Max Schoening (Notion)
Max Schoening, head of product at Notion, has spent his career blurring the lines between design, engineering, and product management — long before AI made it
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How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO)
Evan Spiegel, CEO and co-founder of Snap, joins the podcast to explain why building a lasting consumer social product is extraordinarily difficult, how Snap has
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How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
Cat Wu is the head of product for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, working closely with Boris Cherny (tech lead and product visionary). She focuses on
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Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
The good: Compensation is at an all-time high, roles are plentiful (especially for builders), and PMs are experiencing a renaissance with more autonomy, faster
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Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)
The team you build is the company you build
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Head of Growth (Anthropic): Anthropic is automating its own growth
Anthropic has achieved what may be the most explosive growth run in business history, scaling from $1 billion to over $19 billion in annual recurring revenue in
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An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
Simon Willison is one of the most important voices on how AI is reshaping software engineering and knowledge work. He co-created Django (the web framework
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From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo
Claire Vo went from OpenClaw skeptic to running nine agents across three Mac Minis, and the tool has genuinely transformed her work and family life. She's a
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The art of influence: The single most important skill left that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain
Influence is the highest-leverage skill for product leaders outside of AI, and it's the single most important skill that AI cannot replace. Jessica Fain, a
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He's negotiated $1B+ in executive compensation. Here's his playbook. | Jacob Warwick
Jacob Warwick is a behind-the-scenes professional negotiator who helps senior tech executives, professional athletes, and Hollywood celebrities secure better
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A behind-the-scenes interview with Lenny Rachitsky on building his newsletter and podcast
Lenny Rachitsky sits down with his wife, Michelle Rial, for a rare role-reversal interview where she takes the mic and asks him the questions — sharing personal
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The real AI revolution isn’t software. It’s farms, mines, and trucks. | Qasar Younis
Applied Intuition is a $15 billion company that adds AI to physical vehicles—cars, tractors, mining rigs, planes, submarines, and construction equipment—making