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Lenny's Newsletter, which was started in 2019, has grown to 1.2 million subscribers.
Companies including OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, and Plat use WorkOS for enterprise features.
Over 5,000 organizations, including 11labs, Brex, Replit, and Deal, use the AI hiring platform Metaview.
Metaview claims its customers close hiring roles 30% faster by using its AI platform.
Lenny Rachitsky worked at Airbnb for seven years after his startup, Localmind, was acquired by the company.
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was widespread concern that Airbnb's business could fail.
A promotional launch for Lenny's Newsletter, which offered a free year of products like Cursor and Replit, was targeted by numerous fraud rings primarily based in China.
To combat fraud attacks, Lenny Rachitsky's team worked with Stripe and Substack to patch API exploits that the attackers had discovered.
Companies including Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom use the DX platform to measure the impact of AI on engineering productivity.
Lenny Rachitsky is intentionally avoiding hiring full-time employees for his media business to maintain operational simplicity.
Most posts in Lenny's Newsletter are now guest posts from practitioners sharing lessons from their direct professional experience.
Lenny Rachitsky believes a product manager's role is to act as a "mini-CEO" for their product, channeling the CEO's mindset to drive business success.