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Lenny's Podcast

Lenny Rachitsky

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Lenny's Podcast is hosted by Lenny Rachitsky covering Product Management, Future of Work, AI Agents, and Product Strategy. Notable guests include Evan Spiegel (CEO and Co-founder, Snap), Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code and Co-work at Anthropic), and Keith Rabois (Managing Director, Khosla Ventures). Episodes span from May 2023 to Apr 2026.

96 episodes2008 total claims12 topics covered

96 episodes

Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel
Apr 26, 2026
Snap's CEO Evan Spiegel argues that distribution, not just product-market fit, is the primary challenge for building durable consumer social apps, citing TikTok's capital-intensive growth and Threa...
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SnapchatEvan SpiegelConsumer SocialProduct Strategy+13 more
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
Apr 23, 2026
Anthropic has dramatically accelerated its product development cycles, reducing feature timelines from six months to as short as one day by removing barriers to shipping. The role of the AI Product...
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AI Product ManagementAnthropicClaude CodeAgentic AI+11 more
Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)
Apr 12, 2026
Keith Rabois argues that AI will fundamentally reshape tech organizations, making the traditional Product Manager role obsolete and merging the disciplines of design and code. Building a world-clas...
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Talent AcquisitionTalent DensityHiring StrategyReference Checks+14 more
Head of Growth (Anthropic):  “Claude is growing itself at this point”
Apr 5, 2026
An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
Apr 2, 2026
From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo
Mar 29, 2026
The art of influence: The single most important skill left that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain
Mar 22, 2026
The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick
Mar 15, 2026
A behind-the-scenes interview with Lenny Rachitsky on building his newsletter and podcast
Mar 12, 2026
The real AI revolution isn’t software. It’s farms, mines, and trucks. | Qasar Younis
Mar 8, 2026
The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)
Mar 1, 2026
AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco President on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel
Feb 26, 2026
Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny
Feb 19, 2026
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
Feb 15, 2026
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
Feb 12, 2026
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
Feb 8, 2026
A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy
Feb 1, 2026
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
Jan 29, 2026
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
Jan 25, 2026
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
Jan 18, 2026
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
Jan 15, 2026
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
Jan 11, 2026
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
Jan 4, 2026
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
Jan 1, 2026
“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey
Dec 28, 2025
Why securing AI is harder than anyone expected and guardrails are failing | HackAPrompt CEO
Dec 21, 2025
The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
Dec 18, 2025
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
Dec 14, 2025
The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
Dec 7, 2025
Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
Dec 4, 2025
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
Nov 30, 2025
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
Nov 20, 2025
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Nov 16, 2025
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
Nov 13, 2025
$1M to $10M: The enterprise sales playbook with Jen Abel
Nov 9, 2025
She turned 100+ rejections into a $42B company | Melanie Perkins
Nov 2, 2025
How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. Prasanna
Oct 26, 2025
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
Oct 23, 2025
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
Oct 19, 2025
Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field
Oct 16, 2025
Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein
Oct 10, 2025
Scale AI CEO on Meta’s $14B deal, scaling Uber Eats to $80B, & what frontier labs are building next
Oct 9, 2025
Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)
Oct 5, 2025
A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype)
Sep 28, 2025
Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar
Sep 25, 2025
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
Sep 21, 2025
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
Sep 18, 2025
The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Sep 14, 2025
$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
Sep 11, 2025
How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
Sep 7, 2025
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
Aug 31, 2025
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
Aug 28, 2025
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
Aug 24, 2025
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
Aug 21, 2025
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
Aug 17, 2025
The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
Aug 14, 2025
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
Aug 9, 2025
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)
Aug 3, 2025
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
Jul 31, 2025
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
Jul 27, 2025
Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
Jul 20, 2025
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
Jul 17, 2025
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
Jul 13, 2025
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
Jul 3, 2025
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
Jun 29, 2025
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
Jun 22, 2025
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
Jun 19, 2025
How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
Jun 15, 2025
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
Jun 12, 2025
Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
Jun 8, 2025
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
Jun 5, 2025
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
Jun 1, 2025
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
May 25, 2025
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
May 22, 2025
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
May 18, 2025
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
May 11, 2025
How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna
May 8, 2025
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
May 4, 2025
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
May 1, 2025
Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
Apr 20, 2025
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
Apr 13, 2025
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
Apr 10, 2025
Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact
Apr 6, 2025
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up")
Mar 30, 2025
How to win in the AI era: Ship weekly, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and more
Mar 27, 2025
Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder)
Mar 23, 2025
The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain
Mar 16, 2025
Inside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons
Mar 13, 2025
Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (CEO and co-founder)
Mar 9, 2025
Notion's lost years, near collapse during COVID, staying small to move fast, building horizontal
Mar 6, 2025
Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand
Mar 2, 2025
Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)
Jan 9, 2025
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
May 5, 2024
Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
May 7, 2023

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