358 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

How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel

OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

Netflix CPTO on AI and the future of product and tech roles | Elizabeth Stone

How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity

OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino

Building the most AI-pilled engineering team in the world | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)

The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)

Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans

The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper

Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)

How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)

Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)

Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)

Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)

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 art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)

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