Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Lenny Rachitsky
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Nov 1, 2026 · 1 h 28 min
How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector SerranoHector Serrano runs one of the most innovative and successful paid growth programs in Silicon Valley. As Head of Content at Wispr Flow, a leading AI voice-to-text tool, he built a…
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An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)Oct 25, 2026 · 1 h 26 min
An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)Rob Snyder is the author of The Power of Pull and writes the newsletter The Physics of Startups. He has advised more than 50 startups on growing from zero to $1 million in ARR…
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Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)Oct 18, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)Emmanuel Ameisen is an interpretability researcher at Anthropic, where he looks inside LLMs like Claude to understand how they think. Before joining Anthropic, he spent years in…
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Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)Oct 11, 2026 · 1 h 2 min
Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)Josh Woodward is the head of Google Labs, the Gemini app, and AI Studio. He has spent over 17 years at Google and oversees its longest-running and largest labs team, whose products…
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OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxOct 4, 2026 · 37 min
OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxTibo Sottiaux leads ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI. Under his stewardship, OpenAI has shipped some of its most consequential consumer launches: Codex, ChatGPT Work, and most recently…
Sep 27, 2026 · 1 h 34 min
The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly GrahamMolly Graham is back for round two, and this one is even more powerful. Molly has spent more than 20 years helping organizations and the humans inside them navigate growth and…
Sep 20, 2026 · 1 h 37 min
90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter SellisPeter Sellis was the first product manager at Snapchat, where he spent seven years building one of the most beloved consumer products in history. He went on to serve as Head of…
Sep 8, 2026 · 1 h 23 min
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)Roman Ugarte helped incubate and build Grok Bot, the popular new knowledge-work agent from SpaceXAI. A small, isolated team took it from first line of code to a working internal…
Sep 6, 2026 · 1 h 19 min
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has focused on consumer investing. Anish is one of the most insightful, thought-provoking, and…
Aug 30, 2026 · 1 h 22 min
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)Tara Seshan leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI (alongside previous podcast guest Andrew Ambrosino, who’s her engineering manager). Before OpenAI, Tara spent over…
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 h 25 min
How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen AbelJen Abel is the co-founder of JJellyfish and GM of enterprise sales at State Affairs. She is widely regarded as one of the sharpest practitioners in enterprise sales, and for that…
Aug 16, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian SilberIan Silber is the head of product design at OpenAI, where he has led the design of ChatGPT, Codex, and all of OpenAI’s product experience for the past three years. Before OpenAI…
Aug 9, 2026 · 1 h 31 min
The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at CursorAdam Ward is the Head of Talent at Cursor, one of the fastest-growing developer tools in history. Before joining Cursor, he founded Growth by Design, an independent recruiting and…
Aug 2, 2026 · 1 h 25 min
This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)Tom Verrilli is the chief product officer at Whatnot, a live shopping platform that’s become the fastest-growing U.S. marketplace business in history, with over $8 billion in GMV…
Jul 26, 2026 · 1 h 34 min
Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne PennDianne Penn is Head of Product for Anthropic’s AI Research and Labs teams. She joined in 2023 as Anthropic’s first technical product manager, when the entire product team was five…
Jul 19, 2026 · 1 h 12 min
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)Elizabeth Stone is the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) at Netflix, where she oversees Engineering, Product, and Design. Since her first appearance on the podcast two…
Jul 12, 2026 · 1 h 36 min
How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)Noam Segal is a longtime research leader across Airbnb, Meta, Twitter, Zapier, Intercom, and Figma, a certified coach, AI builder, and my community research lead. Together, we run…
Jul 9, 2026 · 1 h 8 min
Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticityAdam Mosseri is the Head of Instagram, where he oversees an app used by over 3 billion people. He also leads the team building Threads. Adam has run Instagram for longer than its…
Jun 28, 2026 · 1 h 10 min
OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew AmbrosinoAndrew Ambrosino leads development of the Codex desktop app at OpenAI. Nearly 100% of OpenAI employees—not just engineers—now use Codex weekly. A lifelong builder with a background…
Jun 21, 2026 · 1 h 39 min
Building the most AI-pilled engineering team in the world | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)Fiona Fung leads the teams behind Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic (overseeing Boris Cherny and the entire engineering and PM team). Before Anthropic, she spent 11 years at…
Jun 14, 2026 · 1 h 39 min
The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)Mark Pincus founded Zynga—the company behind Words With Friends, FarmVille, and Zynga Poker—and has arguably created more hit consumer products than anyone in history. At Zynga…
Jun 7, 2026 · 1 h 35 min
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony FadellTony Fadell created the iPod, co-created the iPhone, and founded Nest (which he sold to Google for $3.2 billion). He’s co-authored over 300 patents, was part of the legendary team…
May 31, 2026 · 1 h 20 min
A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict EvansBenedict Evans is an independent analyst and former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he spent years as their in-house “thinker” tracking the most important technology trends…
May 24, 2026 · 1 h 34 min
The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan ShipperDan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a media and software company that’s become a living laboratory for the future of work. Everyone at his company of about 30 people is…
May 17, 2026 · 1 h 39 min
Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)Caitlin Kalinowski was most recently at OpenAI helping build their robotics and hardware teams from scratch. Prior to that, she was head of AR glasses and VR hardware at Meta…
May 10, 2026 · 1 h 39 min
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup authorEric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup, a book that reshaped how a generation of founders think about building companies. His new book, Incorruptible, explains how successful…
May 3, 2026 · 1 h 27 min
Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)Max Schoening is head of product at Notion, where he’s been especially effective at getting designers and PMs to ship code, prototype in the terminal, and launch extremely…
Apr 26, 2026 · 1 h 10 min
Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan SpiegelEvan Spiegel, the co-founder and CEO of Snap, is one of the very few people in the world who has successfully built and scaled a lasting consumer social product. Snapchat has…
Apr 23, 2026 · 1 h 26 min
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)Cat Wu is Head of Product for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, building one of the most important AI products of this generation. Before joining Anthropic, Cat spent years as…
Apr 19, 2026 · 1 h 35 min
Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)Nikhyl Singhal is the founder of The Skip, a community for senior product leaders; a former product exec at Meta, Google, and Credit Karma; and a many-time founder. He’s also one…
Apr 12, 2026 · 1 h 23 min
Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)Keith Rabois was an early executive at PayPal (part of the famous PayPal Mafia), COO at Square, VP of Corporate Development at LinkedIn, and an early investor in Stripe, DoorDash…
Apr 5, 2026 · 1 h 53 min
Anthropic’s $1B to $19B growth run: how Claude became the fastest-growing AI product in history | Amol AvasareAmol Avasare is Head of Growth at Anthropic, which is going through the most unprecedented growth trajectory in history—scaling from $1 billion to over $19 billion in ARR in just…
Apr 2, 2026 · 1 h 40 min
An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon WillisonSimon Willison is a prolific independent software developer, a blogger, and one of the most visible and trusted voices on the impact AI is having on builders. He co-created Django…
Mar 29, 2026 · 1 h 47 min
From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire VoClaire Vo is the host of our sister podcast, “How I AI,” a former product executive and engineer, and founder of an AI startup called ChatPRD. Claire now runs her business…
Mar 22, 2026 · 1 h 34 min
The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)Jessica Fain is a product leader at Webflow and former Chief of Staff to the CPO at Slack, where she worked alongside April Underwood and many past podcast guests including Stewart…
Mar 15, 2026 · 1 h 55 min
The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick (Executive Negotiator)Jacob Warwick is an executive negotiation coach who helps senior operators negotiate better salary, equity, titles, and severance packages. He has worked with leaders across tech…
Mar 12, 2026 · 1 h 7 min
How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny RachitskyPeople have been asking me to sit on the other side of the mic for a long time. With my wife’s debut children’s book, Charts for Babies, coming out next month, we figured: why not…
Mar 8, 2026 · 1 h 24 min
The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar YounisQasar Younis is the co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, a $15 billion AI company that adds intelligence to cars, tractors, planes, submarines, and other vehicles—essentially…
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The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)Mar 1, 2026 · 1 h 17 min
The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)Jenny Wen leads design for Claude at Anthropic. Prior to this, she was Director of Design at Figma, where she led the teams behind FigJam and Slides. Before that, she was a…
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AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu PatelFeb 26, 2026 · 1 h 27 min
AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu PatelJeetu Patel is the president and chief product officer at Cisco, where he leads a team of 30,000 people and is playing a central role in the massive AI infrastructure buildout…
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Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris ChernyFeb 19, 2026 · 1 h 28 min
Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris ChernyBoris Cherny is the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. What began as a simple terminal-based prototype just a year ago has transformed the role of software engineering…
Feb 15, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
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)Brian Halligan co-founded HubSpot, ran it as CEO for about 15 years, and now coaches Sequoia’s fastest-growing founders as their in-house CEO coach. We discuss: 1. His LOCKS…
Feb 12, 2026 · 1 h 20 min
“Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin WuSherwin Wu leads engineering for OpenAI’s API platform, where roughly 95% of engineers use Codex, often working with fleets of 10 to 20 parallel AI agents. We discuss: 1. What…
Feb 8, 2026 · 1 h 43 min
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)Lazar Jovanovic is a full-time professional vibe coder at Lovable. His job is to build both internal tools and customer-facing products purely using AI, while not having a coding…
Feb 1, 2026 · 1 h 32 min
A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky KennedyDr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, the bestselling author of Good Inside, and the founder of a parenting platform used by millions. Known for her practical…
Jan 29, 2026 · 1 h 45 min
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yetMarc Andreessen is a founder, investor, and co-founder of Netscape, as well as co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). In this conversation, we dig into…
Jan 25, 2026 · 1 h 46 min
5 questions to ask when your product stops growing | Jason Cohen (2x unicorn founder)Jason Cohen is a four-time founder (including two unicorns, one being WP Engine) and an investor in over 60 startups, and has been sharing his lessons on company building at A…
Jan 18, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)Zevi Arnovitz is a product manager at Meta with no technical background who has figured out how to build and ship real products using AI. His engineering team at Meta asks him to…
Jan 15, 2026 · 1 h 27 min
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam LessinSam Lessin is a partner at Slow Ventures, a former VP of Product at Facebook, and a two-time founder who’s now teaching etiquette to Silicon Valley’s founders. In this…
Jan 11, 2026 · 1 h 26 min
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and AmazonAishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam have helped build and launch more than 50 enterprise AI products across companies like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Databricks. Based on…
Jan 4, 2026 · 1 h 32 min
The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scaleMolly Graham has worked for some of tech’s most effective leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Bret Taylor. Today she leads Glue Club, a…
Jan 1, 2026 · 1 h 42 min
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)Jason Lemkin is the founder of SaaStr, the world’s largest community for software founders, and a veteran SaaS investor who has deployed over $200 million into B2B startups. After…
Dec 28, 2025 · 1 h 36 min
10 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling)Matt MacInnis is the chief product officer and former longtime COO at Rippling, a unified workforce management platform valued at over $16 billion. We discuss: 1. Why…
Dec 21, 2025 · 1 h 33 min
The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander SchulhoffSander Schulhoff is an AI researcher specializing in AI security, prompt injection, and red teaming. He wrote the first comprehensive guide on prompt engineering and ran the…
Dec 18, 2025 · 1 h 32 min
The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth)Elena Verna is the head of growth at Lovable, the leading AI-powered app builder that hit $200 million in annual recurring revenue in under a year with just 100 employees. In this…
Dec 14, 2025 · 1 h 25 min
Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)Alexander Embiricos leads product on Codex, OpenAI’s powerful coding agent, which has grown 20x since August and now serves trillions of tokens weekly. Before joining OpenAI…
Dec 7, 2025 · 1 h 11 min
The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)Edwin Chen is the founder and CEO of Surge AI, the company that teaches AI what’s good vs. what’s bad, powering frontier labs with elite data, environments, and evaluations. Surge…
Dec 4, 2025 · 1 h 8 min
Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)Tomer Cohen is the longtime chief product officer at LinkedIn, where he’s pioneering the Full Stack Builder program, a radical new approach to product development that fully…
Nov 30, 2025 · 1 h 26 min
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)Jeanne DeWitt Grosser built world-class GTM teams at Stripe, Google, and, most recently, Vercel, where she serves as COO and oversees marketing, sales, customer success, revenue…
Nov 23, 2025 · 1 h 45 min
A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love | Rachel LockettRachel Lockett is a sought-after executive coach and former HR leader at Stripe and Pinterest who now works with CEOs, founders, and tech leaders on emotional intelligence…
Nov 20, 2025 · 1 h 31 min
Slack founder: Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart ButterfieldStewart Butterfield is the co-founder of Slack and Flickr, two of the most influential products in internet history. After selling Slack to Salesforce in one of tech’s biggest…
Nov 16, 2025 · 1 h 20 min
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots, and why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei LiDr. Fei-Fei Li is known as the “godmother of AI.” She’s been at the center of AI’s biggest breakthroughs for over two decades. She spearheaded ImageNet, the dataset that sparked…
Nov 13, 2025 · 1 h 54 min
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (CEO)Grant Lee is the co-founder of Gamma, the AI-powered presentation tool that’s one of the hottest and most interesting AI startups in the world right now. They’re valued at over $2…
Nov 9, 2025 · 1 h 22 min
"Sell the alpha, not the feature": The enterprise sales playbook for $1M to $10M ARR | Jen AbelJen Abel is GM of Enterprise at State Affairs and co-founded Jellyfish, a consultancy that helps founders learn zero-to-one enterprise sales. She’s one of the smartest people I’ve…
Nov 2, 2025 · 1 h 6 min
The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie PerkinsMelanie Perkins is CEO and co-founder of Canva, currently valued at over $42 billion, generating over $3 billion in annual revenue, with more than 240 million monthly active users…
Oct 26, 2025 · 1 h 27 min
How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. PrasannaDhanji R. Prasanna is the chief technology officer at Block (formerly Square), where he’s managed more than 4,000 engineers over the past two years. Under his leadership, Block has…
Oct 23, 2025 · 1 h 23 min
Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)Chip Huyen is a core developer on Nvidia’s Nemo platform, a former AI researcher at Netflix, and taught machine learning at Stanford. She’s a two-time founder and the author of two…
Oct 19, 2025 · 1 h 8 min
How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole ForsgrenNicole Forsgren created the most widely used frameworks for measuring developer productivity—DORA and SPACE. She wrote the foundational book Accelerate and is about to release her…
Oct 16, 2025 · 1 h 27 min
Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan FieldDylan Field is co-founder and CEO of Figma, a beloved tool used by every modern product team. Founded in 2012, Figma has expanded from a single design tool to a comprehensive…
Oct 10, 2025 · 1 h 22 min
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)Robby Stein is VP of Product at Google, where he oversees the core products of Google Search—including the new AI Overviews, AI Mode, search ranking, Google Lens, and more…
Oct 9, 2025 · 1 h 24 min
First interview with Scale AI’s CEO: $14B Meta deal, what’s working in enterprise AI, and what frontier labs are building next | Jason DroegeJason Droege is the CEO of Scale AI, a company that provides foundational training data to every major AI lab. He previously co-founded Scour with Travis Kalanick and built Uber…
Oct 5, 2025 · 1 h 25 min
How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)Albert Cheng has led growth at three of the world’s most successful consumer subscription companies: Duolingo, Grammarly, and Chess.com. A former Google product manager (and…
Sep 28, 2025 · 1 h 24 min
A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype)Nesrine Changuel helped build Spotify, Google Chrome, and Google Meet. Her work has helped her discover the importance of emotional connection in building successful products. At…
Sep 25, 2025 · 1 h 47 min
Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators of the #1 eval course)Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar teach the world’s most popular course on AI evals and have trained over 2,000 PMs and engineers (including many teams at OpenAI and Anthropic). In…
Sep 21, 2025 · 1 h 36 min
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo (Facebook VP, Sundial CEO, The Making of a Manager author)Julie Zhuo is the former VP and Head of Design at Facebook (now Meta), author of the bestselling book The Making of a Manager, and co-founder of Sundial, an AI-powered data…
Sep 18, 2025 · 1 h 7 min
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)Brendan Foody is the CEO and co-founder of Mercor, the fastest-growing company in history to go from $1M to $500M in revenue (in just 17 months!). At 22, he is also the youngest…
Sep 14, 2025 · 1 h 12 min
The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)Ethan Smith is the CEO of Graphite—the leading SEO growth agency—and my go-to expert on SEO. After 18 years of mastering traditional SEO, Ethan has been at the forefront of what is…
Sep 11, 2025 · 1 h 38 min
$46B of hard truths from Ben Horowitz: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear (a16z co-founder)Ben Horowitz is the co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Silicon Valley’s largest and most influential venture capital firm, with over $46B in committed capital across multiple…
Sep 7, 2025 · 1 h 18 min
How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne UdezueEzinne and Oji Udezue have over 50 years of combined product leadership experience at Microsoft, Twitter, Atlassian, WP Engine, Typeform, and Calendly. They’ve witnessed every…
Aug 31, 2025 · 1 h 41 min
How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)Howie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Airtable, the no-code platform valued at around $12 billion. After a viral tweet declared “Airtable is dead” based on incorrect data, Howie…
Aug 28, 2025 · 57 min
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)Asha Sharma leads AI product strategy at Microsoft, where she works with thousands of companies building AI products and has unique visibility into what’s working (and what’s not)…
Aug 24, 2025 · 1 h 10 min
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)Garrett Lord is co-founder and CEO of Handshake, which started as a career network for college students and new grads but recently discovered something extraordinary: they were…
Aug 21, 2025 · 1 h 23 min
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)Eoghan McCabe is the founder and CEO of Intercom, a customer service platform that has successfully pivoted to become an AI-first company with its agent product, Fin. After…
Aug 17, 2025 · 1 h 29 min
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour (Reforge)Brian Balfour is the founder of Reforge, the former VP of Growth at HubSpot, and a student (and teacher) of product growth. Brian has studied every major platform shift—from…
Aug 14, 2025 · 1 h 32 min
The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMayMatt LeMay spent 13 years as a music critic at Pitchfork before becoming one of product management’s most influential voices. He’s consulted with companies from startups to Fortune…
Aug 9, 2025 · 1 h 36 min
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI)Nick Turley is Head of ChatGPT, the fastest-growing product in history, with 700 million weekly active users (10% of the world’s population). He was part of the original hackathon…
Aug 3, 2025 · 1 h 20 min
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)Chip Conley is the founder of Joie de Vivre hotels, the second-largest boutique hotel brand in the world. At age 52, he joined Airbnb as Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy…
Jul 31, 2025 · 1 h 29 min
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and moreBret Taylor’s legendary career includes being CTO of Meta, co-CEO of Salesforce, chairman of the board at OpenAI (yes, during that drama), co-creating both Google Maps and the Like…
Jul 27, 2025 · 1 h 12 min
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan RamanujamMadhavan Ramanujam is the world’s foremost expert on pricing and monetization strategy. As managing partner at Simon-Kucher, he helped over 250 companies, including 30 unicorns…
Jul 20, 2025 · 1 h 15 min
Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben MannBenjamin Mann is a co-founder of Anthropic, an AI startup dedicated to building aligned, safety-first AI systems. Prior to Anthropic, Ben was one of the architects of GPT-3 at…
Jul 17, 2025 · 1 h 35 min
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every. With just 15 people, Every publishes a daily AI newsletter, ships multiple AI products, and operates a million-dollar-a-year…
Jul 13, 2025 · 1 h 42 min
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)Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are the co-creators of the Design Sprint (the famous five-day product innovation process) and authors of the bestselling book Sprint. After decades of…
Jul 6, 2025 · 1 h 32 min
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor ShlomoMaor Shlomo is the founder of Base44, an AI-powered app builder that he bootstrapped to an over $80 million acquisition by Wix in just six months. As a solo founder (with severe…
Jul 3, 2025 · 1 h 28 min
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson (co‑founder of Tiny)Andrew Wilkinson is the co‑founder of Tiny, a holding company that quietly owns more than three dozen profitable internet and consumer brands, including Dribbble and the AeroPress…
Jun 29, 2025 · 1 h 23 min
Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)David Placek is the founder of Lexicon Branding, a company that focuses exclusively on the development of brand names for competitive advantage. Lexicon is behind iconic names such…
Jun 22, 2025 · 1 h 55 min
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter DengPeter Deng has led product teams at OpenAI, Instagram, Uber, Facebook, Airtable, and Oculus and helped build products used by billions—including Facebook’s News Feed, the…
Jun 19, 2025 · 1 h 38 min
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)Sander Schulhoff is the OG prompt engineer. He created the very first prompt engineering guide on the internet (two months before ChatGPT’s release) and recently wrote the most…
Jun 15, 2025 · 1 h 55 min
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)Hilary Gridley is the Head of Core Product at WHOOP and a passionate thought leader in leveraging AI to elevate product teams and management practices. With extensive experience…
Jun 12, 2025 · 1 h 42 min
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond | Bob BaxleyBob Baxley is a design leader who has shaped products used by billions at Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo, and ThoughtSpot. During his eight years at Apple, he led design for the online…
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