Lenny's Podcast

Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann

The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)

In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, host Lenny interviews Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, about leveraging AI in business. Dan shares his contrarian views on AI, including its potential to reshore American jobs and the underutilization of Claude code by non-coders. He details how Every, a 15-person company, operates at the ...

Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint

In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky discuss the Foundation Sprint, a two-day framework designed to help founders and product teams refine and test their startup ideas. They detail the three phases of the sprint: basics, differentiation, and approach, emphasizing the importance of aligning t...

Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo

I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson

In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Andrew Wilkinson, co-founder and CEO of Tiny, shares his insights on generating startup ideas, emphasizing the importance of finding niche markets and focusing on areas where one has an unfair advantage. He advises against pursuing overly competitive or "overfished" markets and stres...

Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos

From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products

In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Lenny interviews Peter Deng, a product leader who has worked at Facebook, Instagram, Uber, OpenAI, and Airtable. Deng shares insights on building products from zero to billions, emphasizing the importance of planning, systems thinking, and understanding human behavior. He discusses c...

AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff

In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Lenny interviews Sander Schulhoff, an expert in prompt engineering, to discuss practical techniques for improving interactions with Large Language Models (LLMs). They cover basic methods like few-shot prompting, decomposition, self-criticism, and providing additional context, as well...

How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)

35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley

In this episode of the Lenny Rachitsky Podcast, Bob Baxley, a seasoned designer and executive, shares his extensive experience from Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo, and ThoughtSpot, offering unique insights into design thinking, company culture, and product development. Baxley emphasizes the moral obligation of product creator...

Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios

Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)

In this interview, Lenny interviews Mike Krieger, CPO of Anthropic and co-founder of Instagram, about the impact of AI on product development and strategy. They discuss how AI is changing software development, with AI now writing a significant portion of Anthropic's code, and the bottlenecks that have emerged as a resu...

Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal

Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman

In this interview podcast, Lenny interviews Krithika Shankarraman, a marketing expert who was the first marketing hire at OpenAI and Stripe, and an early marketing leader at Retool and Dropbox. Krithika shares key marketing lessons from her experiences, including her four-step diagnostic approach (DATE - Diagnose, Anal...

Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)

Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada

In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Lenny interviews Aparna Chennapragada, Chief Product Officer at Microsoft, about the future of product development in the age of AI. They discuss the differences between building products for consumer and enterprise, the importance of prototyping and experimentation, and the evolving...

How Revolut trains world-class PMs: The “Local CEO” model, raw intellect & building wow products

How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)

In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, host Lenny interviews Nabeel Qureshi, a founder, writer, researcher, and former forward-deployed engineer at Palantir, to explore the company's unique culture, hiring practices, and product development strategies. The conversation delves into Palantir's focus on independent-minded, i...

How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna

Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu

In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, host Lenny Rachitsky interviews Scott Wu, the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, about Devin, the world's first autonomous AI software engineer. Scott discusses how Devin is used by Cognition's engineering team, with each engineer utilizing multiple Devins to accelerate coding and merg...