Lenny's Podcast

An operator’s guide to product strategy | Chandra Janakiraman (CPO at VRChat, ex-Meta, Headspace)

10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey)

Elena Verna, a B2B growth expert, shares ten growth strategies and tactics that commonly fail despite continued investment. These include prematurely hiring a head of growth before achieving product-market fit, expecting growth teams to reverse business slowdowns rooted in core product issues, and redesigning marketing...

Crafting A Compelling Product Vision (Ebi Atawodi) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor)

The podcast explores how to live a more intentional life by escaping "autopilot mode." Graham Weaver, a Stanford business school professor and private equity CEO, shares frameworks to help people identify their passions and overcome limiting beliefs. One key exercise involves envisioning a genie granting a wish for gua...

How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more

Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)

In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, host Lenny interviews Drew Houston, the founder of Dropbox, about the company's 18-year journey. Houston describes Dropbox's early viral growth, the challenges of competing with tech giants like Apple and Google, and the strategic shifts the company underwent, including focusing on p...

Scripts for navigating difficult conversations | Alisa Cohn (executive coach)

Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure, autonomy, trust, and more

Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO at Confluent)

Behind the founder: Marc Benioff

How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)

Organizational intensity and velocity at scale depend on prioritizing high-output work cadences over mere hours logged. Maintaining a "crafter’s paradise" requires engineering practices like pair programming and aggressive code deletion, which keep systems simple and resilient. Choosing the "hard path" in decision-maki...

Behind the product: Duolingo streaks | Jackson Shuttleworth (Group PM, Retention Team)

In this podcast episode, we explore the incredible success of Duolingo's Streaks feature, a straightforward daily lesson tracking system that has played a key role in boosting the company's valuation to $14 billion. The conversation focuses on the development of Streaks, featuring insights from over 600 A/B tests condu...

How To Win Friends & Influence Decisions (Julie Zhuo) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

Making and Leading Products People Love (Scott Belsky) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more

Building effective strategy and brand identity requires deep empathy, clear promises, and a precise understanding of the systems in which products operate. Seth Godin, a veteran marketer and author, emphasizes that good taste involves anticipating user needs before they are articulated, while high standards require rel...

How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work)

Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)

The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)

Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

How To Do The Product Review Right (By Doing It Wrong) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024