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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

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.

Episodes

How Revolut trains world-class product managers: The “local CEO” model, raw intellect over experience, and a cultural obsession with building wow products | Dmitry Zlokazov (Head of Product)

15 May 2025

1h 10m

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This episode explores Revolut's unique approach to building a high-performing product team, emphasizing ownership, depth, and the creation of "wow" products. Dmitry Zlokazov, Global Head of Product at Revolut, details how their product managers, or "product owners," function as mini-CEOs, driving product strategy and e...

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

11 May 2025

1h 37m

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This episode explores Palantir's unique approach to talent acquisition, product development, and its impact on producing successful founders and product leaders. It begins with an overview of Palantir's core business as a data platform provider, distinguishing between its Gotham and Foundry platforms, and then transiti...

How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna (CEO of Reboot, executive coach, former VC)

08 May 2025

1h 22m

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This episode explores the importance of radical self-inquiry for effective leadership and personal resilience, highlighting the need to confront personal delusions and understand one's motivations. Jerry Colonna introduces an equation for cultivating great leaders: practical skills plus radical self-inquiry plus shared...

Inside Devin: The world’s first autonomous AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code by end of year | Scott Wu (CEO and co-founder of Cognition)

04 May 2025

1h 32m

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This episode explores the revolutionary potential of Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer developed by Cognition Labs. Against the backdrop of the rapid advancements in AI, the conversation delves into Devin's capabilities, progressing from its initial launch as a junior engineer to its current status as a valuabl...

The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)

01 May 2025

1h 11m

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This episode explores the future of software development and the role of AI in shaping it, featuring Michael Truell, co-founder and CEO of AnySphere, the company behind the AI code editor Cursor. Against the backdrop of Cursor's rapid growth (reaching $300 million ARR in two years), Truell discusses his vision of a "p...

Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)

27 Apr 2025

1h 32m

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This episode explores the evolution of monday.com, focusing on the counterintuitive lessons learned during its eight-year journey from a small startup to a $1B ARR company. Against the backdrop of initially slow product development, the company underwent a transformative shift after realizing competitors were shipping...

Announcing a brand-new podcast: “How I AI” with Claire Vo 🔥

22 Apr 2025

47m

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This episode explores the transformative impact of AI on product development and engineering, featuring Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad. Against the backdrop of rapidly evolving AI tools, Lavingia details how AI is accelerating his company's workflow, with AI agents currently writing 41% of their pull requests, aiming ...

Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder and CEO)

20 Apr 2025

1h 14m

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This episode explores the evolution of Codium, an AI coding tool company, and its flagship product, Windsurf, against the backdrop of the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Initially focused on GPU infrastructure, Codium pivoted twice, first into AI-powered code completion tools and then into developing its own IDE, Winds...

Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js)

13 Apr 2025

1h 27m

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This episode explores the transformative impact of AI on product development and the evolving skillsets needed for success in this new landscape. Against the backdrop of Vercel's v0, a popular AI website building tool, the conversation delves into how AI is democratizing software creation, enabling designers and produ...

OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter)

10 Apr 2025

1h 31m

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This episode explores the rapid advancements in AI and their implications for product development, focusing on the experiences of Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer at OpenAI. Against the backdrop of the recent viral success of OpenAI's image generation model, the conversation delves into the unique challenges and oppo...

Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor)

06 Apr 2025

1h 33m

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This episode explores the art and science of effective communication, particularly within executive settings. Against the backdrop of common communication pitfalls like unclear explanations leading to confusion and apathy, Wes Kao emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and agency in improving communication skill...

A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)

30 Mar 2025

1h 45m

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This episode explores the Shape Up method, a distinct approach to software development contrasting with Agile and Scrum methodologies. Against the backdrop of increasing interest in alternative development processes, especially in the context of AI's transformative impact, the interview delves into Shape Up's core pri...

How to win in the AI era: Ship a feature every week, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and create magic your competitors can't copy | Gaurav Misra (CEO and co-founder of Captions)

27 Mar 2025

1h 25m

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This episode explores the operational dynamics of a cutting-edge AI-driven startup, Captions, focusing on its unique product development and team management strategies. Against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving AI landscape, the conversation highlights the company's approach of having each engineer ship a marketable ...

Superhuman's secret to success: Ignoring most customer feedback, manually onboarding every new user, obsessing over every detail, and positioning around a single attribute: speed | Rahul Vohra (CEO)

23 Mar 2025

1h 25m

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This podcast features an interview with Rahul Vohra, CEO of Superhuman, focusing on his approach to building successful products and companies. The conversation covers his experience selling his previous company, his contrarian views on virality and product-market fit (including a unique "product-market fit engine"), ...

The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet")

16 Mar 2025

1h 17m

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This podcast interviews Susan Cain, author of "Quiet," about introversion. The conversation explores the introversion-extroversion spectrum, dispelling myths about career success and offering practical advice for introverts to thrive in business. Cain emphasizes developing skills like public speaking while staying tr...

Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder and CEO of StackBlitz)

13 Mar 2025

1h 28m

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This podcast interviews Eric Simons, co-founder and CEO of StackBlitz, about their rapidly growing AI-powered code generation product, Bolt. The conversation covers Bolt's astonishing growth from near-shutdown to $40 million ARR in just five months, highlighting the crucial role of their seven-year-old WebContainer te...

Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (co-founder and CEO)

09 Mar 2025

1h 9m

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This podcast interviews Anton Osika, co-founder and CEO of Lovable, an AI software engineering tool. The conversation covers Lovable's rapid growth (reaching $10 million ARR in two months with 15 employees), a live demo showcasing the tool's ability to generate and modify code based on simple prompts, and Osika's insi...

Notion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to move fast, the joy and suffering of building horizontal, more | Ivan Zhao (CEO and co-founder)

06 Mar 2025

1h 12m

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This podcast features an interview with Ivan Zhao, co-founder and CEO of Notion, focusing on his entrepreneurial journey and the development of Notion. The conversation covers Notion's initial struggles ("lost years"), the pivot to a productivity tool, and the importance of balancing personal vision with market demand...

The creator of WordPress opens up about becoming an internet villain, why he’s taking a stand, and the future of open source | Matt Mullenweg (founder and CEO, Automattic)

02 Mar 2025

1h 34m

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This podcast features an interview with Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress, focusing on recent controversies surrounding his actions and the future of open-source software. The conversation begins with Mullenweg's background and his passion for open source, transitioning into a discussion of the legal dispute wit...

An inside look at X’s Community Notes | Keith Coleman (VP of Product) and Jay Baxter (ML Lead)

27 Feb 2025

1h 47m

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This podcast interviews Keith Coleman and Jay Baxter, the product lead and founding ML engineer of Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch) on X (formerly Twitter). The discussion covers the platform's functionality, its surprisingly effective algorithm that leverages agreement from users with opposing viewpoints, and its...

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