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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

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How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)

08 Sep 2024
1h 9m
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This podcast episode highlights the transformative journey of LinkedIn under Tomer's leadership, illustrating the empowering mantra of "We might be wrong, but we're not confused" as a catalyst for clarity and constructive debate. By emphasizing ambitious goals and an AI-first mindset, Tomer reveals how the platform evo...

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The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author of “Hacking Growth”)

05 Sep 2024
1h 44m
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This podcast episode emphasizes the critical importance of achieving and understanding product-market fit through the lens of the Sean Ellis Test, showcasing how strategic repositioning and user insights can significantly elevate a product's relevance and growth potential. Sean Ellis illustrates the value of deeply eng...

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Airbnb’s Vlad Loktev on embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, poking the bear, and “impact, impact, impact” (Partner at Index Ventures, Airbnb GM/VP Product)

01 Sep 2024
1h 37m
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This podcast episode delves into the nuances of navigating a hypergrowth environment, as Vlad shares invaluable insights on effective communication, team building, and organizational culture. Through frameworks like inquiry vs. advocacy and concepts like "letting fires burn," he encourages listeners to prioritize what'...

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How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps (co-founder of TBH, Gas, advisor, investor)

25 Aug 2024
1h 38m
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This podcast episode reveals the journey of Nikita as he shares his insights on building successful consumer apps, particularly emphasizing the power of targeting teenagers, iterating through testing, and adapting to evolving market demands. Through the creation of TBH and Gas, he illustrates key strategies such as und...

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Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and why you should PM your career like you PM your product | Deb Liu (CEO of Ancestry, ex-Facebook, PayPal, eBay)

22 Aug 2024
1h 11m
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This podcast episode features Deb sharing her insightful journey into product management, illustrating how resilience, intentionality, and a willingness to learn from failure can lead to success in a competitive field. Through her experiences, Deb emphasizes the importance of passion, the ability to embrace and learn f...

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Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more | Kevin Yien (Stripe, Square, Mutiny)

18 Aug 2024
1h 28m
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This podcast episode features Kevin Yien, a product leader at Stripe, who emphasizes the multifaceted role of product managers, arguing that they must master both internal and external communication, particularly through writing, to convert potential value into real customer benefits. He outlines practical strategies s...

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Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences)

11 Aug 2024
2h 14m
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This podcast episode delves into transforming our inner dialogue and emotional engagement to foster authentic living and decision-making. Joe emphasizes the importance of reframing the inner critic, embracing all emotions, and using emotional fluidity to make decisions that align with our true selves. He encourages lis...

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How embracing emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (executive coach, Art of Accomplishment)

08 Aug 2024
1h 18m
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This podcast episode features Joe Hudson, an executive coach, who delves into the crucial roles that self-perception and emotional awareness play in achieving personal and professional success. By addressing the detrimental effects of a critical inner voice, advocating for the embrace of all emotions, and introducing c...

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Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)

04 Aug 2024
1h 14m
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This podcast episode delves into the intricate dynamics of product operations, illustrating the essential collaboration between product and operations teams, especially in fast-growing environments like Uber and Opendoor. Brian shares engaging anecdotes from Uber's formative years while offering practical insights into...

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The ultimate guide to performance marketing | Timothy Davis (Shopify)

28 Jul 2024
1h 42m
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This podcast episode dives deep into the essentials of performance marketing, exploring its measurable nature and emphasizing the importance of data-driven strategies when deciding on growth avenues. It provides insights on effective experimentation through "signs of life" tests, optimal investment timing for startups,...

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5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)

25 Jul 2024
1h 22m
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This podcast episode critically examines the flaws in the resource-based view of the firm and emphasizes the necessity for a balanced integration of strategic positioning and resource development. Martin asserts that many organizations operate under the misconception that they are "playing to win," when in fact they ar...

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What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)

21 Jul 2024
1h 24m
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This podcast episode explores the importance of distinctiveness in product design, the limitations of relying solely on metrics in business decisions, the role of marketing in the success of innovative products, the psychological hurdles of adopting new behaviors or technologies, the complex relationship between electr...

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Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)

14 Jul 2024
1h 19m
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This podcast episode explores the advantages of having a central analytics team over embedding analytics into business units. It highlights the benefits of a centralized approach, such as aligned goals, data-driven decision-making, talent retention, scalability, and problem-solving capabilities. The importance of carvi...

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Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)

11 Jul 2024
2h 35m
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This podcast episode features an interview with Jeff Weinstein, a product leader at Stripe, who discusses his unique approach to learning, mindset, and product development. He emphasizes the importance of embracing challenging classes and learning from historical scientific theories. The episode highlights the signific...

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Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics)

07 Jul 2024
1h 49m
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This podcast episode explores the process of uncovering insights about startups, specifically focusing on the concept of inflections and their role in driving behavioral change and empowerment. The conversation emphasizes the importance of radical thinking, pattern-breaking actions, and living in the future to achieve ...

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Dylan Field live at Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design

30 Jun 2024
48m
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This podcast episode features various sections that cover topics such as Figma's journey, the power of community, the importance of design, the skepticism towards certain aspects of product management, the evolution of product management at Airbnb, the significance of simplification in product management, the challenge...

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The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of Y Combinator, author, podcast host)

27 Jun 2024
1h 24m
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This podcast episode features Jessica Livingston, the co-founder of Y Combinator and author of "Founders at Work," discussing her unique skill of social radar and its impact on evaluating and investing in startups. The conversation also explores the importance of founder compatibility, openness to change, and defensive...

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Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)

23 Jun 2024
1h 23m
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This podcast episode covers various topics related to decision-making, communication, leadership, and product management. The speaker emphasizes the importance of emotional factors and personal feelings in job decisions, the power of curiosity and learning from others, the value of taking a pause before responding and ...

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Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)

16 Jun 2024
1h 54m
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This podcast episode explores the challenges and lessons learned in product development and innovation within large companies like Atlassian. It discusses the struggles of launching new products, the rise and fall of HipChat, the importance of validating assumptions, the value of customer focus and problem-solving, the...

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The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (author of 7 Rules of Power, professor at Stanford GSB)

13 Jun 2024
1h 22m
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This podcast episode explores the importance of power skills, personal branding, breaking rules, networking, and body language in achieving success in various aspects of life, including career and leadership. It emphasizes the need to learn and develop power skills, build a personal brand, overcome imposter syndrome, d...

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