Summaries of Lenny's Podcast Videos 📚

Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)

Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field

What Is Martech and When Should You Hire for It?

How to Become a More Strategic Product Leader

How Bolt Achieved Rapid Growth: Eric Simons Interview

Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll

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

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

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

The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)

Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Land your dream job in today’s market: negotiation tactics, job search councils, more | Phyl Terry

Oji Udezue on Building Products That Spread

How to Think Beyond Product Management Frameworks

Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life

Twitter’s ex-Head of Product on Elon, consumer products, culture, more | Kayvon Beykpour

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

How to win in the AI era: Ship weekly, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and more

Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand

How Should Engineering Leaders Adapt to Change?

Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)

How Can Authenticity and Curiosity Improve Leadership?

Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)

What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)

Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)

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

How to Build a $10M ARR Startup in 60 Days

Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)

How to Make Consumer Apps Go Viral: Nikita Bier's Insights

Overcome imposter syndrome and accelerate your career | Julie Zhuo (Sundial, Facebook)

4 questions Shreyas wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google

Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, and prioritizes intuition

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

Lessons from a 2-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor and 20-time board member | Uri Levine

A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)

How to Rethink SEO for AI-Powered Search

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

Simplify To Win | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)

Chip Conley on Mentoring Airbnb and Midlife

Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)

How Does AI Change Product Management Teams?

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

How Does Andrew Wilkinson Pick Startup Ideas That Won’t Fail?

Driving alignment within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller

Inside Google's AI turnaround: AI Mode, AI Overviews, and vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein

Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google)

Why Does Netflix Hire Systems Thinkers Over Specialists?

How Do You Create Iconic Brand Names?

How to Run Product Reviews That Build Trust

How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)

Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM @Slack)

Understanding the role of product ops | Christine Itwaru (Pendo)

Notion's lost years, near collapse during COVID, staying small to move fast, building horizontal

The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick

What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)

“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham

How Does Netflix Cultivate a Culture of Excellence?

How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue

The ultimate guide to PR | Emilie Gerber (founder of Six Eastern)

Behind the founder: Marc Benioff

Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf

Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)

Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst

$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)

Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)

How to Build an Elite and Sustainable Tech Career

How Base44 Reached an $80M Exit in Six Months

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

Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)

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

What Is Conscious Leadership and How Does It Work?

Career frameworks, A/B testing, onboarding tips, selling to engineers | Laura Schaffer (Amplitude)

What Is Performance Marketing and How Can It Boost Growth?

How Deel Built Fast, Profitable SaaS Growth

How Should Startups Approach Resilience and Pivots?

How to Build a Pricing and Monetization Strategy

How to Achieve Product-Market Fit with Sean Ellis

Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske

How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)

Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more

How to Implement Product-Led Growth Strategy

From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo

How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund

Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri

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

Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)

Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)

Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)

Why Is User Research Facing a Reckoning Now?

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

Lessons from Atlassian | Megan Cook (Head of Product, Jira)

How to Coach Product Managers and Grow as a Product Leader

How to Build a High-Impact Centralized Data Team

Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)

How Block Uses AI Agents to Save 8-10 Hours Weekly

Ronny Kohavi on A/B Testing and Experimentation Culture

How to Find Hidden Growth Opportunities in Your Product

How to Become an AI Product Manager: Aman Khan's Guide

How AI Transforms Product Development and Work Structures

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

Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and embracing AI | Cameron Adams

A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype)

The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna

Product-led growth B2B companies succeed if they master this first step | Elena Verna

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

Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)

Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard)

How AI Is Changing Product Management Teams

How to Lead High-Intensity, Understaffed Teams

10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell)

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

Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf

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

How to Implement Shape Up for Product Development

What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)

How to Practice Radical Candor in the Workplace

How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford professor, “Touchy Feely”)

How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, speaker, author)

Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming

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

Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and PM’ing your career like a product | Deb Liu

How to Master Product Management with Shreyas Doshi

How to Handle Difficult Conversations Effectively

How to Tell Stories People Remember at Work

Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome anxiety | Tristan de Montebello

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

Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup ever | Geoff Charles

How to Build a Founder-Led Sales Process

Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon

How to Become a Successful Product Manager

How to Build a World-Class GTM Strategy in 2026

The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)

How Can Product Managers Leverage AI Effectively?

Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield

$1M to $10M: The enterprise sales playbook with Jen Abel

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

My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests

The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, FB, Thumbtack, YT)

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

How to Create a New Product Category (Barbra Gago)

How to Create Engaging Presentations with Nancy Duarte

Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Zero)

How to Hire Top Product Leaders: Tips from Lauren Ipsen

Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (Authors of Make Time, Character VC)

How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw

How Does Linear Prioritize Design in Software Development?

How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian)

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

How monday.com Scaled Product Impact and Speed

Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)

Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)

Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier

How Does AI Shape Product Development at Anthropic?

Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO)

How Does Amazon Build Customer-First Teams?

What Happens When Coding Becomes Fully Automated?

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

How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook

Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue

How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine)

An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)

Unorthodox PM tips: Automating user insights, unselling candidates, decision logs, more | Kevin Yien

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

The science of product, big bets, and how AI is impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström

How Will AI Change Software Development in the Future?

How Figma Grew: Claire Butler on Bottom-Up GTM

Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi

Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)

Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam

The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)

Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua

OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil

How Will AI Transform Jobs and Skills in the Future?

How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri

OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen

How to Build Better Digital Products and Teams

Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)

Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Riverside)

Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)

An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar

A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo

Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)

What Product Managers Do That Annoys Engineers Most

The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra, Coda, YouTube, Microsoft

Taxi mafias, cash vaults & 100% MoM growth: The story of SEA’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)

How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary

Geoffrey Moore on How to Cross the Chasm in B2B

What Differentiates the Highest-Performing Product Teams? John Cutler (The Beautiful Mess)

Jason Droege on Scaling AI and New Businesses

Why Is Product-Led Growth the Future of B2B?

Embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, poking the bear, and “impact, impact, impact” | Vlad Loktev

How to Build Strategy Around the Key Challenge

This will make you a better decision maker | Annie Duke (Thinking In Bets, former pro poker player)

How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)

Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YT, IG, FB)

Using behavioral science to improve your product | Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs)

The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li

The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford)

How to Build and Scale a Successful Marketplace

How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische

The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen

Moving fast and navigating uncertainty | Jeremy Henrickson (Rippling, Coinbase)

The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain

How to Build Better Product Roadmaps Without Dates

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

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

The 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product | Noah Weiss (Slack, Google)

Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe

Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)

How to Master SaaS Onboarding and Activation Rate

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

How Did HubSpot Build Product-Led Growth?

How to Make Better Career Decisions with Feedback

What Is Product Operations and Why Is It Essential?

The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

How to Find Your Bullseye Customer in One Day

How to build your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)

Strategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus | Nir Eyal

How to Develop a Winning Product Strategy

How to hit revenue targets in a recession | Sahil Mansuri (Bravado)

How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite

When enough is enough | Andy Johns (ex-FB, Twitter, Quora)

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

How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren

Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, altMBA, Section4)

Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)

How to Find Growth Channels for Subscriptions

How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)

How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)

The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin

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

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

Failure

How Do Product Leaders Earn Trust and Plan?

An inside look at how Miro builds product | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)

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

Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork & Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang

How to Perfectly Position Your B2B Product

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

How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe)

Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

What Are the Benefits of Implementing OKRs?

How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1)

How Is Cursor Changing Software Development? Michael Truell on the $300M ARR AI Tool

How to find work you love | Bob Moesta (Jobs-to-be-Done co-creator, author of "Job Moves”)

How to Master AI Evals for Product Success

He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)

Drew Houston on Building Dropbox Through Three Eras

The common mistake most managers make | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)

Ramesh Johari on Building Online Marketplaces

Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more

How Stripe Builds a Culture of Product Excellence

How Anthropic Achieved Unprecedented Growth

The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon

How Did Lovable Hit $200M ARR in One Year? The New AI Growth Playbook for 2026

LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)

An inside look at X’s Community Notes | Keith Coleman & Jay Baxter

How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (Author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, more)

A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs)

How Does Continuous Product Discovery Work?

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

Chip Huyen on What Actually Improves AI Apps

What is the Jobs to Be Done Framework?

Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)

How Gamma Reached $100M ARR with Influencer Marketing

How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google

Linear’s secret to building beloved B2B products | Nan Yu (Head of Product)

The role of AI in new product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub)

How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, Github)

How to Find a Breakthrough Startup Idea That Wins

A founder’s guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder, serial entrepreneur)

Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product, Figma)

How to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise)

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

How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu

Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)

From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo

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

Meta’s head of product on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, and more | Naomi Gleit

Tobi Lütke's leadership playbook: First principles, infinite games, and maximizing human potential

Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)

The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay

How to Master AI Prompt Engineering in 2025

Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour

How the New York Times Builds Products with Alex Hardiman

Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)

Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year

Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)

How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts

How to Optimize Your Product for ChatGPT Recommendations

Frameworks for product differentiation, team building, and first principles thinking | Ayo Omojola