Summaries of Lenny's Podcast Videos 📚

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

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

Product Management Is Dead, So What Are We Doing Instead? | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

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

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

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

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

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

How to Master AI Evals for Product Success

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

How Does Netflix Cultivate a Culture of Excellence?

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

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

How to Build and Scale a Successful Marketplace

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

How to Find Hidden Growth Opportunities in Your Product

Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)

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

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

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

How to Become a Successful Product Manager

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

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

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

Build better products with continuous product discovery | Teresa Torres

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

What Is Product Operations and Why Is It Essential?

How Do You Create Iconic Brand Names?

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

Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)

How to Coach Product Managers and Grow as a Product Leader

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

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

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

How Does AI Shape Product Development at Anthropic?

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

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

How to Create Engaging Presentations with Nancy Duarte

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

How to Implement Product-Led Growth Strategy

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

How to Master SaaS Onboarding and Activation Rate

How to nail your product positioning | April Dunford (Obviously Awesome)

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

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

Chip Huyen on What Actually Improves AI Apps

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

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

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

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

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

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

The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)

How Anthropic Achieved Unprecedented Growth

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

How Does Cursor Revolutionize Software Development?

Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)

Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield

Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

Why Is Product-Led Growth the Future of B2B?

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

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

How Does Linear Prioritize Design in Software Development?

How Can Authenticity and Curiosity Improve Leadership?

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

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

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

How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren

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

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

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

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

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

Simplify To Win | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drew Houston on Building Dropbox Through Three Eras

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

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt

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

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

What Are the Benefits of Implementing OKRs?

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

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

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

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

Geoffrey Moore on How to Cross the Chasm in B2B

What Differentiates Top Product Teams?

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

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

Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The UX Research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)

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

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

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

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

What Happens When Coding Becomes Fully Automated?

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

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

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

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

How to Pick a Startup Idea That Won't Fail

The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna

How Should Startups Approach Resilience and Pivots?

How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana)

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

Failure

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

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

Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)

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

How Bolt Achieved Rapid Growth: Eric Simons Interview

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

What is the Jobs to Be Done Framework?

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

Ronny Kohavi on A/B Testing and Experimentation Culture

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

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

The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)

How to Develop a Winning Product Strategy

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

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

Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)

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

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

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

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

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

How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)

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

How AI Transforms Product Development and Work Structures

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

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

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

Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)

How to Hire Top Product Leaders: Tips from Lauren Ipsen

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

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

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

How Figma Grew: Claire Butler on Bottom-Up GTM

Strategies for becoming less distractible and improving focus | Nir Eyal

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

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

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

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

How Gamma Reached $100M ARR with Influencer Marketing

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

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

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

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

How the New York Times Builds Products with Alex Hardiman

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

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

Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott

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

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

“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey

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

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

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

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

How to Implement Shape Up for Product Development

Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year

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

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

How to Achieve Product-Market Fit with Sean Ellis

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

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

How to Handle Difficult Conversations Effectively

Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)

How to Build a World-Class GTM Strategy in 2026

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

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

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

Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta

How to Master AI Prompt Engineering in 2025

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

How Lovable Achieved $200M ARR in One Year

An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)

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

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

How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn)

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

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

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

How To Craft An Elite Career | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024

Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)

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

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

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

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

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

Rethinking SEO in the age of AI | Eli Schwartz (SEO advisor, author)

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

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

How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri

The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

Building better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)

How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)

Behind the founder: Marc Benioff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Product Managers Do That Annoys Engineers Most

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

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

How to Optimize Your Product for ChatGPT Recommendations

Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)

How to Master Product Management with Shreyas Doshi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scale AI CEO on Meta’s $14B deal, scaling Uber Eats to $80B, & what frontier labs are building next

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

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

Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR

Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)

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

My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests

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

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

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

Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)

What Is Performance Marketing and How Can It Boost Growth?

Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)

Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform)

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

Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)

How Will AI Change Software Development in the Future?

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

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

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

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

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

Why Does Netflix Hire Systems Thinkers Over Specialists?

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

Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)

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

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

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

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

The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

Relentless curiosity, radical accountability, and HubSpot’s winning growth formula | Chris Miller

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

How Will AI Transform Jobs and Skills in the Future?

The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay

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

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

How to Create a New Product Category (Barbra Gago)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How Can Product Managers Leverage AI Effectively?

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