Lenny's Podcast
Lenny Rachitsky's interviews with product leaders and founders about how they build and grow companies.
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- Lenny's Podcast is hosted by Lenny Rachitsky.
- What is Lenny's Podcast about?
- Lenny Rachitsky's interviews with product leaders and founders about how they build and grow companies.
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- Recent coverage includes An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull), Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (VP Google Labs), and Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic).
Most watched all time
- 1 Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) 361,000 views
- 2 How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI) 87,106 views
- 3 OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux 84,828 views
- 4 Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic) 53,203 views
- 5 AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead) 46,840 views
- 6 Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (VP Google Labs) 45,058 views
- 7 How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with Al | Katie Dill (Stripe) 42,961 views
- 8 OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber 38,000 views
- 9 Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) 37,327 views
- 10 Why the tech workforce is quietly splitting in two | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal) 37,000 views
Latest episodes
- Does your product need to be 10x better? Oct 27, 2026
- AI Progress Is Smooth Until It Crosses a Threshold Oct 26, 2026
- An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull) Oct 25, 2026
- What Happens When AI Beats The Expert? Oct 24, 2026
- Why Anthropic Takes AI Risk So Seriously Oct 24, 2026
131 episodes tracked · 10 guests covered · 10 pieces published, latest 2026-10-27
All Lenny's Podcast coverage
Rob Snyder says design partners almost never help startups find product-market fit
The Power of Pull author argues that the beloved startup design partner is often a false positive with a calendar invite.
Josh Woodward says most big-company labs fizzle out after 3 to 4 years
The Google Labs VP argues that AI has made frontier teams mandatory, but most companies build them in exactly the way that kills them.
Emmanuel Ameisen says Claude plans ahead without saying the plan
Anthropic’s interpretability researcher makes the strongest case yet for why “just a next word predictor” is a dangerously lazy way to talk about modern AI.
Peter Sellis says the best product teams should be designed like terrorist organizations
The former Snapchat and Discord product chief has a radioactive metaphor for startup org design, but the idea underneath it is less insane than the phrasing.
Roman Ugarte says AI bots need their own cloud computers, not yours
The Cursor veteran's big bet is that the future of AI assistants looks less like a chat window and more like hiring a weirdly tireless coworker with a laptop.
Anish Acharya says most AI companion users are women in their 40s and 50s
The a16z consumer investor punctured the AI girlfriend cliché and argued that consumer AI's real prize is not productivity, it is emotional need.
Ian Silber says AI is already an incredible product designer
OpenAI’s head of product design makes the case that designers aren’t doomed by AI, they’re late to the most useful tool in the room.
Adam Ward says asking 'who's the best product engineer you know?' is the worst recruiting question
The Cursor head of talent argues that most companies hire from a 'funnel of doom' and end up with whoever was available, not whoever was best.
Elizabeth Stone says Netflix needs fewer narrow specialists and more systems thinkers in the AI era
Netflix’s CPTO argues that AI makes cross-functional judgment more valuable than one-lane expertise, though she’s not ready to throw engineering, design, or data science craft into the volcano.
Noam Segal says tech workers fear doing more for the same pay more than losing their jobs to AI
The AI job panic has been sold as a robot replacement story, but Segal's survey says the more immediate fear is much more office Slack: congratulations, your output just became your new quota.