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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky

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.

300 episodes

OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux 4 Oct 2026 · 37 min Tibo Sottiaux leads ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI. Under his stewardship, OpenAI has shipped some of its most consequential consumer launches: Codex, ChatGPT Work, and most recently…

The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham 27 Sept 2026 · 1 hr 34 min Molly Graham is back for round two, and this one is even more powerful. Molly has spent more than 20 years helping organizations and the humans inside them navigate growth and cha…

90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis 20 Sept 2026 · 1 hr 37 min Peter Sellis was the first product manager at Snapchat, where he spent seven years building one of the most beloved consumer products in history. He went on to serve as Head of Pr…

How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI) 8 Sept 2026 · 1 hr 23 min Roman Ugarte helped incubate and build Grok Bot, the popular new knowledge-work agent from SpaceXAI. A small, isolated team took it from first line of code to a working internal p…

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) 6 Sept 2026 · 1 hr 19 min Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has focused on consumer investing. Anish is one of the most insightful, thought-provoking, and in-the-we…

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work) 30 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 22 min Tara Seshan leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI (alongside previous podcast guest Andrew Ambrosino, who’s her engineering manager). Before OpenAI, Tara spent over s…

How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel 23 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 25 min Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJellyfish and GM of enterprise sales at State Affairs. She is widely regarded as one of the sharpest practitioners in enterprise sales, and for that…

OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber 16 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 12 min Ian Silber is the head of product design at OpenAI, where he has led the design of ChatGPT, Codex, and all of OpenAI’s product experience for the past three years. Before OpenAI,…

The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor 9 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 31 min Adam Ward is the Head of Talent at Cursor, one of the fastest-growing developer tools in history. Before joining Cursor, he founded Growth by Design, an independent recruiting and…

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) 2 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 25 min Tom Verrilli is the chief product officer at Whatnot, a live shopping platform that’s become the fastest-growing U.S. marketplace business in history, with over $8 billion in GMV.…

Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn 26 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 34 min Dianne Penn is Head of Product for Anthropic’s AI Research and Labs teams. She joined in 2023 as Anthropic’s first technical product manager, when the entire product team was five…

Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) 19 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 12 min Elizabeth Stone is the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) at Netflix, where she oversees Engineering, Product, and Design. Since her first appearance on the podcast two y…

How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal) 12 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 36 min Noam Segal is a longtime research leader across Airbnb, Meta, Twitter, Zapier, Intercom, and Figma, a certified coach, AI builder, and my community research lead. Together, we run…

Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity 9 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 8 min Adam Mosseri is the Head of Instagram, where he oversees an app used by over 3 billion people. He also leads the team building Threads. Adam has run Instagram for longer than its…

OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino 28 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 10 min Andrew Ambrosino leads development of the Codex desktop app at OpenAI. Nearly 100% of OpenAI employees—not just engineers—now use Codex weekly. A lifelong builder with a backgroun…

What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams) 21 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 39 min Fiona Fung leads the teams behind Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic (overseeing Boris Cherny and the entire engineering and PM team). Before Anthropic, she spent 11 years at Mic…

The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga) 14 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 39 min Mark Pincus founded Zynga—the company behind Words With Friends, FarmVille, and Zynga Poker—and has arguably created more hit consumer products than anyone in history. At Zynga, e…

Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell 7 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 35 min Tony Fadell created the iPod, co-created the iPhone, and founded Nest (which he sold to Google for $3.2 billion). He’s co-authored over 300 patents, was part of the legendary team…

A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans 31 May 2026 · 1 hr 20 min Benedict Evans is an independent analyst and former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he spent years as their in-house “thinker” tracking the most important technology trends.…

The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper 24 May 2026 · 1 hr 34 min Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a media and software company that’s become a living laboratory for the future of work. Everyone at his company of about 30 people i…

Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple) 17 May 2026 · 1 hr 39 min Caitlin Kalinowski was most recently at OpenAI helping build their robotics and hardware teams from scratch. Prior to that, she was head of AR glasses and VR hardware at Meta, whe…

How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author 10 May 2026 · 1 hr 39 min Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup, a book that reshaped how a generation of founders think about building companies. His new book, Incorruptible, explains how successful…

Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion) 3 May 2026 · 1 hr 27 min Max Schoening is head of product at Notion, where he’s been especially effective at getting designers and PMs to ship code, prototype in the terminal, and launch extremely success…

Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel 26 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 10 min Evan Spiegel, the co-founder and CEO of Snap, is one of the very few people in the world who has successfully built and scaled a lasting consumer social product. Snapchat has near…

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code) 23 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 26 min Cat Wu is Head of Product for Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, building one of the most important AI products of this generation. Before joining Anthropic, Cat spent years as…

Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) 19 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 35 min Nikhyl Singhal is the founder of The Skip, a community for senior product leaders; a former product exec at Meta, Google, and Credit Karma; and a many-time founder. He’s also one…

Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures) 12 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 23 min Keith Rabois was an early executive at PayPal (part of the famous PayPal Mafia), COO at Square, VP of Corporate Development at LinkedIn, and an early investor in Stripe, DoorDash,…

Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare 5 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 53 min Amol Avasare is Head of Growth at Anthropic, which is going through the most unprecedented growth trajectory in history—scaling from $1 billion to over $19 billion in ARR in just…

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison 2 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 40 min Simon Willison is a prolific independent software developer, a blogger, and one of the most visible and trusted voices on the impact AI is having on builders. He co-created Django…

From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo 29 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 47 min Claire Vo is the host of our sister podcast, “How I AI,” a former product executive and engineer, and founder of an AI startup called ChatPRD. Claire now runs her business, podcas…