Podcast profile
Lenny’s Podcast
By 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.
Latest episode
This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
1 hr 25 min
- Cadence
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 1 hr 34 min
- Latest release
- Aug 2, 2026
- Language
- EN
Topics
Product & Experience
Product design, apps, gadgets, UX, reviews, and practical use guidance.
Company Strategy
Company building, growth, business models, and competitive strategy.
Leadership & Careers
Management, hiring, organizational leadership, and professional growth.
Formats
Interview
A host-led conversation with one or more guests.
Audience level
Informed
Basic familiarity helps because industry context and terminology appear.
People behind the show
Current hosts
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Latest episodes
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 25 min
This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
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. Before joining Whatnot, Tom was CPO at Twitch and director of product growth at Twitter (during one of the most turbulent periods in the com
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 34 min
Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn
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 engineers, and has since helped ship every model from Claude 2 through Fable, and helped incubate Claude Code, MCP, Skills, computer use, to
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 12 min
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
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 years ago—which remained my second-most-popular episode for more than a year—she has expanded her role to lead product, in addition to enginee
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 36 min
How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)
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 the annual Tech Worker Sentiment Survey, now in its second year and one of the largest of its kind: a quantitative study of how people in te
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 8 min
Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity
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 founders did, after taking over from Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2018. A designer by training, he spent over 15 years at Meta, starting
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 10 min
OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
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 background spanning engineering, design, product management, and founding companies, he is now responsible for turning the Codex desktop experience in
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 39 min
What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)
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 Microsoft building Visual Studio and TypeScript and then moved to Meta, where she started Facebook Marketplace (now generating over $100 billion
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 39 min
The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)
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, eight of 10 major game launches became massive hits, reaching over a billion players. Over the past five years, Mark has been synthesizing eve
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 35 min
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell
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 at General Magic, and wrote one of the most important and inspiring books for builders, called Build. In our in-depth conversation, we discu
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 20 min
A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans
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. For the past six years, he’s been publishing deeply researched presentations on where tech is heading, most recently focused on AI’s transfo
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 34 min
The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper
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 is an AI early adopter; from editors to ops people, they use AI to do much of their work, giving Every a unique lens into where the world is h
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 39 min
Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
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, where she led the teams building every generation of the Quest, Rift, and Orion, and was Meta’s first consumer electronics hire. Before this, sh
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 39 min
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author
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 companies are destroyed by failing to protect what makes them valuable, and how to change it. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 1. W
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 27 min
Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)
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 successful AI products. He was previously a PM at Google, ran design at Heroku, was VP of Design (and a part-time engineer) at GitHub, and is a two-
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 10 min
Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel
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 nearly 1 billion MAUs, and Evan and his team invented some of the most important consumer products and features, including Stories, AR glasses, s
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 26 min
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
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 an engineer and briefly worked in VC. Today, she’s interviewing hundreds of product managers who are trying to break into AI—and seeing first
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 35 min
Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
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 of the most honest, unfiltered voices on what’s actually happening in product management right now. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 23 min
Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)
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, Airbnb, YouTube, Ramp, and Palantir. Currently he’s managing director at Khosla Ventures. Also, he hasn’t touched a computer since September
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 53 min
Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare
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 14 months. Previously, Amol worked on the growth teams at Mercury and MasterClass. Before that he was a founder, and he cold emailed his way
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 40 min
An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison
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, the web framework that powers Instagram, Pinterest, and tens of thousands of other websites. He coined the term “prompt injection,” popular
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 47 min
From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo
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, podcast, and family life with the help of nine OpenClaw agents running on multiple Mac Minis and old laptops. In this episode, Claire shares her jo
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 34 min
The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)
Jessica Fain is a product leader at Webflow and former Chief of Staff to the CPO at Slack, where she worked alongside April Underwood and many past podcast guests including Stewart Butterfield, Annie Pearl, Tamar Yehoshua, and Noah Weiss. She’s spent her career learning how executives actually make decisions—and why mo
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 55 min
The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick (Executive Negotiator)
Jacob Warwick is an executive negotiation coach who helps senior operators negotiate better salary, equity, titles, and severance packages. He has worked with leaders across tech and Hollywood, was previously a founder and CEO himself, and has helped clients secure millions in additional compensation. His approach focu
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 7 min
How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky
People have been asking me to sit on the other side of the mic for a long time. With my wife’s debut children’s book, Charts for Babies, coming out next month, we figured: why not do it together? What followed was one of the most honest conversations I’ve had on this podcast. Michelle asked things no one else would thi
Lenny’s Podcast1 hr 24 min
The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis
Qasar Younis is the co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, a $15 billion AI company that adds intelligence to cars, tractors, planes, submarines, and other vehicles—essentially, Tesla or Waymo without the hardware. He was previously COO of Y Combinator, started his career as an engineer at GM and Bosch, and was born