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
90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis
1 hr 37 min
- Cadence
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 1 hr 26 min
- Latest release
- Sep 20
- Language
- EN
- Activity
- Current — released within 30 days
Podcast Classification
Topics
Product Strategy
Product discovery, prioritization, roadmaps, growth, positioning, and product management.
Startups
Company formation, founding, product-market fit, scaling, and startup operations.
Engineering Leadership
Managing engineering organizations, teams, delivery, architecture, and technical leadership.
Formats
Interview
Host-led conversation where a guest supplies most of the subject matter.
Case-Study Analysis
Detailed examination of a company, product, system, incident, or technical decision.
Audience level
Intermediate
Assumes basic technology literacy and familiarity with common products, roles, and terminology.
People behind the show
Hosts
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90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis
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 Product at Discord, where he helped drive some of the fastest user growth the platform had seen.
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
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 product in four weeks, and to a hugely successful public launch just three weeks later.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
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-weeds product investors I’ve met, and this conversation will get your mind buzzing.
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)
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 six years at Stripe, where she joined as one of the first five product managers.
How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel
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 reason, this is her third visit to the podcast.
OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber
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, he was at Artifact, the AI-powered news app built by the founders of Instagram.
The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
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 talent strategy firm that helped build teams at the most ambitious AI and technology companies in the world.
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.
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.
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.