Adam Mosseri

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647 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 9 Jul

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And when you are responsible for a platform like Instagram, you need to be reasonable and

realistic about how much you can evolve it now i would much rather have backlashes like that every couple years or continue to evolve and continue to stay relevant than the alternative which would have been like we didn't have video we didn't have dms we didn't have stories we didn't have ranking and we wouldn't be on having this podcast right now um um but the cost of leaning in is that you're gonna occasionally like make a mistake and you're gonna definitely um pay for it

You kind of need to have a press, you don't need to be proactive about communicating it, but you need to have a calm strategy.

For any design change or any test that could be controversial, we talk about it beforehand and be like, okay, not if it leaks, when it leaks, what are we saying?

Should we talk about it proactively?

Should we talk about it reactively?

Either way, what's the message?

You can't launch something to 3 billion people and not test it first, but you can't test something at our scale and not expect people to cover it.

And so you have to be ready to talk about it before you even know you want to launch it.

So it makes the development cycle more complicated than it used to be.

Pricing particularly, that one is a real, you got to be real careful with that one.

We've all learned these lessons.

We should all share notes more.

Oh, a bunch.

So I'll give you two maybe.

So before Instagram, my first project as a PM was on a project called Facebook Home, which was a sort of fork of Android at the operating system level and a piece of hardware with HTC.

It was a spectacular failure.

I learned way more in that year.

year and a half and I did it any year I think probably in my career because I was just a design manager before that I declared myself a PM because the PM on the project quit and I just threw myself head first and understanding carriers and OEMs and

uh certification as well as android and operating systems and just lend a ton um so and i'm happy i brought that project to an end because it had been going on for a long time and sometimes you the best thing you can do is execute an idea that doesn't have market fit well just to decide whether or not the idea was a good idea in the first place

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