Dianne Penn

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606 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 26 Jul

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

We called it, like, entering the hive mind.

There was an article about this.

And I think, like, part of that is just that allows, like, the team to replenish.

It's not that you – I was just on PTO in June.

It's not just that you can take PTO and you come back to, like, 3x the amount of things to do.

It's actually that you can take PTO and know the team can –

figure out the right things to do and that we individually can like watch out for each other.

So I think that's a big part.

I'm really lucky just personally.

Also, my partner is really supportive.

This is year six of me working in AI.

So Amazon and then Anthropic.

And so he sees how much I just love the technology and what this can do.

And that really helps, I think, also from like a personal perspective as well.

Yeah.

We're asked to work and make decisions on really big things because you have more scale from the technology, right?

And I think...

Having individuals, having other folks more who can have some level of mind meld with what you work on, how you approach maybe not exactly every detail, but what are the first principles, what are the assumptions you make, then helps them back up for you or push your decision and sharpen your thinking.

um so i think you know we really try to like i really try to look for that when like building the team growing the team hiring like is this person going to care about their own ego and building out a big org or are they going to care about contributing to entropic and contributing to the like impact of the team and orienting towards folks who are like low ego team oriented um i think that's

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