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Lenny Rachitsky

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980 total appearances

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

Why would we need to do this?

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

And Anthropic being the fastest growing company of all time, just like Absurd, breaking all records, is a public benefits corporation.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

It should make you feel okay about doing this.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

It's funny you say that.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

So I just had Kat, the head of product on Clock Code, and I asked her just, how are you able to ship so fast?

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

They're shipping a massive product or feature every week.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

Essentially, they were going through a period of hours every day.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

And a big part of her answer was exactly what you're describing, which is we are so mission aligned.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

It is so easy for us to decide this is something we will do or not.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

That is the thing.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

I want to hear the kind of the open AI versus anthropic story, because you've mentioned a part of the structural pieces, this nonprofit.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

So talk about just like what happened there and how that relates to what you talk about versus the anthropic.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

And then I actually want to hear a little bit about just actual structure.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

Like, what is this two tier thing?

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

What's the nonprofit piece?

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

So, and when you say standard government, like every one of these AI companies is not doing it the way every other startup is doing.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

They understood they needed to do something different to protect humanity essentially from AI.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

Okay.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

Okay, so just to kind of plant these things in people's heads as they, okay, we need to really think about this stuff.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

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