Lenny Rachitsky

But one that came up that I thought was interesting is I hear that you spent a lot of time developing young design talent, and that's a big focus of yours.

Can you just talk about how you develop young design talent?

I had Jenny Nguyen on the podcast.

She was head of design for Claude and co-work and she was like a director at Figma.

And then she came to Anthropic and moved to just IC Design again and asked her what's the hardest part of that move.

And she said, it's just all the crits that she has to deal with now.

Just so much criticism and constant feedback.

And she'd forgotten about that part of it.

So it's interesting that's such a core part of the way you, like the thing that people have to learn essentially and get good at.

You mentioned AI, how designers are shipping code.

I have a friend who works at a big tech company and he just said all the design team, they're required to ship like, I don't know, 10 PRs a month or something like that or a quarter, which is such a new world.

I guess one is just like, how do you think about designers shipping code?

Is that like just do it if you can, or is there like a requirement sort of thing?

And broadly, I'm just curious how AI is changing the way your team operates.

What are just like a few things that have been impactful in how your team operates that are AI driven?

OK, I want to take a step back and think about just kind of reflect back.

It's been 15 years since you've been working on Snap.

You launched about 15 years ago.

I'm curious just what are some of the maybe biggest lessons, maybe the hardest lessons you've learned over the past 15 years?

Things that you're like, oh, I didn't realize this as I was starting this company.