Nikhyl Singhal

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864 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 19 Apr

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) · 19 Apr 2026 podcast

You know, everyone's like, oh, what's the cutting edge and all that?

I think there's still, I don't know if this is true even today, but very recently there were more lines of COBOL

than I think any other language out there.

And mainframe sales continue to do pretty well.

And they're unusually large line item for companies like IBM.

And part of the reason why these systems like, you know, I think I spent an hour and a half

trying to get my mileage plus account on United to work correctly with my daughter's phone and all this other stuff.

Partly because these systems are so, uh, complicated, but they're built in mainframes.

Right.

And a lot of the engineers, and this is going to sound kind of morbid, but you know, I think it's true is a lot, a lot of engineers are dead.

Like they literally are passed away.

They were written, you know, 10, 20 years ago and, and like,

going in and touching that code is, you know, probably the last thing anyone wants to do.

So nobody goes in there, you know, it's all the outside.

Now we can change that.

So I'm like very excited about what it means to go in and improve things that people take for granted, right?

That's a big one.

That's a bit of an aside.

I think that the other thing that I think is worth kind of signaling is,

I think that the way we, we, the skills that you need to be effective in today's world is a, uh, is an acceleration of what we were talking about last episode.

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