Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Episodes
The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shishir Mehrotra is the co-founder and CEO of Coda, and formerly head of product and engineering at YouTube. In this episode, he shares his insights o...
How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thousands of new products launch each year, but very few make it. Ryan Hoover has seen thousands of products launched over the course of his time runn...
How to own your career growth and become a powerful product leader | Deb Liu, Ancestry (ex-Facebook, PayPal)
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do you put as much time into your career planning as you do into your product planning? Deb Liu has had an extraordinary career path, from Ebay and Pa...
How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You don’t need lots of employees to achieve impressive growth—but you do need a unique approach to hiring and structuring your team, and accuratel...
How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every company wants to develop a winning strategy—but what are signs your strategy isn’t working, and how do you change course? Melissa Perri has ...
How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Advancing as a product leader requires new skills and a new mindset. Ken Norton is an executive coach who works with some of the top people in produ...
How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The people who rise fastest in product know how to sell their ideas to customers, and also to their coworkers. Casey Winters, the Chief Product Office...
Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on translating vision into goals, operationalizing product quality, second-order decisions, brainstorming, influence, and much more
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nickey Skarstad is a Director of Product Management at Duolingo, where she is leading a stealth 0 → 1 product. Prior to Duolingo, she was VP of Prod...
Manik Gupta (ex-CPO Uber, Google Maps) on how to build consumer apps, why it’s useful to be optimistic about technology, creating inflections in your PM career, the changing CPO role, and more
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Manik Gupta has led two of the most successful consumer products in history—Google Maps, where he was Director of product for the Maps team, and Ube...
Merci Grace (ex-Head of Growth at Slack) on PLG, interviewing, storytelling, building a diverse team, hiring salespeople, building a growth team, and much more
11 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Merci Grace has been a founder, an investor (at Lightspeed Ventures), head of product and growth (at Slack), and is now a founder again (Panobi). She’...
Sanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the inside story of how Airbnb made it through Covid; what he’s learned from Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, and Kevin Systrom; much more
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sanchan Saxena is VP of Product at Coinbase. Before Coinbase, Sanchan was Head of Product and GM at Airbnb, founder and Head of Product of Instagram S...
Teresa Torres on how to interview customers, automating continuous discovery, the opportunity solution tree framework, making the case for user research, common interviewing mistakes, and much more
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable system for continuous discovery tha...
Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Chu is VP of Product at Shopify, where he leads the app platform ecosystem, new initiatives group, and M&A investments. Brandon helped scale S...
Elena Verna on how B2B growth is changing, product-led growth, product-led sales, why you should go freemium not trial, what features to make free, and much more
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elena Verna has led growth at some of today’s most successful B2B businesses, including Miro as CMO, Surveymonkey as SVP of Growth, and now at Ampli...
Gibson Biddle on his DHM product strategy framework, GEM roadmap prioritization framework, 5 Netflix strategy mini case studies, building a personal board of directors, and much more
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before getting into teaching full-time, Gibson Biddle was VP of Product at Netflix and CPO at Chegg (a textbook rental and homework help company). He ...
Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jackie Bavaro is the author of the best-selling books Cracking the PM Interview and Cracking the PM Career. She was most recently at Asana, where she ...
Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started angel investing, more
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gokul Rajaram serves on the executive team at DoorDash, where he leads the Caviar product line. Previously he worked at Square, where he was also on t...
April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
April Dunford is the author of the best-selling book Obviously Awesome, a definitive guide to product positioning. She spent 25 years leading marketin...
Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shreyas Doshi is a treasure trove of knowledge and tactical insights on product, strategy, psychology, leadership, and life. Over the course of his ca...
Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Zhuo is the co-founder of Sundial, a company that helps builders make meaningful use of data to fulfill their mission. With over 400K followers ...
Welcome to my new podcast!
05 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the very first episode of Lenny’s Podcast!Every week, Lenny Rachitsky will interview world-class product leaders and growth experts to un...