Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Brought to you by Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Rows —The spreadsheet where data comes to life | Lenny’s Job Board —Hire the best product people. Find the best product gigs. — Kevin Aluwi is the co-founder and former CEO of Gojek. With over 2.7 million drivers and over 3 billion orders completed, Gojek is the biggest startup in Indonesia and all of Southeast Asia. In today’s podcast, Kevin sh...

Brought to you by AssemblyAI —Powerful AI models to transcribe and understand speech | Public —Invest in stocks, treasuries, crypto, and more | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. — Lulu Cheng Meservey was formerly head of comms at Substack (where I host my newsletter and podcast) and is currently the Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Chief Communications Officer at Acti...

Brought to you by Writer —Generative AI for the enterprise | Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision | Linear —The new standard for modern software development — Josh Miller is the CEO and co-founder of The Browser Company, where he helped build Arc, my go-to web browser. In today’s episode, we get an inside look at the unique structure and values of The Browser Company and how their com...

Brought to you by Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life | Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision | Writer —Generative AI for the enterprise — Christina Wodtke is an author, Stanford University professor, and speaker who teaches strategies for building high-performing teams. She’s also the author of Radical Focus , which some consider the de facto guide...

Brought to you by Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security | Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision | LMNT —Zero-sugar hydration — Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan are founders, angel investors, and product leaders who host the podcast Aarthi and Sriram’s Good Time Show . They have both held leadership roles at major technology companies including Meta, Twitter, Snap, Microsof...

Brought to you by Public —Invest in stocks, treasuries, crypto, and more | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments | Writer —Generative AI for the enterprise — Laura Schaffer is the brand-new VP of Growth at Amplitude. Prior to this role, she spent over 10 years leading product management and growth teams at Twilio, Bandwidth, and Rapid. In today’s episode, we talk about the role of experimentat...

Brought to you by Linear —The new standard for modern software development | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security. | Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision. — Claire Hughes Johnson is the former COO at Stripe, which she helped scale from a small startup to the legendary company it is today. She also spent close to 10 years at Google, where she filled several executive roles, in...

Brought to you by Linear —The new standard for modern software development. | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments. | Pando —Always-on employee progression. — Gustaf Alströmer is a Group Partner at Y Combinator, where he’s worked with over 600 startups in his 6.5 years there. He’s also a fellow Airbnb alumnus and even started the original Airbnb growth team. In today’s podcast, Gustaf discuss...

Brought to you by Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life: https://miro.com/lenny | Coda —Meet the evolution of docs: https://coda.io/lenny | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security: https://vanta.com/lenny — Annie Pearl is the Chief Product Officer at Calendly. Previously, she was Chief Product Officer at Glassdoor, as well as Director of Product Management...

Brought to you by Amplitude —Build better products: https://amplitude.com/ | OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster: https://oneschema.co/lenny | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security: https://vanta.com/lenny — Upasna Gautam is a product manager at CNN Digital, where she works closely with editorial staff and journalists to build their internal content management system. She is also a longt...

Brought to you by Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security: https://vanta.com/lenny | Amplitude —Build better products: https://amplitude.com/ | Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision: https://dovetailapp.com/lenny — Patrick Campbell is the founder and CEO of ProfitWell, which he bootstrapped and sold for over $200 million. In this special episode, we explore 10 big ideas from Patr...

Brought to you by Amplitude —Build better products: https://amplitude.com/ | Lenny’s Job Board —Hire the best product people. Find the best product gigs: https://www.lennysjobs.com/talent | Vanta —Automate compliance. Simplify security: https://vanta.com/lenny — Christine Itwaru is a longtime product operations leader at Pendo and more recently has taken on the larger role of Principal Strategist...

Brought to you by Public —Invest in stocks, treasuries, crypto, and more: https://public.com/lenny | Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life: https://miro.com/lenny | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments: https://www.geteppo.com/ — Lauryn Isford is a product growth leader and practitioner, who most recently led Growth at Airtable, and is about to start somethi...

Brought to you by OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster: https://oneschema.co/lenny | Amplitude —Build better products: https://amplitude.com/ | Coda —Meet the evolution of docs: https://coda.io/lenny — Keith Yandell started at DoorDash as Chief Legal Officer and during his tenure has also led the HR, Customer Support, Marketing, and now Corporate Development teams. In today’s episode, we talk abo...

Brought to you by Amplitude —Build better products: https://amplitude.com/ | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments: https://www.geteppo.com/ | Pando —Always-on employee progression: https://www.pando.com/lenny — Marily is a computer scientist and an AI Product Leader currently working for Meta’s reality labs, and previously at Google for 8 years. In 2014 she completed a PhD in Machine Learning...

Brought to you by Miro —A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life: https://miro.com/lenny | Notion —One workspace. Every team: https://www.notion.com/lennyspod | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments: https://www.geteppo.com/ — Eeke de Milliano is the Head of Product at Retool and a former product lead at Stripe. In this episode, we discuss how any team can become an i...

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Brought to you by Pando —Always on employee progression ( https://www.pando.com/lenny ), Notion —One workspace. Every team ( https://www.notion.com/lennyspod ), and Lemon.io —A marketplace of vetted software developers ( https://lemon.io/lenny ). Vijay Iyengar is Head of Product at Mixpanel, and similar to myself, came from an engineering background before transitioning to product. In today’s epis...

Ravi was previously CPO at Tinder, Product Director at Facebook, and VP of Product at Tripadvisor. Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Outpace, a coaching platform designed to help people reach their professional goals. In today’s podcast, we dive deep into Ravi’s product strategy stack framework and how it was used to develop a powerful strategy at Tinder. We also cover his other popular framew...

John Cutler writes the popular and beloved product newsletter The Beautiful Mess. For many years, he was a Product Evangelist at Amplitude, which led him to meeting and working with a large number of product teams around the world. Through this role, he gained unique insight into how the best product teams operate. In today’s episode, John reflects on leaving his role at Amplitude, and explains th...

Naomi Ionita is a Partner at the venture capital firm, Menlo Ventures. She started her career in engineering in 2002, shifted to product in 2006, and built product growth and monetization teams starting over a decade ago as one of the first PLG leaders in B2B. She was an early mentor at Reforge and her expertise is in building full-stack growth teams and cultures, launching new products, and helpi...

Yuhki Yamashita is Chief Product Officer at Figma. Prior to Figma, he was Head of Design of Uber’s New Mobility efforts, and before that a product manager at Google and Microsoft. Adding to his impressive resume, Yuhki also taught introductory computer science at Harvard. In today's episode, we talk about operationalizing quality, the case against OKRs, and how Figma isn't just known for product-l...

Jules Walter is a product leader at YouTube and co-founder of both the Black Product Managers Network and Codepath.org. Previously, he led monetization and mobile growth teams at Slack. He’s also a very well-known leader in the broader product community. In today’s episode, we discuss the skills that matter most to PMs, and how to build those skills. We also spend quite a bit of time talking about...

If you ever wanted to distill 3,310 hours of knowledge into 60 minutes, then this episode is for you. For the last 6 months, Lenny’s Podcast has been downloaded more than 2 million times and is now a top 10 technology podcast across both Apple and Spotify. And in this special episode, I’m breaking down the top 10 most downloaded episodes, plus sharing my favorite lessons from each. It's unlike any...

Chris Hutchins recently left his position as Head of New Product Strategy at Wealthfront to focus full-time on his podcast, All the Hacks . If you’re thinking about starting your own podcast or are simply interested in the process, be sure to check out today’s episode. We dive deep on all things podcasting: the pros and cons, how to climb the charts, and how much time you should expect to spend on...