Episodes featuring Lenny's Podcast
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Anthropic interpretability researcher Emmanuel Ameisen tells Lenny Rachitsky how researchers look inside models like Claude. He argues that models are grown rather than built, and that looking inside shows they plan...
Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs, explains why every company should run a dedicated frontier team that experiments constantly with AI and bridges discoveries back to the core business.
Tibo Sottiaux, OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT, talks with Lenny Rachitsky about how AI agents will change how people build and use products in the next 1–2 years.
Anthropic's Mike Krieger joins Lenny Rachitsky to discuss why AI cannot fully replace product managers yet and how the PM role must change as technology shifts every two months.
Karri Saarinen joins Lenny Rachitsky to argue that as AI handles more execution, the real advantage for product teams shifts to customer knowledge, judgment, and accumulated context.
OpenAI product leaders Tara Seshan and Nan Yu join Lenny's Podcast to talk about building AI products fast, designing agents, and what product strategy looks like heading into 2027.
Tamar Yehoshua, CPO at Atlassian, talks with Lenny Rachitsky about how AI is expanding what PMs do rather than replacing them, with examples of 3-6x faster delivery.
Elena Verna joins Lenny Rachitsky to explain how AI is enabling high-impact individual contributors to replace whole teams, and what organizations must change to make that path work.
Robby Stein, a PM at Google Search and former Instagram product lead, shares how to build products people love in the AI era, covering user research, iteration, and craft.
Molly Graham joins Lenny Rachitsky to revisit her 'give away your Legos' career advice and explain how AI changes the rules around delegating work, burnout, and job design.
Katie Dill of Stripe talks with Lenny Rachitsky about how to keep design quality and originality intact when AI makes it dangerously easy to ship generic, soulless interfaces.
Marty Cagan joins Lenny Rachitsky to revisit a decade of his most influential writing, sharing ten major regrets and what he would change about his core product advice.
Geoff Charles, CPO at Ramp, talks with Lenny Rachitsky about how AI is shifting the product bottleneck away from coding and toward definition, testing, and coordination.
Claire Vo joins Lenny Rachitsky to argue that AI has made shipping easy, so the real bottleneck is now deciding what is worth building at all.
Dan Shipper, co-founder and CEO of Every, argues that product teams should add a small research lab. The lab explores new AI models, so the main product team can keep shipping the roadmap without distraction.
Peter Sellis, former head of product at Snapchat and Discord, shares frameworks for building product teams, scaling consumer apps, and avoiding common growth mistakes.
Roman Ugarte from SpaceX AI joins Lenny Rachitsky to explain how a small team built Grok Bot in one month and made it the fastest-adopted AI product in the world.
Anish Acharya, a16z partner and former founder, joins Lenny Rachitsky to discuss how companies can use AI-powered loops to unlock productivity and why moats are discovered rather than designed.
Tara Seshan, OpenAI's product lead for Codex, talks with Lenny Rachitsky about how AI is shifting from chat tools to persistent coworkers and what that means for builders.
Jen Abel joins Lenny Rachitsky to walk through a 15-plus step enterprise sales process, covering outreach, demos, pilots, and closing with specific tactics to win larger deals.