Episodes featuring Lenny's Podcast
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Ian Silber, OpenAI's Head of Design, joins Lenny Rachitsky to discuss why AI is expanding the role of designers rather than replacing them.
Adam Ward, head of talent at Cursor, joins Lenny to explain how to replace broad, funnel-based hiring with a targeted approach that pursues the top 50 people globally for each role.
Tom Verrilli, CPO of Whatnot, makes the case for hiring far fewer product managers and giving engineers and designers more direct ownership of decisions.
Dianne Penn, head of product at Anthropic, talks with Lenny Rachitsky about building Claude Code before the AI models were ready and how product management works differently at the frontier of AI.
Netflix product and technology officer Elizabeth Stone returns to Lenny's Podcast to explain how AI is blurring product roles, why Netflix wants systems thinkers over specialists, and how its culture keeps the talent...
Noam Segal shares findings from a 6,000-person tech worker survey showing the workforce splitting into four archetypes, with burnout surging and AI reshaping professional identity more than any other job factor.
Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, talks with Lenny Rachitsky about how taste and human judgment grow more valuable as AI takes over execution.
Andrew Ambrosino, OpenAI's Codex product and engineering lead, talks with Lenny Rachitsky about how cheap implementation is shifting product work toward taste, curation, and deciding what to build.
Fiona Fung, who leads Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic, talks about how AI is changing software teams and what engineers and managers should focus on when coding is no longer the bottleneck.
Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, joins Lenny Rachitsky to share his framework for building successful consumer products by copying what works, improving it slightly, and testing one new idea.
Tony Fadell, designer of the iPod, iPhone, and Nest, talks with Lenny about why taste and product discipline matter more as AI makes building easier.
Benedict Evans joins Lenny's Podcast to argue that AI is as transformative as the internet but that real adoption across industries will take years, not months.
Dan Shipper joins Lenny's Podcast to discuss how AI will reshape work, arguing it will increase demand for humans who can guide AI systems rather than eliminate jobs.
Caitlin Kalinowski, a hardware leader from Apple, Meta, and OpenAI, talks about why AI hardware and robotics are the next big competitive frontier and what software companies get wrong about building physical products.
Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, joins Lenny's Podcast to explain why most founders are structurally set up to lose control of their companies and what they can do about it.
Notion head of product Max Schoening tells Lenny's Podcast why agency now matters more than skills. He covers designers who code, malleable software, building taste, and why great products rely on one tiny core.
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel talks with Lenny's Podcast about why distribution has become the biggest competitive advantage in consumer tech as AI makes software features easier to copy.
Nikhyl Singhal, a product leader from Meta and Google, talks about why AI is making half of all product managers obsolete and what they need to do in the next 12 to 24 months to survive.
Keith Rabois, investor at Khosla Ventures and PayPal alum, shares his views on hiring, leadership, and how AI is reshaping product, engineering, and design roles.
Amol Avasare, head of growth at Anthropic, explains how the company grew from $1B to $19B ARR in 14 months by using Claude to automate growth experiments and rethinking traditional playbooks.