Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis

Peter Sellis was the first product manager at Snapchat, where he spent seven years building one of the most beloved consumer products in history. He went on to serve as H

How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)

Roman Ugarte helped incubate and build Grok Bot, the popular new knowledge-work agent from SpaceXAI. A small, isolated team took it from first line of code to a working i

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has focused on consumer investing. Anish is one of the most insightful, thought-provoking, and

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)

Tara Seshan leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI (alongside previous podcast guest Andrew Ambrosino, who’s her engineering manager). Before OpenAI, Tara spe

How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel

Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJellyfish and GM of enterprise sales at State Affairs. She is widely regarded as one of the sharpest practitioners in enterprise sales, and

OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

Ian Silber is the head of product design at OpenAI, where he has led the design of ChatGPT, Codex, and all of OpenAI’s product experience for the past three years. Before

The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor

Adam Ward is the Head of Talent at Cursor, one of the fastest-growing developer tools in history. Before joining Cursor, he founded Growth by Design, an independent recru

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

Tom Verrilli is the chief product officer at Whatnot, a live shopping platform that’s become the fastest-growing U.S. marketplace business in history, with over $8 billio

Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

Dianne Penn is Head of Product for Anthropic’s AI Research and Labs teams. She joined in 2023 as Anthropic’s first technical product manager, when the entire product team

Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)

Elizabeth Stone is the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) at Netflix, where she oversees Engineering, Product, and Design. Since her first appearance on the podc

How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

Noam Segal is a longtime research leader across Airbnb, Meta, Twitter, Zapier, Intercom, and Figma, a certified coach, AI builder, and my community research lead. Togethe

Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity

Adam Mosseri is the Head of Instagram, where he oversees an app used by over 3 billion people. He also leads the team building Threads. Adam has run Instagram for longer

OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino

Andrew Ambrosino leads development of the Codex desktop app at OpenAI. Nearly 100% of OpenAI employees—not just engineers—now use Codex weekly. A lifelong builder with a

What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)

Fiona Fung leads the teams behind Claude Code and Cowork at Anthropic (overseeing Boris Cherny and the entire engineering and PM team). Before Anthropic, she spent 11 yea

The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)

Mark Pincus founded Zynga—the company behind Words With Friends, FarmVille, and Zynga Poker—and has arguably created more hit consumer products than anyone in history. At

Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

Tony Fadell created the iPod, co-created the iPhone, and founded Nest (which he sold to Google for $3.2 billion). He’s co-authored over 300 patents, was part of the legen

A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans

Benedict Evans is an independent analyst and former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he spent years as their in-house “thinker” tracking the most important technolog

The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper

Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a media and software company that’s become a living laboratory for the future of work. Everyone at his company of about 30

Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)

Caitlin Kalinowski was most recently at OpenAI helping build their robotics and hardware teams from scratch. Prior to that, she was head of AR glasses and VR hardware at

How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

Eric Ries is the author of The Lean Startup, a book that reshaped how a generation of founders think about building companies. His new book, Incorruptible, explains how s