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Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky

Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

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91:49

The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/08/14

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 on growth strategy, how he evaluates talent, a peek at his upcoming book The Rituals of Great Teams, why reference checks are the most important step in the interview process, and so much more. Join us.—Find the full transcript here: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/the-rituals-of-great-teams-shishir-mehrotra-coda-youtube-microsoft/#transcript—Where to

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69:38

How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/08/07

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 running Product Hunt, and through his investing, and in this episode you’ll hear what Ryan has learned about launching products, growing products, and raising capital. Plus, we play a made up game called “What would you rather upvote?” Join us.—Find the full transcript here:

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71:19

How to own your career growth and become a powerful...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/08/04

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 PayPal, to Facebook, and now Ancestry. She’s sat in on, mentored, and managed hundreds of product managers. In this episode, she shares poignant advice on how to intentionally find growth opportunities and drive your career forward. Join us.—Find the full transcript here:

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63:10

How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/07/31

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 accurately measuring your growth efforts. Crystal Widjaja has used scrappy tactics to unlock massive success for Gojek (a wildly successful ride-share app in South East Asia) and is currently the Chief Product Officer at Kumu. In this episode, she shares the exact strategies she’s used as a product leader to hack growth, hire the best, and perfect data collection

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53:42

How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/07/28

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 worked trained PMs and product leaders at nearly all the Fortune 100 companies, and in this conversation shares how to reset a struggling strategy, align your team, and build winning strategy. Join us.—Find the full transcript here: https://www.podpage.com/lennys-podcast/how-to-create-a-winning-product-strategy-melissa-perri/#transcript—Thank you to our

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74:01

How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/07/24

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 product to help them get unstuck and find creativity again in their approach to problems and their careers. After 14 years as a Product Manager at Google, Ken brings deep experience in leadership and shares with us the lessons he most often offers his clients to unlock growth. Join us.—Find the full transcript here:

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55:05

How to sell your ideas and rise within your company |...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/07/21

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 Officer at Eventbrite (previously at Grubhub, Pinterest, and advisor to dozens of companies) shares what it takes to be successful as you rise in the ranks within product. In this episode we’ll talk about how to land presentations, how to win over executives with strategic communication, the skill sets that are most in demand in product, and new growth

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60:54

Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/07/18

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 Product at The Wing, Product Lead at Airbnb, where she led much of the Experiences product team, Product Lead at Shopify, and Director of Product Management at Etsy.—Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for making this episode possible:• Mixpanel: https://mixpanel.com/startups• Dovetail: https://dovetailapp.com/lenny• Unit: https://unit.co/lenny—In this

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64:56

Manik Gupta (ex-CPO Uber, Google Maps) on how to...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/07/14

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 Uber, where he was CPO. After leaving Uber, he spent some time working on a product to help people avoid getting COVID called CVKey, and most recently he took on a role at Microsoft as Corporate Vice President leading many of their consumer efforts.—Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for making this episode possible:• Mixpanel:

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59:06

Merci Grace (ex-Head of Growth at Slack) on PLG,...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/07/11

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’s also one of the co-founders of Women in Product, and Fast Company named her one of the Most Creative People in 2017.—Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for making this episode possible:• Dovetail: https://dovetailapp.com/lenny• Mixpanel: https://mixpanel.com/startups• Whimsical: https://whimsical.com/lenny—In this episode, we cover:[3:41] Merci’s

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61:14

Sanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/07/05

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 Shopping, Director of Product Management at Yahoo, and Lead PM at Microsoft.—Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible:• Dovetail: https://dovetailapp.com/lenny• Persona: https://withpersona.com/lenny• Productboard: https://www.productboard.com/—In this episode, you’ll learn:[3:50] How Sanchan worked his way up to VP of Product at

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47:32

Teresa Torres on how to interview customers,...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/06/30

Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and coach. She teaches a structured and sustainable system for continuous discovery that helps product teams infuse their daily product decisions with customer input. She’s coached hundreds of teams at companies of all sizes, from early-stage startups to global enterprises, in a variety of industries. She has taught over 11,000 product people discovery skills through the Product Talk Academy and hundreds through her coaching practice,

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49:49

Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/06/27

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 Shopify’s PM team from five to hundreds, and worked his way up from an IC Senior PM. Prior to Shopify, he was a Director of PM at FreshBooks and, before that, a founder. Brandon might be best known for his writing on the art and science of product management as part of a collection on Medium he calls “The Black Box of Product Management.”—Thank you to

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59:16

Elena Verna on how B2B growth is changing,...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/06/23

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 Amplitude as interim Head of Growth. She’s also worked closely with over a dozen companies on growth and product strategy, including companies like MongoDB, Clockwise, and Netlify (where she sits on the board of directors). Elena is undoubtedly one of the smartest people on growth strategy in the world.—Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode

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Gibson Biddle on his DHM product strategy framework,...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/06/20

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 now spends his days speaking, writing, and hosting workshops on product leadership, strategy, and culture. There are very few people in the world who’ve worked with, and had an impact on, more product managers.—Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible:• Flatfile: flatfile.com/lenny• Coda: coda.io/lenny• PostHog: posthog.com/lenny—In

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Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy,...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/06/16

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 joined as its first product manager and later became the head of product. Earlier in her career, Jackie was a PM at Google and Microsoft, where she worked on high-impact products such as Google Search and Microsoft SharePoint.In this episode, we cover:1. How did Jackie become head of product at Asana? Start writing the best-selling PM books on

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62:16

Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/06/13

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 the executive team and led a number of key product lines, and as a product director at Facebook, where he helped the company transition its advertising business to become mobile-first. Earlier in his career, Gokul was a product director for Google AdSense, where he helped launch the product and grow it into a substantial portion of Google’s business

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60:51

April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation,...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/06/09

April Dunford is the author of the best-selling book Obviously Awesome, a definitive guide to product positioning. She spent 25 years leading marketing, product, and sales teams and now runs her own consulting firm, helping companies of all shapes and sizes nail their positioning. April has worked hands-on with over 200 companies on positioning, including Google, IBM, Postman, and Epic Games.In today’s episode, you’ll learn:1. How does April define positioning?2. How do you assess if your product’s

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76:47

Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/06/07

Shreyas Doshi is a treasure trove of knowledge and tactical insights on product, strategy, psychology, leadership, and life. Over the course of his career, he’s PM’d at Google, Twitter, Yahoo, and Stripe, where he joined as its fourth product manager, later becoming Stripe’s first PM manager and helping define and grow its product management function (from ~5 to more than 50 people). Since leaving Stripe, Shreyas has amassed a huge Twitter following in large part thanks to consistent sharing of

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71:43

Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor...

Lenny"s Podcast: Product | Career | Growth ·

2022/06/07

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 across social media, she is one of the most influential leaders in product design, and product thinking broadly.Julie started her career at Facebook as a product designer and eventually led teams of 100+ designers as the VP of Design. Her experience leading at Facebook motivated her to publish the Wall Street Journal best seller The Making of a Manager

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