Lenny's Podcast

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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Most frequent guests

Elena Verna 4 episodes
Claire Vo 3 episodes
Jen Abel 3 episodes
Melissa Perri 3 episodes
April Dunford 2 episodes
Bob Moesta 2 episodes
Brian Balfour 2 episodes
Casey Winters 2 episodes
Dan Shipper 2 episodes
Deb Liu 2 episodes

Every guest on Lenny's Podcast

326 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet · Jan 2026

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Seth Godin
Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more · Dec 2024

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Nir Eyal
Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked) · Dec 2023

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Rory Sutherland
What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author) · Jul 2024

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Lulu Cheng Meservey
Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard) · Mar 2023

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Benedict Evans
A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans · May 2026

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Susan Cain
The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet") · Mar 2025

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Tony Fadell
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell · Jun 2026

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Joe Hudson
How embracing emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (executive coach, Art of Accomplishment) · Aug 2024

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Matt Abrahams
How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker) · Mar 2024

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Jonny Miller
Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery) · Jan 2024

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Andrew Wilkinson
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson (co‑founder of Tiny) · Jul 2025

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Paul Millerd
Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path) · Nov 2023

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Annie Duke
This will make you a better decision-maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit,” former pro poker player) · May 2024

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Chris Hutchins
Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google) · Dec 2022

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Ryan Singer
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals) · Mar 2025

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Fei Fei Li
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots, and why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li · Nov 2025

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Adam Mosseri
Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity · Jul 2026

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Becky Kennedy
A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy · Feb 2026

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Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky’s new playbook · Nov 2023

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Alex Hardiman
An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO at The New York Times) · Nov 2022

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Gaurav Misra
How to win in the AI era: Ship a feature every week, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and create magic your competitors can't copy | Gaurav Misra (CEO and co-founder of Captions) · Mar 2025

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Ivan Zhao
Notion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to move fast, the joy and suffering of building horizontal, more | Ivan Zhao (CEO and co-founder) · Mar 2025

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Jason Fried
Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more · Dec 2023

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Josh Miller
Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO) · Mar 2023

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Matt Mullenweg
The creator of WordPress opens up about becoming an internet villain, why he’s taking a stand, and the future of open source | Matt Mullenweg (founder and CEO, Automattic) · Mar 2025

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Mike Krieger
Anthropic’s CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram) · Jun 2025

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Nick Turley
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI) · Aug 2025

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Scott Belsky
Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance) · May 2023

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Shishir Mehrotra
The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft · Aug 2022

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Tom Conrad
Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero) · Nov 2023

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Ada Chen Rekhi
How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn, SurveyMonkey) · Apr 2023

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Adam Fishman
How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods) · Oct 2022

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Adam Grenier
When and how to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass) · Sep 2022

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Adam Ward
The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor · Aug 2026

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Adriel Frederick
Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook) · Oct 2022

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Albert Cheng
How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) · Oct 2025

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Alex Komoroske
Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconventional product advice | Alex Komoroske (Stripe, Google) · Oct 2024

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Alexander Embiricos
Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead) · Dec 2025

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Alisa Cohn
Scripts for difficult conversations: Giving hard feedback, navigating defensiveness, the three questions you should end every meeting with, more | Alisa Cohn (executive coach) · Jan 2025

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Recent episodes

361 episodes from the feed, newest first.

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with Roman Ugarte

Sep 2026
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
with Anish Acharya

Sep 2026
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)
with Tara Seshan

Aug 2026
How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel
with Jen Abel

Aug 2026
OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber
with Ian Silber

Aug 2026
The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
with Adam Ward

Aug 2026
This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
with Tom Verrilli

Aug 2026
Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn
with Dianne Penn

Jul 2026
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
with Elizabeth Stone

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

Jul 2026
Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity
with Adam Mosseri

Jul 2026
OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
with Andrew Ambrosino

Jun 2026
What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)
with Fiona Fung

Jun 2026
The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)
with Mark Pincus

Jun 2026
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell
with Tony Fadell

Jun 2026
A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans
with Benedict Evans

May 2026
The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper
with Dan Shipper

May 2026
Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
with Caitlin Kalinowski

May 2026
How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author
with Eric Ries

May 2026
Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)
with Max Schoening

May 2026
Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel
with Evan Spiegel

Apr 2026
How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
with Cat Wu

Apr 2026
Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
with Nikhyl Singhal

Apr 2026
Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)
with Keith Rabois

Apr 2026
Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare
with Amol Avasare

Apr 2026