Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Episodes
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Roman Ugarte, product lead at Grokbot, explains how the team built the hottest AI product in the world by starting from scratch rather than integrating into existing coding tools.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
Anish Acharya, a General Partner at a16z, debunks the "permanent underclass" fear by arguing that AI adoption is distributed and that companies…
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
Tara Sa, OpenAI’s product lead for Codex and ChatGPT, discusses the shift from theoretical planning to empirical, rapid testing in AI product management.
How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel
Lenny sits down with Jen Abel for a deep dive into the 15-step enterprise sales lifecycle, using SpaceX’s legal team as a case study.
OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber
Ian Silber, Head of Product Design at OpenAI, discusses why designers feel overwhelmed by AI's rapid evolution and the resulting role uncertainty.
The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor, discusses building elite, high-talent-density teams by rejecting the "funnel of doom" in favor of executive-style recruiting.
This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
Tom Verrilli, CPO of Whatnot, argues that companies should "regret" the overuse of product managers, which infantilizes engineers and designers.
Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn
Lenny Rachitsky interviews Diane Penn, Head of Product for AI Research and Labs at Anthropic, discussing the company's evolution from a small startup to an industry leader.
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
Lenny Rachitsky interviews Netflix’s Elizabeth Stone on how AI is reshaping product and engineering roles.
How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)
Lenny Rachitsky interviews Noam Siegel about their Tech Worker Sentiment Survey, revealing a workforce split between those energized by AI and those feeling destabilized.