Lenny Rachitsky
12 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 16, 2022 by Lenny Rachitsky · said 8 times in 7 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- 20Product: When to Hire a CPO, The Three Different Types of CPO, How To Know What You Need, How To Structure the Hiring Process, What Are the Must-Ask Questions, What Tests and Case Studies Should Be Used, How Should Their Compensation Package Be Structur
- Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: David Friedberg on The Framework for Business Value Creation, The Bifurcation in Venture Today That No One Talks About, The Impact of Interest Rate Hikes on Venture and Step by Step; How TPB Incubates, Funds and Exits The Next Generation of Companie
- 20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team, 3 Questions All Great Product Leaders Ask, How To Structure and Run Effective Product Reviews & Is Product More Art or Science?
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2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
- 20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
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Everything said about Lenny Rachitsky, oldest first
Mar 16, 2022
Product managers own problem definition, while designers own the solution
“A simple way to think about it is the PM's job, eighty-twenty. 80% of their job is to identify the problem that needs to be solved and make clear, here's what we're trying to solve, and here's all the information around it. And the designer's job, like eighty-…”
Mar 16, 2022 negative
Rachitsky: Committed to avoiding full-time VC life and institutional fund management
“I don't like the full-time VC life. That's what I'm trying to avoid at all costs, because I've learned I don't like the things that VCs have to spend time on, like financial modeling and planning, portfolio allocation, fundraising with LPs, those sorts of thin…”
Mar 16, 2022
Lenny Rachitsky: Product reviews waste time when disconnected from problem definitions
“I think the most common problem in these meetings that causes all kinds of wasted time is not connecting back to the problem that you're solving as a team, whether it The problem that feature is trying to solve.”
Mar 16, 2022
Mar 16, 2022 positive
Mar 16, 2022
Rachitsky: Big Tech PMs often fail when transitioning to startups
“And similarly, if your PM's been a PM at like Google or Facebook, they're just like really good at PMing at Google and Facebook. There's like a very specific way of building product at these big companies, and you shouldn't assume that they're going to be good…”
Mar 16, 2022
Mar 16, 2022 negative
Mar 16, 2022
Founders shouldn't hire product managers based on popular blogs or podcasts
“So a few mistakes founders make hiring PM. One is assuming they're like a great PM because they've written amazing blogs or tweets or done podcasts, like myself included. It's a lot different to do the job than to be talking about it.”
Mar 16, 2022
Rachitsky: PM candidates fail by jumping straight to solutions
“One mistake that PMs often make is jumping to a solution. When someone asks them, how would you approach this? It's just like, here's the answer, versus asking questions to better understand Context and the space and understand things that the person maybe has…”
Mar 16, 2022
Rachitsky: Distribution and problem fit kill startups faster than product quality
“I don't actually pay attention to the product as much as I used to, because I've seen these things are much more likely to kill it, and then I'm like, okay, cool, now let's check out the product and see if it's awesome.”