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Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 41:12 Lenny Rachitsky Don G on the podcast, CTO of block. 2 times in the scene
Simplify To Win | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
Unorthodox PM tips: Automating user insights, unselling candidates, decision logs, more | Kevin Yien
- ▶ 1:09:02 Kevin Yien And so I think once I was able to get to that square for me was the immediate subsequent role that I took on.
The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- ▶ 1:27:40 Timothy Davis I bet you Shopify shows up as a close variant at some point or Square or anyone like that.
Frameworks for product differentiation, team building, and first principles thinking | Ayo Omojola
- ▶ 0:47 Lenny Rachitsky Ayo co-created and scaled Square's popular Cash Card alongside the hugely popular Cash App.
- ▶ 8:40 Ayo Omojola A lot of, a lot of, um, the way like Brian and Dustin and Jesse and Downgy like tried to organize team, you know, with Jack's support was just really firewall from the rest of Square.
- ▶ 14:09 Lenny Rachitsky You mentioned in passing when we were preparing for this, that block was trying to kill the cache app for a lot of time. 6 times in the scene
Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
- ▶ 1:30 Lenny Rachitsky For the past decade plus, Jonathan and his team have planned, built, and executed more than three and a half billion dollars in paid acquisition budgets for companies like Uber, Asana, Square, Masterclass, Tempurpedic, and many more, and…
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 1:01:07 Casey Winters So take Square or Substack or Patreon or like Eventbrite, right?
Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)
- ▶ 12:27 Claire Hughes Johnson We didn't know HR people, so I, I basically ran a project, and the first thing I did though, thanks to Patrick and John, is I went and talked, I talked to Square, I talked to Airbnb, and
How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts
- ▶ 4:01 unnamed speaker It's incredible to see how our customers like Square, Spotify, and Zora are able to grow their businesses on top of Flatfile.
How to hit revenue targets in a recession | Sahil Mansuri (Bravado)
- ▶ 2:53 unnamed speaker It's incredible to see how our customers like Square, Spotify, and Zora are able to grow their businesses on top of Flatfile.
How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People)
- ▶ 2:20 unnamed speaker It's incredible to see how our customers like Square, Spotify, and Zora are able to grow their businesses on top of Flatfile.
How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
- ▶ 2:37 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber
How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
- ▶ 2:21 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber.
Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
- ▶ 3:48 unnamed speaker It's incredible to see how our customers like Square, Spotify, and Zora are able to grow their businesses on top of Flatfile.
Building better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
- ▶ 4:04 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use Koda to run effectively.
How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)
- ▶ 3:48 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use Coda to run effectively.
Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- ▶ 21:25 Jason Shah I talked to Square and I remember people always say, well, what stage do you want to join?
When to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)
- ▶ 3:23 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use Coda to run effectively and have published their templates for anyone to use.
The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)
- ▶ 2:31 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use Coda to run effectively and have published their templates
The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group
- ▶ 2:57 unnamed speaker It's incredible to see how our customers like Square, Spotify, and Zora are able to grow their businesses on top of Flatfile.
The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
- ▶ 0:53 Lenny Rachitsky Then she went on to Square, where she was one of the first marketers and helped launch and scale the growth of Square Reader.
- ▶ 4:20 Lenny Rachitsky You've worked with so many amazing companies, uh, Google, Square, Loom, Patreon, Front, so many others. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:01 Lenny Rachitsky So you said that you were creating jewelry and that's how you got into square to work on this product. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:52 Arielle Jackson So after I left Square, I went to a tiny startup that was seven people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 Arielle Jackson That was the first company I named post Google square, all of that.
- ▶ 21:29 Arielle Jackson It was a large, an arduous process that Goggin wrote about on Twitter, but these days, like you don't necessarily need the.com square operated on square up for very, very long time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:31 Arielle Jackson The only difference is if you have a lot of equity in your company name, like I'll, Square is a good example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:23 Arielle Jackson Like if you have a local business or a local story or local customers, this was a huge thing at Square.
The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra, Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
- ▶ 3:18 unnamed speaker It's incredible to see how our customers like Square, Spotify, and Zora are able to grow their businesses on top of Flatfile.
- ▶ 35:02 Shishir Mehrotra So like at, uh, um, uh, at Square, Gokel called them spades.
- ▶ 44:31 Shishir Mehrotra Or, or if you're at square, like you're going to see the spade template and you're going to, you're going to learn how to do it.