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OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 1:53 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom get a deep understanding of how AI is providing value to their developers and what impact AI is having on engineering productivity.
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 3:24 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 4:30 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- ▶ 3:59 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom get a deep understanding of how AI is providing value to their developers and what impact AI is having on engineering productivity.
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- ▶ 3:24 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom get a deep understanding of how AI is providing value to their developers and what impact AI is having on engineering productivity.
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 3:15 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom,
The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- ▶ 13:22 Elena Verna And I worked with Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey, Netlify, um,
- ▶ 1:10:02 Elena Verna And when I was, um, I was at Dropbox before and
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 5:33 Lenny Rachitsky Before that, you were a product manager at Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- ▶ 4:58 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom
$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
- ▶ 3:01 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 3:47 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 3:58 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom get a deep understanding of how AI is providing value to their developers and what impact AI is having on engineering productivity.
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
- ▶ 39:46 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom
- ▶ 1:10:14 Lenny Rachitsky Intercom, Palantir, Revolut, N-XVI, Dropbox, Chime, Stripe, and then Coinbase and Notions down there.
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- ▶ 2:56 Lenny Rachitsky With DX, companies like Dropbox, Booking.com, Adyen, and Intercom get a deep understanding of how AI is providing value to their developers and what impact AI is having on engineering productivity.
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 0:00 Lenny Rachitsky You were a product leader at Dropbox, then Instacart.
- ▶ 42:49 Nick Turley Actually, much more than today, where you've got so many, like, kind of consumers on the product, and, you know, it's kind of sort of transcended into pop culture, but at the time, it was, like, you know, writing, coding, analysis, that…
- ▶ 1:02:20 Lenny Rachitsky So you've worked at traditional, let's say traditional product companies, Dropbox, Instacart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23:55 Lenny Rachitsky So you were a product leader at Dropbox, then Instacart, now you're the PM of arguably the most consequential product in history. 2 times in the scene
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
- ▶ 4:17 Lenny Rachitsky Learn why some of the world's most iconic companies like Etsy, Dropbox, Twilio, Vercel, and Webflow rely on DX.
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 3:51 Lenny Rachitsky Learn why some of the world's most iconic companies like Etsy, Dropbox, Twilio, Vercel, and Webflow rely on DX.
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 1:15:35 Jake Knapp And that animated enough people to take the plunge and switch and try it out that they were able to build up an audience of, you know, tens of thousands of users and, uh, Dropbox acquired them last year.
How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
- ▶ 0:57 Lenny Rachitsky Previously, she was a senior director of product at Big Health and a senior product marketing manager at Dropbox.
- ▶ 1:39:14 Hilary Gridley And I mean, I've, I worked at Dropbox for a while.
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 1:06 Lenny Rachitsky She was also an early marketing leader at Retool and at Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:24 Krithika Shankarraman And so I had to unlearn a lot of the things that I had learned at Google and Dropbox coming into Stripe in order to reach developers authentically.
- ▶ 24:59 Lenny Rachitsky I remember a hack pad that turned into Dropbox paper.
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 56:35 Lenny Rachitsky Intercom, Palantir, Revolut, and then N-twenty-six, Chime, Stripe, Dropbox were kind of at the top.
Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more
- ▶ 4:11 Lenny Rachitsky Learn why some of the world's most iconic companies like Etsy, Dropbox, Twilio, Vercel, and Webflow rely on DX.
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- ▶ 8:25 Alistair Croll That was, there was a time that was the first time, you know, the Dropbox model of when you invite someone, you both get more storage.
How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische
- ▶ 3:28 Lenny Rachitsky The event features a curated list of speakers with direct experience building for the enterprise, including leaders from OpenAI, Vanta, Checker, Dropbox, and Canva.
Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta
- ▶ 7:01 Lenny Rachitsky The event features a curated list of speakers with direct experience building for the enterprise, including leaders from OpenAI, Vanta, Checker, Dropbox, and Canva.
Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- ▶ 6:49 Lenny Rachitsky The event features a curated list of speakers with direct experience building for the enterprise, including leaders from OpenAI, Vanta, Checker, Dropbox, and Canva.
The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”)
- ▶ 5:28 Lenny Rachitsky Learn why some of the world's most iconic companies like Etsy, Dropbox, Twilio, Vercel, and Webflow rely on DX.
The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author of “Hacking Growth”)
- ▶ 29:29 Sean Ellis And so initially it was just for the, for the case of, of Zobni, but then I went to, to Dropbox right after Zobni and, and like, oh, I'll try the question again.
5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)
- ▶ 5:32 Lenny Rachitsky Learn how teams like Dropbox, IDEO, and Orange Theory trust Webflow to achieve their most ambitious goals today at webflow.com.
Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
- ▶ 3:19 Lenny Rachitsky Learn how teams like Dropbox, IDEO, and Orange Theory trust Webflow to achieve their most ambitious goals today at webflow.com.
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 55:19 Lenny Rachitsky Learn how teams like Dropbox, IDEO, and Orange Theory trust Webflow to achieve their most ambitious goals today at webflow.com.
Dylan Field live at Figma's Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design
- ▶ 32:40 Dylan Field Like, I, I think, um, the first time I met Tim was at Dropbox, and, ah,
The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author)
- ▶ 1:06 Lenny Rachitsky Jessica is the co-founder of Y Combinator, the first and most famous startup accelerator, which since 2005 has funded over 5000 companies, including over 200 unicorns now worth over a billion dollars, including companies like Airbnb,…
- ▶ 37:33 Jessica Livingston Like in the case of Dropbox, Drew and Arash, you know, both went to MIT, but I think they didn't know each other. 2 times in the scene
The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford)
- ▶ 7:41 Lenny Rachitsky Learn how teams like Dropbox, IDEO, and Orange Theory trust Webflow to achieve their most ambitious goals today at webflow.com.
The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon
- ▶ 7:56 Lenny Rachitsky Learn how teams like Dropbox, IDEO, and Orange Theory
Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM @Slack)
- ▶ 4:08 Lenny Rachitsky Learn how teams like Dropbox, IDEO, and Orange Theory trust Webflow to achieve their most ambitious goals today at webflow.com.
A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)
- ▶ 3:43 Lenny Rachitsky Learn how teams like Dropbox, IDEO, and Orange Theory trust Webflow to achieve their most ambitious goals today at webflow.com.
Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott
- ▶ 0:49 Lenny Rachitsky Prior to this book, Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and many other tech companies.
An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- ▶ 1:20:32 Claire Butler I mean, like, if you're like, oh, Claire, you have to move from paper, Dropbox paper to Google Docs, they'd be like, ah, fine, right?
Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)
- ▶ 41:13 Tim Holley So our buyer referral program ultimately wasn't a huge success, but on the seller side, this was back in the days of, of Dropbox referral program being, you know, a huge, huge driver of their growth and the whole like give, get, uh,…
Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork & Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang
- ▶ 1:01 Lenny Rachitsky Before this, she was Senior Director of Product Management at WeWork, a long-time product leader at Airbnb, where I got to work with Jay-Z for a number of years, and she was also PM at Dropbox and at a gaming company called Pocket Gems.
- ▶ 21:28 Jiaona Zhang Maybe I'll pull out of, you know, call it, like, design tool space, and we'll, we'll talk about some of the other things, whether it's Dropbox or Airbnb.
- ▶ 29:58 Jiaona Zhang And so that was something I brought to Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:48 Lenny Rachitsky So at this point, you've worked at four legendary companies, Dropbox, Airbnb, WeWork, Webflow. 6 times in the scene
Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)
- ▶ 0:00 Melissa Tan My aha moment of the value of first principles thinking was when I was at Dropbox. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:49 Lenny Rachitsky Melissa was the longtime head of growth for Dropbox's B to B business. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:20 Melissa Tan So even in the early stage, as companies are thinking about their go-to-market strategy, previously at Dropbox, I worked across sales.
- ▶ 5:27 Melissa Tan I also helped start their initial product growth and self-serve team for Dropbox business.
- ▶ 6:45 Lenny Rachitsky So before we get into it too deeply, I want to first talk about Dropbox. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:51 Lenny Rachitsky So you said Dropbox, essentially there was a late investment in sales and there's a sense maybe product-led growth's gonna take us really far. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:59 Melissa Tan I've, I've, uh, worked with a few folks from my early Dropbox team that I've known for 10 years now, like a couple of times, in some case three times, and I am always feel so privileged that I get the opportunity to work with them again,…
- ▶ 21:30 Melissa Tan You know, two that really stand out are from Dropbox, uh, Oliver J goes by OJ and GC Leonetti.
- ▶ 28:04 Melissa Tan I guess I've mentioned Dropbox. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:49 Melissa Tan That was actually a problem I had when I first joined Dropbox is I was the only sales ops person.
- ▶ 42:05 Melissa Tan Interestingly enough, Kim Scott was at Dropbox for a short period of time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:15 Melissa Tan That was a trick I learned at Dropbox, where we would actually pull up the Dropbox website and be like, hey, what do you want to test here? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:42 Melissa Tan So I wrote actually an article for the YC blog a few years ago with, with Abby Kuzminoff, who was on my team at Dropbox about this, because I felt like even at Dropbox, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:01 Melissa Tan Our team at Dropbox moved a ton.
- ▶ 1:08:18 Melissa Tan My aha moment of the value of first principles thinking when it was, was when I was at Dropbox and we had the most unconventional people on our initial sales team. 6 times in the scene
Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)
- ▶ 35:24 Lenny Rachitsky I think she worked with them, uh, Dropbox.
The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin
- ▶ 1:26 Lenny Rachitsky Andy has worked closely with some of the most successful founders and companies out there, including companies like Gong, Dropbox, Uber, Salesforce, Square, IBM, and many others.
An inside look at how Miro builds product | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)
- ▶ 25:41 Lenny Rachitsky Like I'm guessing maybe box versus Dropbox is an experience you had there, or if not, what, what's an example of that that you've experienced to make it a little more concrete even?
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 36:54 Casey Winters I talked to Dropbox.
Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
- ▶ 1:17:36 Josh Miller It may be an airport PDF, but that PDF is probably out on Dropbox somewhere and you're accessing it as a URL.
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
- ▶ 45:11 Lenny Rachitsky Like, is it going to be the next Airbnb or Dropbox?
How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)
- ▶ 46:43 Naomi Ionita So in Slack, there might have been number of messages sent or Dropbox, number of terabytes of storage.
An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)
- ▶ 1:06:08 Yuhki Yamashita Like, some of us use Notion, some of us use Dropbox Shaper, some of us use Coda. 2 times in the scene
Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)
- ▶ 25:08 Pete Kazanjy Probably, like, the most famous example of an organization that, like, maybe didn't get sales religion as quickly as they should have would be, um, would be Dropbox. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:20 Pete Kazanjy They're like she, and she was at Dropbox previously as a seller for a long time.
Overcome imposter syndrome and accelerate your career | Julie Zhuo (Sundial, Facebook)
- ▶ 36:51 Lenny Rachitsky The best product and research teams at companies like Loom, Opendoor, and Dropbox use Sprig's in-product surveys to target specific users, start collecting insights, and identify issues and opportunities.
How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)
- ▶ 14:56 Yuriy Timen You think about like what Dropbox has done around, you know, file sharing, like that's an iconic example, then it's really powerful.
The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)
- ▶ 47:12 Lenny Rachitsky The best product and research teams at companies like Loom, Opendoor, and Dropbox use Sprig's in-product surveys to target specific users, start collecting insights, and identify issues and opportunities related to activation