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Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 1:12:51 Marc Andreessen and you've got anthropic and you've got XAI and you've got meta
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 1:08:07 Jason Cohen You know, a hundred leads per month through Facebook or whatever, but then it kind of taps out 2 times in the scene
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 1:14 Lenny Rachitsky Zevi's a PM at Meta.
- ▶ 5:28 Lenny Rachitsky His engineers at Meta ask him to teach them how to do what he does.
- ▶ 26:46 Lenny Rachitsky I actually, let's come back after we go through this flow of how you would approach this if you were at say meta or another, maybe a smaller company.
- ▶ 34:17 Lenny Rachitsky Shout out, uh, Mayor, the, uh, founder of Facebook.
- ▶ 58:21 Lenny Rachitsky You used AI to help you actually interview for the job that you got at Meta. 3 times in the scene
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- ▶ 0:59 Lenny Rachitsky Today, my guest is Sam Lesson, partner at Slow Ventures, previous VP of product at Facebook, and two-time founder.
- ▶ 16:00 Sam Lessin I have this whole backstory, which is part, you know, I worked at Facebook for a long time, was really into it early on.
- ▶ 1:22:33 Sam Lessin No, but I will say that I have hanging in my gym, which I love from the Facebook hackathon after the launch of Google plus, this is going way back in history.
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- ▶ 0:11 Molly Graham Facebook felt like a 19 year old hacker's dorm room.
- ▶ 1:10 Lenny Rachitsky Molly was an early employee at Google, also at Facebook, where she worked closely with Zuck on building the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
- ▶ 6:45 Molly Graham Um, after Google, I left, uh, and followed Sheryl Sandberg and Elliot Schrag to, to Facebook, and I, um, spent five years at Facebook. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:50 Molly Graham Um, and then Facebook was like a masterclass in giving away the Legos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:04 Molly Graham Um, so my rule of thumb from Facebook was give it two weeks and you know, these, the emotional, the sort of Bob, Bob is like,
- ▶ 24:02 Molly Graham So I was at Facebook for, um, five years. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:51 Molly Graham So anyway, um, a lot of my goal setting stuff actually comes from Facebook, which I think was very, very good at this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:30 Molly Graham Like, you know, at Facebook in particular, I benefited from people being like, ooh, like, come help me with this thing.
- ▶ 1:11:37 Molly Graham so I said I worked at Facebook. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:30 Lenny Rachitsky He's a former Facebook person now at OpenAI. 2 times in the scene
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 38:39 Jason Lemkin I got a four million dollar deal with Meta going.
The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- ▶ 23:03 Lenny Rachitsky You have this hot take that a lot of these labs are kind of pushing AGI in the wrong direction, uh, and this is based on your work at Twitter and Google and Facebook.
- ▶ 50:17 Edwin Chen It's almost like in the same way that when Google builds a search engine, it's very, very different from how Facebook would build a search engine, which is very, very different from how Apple would build a search engine.
- ▶ 53:48 Edwin Chen And then I became a researcher at Google and Facebook and Twitter, and I just kept running into the same problem over and over again.
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
- ▶ 58:39 Lenny Rachitsky I imagine you do some ads at this point in Facebook and Google and things like that. 2 times in the scene
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- ▶ 1:48 Lenny Rachitsky If you're not familiar with Julie, she was the longtime head of design for the Facebook app,
- ▶ 2:18 Lenny Rachitsky Having worked at a mega large corp like Meta,
- ▶ 7:56 Julie Zhuo I was thinking about that maybe for people who grew up in companies like mine, like Facebook, you know, high scale Silicon Valley, it, it might resonate.
- ▶ 21:31 Lenny Rachitsky I love that you've had the experience of working at a mega large company at Meta, and now you're building your own startup that's small and in the middle of this trend of just staying very small and, and staying really lean and just…
- ▶ 32:12 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, you're an inspiration to so many designers.
- ▶ 1:30:38 Julie Zhuo Um, I think about this poster used to be a poster at Facebook that says don't mistake motion for progress.
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 47:53 Brendan Foody Meta or Google, they have these incredible, intense early stage cultures of people just moving heaven and earth and doing whatever it takes to push the frontier of model capabilities.
- ▶ 1:01:38 Lenny Rachitsky He has a Facebook for a long time.
The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- ▶ 48:07 Ethan Smith And then before that it was Facebook
$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
- ▶ 1:01:28 Ben Horowitz And like, when they figured that out, then nobody would invest in anything, and of course, then everybody realized, well, the internet was actually real, and Paul Krugman didn't know what he's talking about, and like, it was going to be a…
How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
- ▶ 11:19 Oji Udezue A lot of the most successful people, you know, Bill Gates, Facebook
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 1:18 Lenny Rachitsky She was previously COO at Instacart and VP of Product at Meta, where she ran Messenger, Instagram Direct, Messenger Kids, and Remote Presence.
- ▶ 1:18 Lenny Rachitsky She was previously COO at Instacart and VP of Product at Meta, where she ran Messenger, Instagram Direct, Messenger Kids, and Remote Presence.
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- ▶ 14:54 Garrett Lord I hired a, a gentleman from Meta that went along, that went along the post-training over there.
- ▶ 29:41 Lenny Rachitsky Now they're swallowed up and Alex is running super intelligence and meta.
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
- ▶ 1:17:05 Lenny Rachitsky Someone recommended, I think Boz at Facebook recommended a fancy Mercedes, and then someone once suggested a Rivian.
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- ▶ 0:40 Lenny Rachitsky Think about companies like Zynga that grew on Facebook and then became massive companies.
- ▶ 14:23 Brian Balfour as “meta”
- ▶ 17:20 Lenny Rachitsky Hey everyone, welcome to, to Facebook. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:46 Brian Balfour Like my, one of my first companies, uh, was during the whole, uh, uh, the Facebook platform boom, you know, social gaming, all of those applications. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:53 Brian Balfour Facebook's channels did get super spammy and like all of those things.
- ▶ 23:40 Brian Balfour You know, Facebook happened over the course of about
- ▶ 27:01 Brian Balfour So many companies got completely killed during, uh, you know, the crash of the, the Facebook social platform. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:16 Brian Balfour Facebook had was smaller, but had way better retention engagement over the others, right?
- ▶ 41:24 Lenny Rachitsky So yeah, even though it's not, I don't know, Google or, or Facebook or whatever, uh, it's still incredibly valuable for this specific thing that I do.
- ▶ 48:38 Brian Balfour In the Facebook days, uh, all those other, all those other social networks, they also came out, you know, with their own platforms, right?
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)
- ▶ 49:38 Chip Conley So Oracle has a different, you know, culture than Apple, which has a different culture than Facebook.
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 0:00 Lenny Rachitsky You were CTO of Meta.
- ▶ 1:04 Lenny Rachitsky He co-founded the social network friend feed, which invented the like button and the real-time news feed, which he sold to Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:55 Bret Taylor There was a, we were a follower oriented social network, um, not a friendship oriented social network, which meant a lot of our content was more like, uh, X or Twitter than it is Facebook in that respect.
- ▶ 33:46 Bret Taylor At Facebook, we would always, uh, you know, we spent a lot of time designing the newsfeed.
Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- ▶ 0:45 Ben Mann We've been much less affected because people here, they get these offers and then they say, well, of course I'm not going to leave because my best case scenario at Meta is that
- ▶ 5:46 Ben Mann And they stay because, you know, they get these offers and then they say, well, of course I'm not going to leave because my best case scenario at Meta is that we make money.
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 21:26 Andrew Wilkinson You know, I was kind of like they, they had raised, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars and they were run by the co-founder of Facebook.
- ▶ 34:48 Andrew Wilkinson And so you see that same kind of thing with Instagram or Facebook or similar.
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
- ▶ 35:01 David Placek Like PowerBook or Facebook are multipliers of, of, uh, of associations because there's wind and there's circles around that, you know,
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 0:00 Lenny Rachitsky You built and led Facebook news feeds.
- ▶ 2:24 Lenny Rachitsky He also spent nearly 10 years at Facebook as their fourth ever product manager, where he built and led the team behind the current News Feed product, the standalone Messenger app, also photos and groups and homepage and profiles.
- ▶ 2:24 Lenny Rachitsky He also spent nearly 10 years at Facebook as their fourth ever product manager, where he built and led the team behind the current News Feed product, the standalone Messenger app, also photos and groups and homepage and profiles.
- ▶ 21:13 Lenny Rachitsky You worked at OpenAI, Facebook, Uber, had a product at Instagram. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:31 Peter Deng And that keep on polishing and iterating that product and, and coming up with new ones like newsfeed and photo tagging.
- ▶ 32:32 Peter Deng There's so many distribution advantages that Google meet has that Google, uh, Facebook startup, uh, Microsoft teams has, uh, zoom has, but they're just these tiny little product craft, delightful things that I
- ▶ 37:06 Lenny Rachitsky You built and led the Facebook newsfeed, the current version of it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:13 Lenny Rachitsky You shipped the messenger app as its own app. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:56 Peter Deng And so when you build a growth team and you hire the right growth leader, I've had the pleasure, uh, the, the pleasure of working with George Lee at Instagram, um, you know, some early growth folks at, at Facebook, Andrew Chen at, at, um,…
- ▶ 47:59 Peter Deng And so I I've saw, I've seen this at, at, at, at Facebook.
- ▶ 1:08:05 Peter Deng Managing career at Facebook where I realized, you know, I did make a mistake and hired someone who just didn't quite have that growth mindset.
- ▶ 1:35:49 Lenny Rachitsky I want to ask you about Facebook real quick. 10 times in the scene
How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
- ▶ 1:10:59 Lenny Rachitsky I love that you're using all these, uh, habit-building tactics that folks have been using historically to get you to check your Instagram likes and your Facebook posts, uh, for actual good, for helping people live longer and happier.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 12:02 Bob Baxley I mean, think of your own life.
- ▶ 12:32 Bob Baxley So by my definition of, uh, even meta is still a startup in a way that Amazon's not.
- ▶ 48:38 Bob Baxley My team at Apple, but also my friends that are working at Facebook or Google or wherever, it's very hard to really understand that they're creating something in Figma on their computer that's going to be interacted with by billions of…
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 1:07:22 Lenny Rachitsky This reminds me of when Kevin Wheel was on the podcast talking about Libra, which was this cryptocurrency project that Facebook ran, and he's just like, okay, that was a terrible time to launch something like that, where people trusted… 2 times in the scene
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 6:16 Mayur Kamat Like Google didn't do it, Facebook, none of the names that you hear it.
- ▶ 45:11 Mayur Kamat Uh, Vijay was used to run the experimentation at Facebook.
- ▶ 1:20:44 Mayur Kamat Like Microsoft with mobile or Google with social or Facebook with enterprise, right?
- ▶ 1:36:07 Mayur Kamat So, linkedin.com slash my year, uh, early basis of Facebook. 2 times in the scene
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 11:20 Nabeel S. Qureshi You had, you know, the hot companies were like Facebook and Pinterest and things like that.
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- ▶ 6:03 Guillermo Rauch It's an open source framework based on the React technology open source by Meta, and it powers some of the most innovative products on the internet.
- ▶ 46:26 Guillermo Rauch React was this UI component library that Facebook created, actually with very similar goals. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 0:52 Lenny Rachitsky Famously, you led this project at Facebook called Libra. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46 Lenny Rachitsky He was co-creator of the Libra cryptocurrency at Facebook, which we chatted about.
- ▶ 11:44 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, so you worked at Twitter, you worked at Facebook, you worked at Planet, Instagram.
- ▶ 1:18:05 Lenny Rachitsky So, famously, you led this project at Facebook called Libra, which is now called Novi. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:52 Kevin Weil but then I thought Zuck encapsulated it one time on a, on a Facebook earnings call, um, 2 times in the scene
Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact
- ▶ 5:01 Lenny Rachitsky There's this quote that Boz, the CTO of Meta, he's been on the podcast.
How to win in the AI era: Ship weekly, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and more
- ▶ 37:21 Gaurav Misra Social networks are monopolies by nature, and there's a lot of reasons for Facebook or any other social network to stop the growth of Snapchat, and they tried.
- ▶ 53:28 Gaurav Misra Facebook ads is just placing a button to your app in Facebook, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:07 Lenny Rachitsky The next Facebook, the next Snap, the next whatever.
Making and Leading Products People Love (Scott Belsky) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- ▶ 13:13 Scott Belsky And I don't know about you, but I've held actually only a few focus groups for Behance very in the beginning, and everyone told us they didn't need another social network, they had DeviantArt, they had, um, Facebook, you know, they had,…
How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work)
- ▶ 29:29 Jonathan Lowenhar Lenny, do you remember how much revenue they had when they got acquired by now Meta? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:39 Jonathan Lowenhar Like, oh, cool, they worked at Meta and Salesforce already, so hire them, right?
Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
- ▶ 0:14 Michael Margolis Amazon started just selling books or Facebook was just profiles for college students.
- ▶ 10:12 Michael Margolis Amazon started just selling books or Facebook was just profiles for college students, et cetera, et cetera.
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