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The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 3:20 Lenny Rachitsky Product, design, and research teams at companies like Amazon and Duolingo are already using Strela for Figma prototype testing, concept validation, and customer journey research, getting insights overnight.
- ▶ 59:26 Lazar Yovanovich So I went into Figma and I was like, let me just take this background like and just put it in there.
A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy
- ▶ 1:17:20 Dr. Becky Kennedy Like, I, you know, currently I'm, you know, just playing around with Figma Make, and I was like, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:30 Dr. Becky Kennedy I'm just laughing because Andrew Hogan, who's, uh, like does insights at Figma, he's, he's been like a big, good inside member.
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 4:53 Lenny Rachitsky Product, design, and research teams at companies like Amazon and Duolingo are already using Strela for Figma prototype testing, concept validation, and customer journey research, getting insights overnight instead of waiting for the next…
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- ▶ 4:39 Lenny Rachitsky Product, design, and research teams at companies like Amazon and Duolingo are already using Strela for Figma prototype testing, concept validation, and customer journey research, getting insights overnight instead of waiting for the next…
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 30:54 Jason Lemkin It can combine the Vercel story and the, and, and, and, and, uh, what, what you did with, with Dylan at Figma and it can synthesize the knowledge and it's pretty good.
Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
- ▶ 3:37 Lenny Rachitsky This episode is brought to you by Figma, makers of Figma Make. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:37 Lenny Rachitsky This episode is brought to you by Figma, makers of Figma Make. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:17 Tomer Cohen And like, or Figma on design, where you can think about design systems and other is another example of that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:40 Lenny Rachitsky So like you might have an amazing Figma agent, but some teams want to use a different design tool. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:17 Tomer Cohen Uh, even if you're learning it for the first time and so on, whether it's cursor or whether it's a design with Figma or other tools or lovable, you should be ready to invest those hours before you start seeing yourself pick up in velocity…
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
- ▶ 33:40 Lenny Rachitsky Enterprises like Atlassian, Figma, and Urban Outfitters use Stripe to create fully branded and customized checkout pages with access to more than 125 global payment methods.
A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love
- ▶ 3:38 Lenny Rachitsky Enterprises like Atlassian, Figma, and Urban use Stripe to create fully branded and customized checkout pages with access to more than 125 global payment methods.
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- ▶ 3:37 Lenny Rachitsky This episode is brought to you by Figma, makers of Figma Make. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:37 Lenny Rachitsky This episode is brought to you by Figma, makers of Figma Make. 4 times in the scene
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
- ▶ 1:31 Lenny Rachitsky They're investors in OpenAI, Cursor, Android, Databricks, Figma, basically every generational tech company.
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 35:59 Nick Turley Like, I love being in Figma.
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 34:46 Dan Shipper There's a lot of copy that goes on a Quora or Spiral or Sparkle that we want to have that same every quality bar for, and so we have, you know, engineers sending Kate, like, here's the Figma file.
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 1:33:53 John Zeratsky And, you know, in this example that Jake is showing of Axia and Orbital, people get really clever about which parts of this need to be real, which parts of this can be vibe coded, which parts of this can just be a static Figma mock-up.
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- ▶ 3:51 Lenny Rachitsky You can even test your Figma prototypes directly inside the platform.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 2:43 Lenny Rachitsky What you may not know is that they have several other products that can help accelerate your revenue, such as Stripe Billing, which powers billing for companies that you may have heard of, OpenAI, Anthropic, Figma, Atlassian, and over…
- ▶ 44:53 Lenny Rachitsky Figma, Atlassian, and over 300,000 other companies.
- ▶ 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…
- ▶ 1:32:53 Bob Baxley So once you go into Figma, you've, you've made a decision about the thing you're going to produce.
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
- ▶ 30:29 Sachin Kansal You don't even ship designs in a Figma.
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 50:07 Krithika Shankarraman Sometimes it means looking at a Figma file for a landing page that's going out the next day and making sure the words are as good as they can be.
How Revolut trains world-class PMs: The “Local CEO” model, raw intellect & building wow products
- ▶ 2:29 Lenny Rachitsky What you may not know is that they have several other products that can help accelerate your revenue, such as Stripe Billing, which powers billing for companies that you may have heard of, OpenAI, Anthropic, Figma, Atlassian, and over…
- ▶ 30:58 Lenny Rachitsky OpenAI, Anthropic, Figma, Atlassian, and over 300,000 other companies.
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 9:33 Michael Truell You can kind of gesture at it with Figma, and you can gesture at it with writing down notes, um, but it's, you know, when you have an actual working prototype,
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- ▶ 12:25 Guillermo Rauch If I, I'm sure people in your audience have used Figma. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:08 Guillermo Rauch The stat, the task of there's a Figma design, or there is some kind of sketch and translating that into reality because they knew really well how to manipulate layouts, layout code, box model code, we call it, and borders, paddings,…
- ▶ 41:06 Guillermo Rauch And this is, I think when I shared it on X, it blew a lot of engineers minds because it created a canvas based canvas is the sort of underlying rendering surface that very sophisticated products use like Figma.
- ▶ 54:55 Guillermo Rauch I could have also attached a Figma file and I'm going to have VZero already knows.
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 54:54 Kevin Weil Like, instead of showing stuff in, like, Figma, we should be showing prototypes that people are vibe coding, you know, over the course of 30 minutes to illustrate proofs of concept and to explore ideas.
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up")
- ▶ 15:31 Ryan Singer It wasn't making a beautiful figma file to represent a concept that could maybe be a feature.
- ▶ 19:33 Ryan Singer We're not going to say, oh, we need to be to build a calendar and then do a whole bunch of Figma files or write a whole bunch of requirements and then ask for an estimate.
- ▶ 39:18 Ryan Singer Very often when people try shape up, what I see is a product team kind of creating either a lot of Figma files or maybe a lot of documentation, you know, like a, like a PRD with a bunch of requirements and a bunch of backstory and good… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:10 Ryan Singer We can't be drawing Figma files. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:20 Ryan Singer So now we give it to product and we've either got a whole bunch of Figma files or we have the PRD with a million requirements about what a great calendar is, you know? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:29 Ryan Singer Where's the moment where you arrive with the Figma file and then all of your, you like the disappointment and all of the, your hopes get destroyed because the engineering is telling you no, right? 2 times in the scene
Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
- ▶ 58:47 Lenny Rachitsky So these are kind of just like, uh, in Figma or exported, just images you're showing people.
The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)
Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 42:59 Amjad Masad Um, for example, we have the Figma extension that translate, um, uh, you know, Figma mocks into, into React that runs on, on Replit. 2 times in the scene
How To Do The Product Review Right (By Doing It Wrong) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- ▶ 0:16 Mohika (Mihika) I'm a product lead at Figma, and the founding PM for Figma Slides. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:16 Mohika (Mihika) I'm a product lead at Figma, and the founding PM for Figma Slides.
- ▶ 3:49 Mohika (Mihika) Now, at Figma, we use product reviews in the form of slide decks most of the time, so that's going to be a lot of what we're talking about here, but we really believe that the takeaways are applicable to any forum and any conversation, be… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 Yuki (Yuhki Yamashita) So this is the bird's eye view of one of the Figma slides vision decks, and the spicy stuff or the bits that are good and interesting are the yellow and pink slides. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 Yuki (Yuhki Yamashita) So this is the bird's eye view of one of the Figma slides vision decks, and the spicy stuff or the bits that are good and interesting are the yellow and pink slides.
- ▶ 10:57 Mohika (Mihika) The original Figma Slides Vision Deck had two memes. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Mohika (Mihika) Specifically, that over 3.5 million people had made slide decks in Figma design over the last year.
- ▶ 18:21 Mohika (Mihika) So the official Flides vision pitch, which happened in Feb of last year, was actually preceded by two other product review-like forums. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:33 Mohika (Mihika) The first was Maker Week, which is our internal hackathon at Figma. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:15 Yuki (Yuhki Yamashita) And something that most people don't know is that at the beginning of this year, we had three company priorities, and Flides was not one of them. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:08 Mohika (Mihika) Last but not least, if the only thing you were impressed by today was these slick animations that you are looking to integrate into your next product review, we have gone ahead and published the deck on Figma Community.
Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)
- ▶ 28:38 Lenny Rachitsky And that partly has been why she was, has been so successful at Figma and influencing leadership to build these products that they were like, nah, I don't know if we need a slides product.
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri
- ▶ 48:50 Lenny Rachitsky See for yourself why companies like DoorDash, Figma, and Qualtrics run on Coda.
Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, and prioritizes intuition
- ▶ 52:23 Archie Abrams Every single project that goes out has a few minute video with figmas and everything and everything that shipped needs to be okay to, so approved by the group.
A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo
- ▶ 19:08 Mike Krieger Like, our best PMs do this, where we'll get in some long conversation about, like, should the UI be this or that, and before our designers have even, like, picked up their Figma, like, our, our, often our PMs, or sometimes our engineers…
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- ▶ 1:02:36 Alistair Croll So, um, if I'm building software, it may now be easier to use an LLM and Figma to build 10 prototypes, show them to citizens in government, see which ones they like, and then document the one that works.
How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische
- ▶ 34:54 Jessica Hische So that's another thing that you can do, whether you're doing it in Figma, or doing it somewhere else, is just like type out a couple of lowercase letters. 2 times in the scene
Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta
- ▶ 55:23 Anneka Gupta When we interviewed students as we were designing the class about what they wanted to learn, what was most surprising to me was that students would say, well, can you teach me how to use Figma?
Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)
- ▶ 5:28 Lenny Rachitsky Join product teams at Figma and at Notion by uncovering AI-powered product opportunities at scale.
Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- ▶ 54:29 JM Nickels You know, Tesla publishes their stigma design and some, you know, earnings report and everyone goes crazy.
Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- ▶ 41:32 Lenny Rachitsky See for yourself why companies like DoorDash, Figma, and Qualtrics run on Coda.
Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- ▶ 5:40 Lenny Rachitsky Join product teams at Figma and at Notion by uncovering AI-powered product opportunities at scale.
- ▶ 35:15 Tamar Yehoshua So your first prototypes are like Figma prototypes, and then you get prototypes on real data.
- ▶ 51:33 Tamar Yehoshua And in five to 10 years, I think the lines between product managers and engineers and designers are going to blur because AI will enable product managers to build prototypes, to build designs, designers to, to build, to build a pro like…
- ▶ 51:33 Tamar Yehoshua And in five to 10 years, I think the lines between product managers and engineers and designers are going to blur because AI will enable product managers to build prototypes, to build designs, designers to, to build, to build a pro like…
The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”)
- ▶ 35:39 Lenny Rachitsky See for yourself why companies like DoorDash, Figma, and Qualtrics run on Coda.
How embracing your emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (Art of Accomplishment)
- ▶ 37:35 Lenny Rachitsky See for yourself why companies like DoorDash, Figma, and Qualtrics run on Coda.
5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)
- ▶ 42:11 Lenny Rachitsky And there's this adjacent market for product teams broadly to be using Figma more. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:31 Lenny Rachitsky So for FigJam would be satisfied customers that are trying to work with their team in these different ways and make sure they are staying, make sure they get what they need out of Figma versus going maybe to other tools.
What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- ▶ 39:57 Lenny Rachitsky And if you want to see for yourself why product teams at high growth companies like Pinterest, Figma, and Qualtrics run on Coda, take advantage of this special limited time offer just for startups.
Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- ▶ 2:04:45 Jeff Weinstein And so, one, aligning people with deep customer stories, storyboarding some solution visually with a Sharpie and not a pencil, not Figma initially, not high or low fidelity.
- ▶ 2:15:20 Lenny Rachitsky So I took a bunch of notes here, and these are awesome, and they actually resonate a lot with, uh, Mihika, who came on the podcast, who's all, who's at Figma been the person building a lot of zero to one stuff.
Dylan Field live at Figma's Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design
- ▶ 0:03 Lenny Rachitsky Today, I'm excited to bring you a very special episode, which was recorded live at Figma config with Figma CEO and co-founder Dylan field in front of a live audience at the Moscone center in San Francisco. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:11 Lenny Rachitsky Please explain a Figma tradition called raccoon feet and muffin ham. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:51 Lenny Rachitsky But I think this is a little bit you, because what I've heard from a number of your colleagues is that one of your superpowers is intuition and product taste, and someone said that you have the sixth sense for what's gonna work when you're… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:07 unnamed speaker Somebody said slides. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:09 Dylan Field Uh, I have not, I, it's Figma slides. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:12 Dylan Field Um, I, well, it's not recent, but like, one good example of me changing my mind, uh, is that you all have pages in Figma. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:51 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, you all have amazing product managers at Figma. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:22 Dylan Field And I walk in, and Mejica, uh, who was on stage yesterday presenting slides, Figma slides. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:56 Dylan Field Um, you know, the, one, uh, essay that Evan, my co-founder, introduced me to early on in Famous History 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:59 Lenny Rachitsky I know you just redesigned Figma. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:10 Lenny Rachitsky Ok, I wanna pivot to talking about early days Figma. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:18 Dylan Field Figma slides.
- ▶ 30:37 Lenny Rachitsky Um, the, ok, so the way you got your early users for Figma is quite fascinating. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:56 Lenny Rachitsky So obviously WebGL, you were on early, and that's what allowed Figment to exist, building it in the browser. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:36 Dylan Field Um, so we actually invest in WebSim with, uh, Figma Ventures.
- ▶ 39:20 Lenny Rachitsky Ok, so, interestingly, before Figma, your only other job was an intern at three different companies, and now you're leading this juggernaut of a business, a thousand plus people. 6 times in the scene
Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)
- ▶ 51:42 Lenny Rachitsky This reminds me of my chat with Mahika, who is, does similar work at Figma, where she works a lot of zero to one stuff, and she described it as your job is to keep the flame alive and help it spread throughout the entire business if you're…
- ▶ 53:45 Lenny Rachitsky And if you want to see for yourself why product teams at high growth companies like Pinterest, Figma, and Qualtrics run on Coda, take advantage of this special limited time offer just for startups.
- ▶ 1:05:04 Tanguy Crusson We basically validated all of that with figma, with figmas in, in like dozens of, uh, zooms, but it's basically coming back saying, here's how those companies are framing it.
Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and embracing AI | Cameron Adams
- ▶ 0:00 Lenny Rachitsky Canva is bigger than Figma and Miro and Webflow combined.
- ▶ 2:38 Lenny Rachitsky Ok, so Canva is bigger than Figma and Miro and Webflow combined.
Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM @Slack)
- ▶ 44:15 Lenny Rachitsky She has a PM at Figma and she had this really, uh, great approach to being, to building new things within companies is just like, everything to her is not yet.
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