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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Instacart comes up
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
- ▶ 54:04 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Most, you know, Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash, they were all on Stripe.
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.
- ▶ 29:31 Asha Sharma Um, Instacart, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:21 Asha Sharma And same with Instacart, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:57 Asha Sharma Um, outside of that, uh, kind of personally, um, the CMO of Instacart, uh, recommended to me tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. 2 times in the scene
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 0:00 Lenny Rachitsky You were a product leader at Dropbox, then Instacart.
- ▶ 22:47 Nick Turley I actually learned that, uh, at Instacart when I, when I showed up there, because we were in the pandemic, and it was, um, kind of all hands on deck.
- ▶ 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
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 24:34 Andrew Wilkinson Well, look at Instacart, right? 4 times in the scene
Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)
Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- ▶ 1:40:39 Jeff Weinstein Instacart signed up for Stripe with a Gmail address and then COVID happened and they delivered critical 2 times in the scene
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 18:08 Mike Maples, Jr. You know, the, the locator chips in the smartphones powered other companies as well, powered DoorDash, Instacart.
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,…
Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YT, IG, FB)
- ▶ 0:03 Lenny Rachitsky You're VP of product at Instacart.
- ▶ 1:14 Lenny Rachitsky He was also VP of product at Instacart.
- ▶ 6:53 Lenny Rachitsky You were VP of product at Instacart.
- ▶ 26:09 Bangaly Kaba Like I've taken it from my time at Facebook and really institute or rigorously at Instagram, then at Instacart.
- ▶ 58:36 Bangaly Kaba And so we did, I did a lot of this in YouTube, but you know, I also did this in Instacart really thinking about when I joined Instacart, one of the big questions I had was like, how will people in their daily lives, how's their daily life… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:09 Bangaly Kaba And so at an Instacart, the adjacent user, the original user might've been like, uh, you know, an office admin who is going to buy this thing every week because of during happy hours and team staff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:37 Bangaly Kaba Probably for me, I think my time at Instacart was probably not my best time. 6 times in the scene
Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google)
- ▶ 1:10:42 Jag Duggal And I will not pretend to you that we've cracked that code, but a former boss of mine, uh, spoke, spoke a while ago, um, uh, Fiji Simo, who's now, uh, the CEO of Instacart, but she was talking about the evolution when she was the product…
An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- ▶ 6:25 Claire Butler And I just Instacarted some things and ordered some pizza.
Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)
- ▶ 0:54 Lenny Rachitsky Sri was VP of Ops at Opendoor, then Head of Growth at Instacart, and currently he is the Head of Growth at RAMP, which, as you'll hear at the top of the episode, is the fastest growing SaaS business and the fastest growing fintech business…
- ▶ 5:59 Sri Batchu And yeah, I mean, we've got a very thoughtful and smart finance team that I've worked with actually closely, our old head of strategic finance at Instacart, and they set ambitious goals for us, uh, on growth.
- ▶ 19:13 Lenny Rachitsky Is there anything else that just like, as someone that came into RAMP from other traditional companies that also move really fast, Instacart and Opendoor, that is just like, holy moly, this is, this is velocity.
- ▶ 30:57 Lenny Rachitsky And another way to put it is just a repeatable, repeatable, scalable growth process, whether it's at ramp or Opendoor or Instacart.
- ▶ 33:09 Sri Batchu And so at Instacart, for example, our North star metric for, for growth was monthly active orders. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:58 Sri Batchu And for Facebook, it was Mal for Instacart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:16 Sri Batchu Instacart and Opendoor were not like that.
An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO, the New York Times)
- ▶ 1:05:35 Alex Hardiman I was lucky enough to work, uh, with her and for her when I was at Facebook and just watching the way that she, what she did with Facebook, what she then is doing at Instacart and the way that she really just helps so many other women in…
How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
- ▶ 0:46 Lenny Rachitsky Before that, he spent three and a half years at Slack, leading a lot of their growth efforts, and about a year at Instacart, leading a number of their key growth analytics and product efforts.
- ▶ 5:09 Fareed Mosavat I built one of the first growth teams at Instacart for about a year and a half in the middle of their acceleration. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:32 Fareed Mosavat So to use an example, there was a time at Instacart where we were working on onboarding, brand new onboarding and activation flow for customers.
- ▶ 48:46 Fareed Mosavat I learned it at Instacart.
Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier
- ▶ 29:07 Dan Hockenmaier Instacart famously was losing money on every order.
- ▶ 43:45 Dan Hockenmaier Instacart set of options. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:58 Dan Hockenmaier So like, you know, DoorDash and Instacart own logistics.
Overcome imposter syndrome and accelerate your career | Julie Zhuo (Sundial, Facebook)
- ▶ 1:55 Lenny Rachitsky With over 1700 customers like Atlassian, Instacart, and HBO, Amplitude is helping companies build better products.
The role of AI in new product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub)
- ▶ 2:29 Lenny Rachitsky Amplitude is the number one most popular analytics solution in the world, used by both big companies like Shopify, Instacart, and Atlassian, and also most tech startups.
The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra, Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
- ▶ 1:29:30 Shishir Mehrotra She now runs Instacart.
How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
- ▶ 1:49 Lenny Rachitsky Amplitude is the number one most popular analytics solution in the world used by both big companies like Shopify, Instacart, and Atlassian, and also most tech startups.
How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri
- ▶ 1:17 Lenny Rachitsky Amplitude is the number one most popular analytics solution in the world used by both big companies like Shopify, Instacart, and Atlassian, and also most tech startups.
How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google
- ▶ 1:11 Lenny Rachitsky Amplitude is the number one most popular analytics solution in the world, used by both big companies like Shopify, Instacart, and Atlassian, and also most tech startups.