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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 62Benjamin Lauzier 21Mike Maples, Jr. 9Adam Fishman 8Adriel Frederick 7Kristen Berman 5Dan Hockenmaier 5Katie Dill 3JM Nickels 3Claire Butler 2
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The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- ▶ 49:25 Lenny Rachitsky This is why leading platforms like Etsy, LinkedIn, Square, and Lyft trust Persona to secure their platform.
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.
A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love
- ▶ 50:42 Lenny Rachitsky This is why leading platforms like Etsy, LinkedIn, Square, and Lyft trust Persona to secure their platform.
Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)
Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- ▶ 1:15:12 JM Nickels He's like, I'm pretty sure Lyft has drones outside the windows of our office and they're spying on our presentation. 3 times in the scene
How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack)
- ▶ 1:00 Lenny Rachitsky Prior to Thumbtack, Ben was at Lyft for over six years, where he was employee number 30 and led product and growth for the driver's side of the business, and at one point reached one percent of U.S. workers driving for Lyft every month. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:06 Benjamin Lauzier So something like Craigslist is super hands-off, unmanaged, and something like Lyft starts to be more into the semi-managed, where the platform significantly shapes the transaction in this exchange of value, right?
- ▶ 14:03 Benjamin Lauzier Um, you have, um, uh, also a lot of companies, like, building, like, value-added services, like, pretty early on as, like, a core way of retaining supply, like, pretty early on. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:26 Benjamin Lauzier So for, let's take the example of Lyft or Uber, because we talked about them, you know, it might be for all the people who open the app with the intention to book a ride, how many of those actually turn into a ride, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:43 Benjamin Lauzier Um, but Sidecar at the time was another registering company, uh, competing with, uh, Lyft and Uber. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Benjamin Lauzier Um, and I, I felt this at Lyft that I've seen this at other companies, this like rush, like, wow, we,
- ▶ 38:56 Benjamin Lauzier And we saw the same thing at Lyft when trying to, you know, make driver earnings less volatile. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:29 Lenny Rachitsky So this is, uh, Lyft trying to do rental cars, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:43 Lenny Rachitsky And kind of the ambassador program that you had at Lyft and how that helped you scale much more quickly than other folks were able to. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:56 Benjamin Lauzier Those guys were outperforming our very best, like, trained salespeople, because it's not like, hey, it's Ben from Lyft, like, hop on the road, please. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:16 Lenny Rachitsky So I'm looking at, so I've been a huge fan of Lyft from the beginning. 18 times in the scene
Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)
- ▶ 51:50 Brian Tolkin You know, between Uber and Lyft or whatever back in the day, but the reality is there's plenty of trips that happens and people need to get around the city in plenty of different ways. 2 times in the scene
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 1:14 Lenny Rachitsky He's made early bets on transformative companies like Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta, Rappi, and Applied Intuition, and has been on the Forbes Midas list eight times.
- ▶ 12:42 Mike Maples, Jr. So like when, when Lyft launched ridesharing and then Uber closely followed, right, with UberX, nobody after riding a rideshare said, oh, how's that different from taxis?
- ▶ 15:46 Mike Maples, Jr. So you, we brought up, uh, Lyft a little bit ago, so maybe we'll use them as an example. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:19 Mike Maples, Jr. So like with the collection for lift, the inflection was the new thing was the iPhone for us with a GPS chip.
- ▶ 28:27 Mike Maples, Jr. So if in the example that we gave earlier with Lyft, the inflection was the iPhone four S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:14 Mike Maples, Jr. You know, thank God I said yes to Twitter and Just TV and, uh, you know, we said yes to Lyft, uh, and Okta.
- ▶ 1:07:46 Lenny Rachitsky Uh, Lyft obviously comes to mind with this, the pink mustache is just as the future.
- ▶ 1:14:04 Mike Maples, Jr. If we take the Lyft example, let's just say I'm a rider. 2 times in the scene
Failure
- ▶ 3:27 Lenny Rachitsky First up, we've got Katie Dill, who is head of design at Stripe and former head of design at Airbnb and Lyft, sharing this amazing story of how the entire design team at Airbnb basically rebelled against her soon after she joined and what…
The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)
- ▶ 1:01:03 Lenny Rachitsky Yeah, I find with marketplaces, Uber went through this, Lyft went through this for the, like the supply often just gets squeezed because they need to deliver for the customer.
Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- ▶ 14:25 Lenny Rachitsky Lyft, a world where cities feel small again, where transportation and tech bring people together instead of apart.
- ▶ 1:17:05 Lenny Rachitsky When you think of Uber versus Lyft, and then there's like Airbnb versus there's this company, Wimdu, that was their, one of their main competitors, those, these German guys. 2 times in the scene
Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
- ▶ 29:21 Ramesh Johari So one answer to your question is, if I'm in a place like, you know, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, I want to have good data scientists thinking about pricing.
Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)
- ▶ 1:06 Lenny Rachitsky Katie was previously Head of Design at Lyft and Head of Experience Design at Airbnb.
- ▶ 11:32 Lenny Rachitsky I'm just curious what you've learned about how to make the case for the ROI of design and just how Stripe and Airbnb and Lyft have done that.
- ▶ 1:02:04 Katie Dill So when I joined Lyft, uh, as I mentioned to you earlier, I was like, oh, I had learned from the experience that I had at Airbnb
- ▶ 1:29:31 Katie Dill And I actually, I thought about that the other day because I was riding in a, a lift to the airport. 2 times in the scene
An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- ▶ 25:55 Claire Butler You literally do whatever, Uber driver, like, shared lifts, um, I can, we can talk more about that, but we, yeah, you gotta do whatever you can to get early people to talk to, to try your product out, get really scrappy, but for Microsoft,… 2 times in the scene
An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)
- ▶ 10:07 Lenny Rachitsky Uber pulled people off Craigslist, Lyft.
Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst
- ▶ 29:58 Camille Hearst And, um, at the time was a huge competitor to Uber and Lyft in the, uh, ride hailing ride, sharing and ride hailing space. 2 times in the scene
Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- ▶ 1:20:54 David Singleton So the ideas behind Stripe Connect came from working with companies like Lyft and Shopify in the very early days.
Taxi mafias, cash vaults & 100% MoM growth: The story of SEA’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)
- ▶ 7:57 Lenny Rachitsky How would that compare to like an Uber or Lyft? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:45 Lenny Rachitsky Reminds me of Lyft's pink mustache, which went away, but felt like a really important way for them to differentiate.
How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe)
- ▶ 5:32 Eeke de Milliano And yeah, like you can even really sort of imagine that now, but like back then, like Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, all those marketplaces, it was quite a new way of, of doing business.
Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year
- ▶ 29:49 Kristen Berman If you're Lyft,
Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
- ▶ 0:57 Lenny Rachitsky Before that, he was director of product at Lyft, where he led the marketplace teams and the pricing teams over the course of five years.
- ▶ 5:49 Adriel Frederick Quick stint in biotech, and then worked on marketplace at Lyft.
- ▶ 19:46 Lenny Rachitsky There's another topic I definitely wanted to spend a little time on, which is this interesting trend that I noticed when I was looking at your LinkedIn and your background, you worked at Facebook, Lyft, Reddit. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:33 Adriel Frederick And so to give you an example of how I did that, when a lot of the complaints were happening about driving on Lyft, I drove.
- ▶ 28:28 Lenny Rachitsky What's your most stressful memory of working at Lyft?
- ▶ 31:19 Adriel Frederick Lyft is in back in the days, Lyft is in 300 cities, probably roughly across the US. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:21 Adriel Frederick Like I built the experimentation platform at Lyft.
How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)
- ▶ 0:56 Lenny Rachitsky Adam Fishman was the first growth and marketing hire at Lyft, where he spent two and a half years leading their growth efforts.
- ▶ 5:04 Adam Fishman Lift, the precursor to Lift, which was Zimride to name a few.
- ▶ 6:17 Lenny Rachitsky One question I wanted to ask off the bat is Lyft, you were there super early. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:23 Lenny Rachitsky Another question I always have for folks that worked at Lyft or at Uber is how they feel about super pumped and what it was like watching that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:34 Adam Fishman So one example that comes to mind is I did a very brief stint at a company called the Wyzant in between Lyft and Patreon.
- ▶ 28:05 Adam Fishman So when I was at Lyft, I had the privilege of hiring that young, smart, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:52 Adam Fishman We worked on this extensively at Lyft, at Patreon, Wyzant, Imperfect Foods, just released some onboarding improvements that we had created when I was there, which was nice to see that finally come to light.
- ▶ 56:31 Adam Fishman And Lyft and Patreon are two times where I've done it really well.
Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier
- ▶ 22:28 Dan Hockenmaier So if you take like Lyft or Uber, for example, a, an Uber driver signs up for the service. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:46 Dan Hockenmaier So for Uber or Lyft, wait time is a classic example. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:36 Dan Hockenmaier So for example, if you have too little demand for Uber drivers, at some point do they just become disillusioned with the service, switch to Lyft, talk badly about it on social media.
Using behavioral science to improve your product | Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs)
- ▶ 10:24 Kristen Berman So instead of deciding do you take a Lyft, you know, when you're coming home from work, you'd have a rule of thumb that says, I don't take Lyft on the weekdays. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:48 Kristen Berman If you're Lyft, there's logistical friction, which is wait time.
How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
- ▶ 20:01 Ryan Hoover It's also one which is not, um, doesn't have like direct competitors in the sense of like an Uber and Lyft situation where raising is actually like kind of mandatory
How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
- ▶ 0:46 Lenny Rachitsky To put this in context, Gojek completes more rides per day than Lyft and more food deliveries than Grubhub, Uber Eats, and DoorDash combined, and it's the number one mobile wallet in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
- ▶ 4:50 Crystal Widjaja While I grew up in San Jose, the Bay Area, you could see companies like Lyft kind of emerging around the year that I was graduating college, but really it was, how do I graduate college as quickly as possible because this is very boring.