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How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- ▶ 37:11 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 2:10 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an insider subscriber of my newsletter, you get over 20 incredible products for free for an entire year, including a year free of Lovable and Replit, Bold, Gamma, NNN, Linear, Devon, Post-Hoc, Superhuman, Descript,…
- ▶ 49:59 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy
- ▶ 2:33 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a ton of incredible products, including a year free of Devon, Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Innate, and Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity,…
- ▶ 45:29 Lenny Rachitsky That is why so many companies from early stage startups to Fortune 500, including companies like SpaceX, DoorDash, Zapier, Proplexity, and 11 Labs turn to Framer, the website builder that turns your .com from a formality into a tool for…
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 2:35 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an insider subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of over 20 incredible products, including a year free of Lovable, Replit, Bold, Gamma, NADAN, Linear, Superhuman, Devon, Posthog, Descript, Whisperflow,…
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 2:37 Lenny Rachitsky Including a year free of Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Gamma, N-A-D-N, Linear, Devon, Post-Hoc, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Perplexity, Warp, Granola, Magic Pattern, Drake, Gas, Chapier, Demobit, and Stripe Atlas.
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 2:33 Lenny Rachitsky Including Lovable, Replit, Bold, Gamma, N-A-Den, Linear, Devon, Post-Hog, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Perplexity, Warp, Granola, Magic Pattern, Drake House, Chappier, D-Mobbin, and Stripe Atlas.
- ▶ 37:36 Lenny Rachitsky That is why so many companies from early stage startups to Fortune 500, including companies like DoorDash, Zapier, Perplexity, and 11 Labs turn to
- ▶ 1:01:38 Zevi Arnovitz And I basically, uh, used, uh, comment, which is the perplexities browser.
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- ▶ 1:57 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of 19 incredible products, including a year free of Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Gamma, N-A-D-N, Linear, Devon, Post-Hog, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Perplexity,…
- ▶ 45:52 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- ▶ 2:25 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a ton of incredible products, including a year free of Lovable, Replit, Bold, Gamma, Innate and Linear, Devon, Postalk, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow,…
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- ▶ 2:35 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get 19 incredible products for free for an entire year, including Lovable, Replit, Bold, Gamma, NADEN, Linear, Devon, Post Talk, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Perplexity,…
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 2:26 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get 19 premium products for free for an entire year, including a year free of Lovable, Replit, Bolt, N-A-D-N, Gamma, Linear, Devon, Post-Talk, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow,…
The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- ▶ 2:52 Lenny Rachitsky Of 19 incredible premium products, including a year free of Lovable, Replit, Bolt, N-A-D-N, Linear, Devon, Post-Talk, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Perplexity, Warp, Granola, Magic Patterns, Raycast, Chapier, D-Mobbin, and Stripe…
- ▶ 3:15 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
- ▶ 1:17:58 Lenny Rachitsky Because what I think about actually, I interviewed the perplexity founders back in the day, years ago, and they shared like, before we talked to anyone for advice, we first asked Chachapiti it, and I was just like, that is the most insane…
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 2:35 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of 19 incredible products, including a year free of Devin, Lovable, Replit, Bolt, NADAM, Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp,…
- ▶ 3:02 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- ▶ 3:50 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
- ▶ 2:17 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of incredible products, including a year free of Devin, Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Innate, and Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma,…
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
- ▶ 2:48 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get an entire year free of a ton of incredible products, including Devon, Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Innate and Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp,…
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 2:33 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get 17 incredible products for free for an entire year, including Devon, Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Innate, and Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp,…
- ▶ 2:59 Lenny Rachitsky What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Platt, and hundreds of other winning companies have in common?
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
- ▶ 39:54 Grant Lee Our creative director internally partnered with Smith and Dixon, an amazing agency that has helped, you know, what, you know, folks like Perplexity also do their rebrand or their initial brand.
- ▶ 1:28:54 Grant Lee Early on, things like creating the outline perplexity was actually great.
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 2:47 unnamed speaker Including Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Innata, and Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp, Granola, Magic Patterns, Raycast, Chappier D, and Mobbin.
- ▶ 28:59 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products. 2 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- ▶ 1:20 Lenny Rachitsky These days, a lot of people are moving to Chachapiti and Claude and Gemini and perplexity to get answers to their questions.
- ▶ 13:09 Ethan Smith So the average number of words, I think perplexity said this, or somebody else said it was around 25 words versus Google words, around six words.
- ▶ 34:54 Ethan Smith There's perplexity, there's Gemini, there's Chatshubiti, there's MetAI.
- ▶ 36:16 Lenny Rachitsky How do you recommend people think about say Gemini or Clotter or perplexity and others? 5 times in the scene
$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
- ▶ 2:13 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of 15 incredible products, including a year free of Lovable, Replit, Bolt, N-A-N, Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp, Granola,…
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 2:02 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of 15 incredible products, including Lovable, Replit, Bolt, N-A-Den, Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp, Granola, Magic…
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 2:14 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of 15 incredible products, including Lovable, Replit, Bold, N-A-D-N, Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp, Granola, Magic…
- ▶ 2:38 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products. 2 times in the scene
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- ▶ 2:39 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of incredible products, including Lovable, Replit, Bolt, N-A-D-N, Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp, Granola, Magic…
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
- ▶ 55:02 Lenny Rachitsky This reminds me, I did a interview with the perplexity founders. 2 times in the scene
The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
- ▶ 2:12 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of incredible products, including Replit, Lovable, Bolt, N-A-D-N, Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp, Granola, Magic…
- ▶ 2:35 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products. 2 times in the scene
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 2:01 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of incredible products, including Lovable, Replit, Bold, N-A-Dent, Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity,
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)
- ▶ 2:22 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of incredible products, including Replit, Lovable, Bolt, N-A-D-N, Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp, Granola, Magic…
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 2:02 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of incredible products, including Replit, Lovable, Bolt, N.A.D.N., Linear, Superhuman, Descript, Whisperflow, Gamma, Perplexity, Warp, Granola, Magic…
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
- ▶ 2:43 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear. 2 times in the scene
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 1:58 Lenny Rachitsky And also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a bunch of amazing products for free for one year, including superhuman, linear, notion, perplexity, bolt, granola, and more.
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 2:12 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of amazing products, including Bold, Linear, Superhuman, Notion, Perplexity, Granola, and more.
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 1:57 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of amazing products, including Bolt, Linear, Superhuman, Notion, Perplexity, Granola, and more.
- ▶ 3:12 Lenny Rachitsky Interpret is a customer intelligence platform used by leading CX and product orgs like Canva, Notion, Perplexity, Strava, Hinge, and Linear to leverage the voice of the customer and build best-in-class products. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:47 Andrew Wilkinson It goes on to perplexity and it does a deep dive on the person and it sends me, it goes into my email and it gets the context of the meeting. 3 times in the scene
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
- ▶ 2:10 Lenny Rachitsky And if you become a paid subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of amazing products, including Bolt, Linear, Superhuman, Notion, Perplexity, Granola, and more.
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 3:07 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of amazing products, including Bolt, Linear, Superhuman, Notion, Perplexity, and Granola.
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
- ▶ 2:26 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of Bolt, Superhuman, Notion, Perplexity, Granola, and more.
How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
- ▶ 1:51 Lenny Rachitsky You get a year free of a bunch of incredible products, including superhuman, notion, linear, perplexity, and granola.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 2:06 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of incredible products, including linear, superhuman, notion, perplexity, granola, and more.
- ▶ 1:37:43 Bob Baxley I recently got to hear Henry Modisett, who's, uh, had a design at Perplexity, give a talk.
Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
- ▶ 2:50 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of Bolt, Linear, Superhuman, Notion, Perplexity, Granola, and more.
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 2:09 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of incredible products, including Linear, Superhuman, Notion, Perplexity, and Granola.
- ▶ 37:17 Mike Krieger He's at Perflexity now.
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 1:57 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of world-class products, including Superhuman, Notion, Linear, Perplexity, and Granola, and more.
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 1:58 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of amazing products, including Superhuman, Notion, Linear Perplexity, Granola, and more.
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 1:56 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of a bunch of products, including Linear, Superhuman, Notion, Perplexity, and Granola.
How Revolut trains world-class PMs: The “Local CEO” model, raw intellect & building wow products
- ▶ 1:54 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of linear superhuman notion perplexity and granola.
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 2:31 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a bunch of amazing products for free for a year, including Superhuman, Notion, Linear, Perplexity, Granola, and more.
How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna
- ▶ 1:49 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you now get a year free of linear superhuman notion perplexity and granola.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- ▶ 2:42 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of linear superhuman notion perplexity,
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 2:01 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of perplexity, linear, superhuman, notion, and granola.
Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
- ▶ 2:08 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become an annual subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of paid accounts at Superhuman, Linear, Notion, Granola, and Perplexity Pro.
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
- ▶ 1:43 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become a yearly subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of Perplexity Pro, Notion Plus, Linear, Granola, and Superhuman.
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- ▶ 2:19 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become a yearly subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of Linear, Notion, Superhuman, Perplexity Pro, and Granola.
Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact
- ▶ 2:03 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become a yearly subscriber of my newsletter, you get a year free of perplexity pro, superhuman, notion, linear, and granola.
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up")
- ▶ 1:58 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you become a paid subscriber of my newsletter, you get an entire year free of Perplexity Pro, Notion, Superhuman, Linear, and Granola.
How to win in the AI era: Ship weekly, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and more
- ▶ 2:24 Lenny Rachitsky Every yearly subscriber now gets a year free of Notion, Perplexity, Superhuman, Linear, and Granola.
- ▶ 1:22:24 Lenny Rachitsky A year free of linear and superhuman and notion and granola, which is incredible AI app for note taking and perplexity perplexing.
Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- ▶ 42:03 Lenny Rachitsky So interestingly enough, uh, the first time I heard about you and what got me interested in your stuff is I did a, a newsletter post with the company perplexity about how they build product.
Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)
- ▶ 1:51:38 Lenny Rachitsky I'm looking up how, what is 300 feet compared to, uh, real life objects on, uh, perplexity.