11 statements across 8 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jul 21, 2022 by Casey Winters · said 88 times in 28 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (39), Casey Winters (16), Bob Baxley (13), Scott Belsky (6), Timothy Davis (3), Jules Walter (3), Tim Holley (2), Nabeel S. Qureshi (1)
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2025 27 mentions in 3 episodes 9 per episode
- 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love
- How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- Making and Leading Products People Love (Scott Belsky) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)
- A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 29 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)
- Lessons on product sense, AI, the first mile experience, and the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe)
- Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
- Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)
- Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- Driving alignment within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 21 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite
- The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
- Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, GC)
- How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
- Building better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
- How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
Everything said about Pinterest, oldest first
Jul 21, 2022 negative
Winters: Pinterest growth stalled due to Facebook and SEO algorithm changes
“We were a fast growing startup that stopped growing due to some changes in, in the market related to Facebook. And then actually, once we had switched to growing primarily through SEO, there was an algorithm change that severely impacted our growth at one poin…”
May 18, 2023
Jun 15, 2023 positive
Luc Levesque: UGC and marketplace sites scale SEO faster than smaller sites
“And then there's other ones with 1010 of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of pages, which are either user generated content. Like TripAdvisor and Pinterest and others, or marketplaces like Thumb Attack and other types of websites like that. Those are…”
Dec 27, 2023 positive
Tavel: Pinterest users who pinned had over a 90% next-week return rate
“What we saw was that if you pin something, repin something, which is finding something on Pinterest, I'm using those synonymously or click through, you had an incredibly high probability that you would come back. So if someone's pinning something, they're comi…”
Dec 27, 2023
Apr 21, 2024 positive
Kapoor: Airbnb and Pinterest led tech by differentiating on interface design
“Companies like Airbnb and Pinterest
Were leading an industry, and they were leading not just because they, like, built technology and made it accessible, but because they were really using the interface layer to differentiate.”
Dec 11, 2024 positive
Belsky: Pinterest solved site speed perception by preloading pin background colors
“I remember the early days when Pinterest started to scale in, like, 2011, 2012, and the team was, like, racing to keep this product up and running. There was this big road map, you know, of how to get scalability and performance and improve performance of the …”
Jun 12, 2025 neutral
Baxley: Startups frequently outgrow the emotional and developmental capacity of their executives
“I came to think that the job of a startup was to grow the founder so they could continue to lead the startup. And I think what's true for founders is also true for a lot of other folks in the executive staff. It's very hard to grow emotionally and developmenta…”
Jun 12, 2025 negative
Baxley: Slack and Pinterest Struggled Because They Lacked Long-Term Vision
“Slack and Pinterest, I think are examples of companies products that became companies, but neither one of those places really knew what to do next because they didn't have a bigger vision of the change they were trying to see in the world.”
Jun 12, 2025 neutral
Baxley: Meta Is Still a Startup, But Amazon Is Not
“I had this other theory that a startup is still a startup until the founder moves aside. So by my definition of even meta is still a startup in a way that Amazon's not. And, you know, an Airbnb is still a startup in a way that Pinterest is not because Ben's mo…”