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A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love
- ▶ 1:38 Lenny Rachitsky Today, my guest is Rachel Lockett, an executive coach and former longtime HR leader at Pinterest and at Stripe.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 0:31 Lenny Rachitsky It wasn't a successful stint at Pinterest.
- ▶ 0:57 Lenny Rachitsky Bob is a designer, executive, and advisor who's built and led design teams at Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo, and most recently ThoughtSpot. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:42 Bob Baxley I think the people that, you know, I went to Pinterest and did not have a successful time in my year and a half at Pinterest. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:00 Lenny Rachitsky And I appreciate you sharing that you, the way you described it, that it wasn't a successful stint at Pinterest. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:15 Lenny Rachitsky So you've realized the culture of Pinterest, you bounced off of it.
- ▶ 27:01 Bob Baxley Thoughtspot, Pinterest, other places, you know, when you're working directly with product, it's easy to kind of leave engineering out of the loop and product and design can go cook up stuff that doesn't quite make sense technically, or is…
- ▶ 37:09 Bob Baxley Like at Pinterest, I was at Pinterest at a point when Pinterest wasn't quite sure what it, who it was. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:49 Bob Baxley I've never seen anybody just randomly using even Pinterest, you know, but there's ways that you can go.
- ▶ 53:53 Bob Baxley Um, so, um, yeah, look, so, so I left Pinterest in 2014, 2016, sorry, 2016.
- ▶ 1:04:11 Bob Baxley Um, I think Slack, Slack, and honestly, both, uh, Slack and Pinterest, I think are examples of companies, uh, products that became companies, but neither one of those places really knew what to do next because they didn't have a bigger…
- ▶ 1:27:20 Lenny Rachitsky So the, like, to me, the takeaways and the lessons here is one is coming back to your Pinterest board in the office.
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 11:20 Nabeel S. Qureshi You had, you know, the hot companies were like Facebook and Pinterest and things like that.
Making and Leading Products People Love (Scott Belsky) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- ▶ 11:26 Scott Belsky You know, Pinterest, before it was a discovery engine, it was simply a very immediate utility to store your bookmarks, and, ah, the idea of people suddenly using it for other things beyond was, was more of a hope, ah, than, than an actual…
- ▶ 18:38 Scott Belsky 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. 2 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- ▶ 0:48 Lenny Rachitsky Timothy has led performance marketing for all of Shopify for the past two and a half years, and as a consultant has helped companies like Pinterest, LinkedIn, Redfin, and Eventbrite kickstart and scale the performance marketing teams.
- ▶ 7:45 Timothy Davis You're watching a YouTube video, maybe a YouTube podcast, and then in between you get advertisements, maybe for Shopify, maybe for Pinterest, maybe for Eventbrite.
- ▶ 1:04:35 Timothy Davis The, the big companies of the world, the Pinterest, the Shopify's, the IBM's of the world tend to build things in house.
- ▶ 1:35:19 Timothy Davis Because if say your goal is to be on all platforms, I'm going to be on Pinterest.
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.
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 9:18 Mike Maples, Jr. And, you know, I have the, I have the pitch deck for Pinterest.
Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)
- ▶ 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.
A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)
- ▶ 46:04 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.
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- ▶ 41:41 Lenny Rachitsky Ben Silberman, the co-founder of Pinterest has this quote.
An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- ▶ 1:29:00 Claire Butler I, uh, I copy and paste, like, I start with Pinterest to, like, get ideas, but then I pull them all up to, like, mood board on FigJam, and then, like, circle things, and this helps me communicate with my partner.
Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)
- ▶ 53:51 Tim Holley Pinterest fails, right? 2 times in the scene
Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)
- ▶ 0:59 Lenny Rachitsky He's also been a growth advisor to companies like Twitter, Pinterest, Patreon, Thumbtack, and Canva.
- ▶ 18:10 Lenny Rachitsky You've been a growth advisor for a long time to some of the most amazing companies out there, Twitter, Pinterest, Patreon, Canva, Thumbtack.
- ▶ 35:16 Lenny Rachitsky Pinterest, like all these people that have worked with say Pinterest that I hear about are just awesome. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:18 Lenny Rachitsky And then you help Pinterest, Thumbtack, other companies that are very SEO driven. 2 times in the scene
Lessons on product sense, AI, the first mile experience, and the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe)
- ▶ 1:46 Lenny Rachitsky He's also an angel investor in companies like Pinterest, Uber, Airtable, Flexport, Warby Parker, and many more.
- ▶ 17:29 Scott Belsky You know, I think of Pinterest, you know, I, and I was Ben's first, uh, seed angel or, you know, and, and product advisor and, you know, with, with, with that product, it was, you know, he had this, like, unique insight into the consumer… 3 times in the scene
Driving alignment within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller
- ▶ 32:45 Lenny Rachitsky You probably know Ahrefs as one of the leading all-in-one SEO tools used by companies like Facebook, Uber, Shopify, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and thousands more.
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
- ▶ 46:46 Lenny Rachitsky You probably know Ahrefs as one of the leading all-in-one SEO tools used by companies like Facebook, Uber, Shopify, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and thousands more.
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 0:59 Lenny Rachitsky He's a legend in the growth and product community, having worked with or advised companies like Pinterest, Reddit, Canva, Airbnb, Tinder, Thumbtack, Grubhub, and many more,
- ▶ 25:54 Casey Winters It knew I worked at Eventbrite and it knew I worked at like Pinterest and stuff, but like, uh, like half of it was just completely made up.
- ▶ 36:25 Casey Winters I remember when I joined Pinterest. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:15 Lenny Rachitsky You probably know Ahrefs as one of the leading all-in-one SEO tools used by companies like Facebook, Uber, Shopify, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and thousands more.
- ▶ 41:31 Casey Winters So when you save content to Pinterest, to a board, it gives Pinterest signal on the quality of that content. 3 times in the scene
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
- ▶ 25:04 Jules Walter He was head of product at Pinterest and became a mentor and now a close friend. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:38 Jules Walter I organized this event for Black PMs at Pinterest where Lawrence was speaking.
The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- ▶ 2:22 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use Coda to run effectively and have published their templates for anyone to use.
- ▶ 46:19 Ethan Smith So if we're a UGC site like Pinterest, it's very complicated and, and you wanna understand, you know, which pages you wanna index and, uh, you need to build scalable systems.
How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
- ▶ 2:37 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber
Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, GC)
- ▶ 6:02 Lauren Ipsen I had applied to all of these different companies like Twitter and snap and Pinterest.
How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
- ▶ 2:21 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber.
Building better roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
- ▶ 4:04 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use Koda to run effectively.
How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)
- ▶ 3:48 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use Coda to run effectively.
Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- ▶ 2:54 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use Coda to run effectively.
- ▶ 18:58 Jason Shah People said Facebook is a product culture, Airbnb or Pinterest, maybe sometimes a design culture or things like this.
When to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)
- ▶ 3:23 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use Coda to run effectively and have published their templates for anyone to use.
The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)
- ▶ 2:31 Lenny Rachitsky Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use Coda to run effectively and have published their templates
How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite
- ▶ 0:13 Lenny Rachitsky Pinterest, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Canva, Hipcamp, Fair, Eventbrite.
- ▶ 5:35 Casey Winters It wasn't until I went to Pinterest that I was actually formally labeled a product person.
- ▶ 15:42 Casey Winters So I'll, I'll give an example from my Pinterest days, you know, the primary way, which was you interfaced, uh, on any like key strategic topic was product review, right?
- ▶ 20:20 Casey Winters You know, at Pinterest, we were heavy, we did a heavy investment in progressive disclosure, which is, you know, let's hide a lot of the more complex functionality until we make sure our users learn the really critical functionality.
- ▶ 28:57 Casey Winters You know, I think we were fortunate at Pinterest in this regard. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:09 Casey Winters The idea is, and this is something, you know, I was inspired from talking with Omar who, who runs product at Cambly and he used to run core product at Pinterest.
- ▶ 52:36 Casey Winters You know, that could be personalized results, you know, in the case of Pinterest. 2 times in the scene