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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Spotify comes up
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 1:22:22 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 1:19:03 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 1:21:23 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- ▶ 1:14:16 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 1:19:18 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 1:42:07 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 1:44:12 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 1:45:42 Lenny Rachitsky You can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 1:14:50 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- ▶ 1:26:12 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
- ▶ 1:25:59 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- ▶ 1:31:33 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 1:41:48 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
“I deliberately understaff every project” | Leadership lessons from Rippling’s $16B journey
- ▶ 1:35:54 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Why securing AI is harder than anyone expected and guardrails are failing | HackAPrompt CEO
- ▶ 1:32:18 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 1:24:50 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- ▶ 1:10:09 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
- ▶ 1:07:09 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
- ▶ 1:25:39 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love
- ▶ 1:44:56 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 1:30:12 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- ▶ 1:19:11 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
- ▶ 1:53:31 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- ▶ 1:18:46 Julie Zhuo And I'm going to create like an, so I created an app on replet, uh, that, that what, and what it does is it, you just give it a song like, uh, you know, this is Justin Bieber's baby and you link to Spotify song.
- ▶ 1:36:02 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 1:06:45 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- ▶ 1:11:32 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
$46B of hard truths: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear | Ben Horowitz (a16z)
- ▶ 1:37:36 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
- ▶ 1:17:59 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 1:40:18 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 56:48 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- ▶ 1:09:28 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
- ▶ 1:22:57 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- ▶ 1:28:49 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
- ▶ 0:03 Matt LeMay The problem is the message that Daniel Ek from Spotify sent out with their layoffs in 2024.
- ▶ 9:13 Matt LeMay The message that Daniel Ek from Spotify sent out with their layoffs in twenty-twenty-four said, we still have too many teams doing work around the work and supporting work rather than focusing on opportunities with real impact.
- ▶ 1:31:46 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 1:35:15 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)
- ▶ 1:19:13 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 1:28:34 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
- ▶ 1:11:20 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- ▶ 1:14:36 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 23:32 Dan Shipper Um, Toby from Spotify, uh, coined this term called context engineering, which is like getting the context to the model, uh, the right context at the right time, like is at least half the performance.
- ▶ 1:31:30 Dan Shipper It's all just Spotify for a couple hundred million bucks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:34 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 17:07 Lenny Rachitsky Also, if you're watching on Spotify, you can see the video.
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Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- ▶ 1:31:27 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 1:28:05 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
- ▶ 1:22:21 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 1:55:06 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
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How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
- ▶ 1:54:16 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 1:41:36 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
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Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 1:05:59 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
- ▶ 1:21:34 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 1:13:39 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 1:37:33 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 1:00:49 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How Revolut trains world-class PMs: The “Local CEO” model, raw intellect & building wow products
- ▶ 1:09:39 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 1:37:06 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna
- ▶ 1:22:27 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- ▶ 38:16 Scott Wu And so then, you know, then it went and found it on Spotify.
- ▶ 1:32:08 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 1:10:51 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
- ▶ 1:31:43 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
- ▶ 1:13:44 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- ▶ 1:27:21 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 1:31:18 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact
- ▶ 1:33:15 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up")
- ▶ 1:44:47 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How to win in the AI era: Ship weekly, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and more
- ▶ 1:25:27 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder)
- ▶ 1:24:45 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more
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How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work)
- ▶ 1:34:13 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
- ▶ 1:29:16 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)
- ▶ 1:15:43 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 1:03:46 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)
- ▶ 1:06 Lenny Rachitsky Aman is director of product at Arise AI, and over the course of his PM career, he's focused on building products in the AI space, including at Spotify on the ML platform team, and roles at Cruise, Zipline, and Apple.
- ▶ 30:30 Aman Khan So we have, you know, customers that are super well-known household brands, um, Spotify and Instacart and these sorts of companies that people love and use every single day.
- ▶ 1:17:11 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Simplify To Win | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri
- ▶ 1:23:57 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, and prioritizes intuition
- ▶ 1:17:23 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
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4 questions Shreyas wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google
- ▶ 25:21 Lenny Rachitsky I, I know it's Spotify.
- ▶ 45:09 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Meta’s head of product on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, and more | Naomi Gleit
- ▶ 1:37:51 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische
- ▶ 1:21:24 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta
- ▶ 1:08:15 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome anxiety | Tristan de Montebello
- ▶ 1:56:09 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)
- ▶ 33:34 Lenny Rachitsky Of all these mysteries of history and then turned it into like a 10 episode podcast you could listen to on Spotify.
- ▶ 48:37 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- ▶ 44:35 Lenny Rachitsky I just went to this, uh, acquired podcast event at the Chase Center and Zuck was there and the CEO of Spotify was there too. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:53 JM Nickels Uh, if you, uh, John Hopkins, but, but it's, um, uh, it's on Spotify, Apple music, but it's basically music with, uh, one of Ram Dass' talks, lesser known talks.
- ▶ 1:17:44 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- ▶ 1:24:16 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack)
- ▶ 1:23:41 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua
- ▶ 1:17:02 Lenny Rachitsky If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
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