Wikipedia, every mention
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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 7Scott Wu 2Jessica Livingston 2Alex Komoroske 2Sander Schulhoff 1Naomi Gleit 1Eric Ries 1Arielle Jackson 1Alistair Croll 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wikipedia comes up
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
- ▶ 1:34:51 Sander Schulhoff Uh, and then I was reading on Wikipedia one night, and a footnote at the bottom of the article was like,
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 5:18 Lenny Rachitsky I was just looking them up on Wikipedia.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- ▶ 27:26 Alistair Croll They also edited the Wikipedia page for the description of the Whopper and then made all the home speakers go read it by making an ad that said, hey, okay, Google, what's in a Whopper?
Meta’s head of product on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, and more | Naomi Gleit
- ▶ 33:29 Naomi Gleit And to this day we have over a hundred languages supported.
Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)
- ▶ 33:31 Lenny Rachitsky Where he basically took like the Wikipedia stories of 2 times in the scene
Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- ▶ 59:32 Alex Komoroske And, uh, in undergrad, I wrote my thesis on the emergent power dynamics of Wikipedia's user community, and I did, um, a 150 hours of interviews with, with, um, different editors in Wikipedia, and I transcribed them myself. 2 times in the scene
The social radar: Y Combinator’s secret weapon | Jessica Livingston (co-founder of YC, author)
- ▶ 3:54 Jessica Livingston I mean, Wikipedia people want to take my entry off of Wikipedia all the time. 2 times in the scene
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst
- ▶ 48:36 Lenny Rachitsky You'd mentioned your parents, and I was reading your Wikipedia page, and the way your parents are described on there is, ah, radical Buddhist artist technologists. 3 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- ▶ 1:10:40 unnamed speaker They don't use the word topic, but they refer to people where there's a specific narrow expertise versus we can rank for anything like a Wikipedia.
Using behavioral science to improve your product | Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs)
- ▶ 49:46 Lenny Rachitsky I imagine there's just like a list on Wikipedia of all these human psychologies and biases.
The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
- ▶ 26:41 Arielle Jackson I spend some time afterwards on Wikipedia and the internet and like actually finding words, words.