Zoom
includes Zoom AI Companion, Zoom Workplace
6 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Aug 28, 2022 by Wes Kao · said 124 times in 72 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (23), Karri Saarinen (6), Anneka Gupta (6), Hila Qu (5), Michael Margolis (4), Wes Kao (3), Tanguy Crusson (3), Mohika (Mihika) (3)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 16 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
- “Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
- How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
- Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 31 mentions in 16 episodes 2 per episode
- Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | Anneka Gupta
- Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
- How To Do The Product Review Right (By Doing It Wrong) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)
- How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work)
- Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 52 mentions in 29 episodes 2 per episode
- Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)
- The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
- The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
- 10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell)
- Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)
- Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
- Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
- Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- 21 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 20 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, altMBA, Section4)
- How to hit revenue targets in a recession | Sahil Mansuri (Bravado)
- How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary
- Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)
- How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts
- How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Pixar)
- How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)
- Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- 5 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
Everything said about Zoom, oldest first
Aug 28, 2022 positive
Kao: Cohort-based courses force instructor rigor through real-time student scrutiny
“But in a core-based course where your students are right there with you, where they can ask questions when they can have conversation in the zoom chat box. Like if you're saying something that doesn't really make sense, there could be a whole conversation happ…”
Jun 25, 2023 positive
Sri Batchu: Ramp tracks all-hands Zoom engagement, hitting near 100%
“We track engagement during all hands on the zoom to see what percentage people like participate. And it's like usually close to a hundred percent. Like people are talking, like the entire company is talking on the zoom job because they're excited about the win…”
Jul 23, 2023 negative
Weiss: Teams evolved into a video conferencing tool competing with Zoom
“I think as Teams has evolved over time, it's become much more of a video conferencing product that competes with like Zoom and Google Meet, the people who use Teams use it completely different than Slack where you live and breathe and channels and work and kin…”
Sep 14, 2023 negative
Mmhmm failed to grow because it did not solve a 'sharp' problem
“It was fun, but I don't think it was a sharp problem. Right? Like, you, it was fun, but yeah, it didn't change the world of your zoom camera. It didn't change the world of your collaboration. And so I think that's one example of a non-sharp problem, for exampl…”
Feb 25, 2024 negative
Lichaw: Zoom fatigue stems from lacking physical sensory stimuli during video calls
“There's a Neurological thing with zoom where it you know, we're just getting stimuli from through our eyes, but We and through our brains, but we're not getting like physical stimuli, the same I would be getting if we were in a room together, hanging out, even…”
Jan 9, 2025
Houston: SaaS productivity companies commonly suffer from a 'sophomore slump'
“Many in SAS SaaS productivity have this sort of sophomore slump where you have a super successful first product, but then it's challenging to build like the next, you know, the next platinum album. Right. So, you know, Dropbox has fallen into that category. Yo…”