Straight Answers
An LLM assessed 2,019 question → answer exchanges, the host's own answers included. Speaker names were hidden during assessment. Each exchange was marked answered, partly, redirected or not addressed, with a quote as its source. Every exchange below is timestamped and plays. How it works →
These readings are observational: the transcript shows whether the question was answered directly, whatever the reason. It is an AI reading of a public exchange, never a claim about intent, and the tape is one tap away on every row. full disclaimer →
Every one of the 320 people on the record is accounted for: 1 carry a full rate (8 or more assessed questions on raw tape), 318 more have their questions counted (40 of them with at least one not answered directly; too few raw questions for a fair percentage, edited feed included), and the remaining 1 never took a direct question in any tape we hold: compilations, panels and cameo appearances leave nothing to assess.
Lenny Rachitsky: every exchange, playable
The question Lenny asked, then the AI assessment note from the answer. Tap to play the moment. Not addressed = the question was not engaged; redirected = acknowledged, then steered elsewhere.
“Achieving the value, achieving the scaling, um, goals that the company had. So it's really about helping them focus on what they were hired for.”
answered: “So what's your biggest pitch to a product manager starting to hear about product ops”
“That, you know, Stripe is really good at this, right? Especially from the early days that great documentation justifies all sorts of second order effects that then will lead us to this first order effect you're, you're asking about.”
answered: “I was going to go one direction, but I want to talk about this real quick”
“Am I thinking about reactions in the right way? How do I actually, uh, go a bit deeper, faster, build trust faster, uh, be more direct?”
answered: “I have so many questions here... Let me just ask about that, I guess.”
“I'm close. They don't suffer fools.”
answered: “Let me zoom out a bit and I want to move on to a different topic”
“Oh, this makes a lot of sense to be open and find the patch to my bug. And here we go.”
answered: “This fractal of topics, uh, continues to grow. I'm trying to contain it.”
“It's a classic trick that Hollywood uses all the time. Why don't we use it in our own products?”
answered: “So let me pull on that thread a little bit about just consumer products”
“You might say we're going to, it's a tailwind or a headwind, you know, both are overcomable, but like having some awareness of the relationship between those things is good. Yeah.”
answered: “How do you actually, is this something you actually do?”
All speakers
All 1 people with 8 or more assessed questions on raw tape. Click a name to see their exchanges. highest rate none identified small samples
| Person | Not answered directly (%) | Redirected + not addressed | Questions | Argument clarity /5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lenny Rachitsky Host, Lenny's Podcast | 50% | 7 | 14 | 3.5 |
Percentages come from raw unedited recordings only: produced podcast audio has tangents and stumbles cut in the edit, which moves the speaker up by about 12 percentile points. The small-sample counts include the produced feed. This is a reading of a transcript. It is not an accusation of dishonesty, and there are many good reasons not to answer a question directly (confidential numbers, unreleased products, someone else's news to break).