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Ada Chen Rekhi on Career Coaching, Curiosity Loops, and Personal Values

Adam Fishman on Growth, Onboarding, and Choosing the Right Company

Adam Grenier on Emerging Channels, the Growth CMO, and Burnout

Adriel Frederick on Facebook Growth, Algorithmic Products, and the Marginal User

Aishwarya and Kiriti on AI Products

Albert Cheng on Consumer Subscription Growth, Freemium, and Experimentation

Alex Hardiman on Building Products at the New York Times

Alex Komoroske on Strategy and Complexity

Alexander Embiricos on OpenAI Codex, AI Teammates, and the Human Bottleneck to AGI

Alisa Cohn on Scripts for Difficult Conversations and Leadership

Ami Vora on Product Leadership

Amjad Masad on Replit

Amol Avasare on Growth at Anthropic, AI-Native PM Work, and Freedom Through Constraints

Andrew Bosworth on Communication, Identity Threat, and Making Meta

Andrew Wilkinson on Business Ideas, AI Automation, and the Limits of Money

Andy Raskin on Strategic Narrative and the Power of Movement Thinking

Anneka Gupta on Strategy, Difficult Personalities, and the PM Mindset

Annie Duke on Better Decisions, Kill Criteria, and When to Quit

Annie Pearl on Product Strategy at Calendly

Anton Osika on Lovable

Anuj Rathi on the Full-Stack PM, Four BB Framework, and Building for India

Aparna Chennapragada on AI Product at Microsoft

April Dunford on Product Positioning

April Dunford on Sales Pitch

Aravind Srinivas on Perplexity and the Future of Search

Archie Abrams on Shopify's Growth Model, Long-Term Holdouts, and the 100-Year Vision

Arielle Jackson on the Art of Building Legendary Brands

Asha Sharma on Product as Organism, Post-Training, and the Agentic Society

Austin Hay on the Ultimate Guide to MarTech

Ayo Omojola on Differentiation, Cash App, and Building Talented Teams

Barbra Gago on Category Creation, Rebranding, and Opinionated Software

Ben Horowitz on Leadership, the PM as Leader, and the AI Opportunity

Ben Williams on PLG at Snyk, Growth Team Structure, and Loop-Based Strategy

Benedict Evans on the 1997 of AI, Task vs Job, and Where AI Value Accrues

Benjamin Lauzier on Marketplace Liquidity, Supply Bootstrapping, and Managed Marketplace Strategy

Benjamin Mann on Anthropic and AGI

Bill Carr on Working Backwards, Single-Threaded Leadership, and Amazon's Management Operating System

Bob Baxley on Design as a Moral Obligation, Design Tenets, and the Primal Mark

Bob Moesta on Jobs to Be Done

Bob Moesta on Jobs to Be Done 2.0

Boris Cherny on Claude Code

Brandon Chu on Product at Shopify

Brendan Foody on Evals, the Expert Labour Market, and Mercor's Rise

Bret Taylor on Sierra

Brian Chesky on Airbnb and Product

Brian Halligan on CEO Coaching, Halliganisms, and Why Scaling Is Harder Than Ever

Brian Tolkin on Product-Ops Integration, Experimentation at Scale, and the Kernel of Truth

Caitlin Kalinowski on Building Hardware, the Robotics Frontier, and Supply-Chain Reindustrialisation

Cameron Adams on Canva, Giving Away Your Lego, and the SEO Template Playbook

Camille Fournier on PM-Engineering Dynamics, Rewrites, and Platform Engineering

Camille Hearst on Creator Monetisation, Supply-First Marketplaces, and Building a Creator Career

Camille Ricketts on Community-Led Growth, Content Market Fit, and Building Notion's Ambassador Programme

Carilu Dietrich on Hypergrowth, the Atlassian PLG Playbook, and Why CMOs Get Fired

Carole Robin on Interpersonal Dynamics, the Three Realities, and Building Exceptional Relationships

Chandra Janakiraman on An Operator's Guide to Product Strategy

Chip Conley on Intergenerational Collaboration, the Modern Elder, and Wisdom at Airbnb

Chip Huyen on AI Engineering

Chris Hutchins on Podcasting, Self-Driving Money, and Innovation Inside Large Companies

Chris Miller on PLG at HubSpot, Radical Accountability, and PM Development

Christian Idiodi on Product Management

Christina Wodtke on OKRs, Radical Focus, and Why They Go Wrong

Christine Itwaru on Product Operations

Christopher Lochhead on Category Design, the Better Trap, and Languaging

Claire Butler on Figma's Go-to-Market and the IC-First Growth Model

Claire Hughes Johnson on Scaling People and the Company Operating System

Claire Vo on AI and the PM Role

Claire Vo on OpenClaw

Crystal Widjaja on Growth at Gojek, Analytics Failure, and Scrappy Experimentation

Cursor Team on the Future of Programming

Dalton Caldwell on Startup Survival, Pivots, and Tarpit Ideas

Dan Shipper on Every, AI-Native Company Building, and the Allocation Economy

Dan Shipper on Riding the Models, Why SaaS Survives, and the Agent Work Surface

Daniel Lereya on Monday.com, Impact-Driven Teams, and Radical Transparency

Dario Amodei on Claude, AGI and the Future of AI

Dave Plummer on Windows, Task Manager, and the Craft of Systems Programming

David Placek on Brand Naming, Sound Symbolism, and the Art of the Bold Name

David Singleton on Stripe

Deb Liu on Career and Product

Demis Hassabis on AI, AlphaFold, and Simulating Reality

Dhanji R. Prasanna on Block, AI-Native Engineering, and the Code Quality Myth

Dharmesh Shah on HubSpot, Culture as Product, and the Science of Zigging

DHH on Ruby on Rails, Programming, and the Future of the Web

Dmitry Zlokazov on Revolut, Product Ownership, and the WOW Standard

Donna Lichaw on Story-Driven Leadership, Superpowers, and the Hero's Journey

Dr. Becky Kennedy on Parenting, Sturdy Leadership, and the Good Inside Philosophy

Dr. Fei Fei Li on World Models

Drew Houston on Dropbox, Founder Mode, and the Three Eras of Building

Dylan Field 2.0 on Figma

Dylan Field on Figma and Product Taste

Dylan Patel and Nathan Lambert on DeepSeek and China AI

Ebi Atawodi on Vision, Storytelling, and the PM as Clarity Machine

Ed Barnhart on Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America

Edwin Chen on AI Data Quality

Eeke de Milliano on Stripe, Innovation Culture, and Process as Variance Reduction

Elena Verna 4.0 on the New AI Growth Playbook and Lovable

Eli Schwartz on Product-Led SEO and the AI Overviews Shift

Elizabeth Stone on Netflix Culture, Talent Density, and the Keeper Test

Emilie Gerber on Startup PR, Getting Press, and the Pitch Playbook

Emily Kramer on B2B Marketing, the First Marketing Hire, and Fuel vs. Engine

Eoghan McCabe on Intercom's AI Transformation, Wartime Founder Mode, and Outcome-Based Pricing

Eric Ries on Incorruptible, Financial Gravity, and Mission-Controlled Companies

Eric Ries on The Lean Startup, MVPs, and Finding Product-Market Fit

Eric Simons on Bolt, WebContainer, and the Text-to-App Revolution

Ethan Evans on Extending the Magic Loop, Systematic Inventiveness, and the Amazon Failure Story

Ethan Evans on the Magic Loop, Career Growth, and Lessons from Amazon

Ethan Smith on Answer Engine Optimisation, LLM Search, and the Citation Playbook

Evan LaPointe on Brain Systems, the Experience Problem, and High-Performance Teams

Evan Spiegel on Consumer Social, the Distribution Problem, and Building Snap

Farhan Thawar on Intensity, Pair Programming, and Engineering at Shopify

Garrett Lord on Post-Training Data, Expert Networks, and Handshake's Second Act

Gaurav Misra on AI Video, the Secret Roadmap, and Product Culture at Snap

Geoff Charles on Velocity, First Principles, and How Ramp Builds Product

Geoffrey Moore on Crossing the Chasm, the Technology Adoption Lifecycle, and B2B Go-to-Market

George Hotz on AI, Tinygrad, and Civilisational Risk

Gergely Orosz on the Pragmatic Engineer, Newsletter Economics, and the Creator Life

Gibson Biddle on Product Strategy

Gokul Rajaram on Product and Hiring

Graham Weaver on the Genie Framework, Getting Out of Autopilot, and the Internal Game

Grant Lee on Gamma, Micro-Influencer Marketing, and Hiring Painfully Slowly

Gregory Aldrete on Ancient Rome, the Roman Legions, and Military History

Guillaume Verdon on Effective Accelerationism and Thermodynamic Intelligence

Guillermo Rauch on v0 and the Future of Building

Gustav Söderström on Spotify, the Curation-to-Generation Shift, and Building at Scale

Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar on Evals

Hamilton Helmer on 7 Powers

Hari Srinivasan on LinkedIn, Skills-First Hiring, and Managing Ecosystem Complexity

Heidi Helfand on Dynamic Reteaming, the Five Patterns of Team Change, and Transparency in Reorgs

Hilary Gridley on Taking a Punch, Transparency, and Helping Teams Do Hard Things

Howie Liu on the IC CEO, Fast and Slow Thinking Teams, and Airtable's AI-Native Refounding

Ian McAllister on Top 1% PM Skills

Inbal Shani on GitHub Copilot, the Future of Software Development, and Developer Happiness

Irving Finkel on Ancient Mesopotamia, Cuneiform, and the Ark Tablet

Itamar Gilad on Evidence-Guided Product

Ivan Zhao on Notion and Building Horizontal Products

Jack Weatherford on Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

Jackie Bavaro on Product Strategy and PM Career

Jackson Shuttleworth on Duolingo Streaks, Retention Mechanics, and 600 Experiments

Jacob Warwick on Comp Negotiation, the Art of the Pushback, and Selling the Vacation

Jag Duggal on Building Fanatical Customers, the Sean Ellis Score, and Nubank's Product Strategy

Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky on Make Time, the Highlight Framework, and Defeating Distraction

James Holland on World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, and the Biggest Battles

Janna Levin on Black Holes, Wormholes, and Quantum Mysteries

Jason Cohen on Diagnosing Stalled Growth, the Hidden Multipliers Framework, and the Elephant Curve

Jason Droege on Scale AI, Uber Eats, and the Hard Work of Training AI

Jason Feifer on Getting Press, Pitching Journalists, and Opportunity Set B

Jason Fried on 37signals, Bootstrapping, and the Shape Up Methodology

Jason M Lemkin on Building a B2B Sales Team, Sales-Product Tension, and the VP of Free

Jason Shah on PMing in Web3, Pushing Back on Founders, and the Ladder Versus Map Framework

Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya on FFmpeg, VLC, and Open Source Infrastructure

Jeanne DeWitt Grosser on Go-to-Market Engineering, the Buying Journey as Product, and Building Sales Teams Engineers Trust

Jeetu Patel on Cisco, AI at Enterprise Scale, and the Right to Win

Jeff Kaplan on World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming

Jeff Weinstein on Customer Obsession, Zero-Support-Tickets, and Compounding Relationships

Jeffrey Pfeffer on the Seven Rules of Power, the Knowing-Doing Gap, and Why Power Is a Learnable Skill

Jen Abel on Founder-Led Sales, the Cold Outreach Formula, and Why Zero-to-One Sales Talent Doesn't Exist

Jen Abel on Scaling Enterprise Sales from $1M to $10M, Vision Selling, and Tier-One Logos

Jenny Wen on Designing Claude, the Legibility Framework, and the Three Designer Archetypes

Jensen Huang on NVIDIA, AI, and the Future of Computing

Jeremy Henrickson on Velocity at Scale, the Compound Startup Model, and Why MVPs Can Be Harmful

Jerry Colonna on Radical Self-Inquiry, the Leadership Equation, and Why Teams Fail

Jessica Fain on Executive Influence, the Communication Chameleon, and the Art of Getting Buy-In

Jessica Hische on Lettering as Identity, Client Work, and Refreshing Lenny's Brand

Jessica Lachs on Building DoorDash's Data Team, Centralized Analytics, and Metrics That Drive Real Outcomes

Jessica Livingston on Social Radar, Reading Founders, and the YC Origin Story

Joe Hudson on the Critical Inner Voice, Emotional Fluidity, and Feeling the Feels

Joel David Hamkins on Infinity, Gödel Incompleteness and the Mathematical Multiverse

John Mark Nickels on Conscious Leadership, the Uber Eras, and Emotions at Work

Jonathan Becker on Performance Marketing, Creative Testing, and Solving Attribution

Jonathan Lowenhar on CEO Failure Modes, the Magic Box Paradigm, and Go-to-Market Strategy

Jonny Miller on Nervous System Mastery, Burnout Prevention, and the Feather Brick Dump Truck

Joscha Bach on Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI and the Future of Humans

Josh Miller on Arc and The Browser Company

Judd Antin on the User Research Reckoning, Middle-Range Research, and User-Centred Performance

Jules Walter on PM Skill Building, Mentorship, and the Shadow Side of Strengths

Julia Schottenstein on M&A Strategy, dbt Labs, and Why Worse Is Better

Julie Zhuo 2.0

Karina Nguyen on Model Training and AI Product

Katie Dill on Design Quality, the ROI of Design, and Operationalising Excellence

Katie Dill, Paul Adams, Tom Conrad, and Others on Failure, Career Setbacks, and Learning from Mistakes

Kevin Weil on OpenAI and the Future of AI Products

Kristen Berman on Behavioral Design, the Three Bs Framework, and Making Better Product Decisions

Kunal Shah on Delta 4, the Dharma of Founders, and Building CRED

Lane Shackleton on PM Principles, Catalyst, and Learning by Making

Lars Brownworth on Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla, and the Viking Age

Laura Modi on Bobbie, Brand Building in CPG, and the Slowth Strategy

Laura Schaffer on Growth at Amplitude, Developer Psychology, and Good Friction

Lauren Ipsen on Hiring Product Leaders, the 90-Day Plan, and Product Archetypes

Lazar Jovanovic on Vibe Coding as a Profession, the Genie Framework, and PRD-Driven Development

Lee Cronin on Assembly Theory, the Origin of Life, and Alien Detection

Lenny's Podcast Top 10 Episodes of 2021, End of Year Review

Lisa Randall on Dark Matter, Physics, and Extinction

Logan Kilpatrick on Building with OpenAI APIs

Lulu Cheng Meservey on Making Ideas Spread, Cultural Erogenous Zones, and Going Direct

Maggie Crowley on PM Excellence, Product Strategy, and Personal Branding

Manik Gupta on the Consumer Stack, Company Product Fit, and Building Consumer Products

Marc Benioff on Salesforce, Agentforce, and Beginner's Mind

Marily Nika on AI Product Management, Building with ML, and the Future of PM

Marty Cagan on Product Teams and Product Management

Matt Abrahams on Public Speaking Anxiety, Spontaneous Communication, and Think Faster Talk Smarter

Matt Dixon on the JOLT Effect, the Challenger Sale, and Overcoming Indecision

Matt MacInnis on Extraordinary Efforts, Power Law and Entropy, and Building Rippling

Matt Mochary on Executive Coaching, Humane Firing, and the Mochary Method

Matt Mullenweg on WordPress, Open Source, and the WP Engine Dispute

Matthew Dicks on Storyworthy, Homework for Life, and the Five-Second Moment

Max Schoening on Malleable Software, Agency, and Building Products in the AI Era

Maya Prohovnik on Anchor, Spotify Podcasting, and the Dogfooding Advantage

Mayur Kamat on Product Strategy as Experimentation, Building Great PMs, and Operating at Binance

Megan Cook on Psychological Safety, Play, and Building Remote Teams at Atlassian

Melanie Perkins on Canva, Column B Thinking, and Crazy Big Goals

Melissa Perri on Strategy Deployment, the Missing Middle, and When to Hire a CPO

Melissa Tan on Growth Leadership, the DACI Framework, and Building High-Performing Teams

Meltem Kuran on Deel's Growth, Cheap Channels, and Building an SEO Engine

Michael Truell on Cursor and the World After Code

Michelle Rial on Lenny's Newsletter Journey, Building in Public, and the Indiana Jones Boulder

Mihika Kapoor on Figma, Zero-to-One Products, and Democratic Meetings

Mike Krieger on Anthropic, AI Timelines, and Product in a 90% AI-Written Codebase

Mike Maples Jr. on Pattern Breakers, Inflections, and Founder-Future Fit

Molly Graham on Giving Away Your Legos, the Waterline Model, and Scaling Yourself

Nabeel Qureshi on Palantir and Forward Deployed Engineering

Nan Yu on Speed, IC-First Product Design, and the Extreme Version Method

Nancy Duarte on Presentations, Audience-First Storytelling, and the Torch Bearer Arc

Naomi Gleit on Facebook Growth, Canonical Thinking, and the Naomi-isms

Naomi Ionita on Monetisation, Freemium Strategy, and the Modern Growth Stack

Nathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka on State of AI in 2026

Naval Ravikant on AI at Impossible and Flat Org Design

Naval Ravikant on How to Get Rich, Specific Knowledge, and the Four Types of Leverage

Naval Ravikant on Selling Without Selling, Credibility, and the Truth

Naval Ravikant on Vibe Coding, the Personal App Store, and Code as a Video Game

Naval Ravikant on Vibe Coding, Training Models, and the New App Economics

Naval, Guillermo Rauch, Blake Scholl, and Max Hodak on Software Factories and Token Efficiency

Nick Turley on ChatGPT

Nicole Forsgren on AI, Developer Experience, and the Frictionless Framework

Nicole Forsgren on DORA, SPACE, and Measuring Developer Productivity

Nikhyl Singhal on the PM Career

Nikita Bier on Viral Consumer Apps, Latent Demand, and Building for Teens

Nikita Miller on Product Quartets, Roles and Responsibilities, and Shipping Velocity

Noah Weiss on Slack, Complaint-Storms, and the Self-Service Plateau

Noam Lovinsky on Product Leadership at YouTube, Thumbtack, and Grammarly

Paige Costello on Asana's Product Process, the Double Diamond, and Coaching PMs

Patrick Campbell on Pricing, Retention, and Bootstrapping ProfitWell

Paul Millerd on the Pathless Path, the Default Path, and Designing Work Around Life

Pete Kazanjy on Founder-Led Sales, Hiring Your First Salesperson, and Sales Fundamentals

Peter Deng on the Five PM Archetypes, Scaling from Zero to Billions, and the Six-Month Rule

Peter Steinberger on OpenClaw, Agentic Engineering, and the Future of Apps

Phyl Terry on Candidate Market Fit, the Job Search Council, and Never Search Alone

Pieter Levels on Building Startups Solo, Nomad Life, and Shipping Fast

Qasar Younis on Applied Intuition, Physical AI, and Building Quietly

Raaz Herzberg on Wiz's Pivot, PMF Signals, and Moving from PM to CMO

Rachel Lockett on Leader Coaching, the GROW Model, and Finding Your Zone of Genius

Rahul Vohra on Superhuman's PMF Engine, Game Design in Product, and the Switch Log

Ravi Mehta on the Product Strategy Stack, Twelve PM Competencies, and Selective Micromanagement

Ray Cao on TikTok's Culture, Context Not Control, and Advertising on TikTok

Robby Stein on Google AI Mode, Instagram Stories, and Relentless Improvement

Roman Yampolskiy on AI Uncontrollability and p(doom)

Ryan Salva on GitHub Copilot

Ryan Singer on Shape Up

Sachin Monga on Substack Recommendations, Writers on the Internet, and Building with Principles

Sahil Mansuri on Sales in a Downturn, Comp Plans, and Winning Through Retention

Sam Altman on OpenAI, GPT-5, and the Road to AGI

Sam Lessin on Proper Etiquette, the Low Heart Rate Mindset, and Social Capital for Founders

Sam Schillace on Innovation and the Future of AI Products

Sanchan Saxena on Airbnb's COVID Crisis, Product Intentionality, and Content vs Process

Sander Schulhoff on AI Security and Guardrails

Sander Schulhoff on Prompt Engineering and Red Teaming

Sara Walker on the Physics of Life, Time, Complexity and Aliens

Sarah Tavel on the Hierarchy of Engagement, the Hierarchy of Marketplaces, and Market Currents

Scott Belsky on the First Mile, Doing Half, and the Messy Middle

Scott Wu on Devin and the Future of Software Engineering

Sean Carroll on General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes and Aliens

Serhii Plokhy on Russia, Ukraine, and the History of Their Relationship

Seth Godin on This Is Strategy, the Four Critical Choices, and Why a Brand Is a Promise

Shaun Clowes on PLG, B2B SaaS Lock-in, and the Bingo Card Career

Sherwin Wu on AI-Native Engineering, Wizard Managers, and the Sorcerer's Apprentice

Shreyas Doshi on Product Management Frameworks

Shweta Shrivastava on Waymo, Self-Driving Body Language, and PM at Autonomy Scale

Simon Willison on Agentic Engineering and the Future of Code

Sri Batchu on Ramp's Growth, the Cap Table Strategy, and Failing Conclusively

Sriram Krishnan and Aarthi Ramamurthy on Techno-Optimism, Network Building, and Community

Stewart Butterfield on Product Craft, Utility Curves, and Why We Don't Sell Saddles

Tamar Yehoshua on Career Success, Cross-Functional Alignment, and Lessons from Bezos

Tanguy Crusson on Incubating New Products, the Point A Framework, and Protecting Ugly Babies

Terence Tao on the Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics and the Future of AI

Teresa Torres on Continuous Discovery

The Best Interview Questions from Lenny's Podcast

ThePrimeagen on Programming, Addiction, and Pursuing Mastery

Tim Holley on Etsy's Transformation, Marketplace Dynamics, and Conversion

Timothy Davis on Performance Marketing, Paid Growth, and Attribution

Tobi Lütke on First Principles Thinking, Maximising Human Potential, and Product Delight

Todd Jackson on Product-Market Fit Levels, Customer Discovery, and the Four Ps

Tom Conrad on Picking Where to Work, the Broken Founding Equation, and Pandora's Growth

Tomer Cohen on LinkedIn's Feed Transformation, AI-First Product, and Career Conviction

Tomer Cohen on the Full Stack Builder Model, AI-Native Teams, and LinkedIn's Internal Agents

Tristan de Montebello on Ultraspeaking, Speaking as Flow State, and the Accordion Method

Upasna Gautam on Equanimity, Editorial Touchpoints, and Product Management in News

Uri Levine on Startup Crisis, Never Give Up, and the Pivot Decision Framework

Uri Levine on Waze, Fall in Love with the Problem, and the Dance of a Hundred Nos

Varun Mohan on Windsurf and the Future of AI Coding

Varun Parmar on Miro's Product Culture, AMPED Teams, and Competitive Strategy

Vijay Iyengar on Mixpanel, Bets-Based Planning, and Server-Side Analytics

Vikrama Dhiman on the Three W's, PM Career Growth, and Operating as a Product Leader

Wes Kao on Maven, Managing Up, and the Super Specific How

Will Larson on Engineering Strategy, Systems Thinking, and Writing Consistently

Yann LeCun on Meta AI, LLMs, and the Path to AGI

Yuriy Timen on Consumer Growth Archetypes, Channel Strategy, and Attribution

Zevi Arnovitz on Vibe Coding as a PM, Multi-Model Review, and Building with Claude Code

Zoelle Egner on Punching Above Your Weight, Champion-at-Scale, and the Airtable Growth Playbook