Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Lenny Rachitsky

Booking Overview

This is an interview show focused on product management, career development, and growth, typically featuring senior product executives, technology leaders, and experienced researchers from major technology companies. Credible pitches include founders, product and growth executives, AI and technology leaders, and researchers with concrete operating experience or original data; booking is very difficult because recent guests include high-profile executives from Netflix, Meta, and other leading companies.

Metrics

Episodes: 355

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 617.0k subscribers

Contact Information

lenny@lennyrachitsky.com

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Host

Lenny Rachitsky - Product advisor, writer, and former Airbnb product leader who creates Lenny’s Newsletter and hosts a show focused on practical advice for building, launching, and growing products.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Senior product, technology, growth, or research leadership; founder-level operating experience; or recognized expertise supported by substantial experience, original research, or responsibility for major products and organizations.
Required Achievements:  
Led or scaled major technology products, Held senior leadership roles at prominent technology companies, Produced original research or actionable frameworks for product and career decisions

Recent Guest Discussions

Elizabeth Stone - Systems Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, Product And Engineering Leadership, Organizational Excellence, Talent, And The Future Of Technology Work.

Noam Segal - Technology Worker Sentiment, Artificial Intelligence, Burnout, Career Anxiety, Management, And Employee Well-being.

Adam Mosseri - Product Team Design, Artificial Intelligence, Product Leadership, Social Media Algorithms, Creator Identity, And Product Failures.

Recent Topics

Product Management, Personal Growth, Startups, Leadership, Careers

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
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This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

August 02, 2026

Tom Verrilli is the chief product officer at Whatnot, a live shopping platform that’s become the fastest-growing U.S. marketplace business in history, with over $8 billion in GMV. Before joining Whatnot, Tom was CPO at Twitch and director of product growth at Twitter (during one of the most turbulent periods in the company’s history).In our in-depth conversation, we discuss:1. Why Whatnot’s product team was founded on the premise “we regret that product management exists”2. How AI is reshapin...

Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

July 26, 2026

Dianne Penn is Head of Product for Anthropic’s AI Research and Labs teams. She joined in 2023 as Anthropic’s first technical product manager, when the entire product team was five engineers, and has since helped ship every model from Claude 2 through Fable, and helped incubate Claude Code, MCP, Skills, computer use, tool use, and reasoning. Before Anthropic, she helped build Alexa’s AI at Amazon and, before that, traded high-yield bonds at JP Morgan Chase.In our in-depth conversation, we disc...

Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)

July 19, 2026

Elizabeth Stone is the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) at Netflix, where she oversees Engineering, Product, and Design. Since her first appearance on the podcast two years ago—which remained my second-most-popular episode for more than a year—she has expanded her role to lead product, in addition to engineering. Before Netflix, Elizabeth was VP of Science at Lyft, Chief Operating Officer at Nuna, an economist at Analysis Group, and a trader at Merrill Lynch.In our in-depth convers...

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