Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 314
Dec 27, 2022 · 7 min
“What a year. The newsletter crossed 300,000 subscribers (from 90K one year ago), the podcast became a top 10 technology podcast, and the subscriber Slack community continues to thrive. I never imagined reaching this scale, and none of this would be possible without you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you for reading, for listening, and for subscribing. There’s so much more to come. To close out the year, like I did last…”
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 239
Aug 17, 2021 · 6 min
This is a curated index of Lenny Rachitsky's best newsletter posts from his first two and a half years, organized into nine topics such as growth strategy, product management work and career, product-market fit…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 61
Jun 8, 2021 · 10 min
Lenny Rachitsky argues that people learn about new products through seven distinct channels, split by whether they encounter the product online, out in the world, or at home, and whether the exposure is organic or paid…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 174
Oct 11, 2022 · 9 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky expands his Racecar Growth Framework, breaking a startup's growth into a self-sustaining growth engine, kickstarts for early users, turbo boosts for temporary surges, lubricants for efficiency, mid-stage…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 356
Dec 17, 2024 · 9 min
This is Lenny Rachitsky's year-end roundup of his newsletter and podcast, organized as a curated guide to his best content by the problem a reader wants solved. Rather than a single argument, it is a directory: it…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 275
Jan 9, 2024 · 20 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyA founder whose product isn't gaining traction gets seven concrete options: talk to more users, narrow the target audience, rework positioning, try growth 'kickstarts', pivot to whatever shows pull, allow more time, or…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 231
Dec 12, 2023 · 11 min
Lenny Rachitsky's annual year-end roundup revisits his past newsletter posts and podcast episodes and reorganizes the best of them by reader job-to-be-done, such as sharpening product skills, growing a product, scaling…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 129
Aug 16, 2022 · 24 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyStep six of Lenny Rachitsky's consumer-business series explains how products grow through a small set of engines: virality, SEO, and paid growth, plus sales and supply-driven demand for marketplaces. It argues founders…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 60
Oct 12, 2021 · 15 min
This guest-written issue, drawn from Ali Abouelatta's First 1000 research, catalogs 60 examples of 'Turbo Boosts,' one-off events that temporarily accelerate growth. It frames them as the fuel-like components of a…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 45
Oct 5, 2021 · 16 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky shares a curated directory of roughly 200 favorite reads, listens, and watches on growth, startups, writing, angel investing, product management, leadership, and frameworks, cleaned up and expanded for…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 93
May 17, 2022 · 20 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny draws on interviews with founders and product leaders at Noom, Duolingo, Grammarly, Calm, Spotify, Future, Flo and others to explain what helps consumer subscription apps last. The core argument is that winners…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 72
Aug 23, 2022 · 10 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny answers a reader's question about growth levers beyond his consumer growth series. He recaps the Racecar Growth Framework (kickstarts, growth engines, lubricants, turbo boosts), then introduces two mid-stage…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 148
Jan 3, 2023 · 17 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky argues that true viral growth is rare and short-lived, and that most products spike when a large one-to-many broadcaster shares them. Drawing on Derek Thompson's Hit Makers and examples like Spotify…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 26
Nov 2, 2021 · 7 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyThis post is mostly a promotional announcement for a part-time PM course aimed at early-career product managers, with a reader Q&A in the middle. The core advice in the Q&A explains how to move from a generalist PM role…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 257
Jan 6, 2026 · 8 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky's year-end roundup collects the most popular posts from his newsletter, grouped by theme such as AI, career, strategy, growth, and execution, plus a few all-time classics. He also reviews his 2025 goals…