Lenny’s Podcast109 min
Stewart Butterfield · Nov 20, 2025
Key learnings- Plot features on a utility curve to see whether extra investment is still on the steep part of the value gain or has reached…
- Judge a product by whether users understand what it does; in many places the real challenge is comprehension, not friction, so…
- Cultivate taste deliberately: taste can be trained, and leaning into craft can become a competitive advantage that less-attentive…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 19, 2025
Nov 19, 2025 · 25 min
Teresa Torres synthesizes conversations with nine product teams building AI features in production, highlighting recurring patterns across their work. She argues that small cross-functional teams, domain expertise, and…
HEY World · Jason FriedNov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025
Jason Fried, co-founder of Basecamp, praises the Concept2 RowErg indoor rowing machine as a benchmark of product quality. He describes its simple, durable construction, low maintenance, easy assembly and compact…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025
In this All Things Product episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss the emotional reality of setbacks in product work, drawing on Teresa's personal experience of a long injury recovery. They argue that failed…
Lenny’s Podcast78 min
Dr. Fei Fei Li · Nov 16, 2025
Key learnings- Large labeled datasets were the missing ingredient that unlocked modern AI; big data, neural networks, and GPUs together formed…
- Pursue a north-star problem and commit to it for years, as ImageNet's object recognition focus did for her lab.
- Be willing to take intellectual and career risks, such as leaving tenure track or joining new ventures, when the mission and…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 13, 2025
Nov 13, 2025
This episode of a product podcast walks through how Xelix built an AI Helpdesk for accounts payable teams, which often receive over a thousand vendor emails daily. The product turns that inbox noise into structured…
Lenny’s Podcast164 min
Grant Lee · Nov 13, 2025
Key learnings- Treat product-market fit as a real word-of-mouth engine: if over half of new signups come from organic sharing, the core growth…
- Make the first 30 seconds of the product magical, focusing on one clear 'egg' of value rather than many features, so new users…
- Practice founder-led marketing: write provocative but useful posts, share learnings regularly, and build credibility by giving…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 12, 2025
Nov 12, 2025 · 21 min
Teresa Torres argues that Claude Code can become a powerful personal operating system for non-technical people, but only if users understand the risks of giving a language model access to their computer. She walks…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 11, 2025
Nov 11, 2025
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss the practical pain of global invoicing and EU tax compliance for small international online businesses. They argue that platforms and product teams often miss small regulatory…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 389
Nov 11, 2025 · 15 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyThe post argues that as AI makes building and reaching customers easier for everyone, traditional B2B channels like search, outbound, events and lifecycle email are getting noisier and less effective. It makes the case…
Lenny’s Podcast97 min
Jen Abel · Nov 9, 2025
Key learnings- Founder-led sales is a competitive advantage because founders are the visionary and can spot budding insights that salespeople…
- Write cold outreach that leads with relevance, a counterintuitive insight, and the problem rather than the solution, kept to…
- Before buying tools, manually find and write thoughtful notes to about 30 prospects; use the response pattern to refine messaging…
Medium · Hiten ShahNov 7, 2025
Nov 7, 2025 · 5 min
Hiten Shah argues that tech has long misunderstood marketing, treating it as decoration or a growth hack when it is really the translation between what a product does and what it means to customers. He notes that the…
SVPG · Marty CaganNov 6, 2025
Nov 6, 2025 · 4 min
Marty Cagan argues that a new wave of generative AI prototyping tools has been a good development for product discovery, but it has created confusion among product managers who fail to distinguish a prototype from a…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 6, 2025
Nov 6, 2025
This episode of a product podcast features Incident.io's founding engineer Lawrence Jones and AI product lead Ed Dean discussing how their team is building an AI SRE that helps diagnose and respond to production…
The Looking Glass · Julie Zhuo♥ 126
Nov 6, 2025
Julie Zhuo's personal essay traces how she came to see herself as an "ice queen": someone who learned to suppress emotion and present a composed, controlled surface. The piece frames emotional guardedness as a…
@lissijean · Melissa Perri on X♥ 1
This is what separates teams that accelerate with AI from those that get stuck. You don't find perfect data lying around. You create it using the deep product intuition you already have. /end Check out the whole episode with @vlaurenlee here:
@lissijean · Melissa Perri on X♥ 2
They're taking everything they know about commerce, customer behavior, and product strategy, and using that knowledge to systematically generate the training data they need. It transforms the data bottleneck from a passive waiting game into an active engineering challenge. /3
@lissijean · Melissa Perri on X
This week on the podcast, @vlaurenlee from @Shopify shared how her team is using AI to solve AI problems, instead of waiting years for interaction data. "You're basically imparting all of your product intuition into an LLM to then shape yet another LLM." /2
@lissijean · Melissa Perri on X♥ 8
Most teams make the mistake of waiting for data to magically appear before building their AI product. They get stuck in the classic chicken-and-egg problem: you need data to build good AI, but you need users to generate that data. So they wait. And wait. And wait some more. /1
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 5, 2025
Nov 5, 2025 · 8 min
Teresa Torres explains how she stopped re-explaining her business to AI tools by giving Claude Code a persistent, file-based memory. Instead of uploading context into chats or web Projects, she stores knowledge in local…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 4, 2025
Nov 4, 2025
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how personal, low-stakes experiments with AI at home can build the confidence and judgment product builders need at work and when designing AI-powered products. Teresa describes her…
Medium · Hiten ShahNov 3, 2025
Nov 3, 2025 · 12 min
Hiten Shah traces the idea of 'slop' from 19th-century pig feed and swill milk through naval slop chests, industrial refineries, institutional cafeteria food and today's algorithmic content feeds. His core argument is…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 30, 2025
Oct 30, 2025
This episode of Teresa Torres's podcast walks through how Trainline, a 25-year-old rail and coach ticketing platform, built Travel Assistant, an AI-powered companion for travelers facing disruptions and needing…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 29, 2025
Oct 29, 2025 · 20 min
Teresa Torres introduces Claude Code, a terminal-based version of Claude that can read and act on local files, and contrasts it with browser chats, Projects, and the desktop app. Using a competitive analysis example…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 28, 2025
Oct 28, 2025
This podcast episode argues that AI tools deliver useful product work only when they are given the right context, much as a new teammate needs onboarding. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille explain why most AI outputs…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 271
Oct 28, 2025 · 26 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky shares a product-and-brand guide compiled with builder-investor Justin Mares, covering health-focused choices for sleep, clothing, food, supplements, toxin mitigation, and everyday items. The core…
Lenny’s Podcast100 min
Dhanji R. Prasanna · Oct 26, 2025
Key learnings- Track AI impact with self-reported time savings plus validation metrics such as PR throughput and feature delivery, which Block…
- Expect the current AI value baseline to keep rising; adopt tools continuously and re-evaluate where they add value as…
- Non-technical staff building their own small internal tools with agents can compress weeks of waiting on engineering queues into…
Medium · Hiten ShahOct 25, 2025
Oct 25, 2025 · 3 min
Hiten Shah argues that transformative technologies often look like toys at first, and that Wabi's playful mini-apps are an early stage of a new personal operating system. He compares this to the early personal computer…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 23, 2025
Oct 23, 2025
This podcast episode features three leaders from Zencity, a company that helps local governments understand residents by combining survey data, 311 calls, social media, and local news into one platform. The conversation…
Lenny’s Podcast102 min
Chip Huyen · Oct 23, 2025
Key learnings- Focus on what actually improves AI apps, such as talking to users, improving data, writing better prompts, and optimizing…
- Be cautious about committing to newly released technologies that have not been widely tested, since switching away from them…
- Fine-tuning and post-training can shape model behavior a lot, and many teams now focus effort there because base pre-training…