Lenny’s Podcast91 min
Sanchan Saxena · Jul 5, 2022
Key learnings- Careers rarely follow a plan; Sanchan advises taking little bets, learning fast, and pivoting rather than over-planning a…
- Choose a role that maximizes how fast you learn product management, and match the startup versus big-company choice to whether…
- During a crisis, Airbnb replaced fixed teams with one company-wide team and two-week planning cycles, reacting to fast-changing…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJun 14, 2012
Jun 14, 2012
“There's been a lot of buzz this week about the Pixar story rules being tweeted by Emma Coates (@lawnrocket). But don't expect a whole new crop of Pixar-like storytellers to suddenly emerge. Knowing what makes a good story, and writing a good story are two entirely different”
Lenny’s Podcast86 min
Manik Gupta · Jul 14, 2022
Key learnings- Surround yourself with exceptional people early in your career and stick with them over the long term, since shared trust built…
- Consumer products are harder than they look because builders are not typical users; you cannot force adoption, so virality and…
- Build consumer products for a global audience from day one, localizing language, pricing, and legal requirements while avoiding…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 21, 2025
Oct 21, 2025
In this podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille trade stories about the formative experiences that shaped their product careers. Teresa recounts running a startup through the 2008 recession, where prioritization…
Lenny’s Podcast103 min
Laura Schaffer · Mar 9, 2023
Key learnings- Build career momentum beyond your manager by learning your customers deeply and sharing those insights, which makes you a go-to…
- Share customer insights regularly and make them visible; a recurring voice-of-the-customer report can grow into a forum that…
- Expect many ideas to be rejected; treat each refusal as a chance to bring better information, since leaders value insights they…
SVPG · Marty CaganFeb 4, 2026
Feb 4, 2026 · 9 min
Marty Cagan argues that the scarcest resource for product people is effective coaching, since most managers lack the time or skill to provide it, and that foundation AI models configured with good instructions and…
Lenny’s Podcast109 min
Benedict Evans · May 31, 2026
Key learnings- Treat AI as roughly as big as the internet or mobile, and recognize we are early, like 1997, with most applications not yet built…
- Expect adoption to be very uneven; survey data shows many people are not using AI at all, so don't assume the people in your…
- Ask whether a job is a task that can be automated or a deeper outcome; consultants and professionals are hired for judgment…
SVPG · Marty CaganJul 2, 2025
Jul 2, 2025 · 5 min
Marty Cagan argues that strong product people need both ambition and agency, and that agency depends on ambition: skills alone won't drive action without a desire to improve. He reflects on how some product people…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 86
Feb 4, 2026
The essay challenges the common assumption that publicly expressed vulnerability signals humility. The excerpt, which is cut off early, suggests the author will argue that vulnerability performed with a veneer of…
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Feb 1, 2022 · 9 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyLenny Rachitsky lays out seven practical strategies for earning a promotion, drawing on his own roughly nine promotions over a 16-year career. The core argument is that consistent, impactful work is the foundation, and…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresFeb 18, 2025
Feb 18, 2025
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres and Petra Wille, examines why product leaders struggle to protect time for deep, focused work such as strategic thinking, team alignment, and creative exploration. The hosts…
Lenny’s Podcast86 min
Andy Johns · Sep 10, 2023
Key learnings- Treat persistent disruption to sleep, relationships, physical health, and daily routines as a clear signal that something needs…
- Recognize that many high achievers tie self-worth to achievement; identify those adaptations that once helped you but may now be…
- Start with a therapist or counselor, and choose based on feeling safe and comfortable, ideally with someone intellectually at…
SVPG · Marty CaganSep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 · 4 min
Martina Lauchengco, a long-time SVPG partner, shares her origin story: an instinct for finding better ways that grew from a childhood shaped by her father's habit of challenging the status quo. She recounts early…
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Jun 4, 2024 · 13 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyGuest author Ben Erez argues against the view that feature-team PMs are merely project managers, contending they do real product work and that feature-factory setups can suit CEOs with strong product visions. He…
produxlabs.com · Melissa PerriAug 18, 2020
Aug 18, 2020 · 11 min
Melissa Perri interviews two product leaders, Alicia Hurst (Group PM at JW Player, hiring for an NYC team) and Vibhor Chhabra (VP of Product at TaxJar, a company that has always been fully remote), about hiring…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresDec 26, 2013
Dec 26, 2013 · 4 min
Teresa Torres, a product discovery coach, shares the standout books from her 2013 reading list of roughly 50 titles. She recommends a mix of sales, energy management, luck versus skill, analytics, presentation…
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 55
From coaching 100s of people over the years on career decisions, LinkedIn Envy and the Impact Lie are the root cause of many career regrets of otherwise-smart people. How to avoid such regrets? As with many such situations, the knowledge is the cure:
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Jul 22, 2025 · 27 min
Tal Raviv argues that LLMs become genuinely useful for complex knowledge work only when given persistent, rich context about a person's goals, role, team, and organization. He calls this setup a personal "AI copilot"…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 7, 2025
Oct 7, 2025
In this podcast conversation, Teresa Torres and host Petra Wille discuss Product Talk Academy's shift from purely instructor-led cohort courses toward on-demand learning options. Torres explains why she resisted…
SVPG · Marty CaganDec 6, 2011
Dec 6, 2011
Marty Cagan argues against a common corporate arrangement that splits the product role between a 'product manager' who handles customers and stakeholders and a 'product owner' who handles the backlog and developers. He…
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Sep 11, 2023 · 11 min
Lenny Rachitsky marks his newsletter reaching 500,000 subscribers by sharing ten lessons from building it. His core argument is that quality and consistency matter far more than design, branding, or growth tactics. He…
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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…
SVPG · Marty CaganDec 27, 2019
Dec 27, 2019 · 7 min
Marty Cagan argues that integrity is the foundation of trust in empowered product teams, and that trust rests on both competence and character. He acknowledges that integrity is hard to maintain, since product managers…
Lenny’s Podcast145 min
Boz · Mar 3, 2024
Key learnings- Ask your manager for help earlier; your job is to get the work done well, and managers hold tools and context you may be missing.
- Frame updates for busy leaders with 'no response required' messages, and say exactly where you are blocked and what specific help…
- Communication is the job: your impact comes only through artifacts or words that move other people, and when things fail, examine…