Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
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Lenny's Podcast covers product, growth, and career strategy through conversations with operators, founders, and company builders.
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Included for practical conversations about product, growth, and career strategy through conversations with operators, founders, and company builders.
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Building a product strategy stack: mission, roadmap, and PM competencies
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 19, 2023
Roadmapping
9
Management
7
Vision & mission
5
- Strategy must come before goals — not the other way around
- Four goal types reveal where a team's real problem actually sits
- 12 PM competencies span execution, insight, strategy, and leadership
Iteration & feedback loops
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What makes high-performing product teams and why context kills generic advice
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 15, 2023
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Management
7
Business operating systems
7
- Dysfunctional teams all fail alike; high-performing teams succeed differently.
- Strategy-structure coherence matters more than any specific framework.
- Most product advice is context-free and built for Silicon Valley startups.
How to price your B2B product: avoid the three most common mistakes
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 12, 2023
Pricing strategy
10
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Automation & tools
5
- Pricing improvements drive 4x the revenue impact of acquisition gains.
- Evernote users paid out of guilt — a sign the free tier was too generous.
- Hybrid usage-based models beat pure seat or pure consumption pricing.
Customer discovery
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How Figma builds product
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 8, 2023
Customer discovery
9
Case studies
7
Hiring & recruitment
6
- PMs own the why—deep customer proximity and clear problem framing drive all decisions
- Storytelling and synthesis are the most leveraged PM skills for scaling insight and alignment
- Internal product usage creates personal accountability; this matters more than top-down mandates
Productivity & habits
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How to build PM skills and find mentors that accelerate your career
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 5, 2023
Productivity & habits
9
Communication
8
Identity & self-belief
7
- Why interview skills are a hidden career barrier most PMs ignore
- How to find and activate mentors with the smallest possible ask
- Your biggest weakness is often your greatest strength dialled too high
Customer discovery
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Lenny's Podcast: Top 10 episodes of 2022 countdown
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 29, 2022
Customer discovery
7
SEO
6
Productivity & habits
5
- Ten reusable frameworks from practitioners at Stripe, Facebook, Amplitude, and more.
- Imposter syndrome, LNO task prioritisation, and PSHE career levels decoded.
- Small teams outperform large ones — the coordination cost compounds geometrically.
How to launch and grow a podcast from scratch
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 18, 2022
Growth hacking
9
Niche selection
7
Processes & SOPs
5
- 10 consistent episodes puts you in the top 4% of all podcasts
- Treat content quality like product-market fit — it's the only real lever
- Clips, guest appearances, and community answering beat paid ads for growth
How founders should do sales before hiring their first salesperson
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 15, 2022
B2B sales
10
Product-market fit
6
Hiring & recruitment
6
- Why founders must sell personally before any salesperson can succeed
- The 15–25% win-rate signal that tells you it's time to hire
- PLG stalls without sales — 100% of B2B companies eventually build a team
How Notion built a $10B business through community and content marketing
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 11, 2022
Growth hacking
9
Community building
8
Content marketing
7
- Community works best when users share outputs to signal who they are.
- Slow, deliberate growth keeps community intimate — 5,000 feels like an auditorium.
- One Wall Street Journal article was Notion's single biggest growth moment.
Pricing strategy for product teams: five lessons from Madhavan Ramanujam
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 8, 2022
Pricing strategy
9
Pricing psychology
8
Customer discovery
6
- Validate willingness to pay before building, not after launching.
- How you charge (model) matters more than how much you charge.
- Behavioral tactics like decoy pricing can lift revenue without changing product.
How to hit revenue targets and survive a downturn in B2B sales
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 4, 2022
B2B sales
10
Retention & loyalty
8
Pricing strategy
5
- 76% of companies missed Q3 targets — real-time data on what's broken
- Standard comp plans actively reward churn; here's how to fix them
- Move your best salespeople to customer success before you lose everything
A practical guide to SEO: strategy, hiring, and growth levers
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 1, 2022
SEO
10
Automation & tools
6
Hiring & recruitment
5
- 90–95% of sites starve most pages of internal links — fixable for 25–100%+ lift
- Topical authority lets smaller sites outrank larger domains on their niche
- Most SEO strategies fail because almost nothing gets launched, not bad strategy
How to coach product managers, improve storytelling, and build community
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
November 27, 2022
Management
9
Public speaking
7
Community building
5
- Five concrete ingredients turn any manager into a great PM coach.
- Great storytellers spend weeks crafting a narrative — not hours.
- Product communities are cheaper than training and raise retention.
How to become a top 1% product manager, with Ian McAllister
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
November 20, 2022
Management
9
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Long-term planning
6
- Why prioritization alone creates 5x more impact than raw talent
- Trust is a PM's real currency — built by calling shots and hitting them
- Working backwards means starting with the problem, not the solution
Founder interviews
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How Gergely Orosz left big tech to build the top engineering newsletter
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
November 17, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Productivity & habits
7
Content marketing
6
- Newsletter income now exceeds a $330K Uber engineering salary.
- Six years of blogging before launch did the real audience-building work.
- Paying subscribers replace a boss — and enforce the discipline startups can't.