Lenny Rachitsky launches a podcast interviewing product leaders and growth experts. Upcoming guests include Julie Zhu, Manan Gupta, Jackie Bavaro, and Gibson Biddle, sharing practical advice on building products and scaling growth.
[Speaking] oh, hey there. I'm Lenny. Welcome to a little teaser episode that I decided to put together just to give you a sense of what to expect out of this podcast, why you may want to consider subscribing, and a peek at what's to come. If you're already sold on this podcast, feel free to just skip this episode and dive right into our first chat with Julie Zhu. Otherwise, as you may know, I spend a lot of my time writing a newsletter very creatively titled Lenny's Newsletter, which not only gives me an excuse to research and share how the best products are built and scaled, but it also leads me to meeting the most incredible people, folks that are behind today's most successful products and companies. And what I realized is that I'm missing a really big opportunity to go much deeper into these people's stories and to share their wisdom more directly versus a couple of quotes in a couple of posts here and there. And so that's what I hope to do with this podcast. to interview and learn from basically every world-class product leader and growth expert that I can get my hands on to hear their stories and extract as much concrete, actionable and tactical advice that I can to help you build and grow your own product. We're not going to have much pontificating or theory. Just like my newsletter, we're going to focus on real practical stuff. I'm new to this podcasting thing and so I hope that you can bear with me as I learn how to do this very new thing. I'm going to work hard to make this incredibly valuable and super interesting, and I'm also going to make it a goal to make the guest list as diverse as possible. Also, I'm going to mix in both people who you already know and love, but also people who are more under the radar, but amazing and deserve more attention. To kick things off, we're going to have a pretty damn stellar lineup. Basically, all of my product heroes and growth heroes people who I am so honored to have on as guests. Folks like Julie Zhu, who I already mentioned, who is a longtime design leader at Facebook, who actually inspired the newsletter that I do now, and we talk about that, along with a bunch of wisdom on career growth and imposter syndrome. Also, Manan Gupta, who led product at Uber and Google Maps, and now at Microsoft. Jackie Bavaro, who wrote Cracking the PM Interview and Cracking the PM Career. who if you're a PM on Twitter, you probably already follow. And we go really deep into five very specific topics that he tweeted about that have stuck with me. Also, Gibson Biddle, former VP of product at Netflix, Elena Verna, who's in the top, I don't know, 0.1% of smartest people on growth in the world. And so many others, April Dunford, Casey Winters, Gokul Rajaram, Marty Cagan, Teresa Torres. I could go on and on. This is just like the first 10 or 12 episodes of the podcast. And so I'm really excited to see where this is going to go. If this sounds like something that you don't want to miss, don't forget to subscribe to this podcast and whatever podcasting app you use. And if you want to learn more or ask about sponsoring the podcast or even suggest guests, just go to lenniespodcast.com I hope you enjoy and I'll see you in the very next episode.
