Lenny's Podcast

Build so 60% works today and 20% is a bet on the model — Google Gemini's product head

11 principles: why Google's 14 billion-user products are its AI edge, why a first eval needs only 5 prompts, and why AI should bring the data while the…

Nov 9 • Scuttlebutt

2–3 people now start a new lab project, down from 5–7 as costs fall, Google Labs VP finds

19 lessons: why a list of what is almost possible beats brainstorming, why the team knows before the leader when to kill a project, and why model…

Oct 12 • Scuttlebutt

OpenAI's head of ChatGPT: most actions on the internet will soon be taken by agents

15 insights: why loops are a passing phase, how his own Dot flagged an outage 5 minutes before the DevDay demo, and the 120 ex-YC founders now working…

Oct 5 • Scuttlebutt

Snap's ad ceiling was its camera and its under-18 audience — Snap's first PM

14 lessons: Why he says the median product manager is net negative, how Discord grew fastest by chasing users it already had, and what OpenAI is getting…

Sep 21 • Scuttlebutt

Tara Seshan: build for the models two to three months out, and never automate writing as thinking | Lenny's Podcast

Why steering replaced rowing as the job, what ChatGPT's work mode is really running underneath, and what Sutter Hill taught her about selling a product…

Aug 31 • Scuttlebutt

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