Lenny's Podcast

The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

David DeSanto is the chief product officer of GitLab, which is the largest remote-only company in the world. They share many of their team meetings on YouTube, and they’ve grown from being an open-source code management produ...

Play Episode

Recent Episodes

April 14, 2024

The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSant…

David DeSanto is the chief product officer of GitLab, which is the largest remote-only company in the world. They share many of their team meetings on YouTube, and they’ve grown from being an open-source code management produ...

Episode page
April 11, 2024

A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Roun…

Todd Jackson is a Partner at First Round Capital. Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018. Prior to Dropbox, Todd led …

Episode page
April 7, 2024

Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, …

Claire Vo is the chief product officer at LaunchDarkly and the founder of ChatPRD, likely the most popular PM-specific AI product out there. Before LaunchDarkly, she was a longtime chief product officer at Color and Optimizel...

Episode page
April 4, 2024

Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah…

Dharmesh Shah is the co-founder and CTO of HubSpot (currently valued at $30 billion) and one of the most fascinating founders I’ve ever met. Dharmesh is the keeper of HubSpot’s Culture Code, built ChatSpot (an AI chatbot buil...

Episode page
March 31, 2024

How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (profe…

Matt Abrahams is a renowned communication expert, with decades of teaching, coaching, and consulting experience. At Stanford University, he teaches a business school class on strategic communication. Beyond academia, he’s a s...

Episode page
March 24, 2024

Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy…

Kunal Shah is one of the most well-known and admired product leaders in India. He is the CEO and founder of CRED, an Indian-based fintech startup valued at over $6 billion. Prior to CRED, he founded three other startups, incl...

Episode page

Recent Blog Posts

Summary: The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)

Hila Qu is an Executive in Residence (EIR) at Reforge as well as a renowned growth advisor, angel investor, and published author (her book about growth was named one of the top 10 business books of 2018 in China). Previously, she served as the Dir…

Summary: Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)

David Singleton is the CTO at Stripe, where he oversees engineering and design teams. Since joining Stripe, David has helped grow the technology org across the U.S. and developed new engineering hubs in Singapore and Dublin as well as Stripe&rsquo…

Summary: Ultimate guide to OKRs / Christina Wodtke / Organizing work in big companies

Christina Wodtke is an author, Stanford University professor, and speaker who teaches strategies for building high-performing teams. She’s also the author of Radical Focus, which some consider the de facto guide to OKRs.   Christina s…