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Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)
October 18, 2026
Lenny Rachitsky (0:00)
One of the big questions on people's minds these days is AI doing bad things. As someone that watches these models think and operate, why is it so hard to catch it thinking badly, trying to deceive us?
Emmanuel Ameisen (0:09)
We train Claude to be helpful, harmless and honest. Is it the case that it's behaving well, but if you look inside, actually it's like, oh, I'm only behaving well because Lenny's watching right now.
Lenny Rachitsky (0:18)
People's full-time jobs is studying the model and how it thinks, how it operates. How long has this been a skill set and a job?
- Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)
- Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)
- OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux
- The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
- 90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis
- How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel
- The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
- This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
- Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn
- Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
- How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)
- Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity
- OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino
- What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)
- The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)
- Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell
- A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans
- The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper
- Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
- How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author
- Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)
- Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel
- How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
- Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
- Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)
- Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare
- An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison
- From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo
- The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)
- The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick (Executive Negotiator)
- How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky
- The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis
- The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)
- AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel
- Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny
- Sequoia CEO coach: Why it’s never been easier to start a company, and never been harder to scale one | Brian Halligan (co-founder, HubSpot)
- “Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu
- The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)
- A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy
- Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- 5 questions to ask when your product stops growing | Jason Cohen (2x unicorn founder)
- The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)
- How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam Lessin
- Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and Amazon
- The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale
- We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- 10 contrarian leadership truths every leader needs to hear | Matt MacInnis (Rippling)
- The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff
- The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth)
- Why humans are AI’s biggest bottleneck (and what’s coming in 2026) | Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI Codex Product Lead)
- The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)
- Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders” | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
- What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
- A guide to difficult conversations, building high-trust teams, and designing a life you love | Rachel Lockett
- Slack founder: Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots, and why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- “Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (CEO)
- "Sell the alpha, not the feature": The enterprise sales playbook for $1M to $10M ARR | Jen Abel
- The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42B company from nothing | Melanie Perkins
- How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. Prasanna
- Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix)
- How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren
- Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field
- Inside Google's AI turnaround: The rise of AI Mode, strategy behind AI Overviews, and their vision for AI-powered search | Robby Stein (VP of Product, Google Search)
- First interview with Scale AI’s CEO: $14B Meta deal, what’s working in enterprise AI, and what frontier labs are building next | Jason Droege
- How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)
- A 4-step framework for building delightful products | Nesrine Changuel (Spotify, Google, Skype)
- Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar (creators of the #1 eval course)
- From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo (Facebook VP, Sundial CEO, The Making of a Manager author)
- Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
- The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- $46B of hard truths from Ben Horowitz: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear (a16z co-founder)
- How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
- How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
- How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)
- Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)
- How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
- Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour (Reforge)
- The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
- Inside ChatGPT: The fastest-growing product in history | Nick Turley (Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI)
- Brian Chesky's secret mentor who died 9 times, started the Burning Man board, and built the world's first midlife wisdom school | Chip Conley (founder of MEA)
- He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor on the future of careers, coding, agents, and more
- Pricing your AI product: Lessons from 400+ companies and 50 unicorns | Madhavan Ramanujam
- Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben Mann
- The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code | Dan Shipper (co-founder/CEO of Every)
- Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint (from the creators of the Design Sprint) | Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky (Character Capital)
- Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson (co‑founder of Tiny)
- Naming expert shares the process behind creating billion-dollar brand names like Azure, Vercel, Windsurf, Sonos, Blackberry, and Impossible Burger | David Placek (Lexicon Branding)
- From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products | Peter Deng
- AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)
- How to build a team that can “take a punch”: A playbook for building resilient, high-performing teams | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
- 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond | Bob Baxley
- How Mercado Libre built Latin America's most valuable company: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, and their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
- Anthropic’s CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
- Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product)
- Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI, you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- How Revolut trains world-class product managers: The “local CEO” model, raw intellect over experience, and a cultural obsession with building wow products | Dmitry Zlokazov (Head of Product)
- How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want? | Jerry Colonna (CEO of Reboot, executive coach, former VC)
- Inside Devin: The world’s first autonomous AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code by end of year | Scott Wu (CEO and co-founder of Cognition)
- The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)
- Inside monday.com’s transformation: radical transparency, impact over output, and their path to $1B ARR | Daniel Lereya (Chief Product and Technology Officer)
- Announcing a brand-new podcast: “How I AI” with Claire Vo 🔥
- Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder and CEO)
- Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders | Guillermo Rauch (founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js)
- OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter)
- Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact | Wes Kao (coach, entrepreneur, advisor)
- A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
- How to win in the AI era: Ship a feature every week, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and create magic your competitors can't copy | Gaurav Misra (CEO and co-founder of Captions)
- Superhuman's secret to success: Ignoring most customer feedback, manually onboarding every new user, obsessing over every detail, and positioning around a single attribute: speed | Rahul Vohra (CEO)
- The hidden power of introverts: How to thrive without changing who you are | Susan Cain (author of "Quiet")
- Inside Bolt: From near-death to ~$40m ARR in 5 months—one of the fastest-growing products in history | Eric Simons (founder and CEO of StackBlitz)
- Building Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people | Anton Osika (co-founder and CEO)
- Notion’s lost years, its near collapse during Covid, staying small to move fast, the joy and suffering of building horizontal, more | Ivan Zhao (CEO and co-founder)
- The creator of WordPress opens up about becoming an internet villain, why he’s taking a stand, and the future of open source | Matt Mullenweg (founder and CEO, Automattic)
- An inside look at X’s Community Notes | Keith Coleman (VP of Product) and Jay Baxter (ML Lead)
- How to find work you love | Bob Moesta (Jobs-to-be-Done co-creator, author of "Job Moves”)
- A founder’s guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder, serial entrepreneur)
- OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen (Research at OpenAI, ex-Anthropic)
- Tobi Lütke’s leadership playbook: Playing infinite games, operating from first principles, and maximizing human potential (founder and CEO of Shopify)
- Linear’s secret to building beloved B2B products | Nan Yu (Head of Product)
- An operator’s guide to product strategy | Chandra Janakiraman (CPO at VRChat, ex-Meta, Headspace, Zynga)
- 10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey)
- How to break out of autopilot and create the life you want | Graham Weaver (Stanford GSB professor, founder of Alpine Investors)
- How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more | Rohini Pandhi (Mercury, Square)
- Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)
- Scripts for difficult conversations: Giving hard feedback, navigating defensiveness, the three questions you should end every meeting with, more | Alisa Cohn (executive coach)
- Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure, autonomy, trust, and more | Eilon Reshef (co-founder and CPO)
- Why great AI products are all about the data | Shaun Clowes (CPO Confluent, ex-Salesforce, Atlassian)
- Behind the founder: Marc Benioff
- How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)
- Behind the product: Duolingo streaks | Jackson Shuttleworth (Group PM, Retention Team)
- Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more
- How a great founder becomes a great CEO | Jonathan Lowenhar (co-founder of Enjoy The Work)
- Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at Google Ventures)
- The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)
- Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)
- Becoming an AI PM | Aman Khan (Arize AI, ex-Spotify, Apple, Cruise)
- Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri (author, founder of Product Institute)
- Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, prioritizes intuition, and builds toward a 100-year vision | Archie Abrams (VP Product, Head of Growth at Shopify)
- Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll (author, advisor, entrepreneur)
- 4 questions Shreyas Doshi wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google
- Meta’s Head of Product (and 29th employee) on working with Mark Zuckerberg, early growth tactics, why PMs are like conductors, and more | Naomi Gleit
- How to see like a designer: The hidden power of typography and logos | Jessica Hische (Lettering Artist, Author)
- Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, harnessing founder mode, and more | Anneka Gupta (Chief Product Officer at Rubrik)
- Why most public speaking advice is wrong—and how to finally overcome your speaking anxiety | Tristan de Montebello (CEO & co-founder of Ultraspeaking)
- Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)
- Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- Thinking like a gardener not a builder, organizing teams like slime mold, the adjacent possible, and other unconventional product advice | Alex Komoroske (Stripe, Google)
- How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, and more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack, Reforge)
- Lessons in product leadership and AI strategy from Glean, Google, Amazon, and Slack | Tamar Yehoshua (Product at Glean, ex-Google and Slack)
- Becoming a super IC: Lessons from 12 years as a PM individual contributor | Tal Raviv (Product Lead at Riverside)
- Rethinking SEO in the age of AI | Eli Schwartz (SEO advisor, author)
- The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (author of “The Manager’s Path,” ex-CTO at Rent the Runway)
- Land your dream job in today’s market: negotiation tactics, job search councils, and more | Phyl Terry (Author, “Never Search Alone”)
- How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
- The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author of “Hacking Growth”)
- Airbnb’s Vlad Loktev on embracing chaos, inquiry over advocacy, poking the bear, and “impact, impact, impact” (Partner at Index Ventures, Airbnb GM/VP Product)
- How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier’s playbook for winning at consumer apps (co-founder of TBH, Gas, advisor, investor)
- Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and why you should PM your career like you PM your product | Deb Liu (CEO of Ancestry, ex-Facebook, PayPal, eBay)
- Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more | Kevin Yien (Stripe, Square, Mutiny)
- Improve strategy, influence, and decision-making by understanding your brain | Evan LaPointe (founder of CORE Sciences)
- How embracing emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (executive coach, Art of Accomplishment)
- Lessons from scaling Uber and Opendoor | Brian Tolkin (Head of Product at Opendoor, ex-Uber)
- The ultimate guide to performance marketing | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- 5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)
- What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
- Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics)
- Dylan Field live at Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design
- Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
- Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)
- The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (author of 7 Rules of Power, professor at Stanford GSB)
- Lessons from a two-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor, and 20-time company board member | Uri Levine (co-founder of Waze)
- Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and running profitably | Cameron Adams (co-founder and CPO)
- The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon (author of The Challenger Sale and The JOLT Effect)
- Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Instacart)
- Why not asking for what you want is holding you back | Kenneth Berger (exec coach, first PM at Slack)
- Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google, Quantcast)
- A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)
- Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
- This will make you a better decision-maker | Annie Duke (author of “Thinking in Bets” and “Quit,” former pro poker player)
- Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour
- How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford GSB professor, “Touchy Feely”)
- Vision, conviction, and hype: How to build 0 to 1 inside a company | Mihika Kapoor (Product at Figma)
- Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director)
- The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)
- A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)
- Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)
- Zigging vs. zagging: How HubSpot built a $30B company | Dharmesh Shah (co-founder/CTO)
- How to speak more confidently and persuasively | Matt Abrahams (professor, podcast host, author, speaker)
- Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more
- The ultimate guide to PR | Emilie Gerber (founder of Six Eastern)
- The happiness and pain of product management | Noam Lovinsky (Grammarly, Facebook, YouTube, Thumbtack)
- Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
- Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)
- Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)
- How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth | Donna Lichaw (author of The Leader’s Journey)
- How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)
- Building a world-class sales org | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (authors of Sprint and Make Time, co-founders of Character Capital)
- Inside OpenAI | Logan Kilpatrick (head of developer relations)
- Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira)
- Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)
- Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt
- The art and wisdom of changing teams | Heidi Helfand (author of Dynamic Reteaming)
- Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)
- How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)
- The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)
- The UX research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)
- Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)
- The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)
- The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)
- Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
- How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)
- Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott
- The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)
- Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
- My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests
- Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)
- Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)
- The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
- Brian Chesky’s new playbook
- Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor, startup advisor)
- Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, Tripadvisor)
- Unpacking Amazon’s unique ways of working | Bill Carr (author of Working Backwards)
- Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch)
- Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf (Latitud, Duolingo)
- Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)
- How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine)
- Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)
- Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life
- What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)
- Building Anchor, selling to Spotify, and lessons learned | Maya Prohovnik (Spotify’s Head of Podcast Product)
- How to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise)
- Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)
- How to become a category pirate | Christopher Lochhead (author of Play Bigger, Niche Down, Category Pirates, more)
- Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform, Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian)
- When enough is enough | Andy Johns (ex-FB, Twitter, Quora)
- An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)
- An inside look at Deel’s unprecedented growth | Meltem Kuran Berkowitz (Head of Growth)
- The ultimate guide to JTBD | Bob Moesta (co-creator of the framework)
- Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet | Camille Hearst (Spotify, Patreon, Apple, YouTube)
- The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)
- Relentless curiosity, radical accountability, and HubSpot’s winning growth formula | Christopher Miller (VP of Product, Growth and AI)
- Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)
- How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, GitHub, Google)
- The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)
- The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)
- LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)
- M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs)
- How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
- Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork and Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang (Webflow, WeWork, Airbnb, Dropbox)
- Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)
- Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)
- Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)
- Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
- Moving fast and navigating uncertainty | Jeremy Henrickson (Rippling, Coinbase)
- Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
- The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin
- Lessons from scaling Spotify: The science of product, taking risky bets, and how AI is already impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström (Co-President, CPO, and CTO at Spotify)
- Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance)
- Frameworks for product differentiation, team building, and thinking from first principles | Ayo Omojola (Carbon Health, Cash App)
- Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
- Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian, Miro, Segment, 1Password)
- The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna
- An inside look at how Miro builds product: Lessons on outmaneuvering competitors, team structure, product quality, and moving fast | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)
- How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn, SurveyMonkey)
- How to build a cult-like brand | Laura Modi (Bobbie)
- Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)
- Driving alignment and urgency within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller (The Knot, Trello)
- The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
- Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Canva, Reddit, Grubhub)
- Taxi mafias, cash vaults, and 100% MoM growth: The story behind Southeast Asia’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)
- Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard)
- Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
- The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
- Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi
- Career frameworks, A/B testing mistakes, counterintuitive onboarding tips, selling to developers | Laura Schaffer (VP of Growth at Amplitude)
- Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO of Stripe)
- Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)
- Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth | Annie Pearl (CPO)
- An inside look at how CNN builds product | Upasna Gautam
- 10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell)
- Understanding the role of product ops | Christine Itwaru (Pendo)
- Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)
- Leading with empathy | Keith Yandell (DoorDash, Uber)
- AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)
- How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe)
- Lessons from Airtable’s unconventional growth strategy | Zoelle Egner
- An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar (Head of Product)
- Building your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)
- What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (Amplitude, The Beautiful Mess)
- How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)
- An inside look at how Figma builds product | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO of Figma)
- Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
- Countdown of the top 10 episodes of the year
- Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
- Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)
- How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts (Notion, First Round Capital)
- The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)
- How to hit revenue targets in a recession | Sahil Mansuri (Bravado)
- The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People)
- What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
- Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
- An inside look at how the New York Times builds product | Alex Hardiman (CPO at The New York Times)
- How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)
- How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
- Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, General Catalyst)
- Building Substack | Sachin Monga (Substack, Facebook)
- Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp)
- How to build trust and grow as a product leader | Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Zynga, Pixar)
- Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
- Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
- How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)
- Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier (Faire, Thumbtack, Reforge)
- Using behavioral science to improve your product | Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs)
- Customer-led growth | Georgiana Laudi (Forget The Funnel)
- Growth tactics, retention strategies, and becoming a better writer | Julian Shapiro (Demand Curve, Hyper, Webflow, TechCrunch)
- Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- When and how to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)
- How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1)
- The role of AI in product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub, Copilot)
- How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)
- Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, Seth Godin, Section4)
- The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group
- The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, Marketer in Residence at First Round Capital)
- The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
- How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund
- How to own your career growth and become a powerful product leader | Deb Liu, Ancestry (ex-Facebook, PayPal)
- How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
- How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri
- How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google
- How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite
- Nickey Skarstad (Airbnb, Etsy, Shopify, Duolingo) on translating vision into goals, operationalizing product quality, second-order decisions, brainstorming, influence, and much more
- Manik Gupta (ex-CPO Uber, Google Maps) on how to build consumer apps, why it’s useful to be optimistic about technology, creating inflections in your PM career, the changing CPO role, and more
- Merci Grace (ex-Head of Growth at Slack) on PLG, interviewing, storytelling, building a diverse team, hiring salespeople, building a growth team, and much more
- Sanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the inside story of how Airbnb made it through Covid; what he’s learned from Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, and Kevin Systrom; much more
- Teresa Torres on how to interview customers, automating continuous discovery, the opportunity solution tree framework, making the case for user research, common interviewing mistakes, and much more
- Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid
- Elena Verna on how B2B growth is changing, product-led growth, product-led sales, why you should go freemium not trial, what features to make free, and much more
- Gibson Biddle on his DHM product strategy framework, GEM roadmap prioritization framework, 5 Netflix strategy mini case studies, building a personal board of directors, and much more
- Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more
- Gokul Rajaram on designing your product development process, when and how to hire your first PM, a playbook for hiring leaders, getting ahead in you career, how to get started angel investing, more
- April Dunford on product positioning, segmentation, and optimizing your sales process
- Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
- Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management
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