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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

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“I think the companies that will win long term are the companies that have the best relationships with creators, because word gets out really fast. If you're a brand that treats creators badly, doesn't pay on time, or just blocks them, creators won't want to work with you, or you won't get the best terms or the best quality creators.” — Hector Serrano, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Hector Serrano · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I almost think that creators with no following end up being better investments for brands, because influencers are seen now as sellouts a lot of the time. When you see a big celebrity selling a product, you think, this person has been selling me things for the last 10 years, and they're not really genuine. If you have partnership ads coming from the account of someone who isn't famous, it feels a lot more genuine.” — Hector Serrano, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Hector Serrano · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“People mistake UGC for thinking it's just college kids making content. But UGC is user-generated content, and if you're a dev tool, your user is probably an older technical person. For those audiences, the more boring and the uglier the ads are, the better they perform. Some of our best ads, you'd look at them and say, holy cow, these are such bad ads. But they perform the best for audiences that are a bit older and a bit more technical.” — Hector Serrano, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Hector Serrano · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“Before, in 2024, I could have an ad running for 12 months. Now, with how much ad spend we're running and the new Meta updates, once an ad hits like $100,000 in ad spend, it will be dead. That can be hit in a month, or in two or three weeks. So we constantly need more output. We might have 5,000 lifetime ads and maybe 800 or 900 live currently.” — Hector Serrano, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Hector Serrano · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“With everyone shipping so much volume on X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, there's so much noise. If you actually focus more on the quality and less on the quantity, and less on building all these crazy automations and hitting volume for volume's sake, it gets so easy to cut through the noise. We started a YouTube channel three months ago and five videos in we had millions of views. You don't need three videos a week.” — Hector Serrano, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Hector Serrano · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“If we, as an AI company that enables humans to do better work, go out and start making AI slop ads and videos with AI influencers and AI designs and AI statics, it's probably not going to be received really well. It looks off. I think it goes towards not automating the work that's going to be the final product people are looking at. The risk versus reward is not worth it.” — Hector Serrano, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Hector Serrano · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“If you put out a job listing for 250K, 200K base, generous equity, you're going to end up attracting the wrong type of people. When I joined Whisper, we were interns and we were just hungry kids who wanted to learn and grow. If you think throwing money out there and looking for someone with the best grades or the best school is going to get you the best hire, you're in for a rude awakening.” — Hector Serrano, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Hector Serrano · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“A 30, 40-year-old founder doesn't understand what an 18-year-old kid who's in these Discord chats, scrolling every day on Instagram and TikTok, understands. They don't understand what's actually working and the best ways to approach these new channels. If you have young people next to you in whatever industry you're in, I think it's a no-brainer to have someone like that on your team.” — Hector Serrano, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Hector Serrano · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“One of the most important things to realize if you use language models or think about them is just this very bizarre fact that to make them is not to understand them. You make them by building this architecture, which is kind of like a scaffold. And then you pass a bunch of data through them and they sort of grow in inscrutable ways.” — Emmanuel Ameisen, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Emmanuel Ameisen · 18 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We'll hear sometimes people talk about what's someone's learning rate? Do they have a growth mindset? … I'm actually looking a lot right now for people, what's their unlearning rate? Like, how fast can they learn something and then walk away from it?” — Josh Woodward, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Josh Woodward · 11 Oct 2026 Listen →
“When you're showing people early prototypes, what I'm always doing in those is you're looking at people's eyes and that is the metric. It is not a DAU over a MAU, it's not a D7 retention. It's none of that. … If your eyes kind of light up, if you lean in, these are the kind of signals you're looking for.” — Josh Woodward, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Josh Woodward · 11 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We had a couple of outages that I caused very, very early days for me at OpenAI. I took production down like day three. ... I was still employed after that. And I learned my lesson.” — Tibo Sottiaux, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Tibo Sottiaux · 4 Oct 2026 Listen →

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Guests

Elena Verna (6 episodes), April Dunford (4 episodes), Molly Graham (4 episodes), Dan Shipper (3 episodes), Melissa Perri (3 episodes), Deb Liu (3 episodes), Jen Abel (3 episodes), Brian Balfour (3 episodes), DJ DiDonna (2 episodes), Yuriy Timen (2 episodes), Todd Jackson (2 episodes), Lane Shackleton (2 episodes), and 331 more.