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HS Hector Serrano On Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

“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.”

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · In-Depth Interviews · November 2026

“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

Context

Continuing on AI and automation, he argues against posting at high volume, citing the founder's new YouTube channel, which took off by putting a human team behind each video.

Transcript

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth Around 58:50 into the episode
Hector Serrano

Yeah, for the final output, especially on the creative side, like what other people are going to see, I don't think AI should touch. Yeah.

Lenny Rachitsky

That is really interesting. Like, you know, people, it feels like everyone's hearing lean into AI. Even one of the

Hector Serrano

most bullish people on AI that I know, Matt, who is now at Victor, our X Setup Growth, he has the most automations I've ever seen in the whole wide world. But even then, like that last 10% that's the most important always has a human on the endpoint because you can't sacrifice as a brand having something blow up because you had something screw up or come out wrong or whatever. And yeah, I think with everyone, I think with everyone also just shipping so much volume and like whether it be on X, on LinkedIn, on Instagram, on YouTube, like you're able now to make videos with Claude. You're able to have the edit them. You're able to make, what's it called? Able to make like a doppelganger of yourself with AI and all these different things and get content out faster and have these automations for tweets and have it like post news articles and whatever and retweet it in whatever way. There's so much noise, like you're saying, that 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 just hitting volume's sake, it gets so easy to cut through the noise. And like if you actually have real value, you package it well and you…

Lenny Rachitsky

That's actually where I was going to go. And this could be our final thread to chat through is just this other lever, which is, I don't know if you describe it as founder-led growth or founder-led content. Just give us kind of a sense of that growth opportunity, what you're seeing there, the…

Hector Serrano

Yeah, I think, I think it also ties into what we're just talking about, like so much AI and so much ads and companies, et cetera. And at the end of the day, it also ties back to everything in content creator and people. Like at the end of the day, people buy from people, people invest in people.…

Lenny Rachitsky

What are some of the kind of angles/slash stories that seem to work well when you're doing this sort of founder-like content? Is it like, here's the story of our company? Yeah. Is there anything that

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