Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. And executing quickly means getting to market faster and, as a result, learning what your customers need faster. Are these calculations perfect?

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

As the organization should have consent from the stakeholders on all three critical steps it is of value to have full transparency whom to ask for approval to bring a product to market as it will make your product process significantly smoother. Identifying stakeholders – the process to identify your true stakeholders.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Over the past year we have introduced new products, like our bot Operator and our live chat solution for sales and marketing teams, and new levels of automation and intelligence to help do this. This is just the start, we will be building out new products here and in all of our offices.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 6, 2025

For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2024

— Will Larson is Chief Technology Officer at Carta. Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. Simplify security. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.

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Roy Madden

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Market Intelligence Keep up with CEO, CTO, CIO, CISO, CFO, and board member changes across millions of sources Are you afraid of missing out on crucial leadership changes? We’ve just released a new “ Leadership Changes ” AI Model that you can use to monitor C-suite changes. Feedly AI is here to help.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This refers to the fear many large established companies are feeling as more and more new players and startups enter the markets to disrupt them. One of the ways in which these new players are differentiating themselves from others in the market is through great product people and effective product management. Becoming a CPO.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Camille was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway, VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, and Global Head of Engineering and Architecture at JPMorgan Chase. But the overlooked reality of a leadership position means that other people own your time.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Drawing upon a rich vein of experiences — from leadership roles in engineering to insightful albeit brief stints as a founder and CTO and steering roles focusing on morphing concepts into market-ready products — my tenure in this vibrant ecosystem has been incredible.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Companies with strong product-market fit can thrive despite internal chaos, while well-run companies may struggle if they don’t solve a real customer need. Your career will benefit from being in environments with strong talent and leadership, even if the company isn’t perfect.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

When leadership asked them to make a decision they got stuck in spin cycles because they didn’t know what they were trying to achieve. Eventually leadership would lose patience and make the decision, perpetually continuing the empowerment disillusionment cycle. Excel at Change – Can we keep the cost of change low?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

He is now the founder of Breakthrough Ventures , providing Fractional Product Management and Product Marketing Services to software companies. With today’s complex market dynamics, it seems that the Product Management role is under fire. Because of this, it is easy for their value to be overlooked by leadership.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. Understanding how user personas, department personas, and buyer personas impact each other will help you develop a better product and a better marketing strategy for your products. From the Bottom Up.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Leveraging marketing, customer service, and customer communities to build better products. As you might expect, they want to be close to the customer and market trends. create a path to executive leadership. You can apply these to any level of leadership. Read their story at [link]. build products customers want and love.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself. When I send my mentees to work with sales on understanding the customers and the market better , the discussion often gets very quickly into features that are missing in the product.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I asked who was involved in choosing outcomes and was surprised to see that such a large percentage of teams said both their team and leadership were involved. In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership. I’d love to see the market for all of these tools continue to grow.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Sales execs want more sales-y Heads of Product; development execs want more engineering-ish Heads of Product; marketing teams want a marketer in product clothing… no candidate passes muster with all groups.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leadership Forum. Apply to the Leadership Forum. See you in July!

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 3, 2021

Joel shares his thoughts on the three important things that set number one in a market apart from the rest. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. To The Being Number One Talk Page. Simplicity vs Value in Software Development. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Prior to Airbnb, Vlad spent a year at Zynga, where he helped grow Words with Friends to over 14 million daily active users. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. Rachel Hepworth: Introducing growth marketing to Slack. That just blows my mind. Here’s Rachel.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

” TikTok fosters a leadership culture of “context, not control” that encourages ownership and decentralized decision-making. TikTok wins global markets by hiring locally and refining algorithms to fit regional and local cultures. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And InVision’s The New Design Frontier report on design maturity found that organizations with high-performing, mature design teams “are more likely to see cost savings, revenue gains, productivity gains, speed to market, and brand and market position improvements through their design efforts.” Embrace Iteration.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. From a leadership perspective, you have to scale your leadership style.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? I have an Engeenering degree and have been in the Israeli tech scene for the past fifteen years, from a research and development leader, to a co-founder and CTO, to product leader. Keren: Begin with the market voices. How do product managers lead standups?

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 14, 2021

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

After a while, I started feeling more comfortable in the cybersecurity world and was able to talk intelligently about my product and the market. I remember that at some point, I was debating with the CTO and Co-Founder?—?one My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an whether or not we should do something.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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