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How to build deeper, more robust relationships | Carole Robin (Stanford GSB professor, “Touchy Feely”)

Lenny Rachitsky

” After leaving Stanford, she founded a nonprofit called Leaders in Tech, which applies the Touchy Feely principles to help Silicon Valley executives build their leadership and interpersonal skills. You are more likely to recover from failure if you invest energy into unpacking the lessons.

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Taking control of your career | Ethan Evans (Amazon)

Lenny Rachitsky

Prior to Amazon, Ethan spent 12 years in technical leadership roles at several East Coast startups. Ethan also offers a range of Leadership Development Courses via live online classes and on-demand courses. Find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at: [link].

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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Striking a balance between involvement and delegation is key to effective leadership. The experience of building Facebook’s News Feed is a great lesson on the importance of having conviction in your vision, even when faced with initial resistance. Find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at: [link].

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Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more

Lenny Rachitsky

Notably, Satya Nadella embodies this ethos, carrying forward Bill Gates’s vision in his modern leadership at Microsoft. Indian tech CEOs often emulate Rama’s values by prioritizing principles from the founders of their companies over personal interests.

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Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)

Lenny Rachitsky

” TikTok fosters a leadership culture of “context, not control” that encourages ownership and decentralized decision-making. Find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at: [link]. Ray describes TikTok’s thinking as “How can I run the second half of my marathon faster than the first?”

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The UX Research reckoning is here | Judd Antin (Airbnb, Meta)

Lenny Rachitsky

Find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at: [link]. Today’s transcript will be live by 8 a.m. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

Lenny Rachitsky

To change Twitter’s product culture, Kayvon also focused on building alignment at the leadership level, telling a compelling vision and strategy story repeatedly, hiring entrepreneurial founders through acquihires to take big bets, and identifying who was “on the wagon” or “off the wagon.”