Welcome to my new podcast!

00:00Oh, hey there, I'm Lenny. Welcome to a little teaser episode that I decided to put together, just to give you a sense of what to expect out of this podcast, why you may want to consider subscribing, and a peek at what's to come. If you're already sold on this podcast, feel free to skip this episode and dive right into our first chat with Julie Zhuo. Otherwise, as you may know, I spend a lot of my time writing a newsletter, very creatively titled Lenny's Newsletter, which

00:32not only gives me an excuse to research and share how the best products are built and scaled, but it also leads me to meeting the most incredible people, folks that are behind today's most successful products and companies. And what I realized is that I'm missing a really big opportunity to go much deeper into these people's stories and to share their wisdom more directly versus a couple of quotes in a couple of posts here and there. And so that's what I hope to do with this podcast to interview and learn from basically every world-class product leader and growth expert that I can get my hands on to hear

01:07their stories and extract as much concrete, actionable, and tactical advice that I can to help you build and grow your own product. We're not going to have much pontificating or theory. Just like my newsletter, we're going to focus on real practical stuff. I'm new to this podcasting thing, and so I hope that you can bear with me as I learn how to do this very new thing. I'm going to work hard to make this incredibly valuable and super interesting and I'm also going to make it a goal to make the guest list as diverse as possible. Also I'm going to mix in both people who you already know and love but also people who are more under the radar but amazing and deserve more attention. To kick things off we're

01:49going to have a pretty damn stellar lineup basically all of my product heroes and growth heroes people who I am so honored to have on as guests, folks like Julie Zhuo who I already mentioned, who was a longtime design leader at Facebook, who actually inspired the newsletter that I do now and we talk about that, along with a bunch of wisdom on career growth and imposter syndrome. Also, Manik Gupta, who led product at Uber and Google Maps, and now at Microsoft. Jackie Bavaro, who wrote Cracking the PM interview and cracking the PM career. Shreyas Doshi, who if you're a PM on Twitter, you probably already follow, and we go really deep into five very specific topics that he tweeted about that have stuck with me.

02:30Also, Gibson Biddle, former VP of Product of Netflix, Elena Verna, who's in the top, I don't know, 0.1% of smartest people on growth in the world, and so many others, April Dunford, Casey Winters, Gokul Rajaram, Marty Cagan, Teresa Torres. I go on and on. This is just like the first 10 or 12 episodes of the podcast, and so I'm really excited to see where this is going to go. If this sounds like something that you don't want to miss, don't forget to subscribe to this podcast and whatever podcasting app you use. And if you want to learn more or ask about sponsoring the podcast or even suggest guests, just go to lennyspodcast.com.

03:09I hope you enjoy and I'll see you in the very next episode.