Writer of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast.
Lenny Rachitsky curates ten more essays for product builders, spanning problem framing, communication, distribution, market sizing, growth, scaling teams, positioning, and ambitious startup ideas. Each pick is paired…
Lenny Rachitsky and Peter Yang distill tactics from AI-forward companies like Shopify, Ramp, Zapier, Duolingo, Intercom, and Whoop on driving employee AI adoption. The core argument is that the main barrier is…
“One of my favorite collaborators, Tal Raviv, is back with another incredible piece that will change how many of you operate at work. If you’re looking for the promised AI productivity gains everyone’s talking about, start here. For more from Tal, check out his 63 free video tutorials on using AI agents at work, his other guest post, “PM is an unfair role. So work unfairly”, and his episode on Lenny’s Podcast. You can also book Tal for…”
Lenny Rachitsky shares seven older essays he considers timeless and formative for product builders, including pieces on delegation, agency, taste, learning, product focus, market vs. team, and Elon Musk's approach. He…
Lenny Rachitsky collected over a thousand reader stories about personal tools they built through vibe coding, then curated 50+ examples spanning health, parenting, work, music and fun. His core argument is that…
A detailed playbook for acing analytical thinking PM interviews, structured as a five-step framework covering assumptions, product rationale, metric frameworks, goal-setting, and tradeoff evaluation, plus notes on…
A glossary explaining 20+ common AI terms in simple language, from models and LLMs to transformers, training, RLHF, RAG, evals, agents, and hallucinations. It aims to help readers follow AI conversations in meetings and…
Lenny Rachitsky follows up his tech worker sentiment survey by investigating how people who avoid or effectively manage burnout do it. Drawing on open-ended video surveys and interviews, he introduces ARMOR, a five-part…
Colin Matthews explains how product teams can move beyond individual AI prototyping by building shared component libraries, using baselines and forks, and matching prototype fidelity to each stage of the product…
Lenny Rachitsky and Noam Segal report results from a survey of over 8,200 tech workers on burnout, optimism, manager effectiveness, work setup, company size, career clarity and AI anxiety. The core argument is that…
Saumil Mehta, former CPO of Square, argues that the "skip lead" (the manager of managers) is pivotal to organizational health, since most manager problems trace back to how the skip leads hires, reviews, and coaches…
Lenny Rachitsky revisits the product job market using TrueUp job-board data, finding a mostly optimistic picture for 2025. Open PM and engineering roles are rising, AI-related roles are growing rapidly, layoffs are…
A guest-authored paid guide from a full-time executive negotiation coach who presents GAINS, a five-step framework (Gather, Align, Influence, Navigate, Secure) for negotiating senior compensation. The core argument is…
Tal Raviv, guest-writing for Lenny's Newsletter, offers a hands-on guide to using AI agents to offload repetitive product management work. He walks through setting up a simple customer-prep agent, a checklist for…
Aman Khan argues that writing evaluations is becoming a defining skill for AI product managers, since evals measure how each part of a system affects quality. The post explains what evals are, compares human, code-based…
Ben Erez, a former Meta PM and interview coach, presents a structured playbook for product sense interviews, which are now common across major tech companies. He explains that interviewers look for clear signals across…
Mihika Kapoor, who helped build FigJam and launched Figma Slides, shares seven lessons for keeping a startup mindset inside a large company. The core argument is that speed, prototypes, open progress-sharing, strong…
Lenny Rachitsky follows up his earlier analysis by ranking companies whose former product managers most often start companies, raise Series A rounds, accelerate their careers, or become product leaders. Using alumni…
Executive coach Natalie Rothfels observes widespread workplace anger among clients and offers a four-step process for turning it into useful insight. Drawing on Buddhist, Internal Family Systems, and somatic ideas, she…
Lenny Rachitsky marks his newsletter reaching one million subscribers by answering a mailbag of reader questions instead of making big announcements. He describes a small freelance team handling editing, podcast…
Chandra Janakiraman, shared with Lenny Rachitsky, presents Strategy Blocks, a step-by-step product strategy framework. It has a 2-year 'small s' strategy built from preparation, sprints, design work, writing, and…
Lenny Rachitsky shares compensation benchmarks for product managers across the U.S., Europe, the U.K., and Canada, using Pave data drawn from over 23,000 PMs. The post breaks down base salary, equity, and total comp by…
A data-driven deep dive into Y Combinator's roughly 4,900 companies, examining survival, exits, unicorn rates, funding, geography, and founder traits. The core argument is that YC's edge lies in picking strong founders…
Lenny Rachitsky previews Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky's upcoming book Click and their new two-day Foundation Sprint for launching big projects. The post traces the origin of the approach to the Google Meet story and…
Lenny Rachitsky and survey partner Noam Segal report results from a survey of 6,500+ tech professionals on the tools they use, love, and want to replace. The clearest shift since 2020 and 2022 is AI assistants, led by…
Lenny Rachitsky introduces Core 4, a unified developer productivity framework built with DX and the authors of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx. The post explains how to baseline team velocity with an anonymous survey, calculate…
A practical guide to AI prototyping for product managers, covering the main categories of tools (chatbots, cloud development environments, local developer assistants) and when to use each. It walks through turning Figma…
Lenny Rachitsky, working with Crunchbase data, ranks the most active and most successful U.S. angel investors across several time windows. The post is a directional guide to who early-stage founders might approach, and…
This is Lenny Rachitsky's year-end roundup of his newsletter and podcast, organized as a curated guide to his best content by the problem a reader wants solved. Rather than a single argument, it is a directory: it…
Lenny Rachitsky, working with a labor-data firm, ranks roughly 50 companies by how much they accelerate the post-departure careers of their former product managers, using promotion, leadership, CPO, first-PM, and…