Lenny’s Podcast92 min
Petra Wille · Nov 27, 2022
Key learnings- Define what a good product person looks like in your specific context, since many leaders only hold this as an implicit feeling…
- Start coaching with a development plan for each PM, even before a formal assessment, because most people already know what they…
- Identify the next bigger challenge for each direct report each quarter and deliberately assign it to help them grow faster.
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 25, 2025
Nov 25, 2025
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how product people can deliberately build communities of practice to support long-term learning. Teresa describes an introvert-friendly approach centered on a personal learning…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJun 30, 2026
Jun 30, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that people who feel their problems are too small for AI are mistaken; the real blocker is lack of exposure to what AI is good at. Teresa describes her habit of testing one to-do item…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJan 13, 2026
Jan 13, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille open 2026 with a casual behind-the-scenes conversation about what is changing in their work and what they are experimenting with. Teresa explains retiring live Deep Dive cohorts in favor of…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 11, 2025
Nov 11, 2025
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss the practical pain of global invoicing and EU tax compliance for small international online businesses. They argue that platforms and product teams often miss small regulatory…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 22, 2025
Apr 22, 2025
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that many organizations do not have a clearly written product strategy, and that the strategy actually in play is often implicit and revealed by what teams build and learn. They…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJun 24, 2025
Jun 24, 2025
This podcast episode features Petra Wille explaining her new Product Leadership Wheel, a self-assessment framework that extends her earlier PM Wheel to senior product leaders. It organizes product leadership around 12…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 10, 2026
Mar 10, 2026 · 3 min
In this podcast episode, Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the hard decision of when and how to sunset products that are profitable and liked but no longer growing. They argue that this mediocre middle ground is…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 18, 2025
Mar 18, 2025
This podcast episode, hosted by Teresa Torres with guest Petra Wille, examines the difference between product training and product coaching and when each is the right tool. Training builds foundational knowledge and…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJun 16, 2026
Jun 16, 2026
This podcast episode argues that organizational change is exhausting and that individuals usually waste energy trying to fix their companies' people and processes. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille describe a three-part…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 28, 2025
Oct 28, 2025
This podcast episode argues that AI tools deliver useful product work only when they are given the right context, much as a new teammate needs onboarding. Teresa Torres and Petra Wille explain why most AI outputs…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 8, 2025
Apr 8, 2025
This podcast episode examines how capacity planning, a common quarterly ritual of allocating team time to fixed deliverables, fits within outcome-driven and discovery-first product organizations. The hosts argue that…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 22, 2026
Sep 22, 2026
This podcast episode introduces "trash can tracking," a technique where teams place trash can symbols on discovery and delivery boards to make the work they deliberately discard as visible as the work they ship. Host…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how they use AI as strategic thought partners across writing, coding, and product work rather than as ghostwriters. Petra describes a voice-first, bilingual transcription workflow…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the sudden popularity of "taste" as a prized human skill in the AI era. Teresa argues the term is rarely defined, hard to teach, and can disguise personal preference as expertise…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 6, 2026
Oct 6, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss a world where nearly every conversation is recorded and transcribed by AI note-takers and wearable devices. Teresa found, after checking her own Granola transcripts, that her…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 29, 2026
Sep 29, 2026 · 3 min
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that innovation is a means rather than a goal: it matters only when it serves customers better. Using the history of the login flow, from passwords to single sign-on, Slack's magic…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresFeb 10, 2026
Feb 10, 2026 · 3 min
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss moving from Claude in the browser to Claude Code running on a local machine, where it can work directly with files and workflows. They cover practical setup such as project…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJun 17, 2025
Jun 17, 2025
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine whether the wave of AI prototyping tools (Replit, V0, Bolt, Lovable, WindSurf) genuinely helps product discovery work. They argue these tools can rapidly produce interactive…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresDec 9, 2025
Dec 9, 2025 · 3 min
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that product transformations stall when teams are trained in continuous discovery but leaders keep managing through feature requests and roadmaps. Training leaders first is presented…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresFeb 24, 2026
Feb 24, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the blurred line between product and engineering, where product managers drift into owning bugs, tech debt and architecture. They argue this starts as helpfulness but leads to PM…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 3, 2026
Mar 3, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille use search-and-rescue research on how lost people behave as a metaphor for product teams that have lost their way. They describe five recurring moves: freezing, chasing shortcuts, following…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresFeb 3, 2026
Feb 3, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine why hiring processes often fail product teams despite their rigor. They describe how AI-inflated application volumes, longer funnels, and many stakeholders create noise, and how…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 14, 2026
Apr 14, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that AI, which makes generating ideas and building products faster, does not remove the need for product managers because the core of product work is relationship work. Aligning…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 15, 2026
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille challenge the popular claim that AI has made software delivery free, arguing that while building a single feature is far cheaper, producing a real, production-quality product is not. They…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 12, 2026
May 12, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille push back on the hype around the 'product builder' trend, arguing that whether product managers should code or vibe code is the wrong starting question. They suggest first asking whether…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJan 27, 2026
Jan 27, 2026 · 3 min
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille examine the build vs. buy decision, which AI is reshaping. They argue the classic rule of thumb, to avoid building non-core functions, has limits, since vendors may be better positioned…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 21, 2026
Apr 21, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille argue that confident predictions about AI-driven change are often wrong, and that betting everything on one forecast is risky. Humans are poor at forecasting, and early adopters' experience…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJun 2, 2026
Jun 2, 2026
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille rant about how absurd corporate procurement has become for outside experts like speakers and consultants. Torres describes contracts with 80-page ethics policies, 800-question security…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresDec 2, 2025
Dec 2, 2025
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille revisit their earlier skepticism about using AI to analyze and synthesize customer interviews, now shaped by about six months of experiments. Teresa ran 15 interviews through…