795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“You need to start to just assume things are going to change.”
“All advice is just someone telling you what they did.”
“Not everything meaningful shows up in metrics.”
“I had this notion coming in like, 'Yes, these models are great, but are they able to have an independent opinion?' And it's actually really flipped for me only in the last month.”
“I think we have to first get Claude to be a great conversationalist so that it understands when it's appropriate to engage.”
“Sit down, do a retrospective with yourself, and say, is this helping me get better at being a product manager?”
“If it doesn't serve you, move on. Change it. Everything is meant to be iterated on.”
“The best thing that you could possibly do as a product manager is to make sure that you're always learning.”
“I think there is something very lacking in our modern lives, that connection to nature.”
“I always tell my team the most important thing is that you're hiring passionate people.”
“The biggest problem that I want to solve for podcasters is discovery and audience growth.”
“Most of growth, people assume is very difficult. I'm not necessarily saying it's easy, but it's relatively straightforward when you go back to the first principles of just figuring out where are the people at? How can I add value?”
“People don't want to be sold to, they want their problem solved.”
“It's much simpler than they think it is, it just takes a lot of discipline to execute on it, it's not rocket science.”
“When you have really smart people, you give them really hard problems, you have no constraints on what can you need to solve them, whether it's money, people, except time.”
“If you make a wrong decision, if you make it fast enough, you would know it was wrong and you would correct it.”
“You can't do this by having a traditional log structure.”
“If you embrace those principles, you're going to do well.”
“You can still learn from people who've been producing software at scale for many, many years.”
“If you're not having those conversations when you're thinking of your long-term company strategy, you're behind.”
