795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“The real essence of this job is that you wake up on behalf of someone else to solve a problem for them.”
“We really look to Legally Blonde, is one of my favorite movies that represents you can take the powers that you have, whether you like engineering or design or data, and you can be whoever you want and still kick ass at it.”
“A growth team can go terribly wrong when they just try to onboard a bunch of brand new tools that don't integrate well.”
“I would hire someone who is willing to take intro to statistics course. And it doesn't matter if they've had the experience to go wild or not.”
“Trusting yourself and trusting intuition is the hardest part, the most stressful part in the early days.”
“Just keep working at it, and not giving up. And having that grit to keep going is way more important than any immediate accomplishments.”
“You're not going to get everything done. It's a startup. But career, whatever, it's not going to happen immediately.”
“We are human. We are social.”
“If you take OKRs and you're like, 'Oh, this will fix everything that's wrong with you.' No, that's not going to happen.”
“OKRs are more of a vitamin, they're not a medicine.”
“Go to your state's unclaimed money website. Every state has one, and you can go put in your name, state or city, you don't even have to give your address.”
“If you're celebrating something, let them know. And if you can't get the email address, just call the front desk.”
“We should really be optimizing for the net fulfillment in life, and we shouldn't be trying to save all of this money.”
“The work of a meeting is not calling the meeting. Calling a meeting is easy. The barrier is very low, and it should be higher.”
“If you're not sure who the decision maker is, one, it's probably you. And I'd rather you act that way than not because you're going to slow the whole company down.”
“Too many people get stuck, and it makes your work terrible, right? What do we all care about? Progress, impact, momentum.”
“You have to find a way to give back.”
“When we started doing it, the response from the engineering team was great.”
“It's life changing for the entire team.”
“Know what you want out of your career, be clear and ask for it.”
