795 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“Supply and demand are not as connected as everybody thinks.”
“They've said this, but you did that. That doesn't make any sense.”
“Way too many founders apologize for how they want to run the company. They find some midpoint between how they want to run a company and how the people they lead want to run the company. That's a good way to make everyone miserable.”
“You can't build a product unless you know how to talk about the product.”
“I think that intuition, imagination, design, curiosity, I think we need more of that.”
“The expectation of some fairness... is what defeats people more than any other thing that I've seen, just in life.”
“If you believe what people say about you, if you believe what they did to you, then that destroys you. But if you go, 'That's not me,' you can overcome almost anything.”
“All plane crashes are a series of bad decisions. None of the decisions by themselves is that bad, but when you add them up, it's bad.”
“Being able to identify the various micro and macro loops, how they're all connected, being able to document them in a qualitative model to communicate a shared understanding of how you grow, it's really powerful.”
“You're never going to have a shortage of ideas in a high performing growth team. So, knowing where to focus amidst that kind of sea of ideas is a really important role of the strategy.”
“Snyk can find and automatically fix vulnerabilities in code, open source dependencies, containers, infrastructure and cloud configurations, and all underpinned by the best security intelligence data in the market.”
“There's impact that you're really trying to drive and that is the thing that is the most important.”
“I learned a lot about just relationships and people.”
“If you want to build world-class products, if you want to build product that can scale around the world, if you want to build product that's be hypergrowth, you have to be inclusive of so many voices.”
“If we served customers well, if we prioritized customers and delivered for them, things like sales, things like revenue and active customers and things like the share price and free cash flow would follow.”
“Amazon was actually, to some degree, equally focused on process innovation.”
“To really go fast, you actually need to go slow first and to be very clear on what you're doing and where you want to go.”
“When I'm 70, it's not about what do I look back on in my life and count the number of regrets, it's really about looking forward in the number of adventures I will still have.”
“Taekwondo is more mental than it is physical. And so I think that's the same with all of our jobs and making product.”
“All of a sudden, these are these living organisms that just get better with the more interactions that happen.”
