Inside a 15-person company where AI agents write 100% of the code, how an “AI operations lead” makes everyone more productive with AI, and the counterintuitive future of work that’s already here| www.lennysnewsletter.com
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Introducing the Continuous Calibration/Continuous Development (CC/CD) framework| Lenny's Newsletter
Introducing the Continuous Calibration/Continuous Development (CC/CD) framework| Lenny's Newsletter
Watch now | 🎙️ How a venture capitalist uses AI tools to create nostalgic music videos, catalog personal collections, and manage finances, showing how these technologies enable creative expression for everyone| Lenny's Newsletter
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🎙️ Matt LeMay shares the truth about why product teams really get laid off, the “low-impact PM death spiral” that’s killing careers, and the one question every PM should ask themselves| Lenny's Newsletter
10 more timeless essays you probably haven’t read but should| Lenny's Newsletter
10 more timeless essays you probably haven’t read but should| Lenny's Newsletter
Watch now | 🎙️ A custom-built AI assistant that searches across all company data sources, helping teams analyze feedback, create PRDs, and build prototypes in a single meeting| Lenny's Newsletter
Community Wisdom 243| Lenny's Newsletter
Listen now | 🎙️ OpenAI’s VP on GPT-5, the 10-day sprint that launched ChatGPT, why “maximally accelerated” beats perfection, and how a Google Form determined the $20/month price that everyone copied| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Shopify’s Archie Abrams on why churn matters, goal-setting without metrics, the “hundred-year mindset,” and integrating sales for a product-led growth model| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Watch now | 🎙️ A comprehensive analysis of OpenAI’s newest model: How GPT-5 excels at coding and technical tasks while showing different strengths than its predecessors| Lenny's Newsletter
Practical advice from AI-forward companies like Shopify, Ramp, Zapier, Duolingo, Intercom, and Whoop| Lenny's Newsletter
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Watch now | 🎙️ How a founder and a VC used Claude to launch a physical business: from space planning to custom categorization systems to an AI concierge that matches players with games| Lenny's Newsletter
Listen now | 🎙️ Chip Conley on reporting to a boss 21 years younger, overcoming ageism in tech, navigating founder mode, and turning a near-death experience into the world's first midlife wisdom school| Lenny's Newsletter
Community Wisdom 242| Lenny's Newsletter
Community Wisdom 241| www.lennysnewsletter.com
A guide to using AI as a long-term thinking partner (including prompts to get you started)| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Base44’s founder on bootstrapping to profitability, using AI to write 90% of his code, why he turned down VC money, and signing an acquisition deal as missiles were flying| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Learn to break free from autopilot mode with Graham Weaver. Learn the Genie methodology, the Nine Lives framework, and how to find a career that aligns with your purpose.| www.lennysnewsletter.com
How Anthropic’s CPO, Mike Krieger, uses AI to reinvent product development, raise curious kids, and build the future of work| www.lennysnewsletter.com
From Apple to Pinterest: hard-won wisdom on design, culture, and craft| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Results from our first-ever large-scale tech worker sentiment survey| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Watch now | Learn how Hilary Gridley uses custom GPTs to scale herself and free up time for higher-leverage work| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Cursor’s early pivot, rapid growth, lessons on hiring, moats, and creating the future of software engineering| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Sean Ellis, a pioneer in growth hacking, discusses PMF, activation strategies, AI's impact, and more from his career at Dropbox and Eventbrite.| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Brought to you by Sidebar—Catalyze your career with a Personal Board of Directors | Jira Product Discovery—Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Naomi Gleit shares leadership tips, Facebook's growth secrets, and product management insights from her journey as Meta's longest-serving executive| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Ten tactics I use every single day| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Jessica Livingston on being the 'social radar', her YC journey, podcast wisdom, and what she looks for in startup founders.| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Introducing the ARIA framework| www.lennysnewsletter.com
20 examples of how people are using custom GPTs to make their teams more productive| www.lennysnewsletter.com
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Explore Richard Rumelt's strategic wisdom from "Good Strategy/Bad Strategy" and "The Crux." Learn about strategy essentials and avoiding common pitfalls.| www.lennysnewsletter.com
A deep dive into the formulas, visualizations, and SQL you need to accurately measure and report on cohort retention—a guest post by Olga Berezovsky| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Part five of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Benchmarks of good and great free-to-paid conversion rates based on a survey of 1000+ products| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Ten lessons learned from building this newsletter| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Benchmarks and insights from the world’s best investors| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Guest post by Patrick Campbell, CEO of ProfitWell| www.lennysnewsletter.com
How products grow, how your product will grow, and the GTM motions of today’s biggest consumer apps| www.lennysnewsletter.com
And why your real competition is “no decision”| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Part six of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Although retention is widely considered to be the most important metric to get right when building (or investing in) a business, it’s also one of the least understood. Why? Because unless you’re a growth expert or an experienced investor, you’re often relying on anecdotes, dated blog posts, and misguided benchmarks.| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Benchmarks for good, great, and exceptional payback periods based on guidance from 16 growth experts| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Karri Saarinen, co-founder and CEO, on taste over metrics, product teams over product managers, strategy over OKRs, plus craft, profitability, and ownership| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Part three of my seven-part series on kickstarting and scaling a B2B business| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Insights from Marc Andreessen, Elad Gil, Steve Blank, Andy Rachleff, Michael Seibel, and many more| www.lennysnewsletter.com
How to get traffic and users for your product at a near-$0 CAC| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Your question implies that it can be developed, and to that point, I 1,000% agree. Contrary to what a lot of PMs believe, product sense is not something you need to be born with. It’s a learned skill, just like any other PM skill.| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Yuhki Yamashita, Chief Product Officer at Figma, shares lessons learned, plug-and-play templates, and fresh insights into how Figma builds product| www.lennysnewsletter.com
Good and great activation rates based on the results of our benchmarking survey| www.lennysnewsletter.com
As taught to us by Oceans 11| www.lennysnewsletter.com
