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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: evaluation
12 Jun 2025 Lenny's Podcast 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond | Bob Baxley
“Clearly you're doing A okay and having a place that doesn't work out, doesn't destroy your career, which I think a lot of people feel like if they're not doing well in their current job, it's over.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- evaluation
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- 12 Jun 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…Oh, founders, it's their life. It's very unusual to see founders move out. I had this other theory that a startup is still a startup until the founder moves aside. By my definition of even Meta is still a startup in a way that Amazon's not, and Airbnb is still a startup in a way that Pinterest is not because Ben's moved on. You don't find out if the culture can sustain itself until the founders are gone and then you really see what's going to happen. Just to close the loop here, one takeaway here that I think is really interesting is that you can fail in a job and things will be okay. Clearly you're doing A okay and having a place that doesn't work out, doesn't destroy your career, which I think a lot of people feel like if they're not doing well in their current job, it's over. Things are all going to go downhill Your career's not your life. There's a lot more to it than that.…
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