Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…Amazing. Thank you so much for having me, Lenny. It is truly an honor to be here. So let me give a little context on this conversation. I put out a call on Twitter and LinkedIn asking people for their favorite IC product managers, and you came up near the top of the list across both Twitter and LinkedIn, so I knew that I needed to meet you. And you're super interesting in a couple of ways. One is if I think about the Venn diagram of some of the most interesting trends in product right now, you're kind of at the center of AI and staying IC, an individual contributor, for a long time. And my sense is a lot of PMs are thinking about how do I get into AI and how do I do more AI work. Two, there's this trend of just ICs, super ICs, less managers, and you've been doing AI for a long time, you've been an IC for basically your whole career very intentionally. So with that, there's a few things I want to spend our time on. One is how to get into AI, how to become an AI PM essentially? Two is how to thrive as an AI PM? And three is how to thrive as an IC outside of AI, but I know AI plays into that? Broadly, how does that sound? Yeah, that sounds great. I think that was a crazy moment of just seeing how many people piled onto that, those posts, and then some of our discussion back and forth on this thread. And I thought it was super interesting, it was this combination of product and AI where just happens to be, I think where the space is headed or what seems to be catching so much attention. So yeah, I'm super excited to dive into that and try and share a little bit that I've learned along the way as well.…

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