Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…Thanks for having me. I have so many questions. I'm so excited to have you on this podcast. I want to start with giving people an understanding of your role alongside Boris. Everybody knows Boris. His episode is the number one most popular episode on this podcast. No pressure. He created CloudCode, he leads the Edge team, ships a bazillion PRs a day from his phone, just like I don't even know what the number is anymore. I think people don't give you enough credit for the success that CloudCode has had and co-work and all the things you all are building. Help us understand your role on the team, how you work with Boris, how you split responsibilities, just like what does the PMR look like on the CloudCode team? I feel very lucky to work with Boris. He's been an amazing thought partner. He's our tech lead. He's very much the product visionary. And he is great at setting like, this is what the product needs to be in like three months, six months from now. This is like what the AGI-pilled version of the product is. And a lot of my role is figuring out, okay, what is the path from where we are today to like, that vision three to six months from now and i i spend more of my time on the cross-functional so making sure that our marketing team sales team finance capacity etc are like bought in on the plan and that we're all rowing the same direction and that once the feature is ready that there aren't any blockers to shipping it I think in many ways it works well because we kind of like mind meld. But it is actually like remarkably blurry of a line. Like I think we're like 80% mind meld. And then there's like this 20% of things that like maybe I care a lot more about than Boris. So like I'll drive those and like 20% where he cares a lot more than me and he just like drives those.…

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