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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: evaluation
23 Apr 2026 Lenny's Podcast How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
“You almost need that experience to build that skill to feel comfortable doing that because a lot of people, you know, they go through school or in college and all these like do the thing we tell you to do and then you will get a good grade.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- 23 Apr 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Yeah. I think this is my favorite reason to work at a startup at some point in your life, because like one thing that was like very life changing for me was actually working at scale when we were 20 people. And so there was just no process and we have like really big problems that we needed to solve. And it was like, I really appreciate Alex and the rest of the team for like empowering me and the rest of the team to just like figure things out without any boundaries for what sales is supposed to do, what ops is supposed to do, what engineers are supposed to do. Just like you have all the tools at your disposal. You have some like ambitious hairy problem statement and you can do whatever you need to like get to a good solution. You almost need that experience to build that skill to feel comfortable doing that because a lot of people, you know, they go through school or in college and all these like do the thing we tell you to do and then you will get a good grade. And you have to kind of unlearn that of like, OK, I'm just going to do the thing that needs to be done. And even if people think it's dumb, I think it's the right thing to do. Yeah, exactly.…
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