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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: evaluation
26 Oct 2025 Lenny's Podcast How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world | Dhanji R. Prasanna
“Because people listening to this hear all these amazing successful people come on the podcast, share all these stories of success, endless success, but they don't hear the stories when things don't work out.”
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- Speaker
- Lenny Rachitsky
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- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 26 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…Yeah, IO is one of the best product people I've ever worked with and one of my closest friends actually. So absolutely with him, and you on that one, yeah. Okay. I'm going to take us to a recurring segment on the podcast I call Fail Corner. You already shared one example of a product that failed that you worked on. I'm curious if there's another, and the question is just what's the product you worked on that did not work out? Because people listening to this hear all these amazing successful people come on the podcast, share all these stories of success, endless success, but they don't hear the stories when things don't work out. And so this question is just, "What's a product you worked on that didn't work out and what did that teach you?" It's a very valuable point. My career has basically been a string of failed product on top of failed product. And I think that, "Yeah, the Google wave example's there." I worked for Hot Minute on Google+, which was another epic failure.…
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