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Zevi Arnovitz: evaluation

18 Jan 2026 Lenny's Podcast The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)

“I think he was paying for Zapier and Airtable, and he's basically built a full-fledged CRM system and automation system for his business completely alone.”

— Zevi Arnovitz

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Zevi Arnovitz
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evaluation
Recorded
18 Jan 2026
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Lenny's Podcast

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…It's incredible that this was not possible, I don't know, two years ago, maybe a year ago, you are a product manager shipping a product without knowing how to write code, barely knowing how to review code. You said you're afraid of looking at code. As a product manager, you're building a product in Cursor using all of these different AI models. You're making money with this product. We're so used to this now, but it's insane what is now possible. It's the best time to be live. I think that I understand the fear, but AI just makes it so much possible. Just a quick side note here, my brother, who I'm building one of the apps with is an entrepreneur. He has a beautiful business that helps old people and seniors understand to use technology and AI better. And he's basically doing the same kind of learning as me, and he's replaced all of the tools he was paying for. I think he was paying for Zapier and Airtable, and he's basically built a full-fledged CRM system and automation system for his business completely alone. So for the people who are curious, optimistic, hardworking, this is the best time to be a builder. And what I love about this conversation we're having here is it feels like the biggest barrier for a lot of people is like, how do I get started? What exactly do I do? I open up cursor. It looks very intimidating. I don't know how to write code. I don't know how to build stuff. I don't know about databases. And so you're going to be sharing all these /commands and basically this whole workflow with the audience.…

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