Speakers in the public record
Claim mix
belief 6evaluation 4recommendation 3preference 3prediction 2
Evidence policy
Every row below preserves an exact excerpt. Identified speakers are linked; unresolved voices are labeled and excluded from people counts.
Claim ledger
The useful parts, with receipts.
18 published records
“I mean, definitely the two I mentioned here. Clayton Christensen, Competing Against Luck. Don Norman, Design of Everyday Things. But I also really love this for fiction, Aurora, which is this book David Koepp wrote. It's about electromagnetic pulse in the sun that knocks out, it's fiction for just fun. And it was a really fun beach read and apparently it was going to be made into a Netflix show, it didn't work out. I don't know. It was sad to see that fall apart, but so it's a really fun book.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“The first is deeply understand people, and I think we talked about this a little bit with the jobs to be done point and Clayton Christensen's book, which I loved around Competing Against Luck.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Why might this not be working? And the people who really have that level of intense curiosity and they chase things down until they know, I think you're well served by that.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“" I think we said something, I don't remember all the details, but it was something like tomorrow.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think that was one of the earlier ones, yeah, but every time you ship something there's a slightly different reason why.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I mean honestly, this Close Friends example, I can give you more from Instagram days was really wild. It took two or three years to get Close Friends to work, and I think people, it totally failed originally.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I mean, there's typically three things I think about. If I were to write a book about how to build great products, there'd be three chapters.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I was actually looking at the list of top, so in the top 15 apps, Google is I think five of them, a third.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Yeah, it feels like Veo 3 would be even more successful if it had a wacky name. And I like that this is the opposite of your advice of clarity.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“It's flexible, so it adapts to the way your team works and helps you build a roadmap that drives alignment, not questions. And because it's built on Jira, you can track ideas from strategy to delivery all in one place.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“This is more like helping you find images on the web, so it's a little bit more like AI inspiration, AI image search, and allowing you to then talk with two effectively visual responses with natural language. So that's going to I think, be a little bit different than edit this photo so that it changes it.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Dune, of course. And I thought the new Top Gun is a little old now, but I think the new Top Gun was so fun and awesome.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I'm using AI, I'm particularly at Google to help discover all these cool links and things to read, but I find that that is an interesting hybrid where it's not just AI but really going to original sources more.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“They want to know about animals, they want to know about certain, I don't know, history things. They learn about something in school, and it's so natural to learn in that way that I think that that's helping them become much more AI native than any other thing I'm doing.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Otherwise, if you don't know where you're headed and you don't have a goal of what you're trying to do more quantitatively, it's really hard to know if the thing you're doing is mattering to anyone. I think I made the product better, but is anyone using it?”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I recently had Brian Balfour on the podcast and he showed this quote that's really stuck with me that I think about as you talk about all this, it was by Alex Rampell, this idea that startups is a game of getting distribution before incumbents can innovate fast enough.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think a lot about this job to be done framework, which is one of the things that I'm a big fan of and Clayton Christensen's book on Competing Against Luck is one of my favorite books on this topic where you have to really be a student of causation.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think an interesting lesson in all of those, and particularly in Stories was you have to really understand why someone uses your product and know when something is actually an existential question because there's just a better format or a different way of doing something that has worked and works and you need to figure out what that might mean for you, because not every great thing is going to be invented by you.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast