Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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20 published records
01 / recommendation
“Now, oftentimes, the higher you anchor, the better you're going to perform, which can be frustrating because you don't necessarily want to be like, "Oh, I increased at 40%," or anything like that.”
02 / recommendation
“If you are very senior, I typically don't want to re- anchor with a number because you should never be so sure of what you're worth that you wouldn't accept more.”
03 / recommendation
“Having a toddler and a newborn, I really just watch cartoons now. So, actually, for low-stimulating things, I really like Minuscule.”
04 / uncertainty
“I've obsessed over it in a weird way, but I don't know. It's been kind of baked into my psyche for a long time, probably because I felt so powerless growing up that I'm so interested in how power works.”
05 / belief
“I think what's interesting about Hollywood is that it's so far-fetched in... You were talking about what happens when offers get rescinded, right.”
06 / belief
“I think Radical Candor is the second most mentioned book on this podcast, behind High Output Management.”
07 / commitment
“Along these lines, I want to touch on, it feels like maybe the core approach you take, kind of the core to your philosophy, which is to kind of break out of this idea of some benchmark for a specific role and instead make it very clear to the company, "Here's the pain I will solve for you that is really important to you, and here's why it's worth paying me this much more because it's such a big problem for you.”
08 / commitment
“The core to your philosophy is make it very clear to the company, "Here's the pain I will solve for you, and here's why it's worth paying me this much more.”
09 / belief
“I suspect you want me to talk to Clay, the VP of marketing, and I suspect you want me to talk to Catherine, the VP of sales.”
10 / belief
“" If you close the next conversation, you don't give up necessarily. That was another monologue, but that was a little bit inside the mind of how I think about these things.”
11 / recommendation
“If you hope to stand a chance, you need to attract the top talent and you need to keep that top talent because it's very expensive to replace them.”
12 / evaluation
“I think oftentimes because we're working soulless jobs that we don't believe in and we're just trying to make do and survive for our families.”
13 / commitment
“"I made a mistake and I disagreed with the advice, but I did it anyway because I had to try.”
14 / evaluation
“" The reason I learned this is I used to be a marketing manager making $12 an hour in downtown San Francisco for Series A companies, not knowing that $12 an hour wasn't a lot of money, I just didn't know any better.”
15 / commitment
“I have to do it while we're live in person because you can't deny me in that moment without it being awkward.”
16 / preference
“I like this story because it's so out of this world that you're not going to get a G-Wagon.”
17 / evaluation
“Funny story, why I found out OpenAI did that was because they didn't want any executives going into the office because it was such a mess.”
18 / evaluation
“One of the things I found frustrated about IC roles is they're not often rewarded as well as leadership roles, which is frustrating because there are a lot of very talented ICs.”
19 / evaluation
“We've represented this director that did this media tour and we did that." They lost because we sold a vacation and we made it a reality right then and there and the value was clear.”
20 / recommendation
“Oftentimes, the less you share is better because when you're on the phone with somebody, you can correct the narrative and steer the conversation where you want it to go versus have to live by the sins of what you did 10 years ago, as an example.”