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18 published records
“The number one book is a life book called Tao Te Ching, the Stephen Mitchell translation. And the Tao Te Ching is a philosophy about the flow of life. And I love it. I've carried the Pocket Guide with me for 25 years. The second one is business focused. Never Split the Difference, which is a great book about negotiating written by a former CIA hostage negotiator, which also helps me with negotiations at work and with my children. So that's a great book.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I read How to Win Friends and Influence People when I was very young. And specifically, the chapters about there's no better sound in the world to someone than their name.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“My favorite movie is Everything Everywhere All at Once. It's basically a sci-fi about all the different ways your life could turn out if you made different choices.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“On the product side, one of the concepts that I really like is the Amazon concept around writing the press release at the beginning of a product ideation.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think in your advising today, you join later where it's a little more obvious.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I imagine founders listening to this that don't have insane virality or huge word of mouth are like, "Is there no path to being a really successful company?" And then I think about companies that did succeed with other channels, like say paid or SEO.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Later in your career, I think what you just said, picking later stage versus earlier stage gives you a better view of their momentum.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We learned how to grow products, how to live better lives, how to become more mindful.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because if you've never fired anyone, then you haven't managed very many people for very long, unfortunately.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I joined Productboard because of this cross-company alignment and views into what's coming up on the roadmap, which is really the most important thing for the company.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“My bottom number is because there's this early stage of product market fit where the founder and the company are trying to figure out who their real ideal customer profile is, and can they sell to them consistently?”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think the later the size, the more reliable, because they've just made it farther.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“You look at Denise Persson at Snowflake, and she's worked really hard to get there. So the five things I think you need to do to get to the C-suite that are not personal side are you need to think about how your responsibilities tie to revenue.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because I think that some of the most important aspects of getting to the executive suite are working harder, learning more, pushing yourself, taking on more responsibilities and opportunities, maybe even in the white space, that aren't your job or aren't in your regular time.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“And one of the other companies I advise is Productboard. And I became an advisor of Productboard because 1Password's CPO had it in another company, brought it into 1Password, rolled it out company-wide to get alignment and visibility on the product roadmap.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“" The first touch for customers that are maybe kicking the tires or trying a product led growth is a person who can help guide them on the path. And I like this hybrid nature because basically it extends product led growth, but helps people in this case where you're talking, where the product itself isn't so intuitive that you can get all the way to the buy itself.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I mean ChatGPT is the most hypergrowth product that we've seen in history potentially, because people are so excited to use it and it's working in interesting ways.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Or if you're in a market where your buyer just really doesn't buy online with research and a demo, then you need to have salespeople. But I would say try not to hire too fast and too far ahead in sales and inside sales, because it seems like it's going to add revenue, but it actually is a huge cost and a huge drain on the business if the product isn't getting that kind of resonance.”
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- Lenny's Podcast