Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Product leadership is the focus here, with Peter Sellis drawing on his time as Snapchat’s first PM and later Head of Product at Discord. The conversation ranges from team design and managing spiky talent to why most growth comes from the core product and why Snap’s ads business fell short.

This episode digs into the grief, loneliness, and burnout moving through tech while rethinking Molly Graham’s “give away your Legos” advice for the AI era. It pairs the emotional reality of industry change with practical ideas about delegation, management, and the skills that matter now.

AI interpretability is the focus here, with Anthropic researcher Emmanuel Ameisen explaining how large language models may do far more than simple next-token prediction. The conversation explores planning, concept formation, scaling, self-awareness, and why these questions matter for alignment and safety.

This episode explores why companies should operate more like labs teams in the AI era. Josh Woodward of Google Labs, Gemini, and AI Studio shares how ideas are found, tested for product-market fit, and shut down when they are not working.