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Lenny Rachitsky
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Lenny Rachitsky
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Deeply researched product, growth, and career advice
- Matt Mochary has been CEO coach to @naval, the founders of OpenAI, Notion, Rippling, Robinhood, Coinbase, Reddit, Plaid, Flexport, Opendoor, partners at Sequoia, YC, Benchmark, and many others. He also open-sourced his entire curriculum, templates and all. Here's a link 👇
- The @duolingo team just published their internal handbook sharing how they build product, hire, experiment, and build a brand around "wholesome and unhinged" 🤣👏👌 Lots of good ideas to borrow/steal for your own team. Check it out: blog.duolingo.com/handbook/
- "The only people who’ll remember you worked late are your kids.”
- Compelling read (via @tferriss 5-bullet friday) on how influencers become brainwashed by their audiences. e.g. "Nicholas Perry when he first started making mukbang videos. Bottom: Perry transformed by his audience’s desires into Nikocado". → gurwinder.substack.com/p/the-perils-o…
- My biggest surprises from researching how 50 of today's biggest consumer companies came up with their startup idea: 1. Only 1 company came up with their idea by talking to customers (@DoorDash) 2. Only ~30% of ideas came from founders trying to solve their own problem More 👇
- I’ve now angel invested in 140+ companies. Here's what's most surprised me about angel investing so far 🧵
- Eight ways to make money: 1. Sell a thing 2. Rent a thing 3. Take a cut 4. Charge a subscription 5. Charge based on usage 6. Sell a service 7. Advertising 8. Charge on % of assets More in 🧵
- Crossed 1,000 paid subscribers today. Now making a living off 1,000 true fans. What do you know.
- Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann on why he chose Montessori for his daughter: "If this were 10-20 years ago, I'd be lining her up for top-tier schools and extracurriculars. But now I don't think any of it's going to matter. Learning facts is going to fade into the background. What
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01:24Ben Mann (@8enmann) left @OpenAI in 2020 with the entire safety team to co-found @AnthropicAI (now reportedly valued at over $100B). In a rare interview, Ben opens up about: 🔸 What he saw at OpenAI that convinced him to leave 🔸 The AI nightmare scenarios that concern him - You now get one free year of @cursor_ai, @v0, @Replit, @lovable, and @boltdotnew pro plans with an annual subscription to Lenny’s Newsletter. Yes, you read that right. A year free of the hottest AI tools in the world right now. This is in addition to the existing products
- All of my GTM and growth strategy research summarized in one image:
