Lenny Rachitsky
Product growth expert and host of Lenny's Podcast, a top newsletter and podcast for product managers and founders.
“Something that I've heard Anthropic does, similar to Tesla — they don't have a, they don't let you negotiate. They're just like, here's the offer.”
Source→“Joe Gebbia had the saying, just get them in the elevator. And this is because the office was on the second floor of this building... that was the whole strategy. Just get them in the elevator.”
Source→“I imagine you've read Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson... Love her.”
Source→“She has this concept she calls the J-curve, which is your best roles are just you join and then you go way down and suck at it for a while. And then you come back up and that's the best experience you've ever had. Molly has gold out there for sure.”
Source→“I saw an interview with Michael Terrell talking about this and he said how they tried to get rid of it because it's obviously adds a lot of load... And he said that it just totally tanked their signal and they had to bring it back.”
Source→“Luckily there's this incredible post out there about how Cursor approaches hiring by Brie Wolfson. That was very helpful in helping me prep for this talk.”
Source→“Does your bank have an API, a terminal native CLI or an AI ready MCP server? I don't think so.”
Source→“Literally every startup that I'm an investor in that starts to expand upmarket ends up working with WorkOS. And that's because they are the best.”
Source→“Does your bank have an API, a terminal native CLI, or an AI-ready MCP server? I don't think so.”
Source→“Does your bank have an API, a terminal native CLI, or an AI-ready MCP server? I don't think so.”
Source→“Fiona Fung actually suggested I ask you, who's recently on the podcast... she pointed out it's a lot lonelier now because now we're working with agents instead of other humans.”
Source→“Literally every startup that I'm an investor in that starts to expand upmarket ends up working with WorkOS. And that's because they are the best.”
Source→“I just had Dan Shipper from Every on the podcast. Everyone's just increasing headcount. Like the companies you would think would be least likely to add humans are adding many, many humans.”
Source→“What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Vercel, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common? They are all powered by WorkOS.”
Source→“Literally every startup that I'm an investor in that starts to expand upmarket ends up working with WorkOS. And that's because they are the best.”
Source→“Literally every startup that I'm an investor in that starts to expand upmarket ends up working with WorkOS.”
Source→“There's a meteor called memory prices that are coming for consumer hardware and robotics and physical AI.”
Source→“Literally every startup that I'm an investor in that starts to expand upmarket ends up working with WorkOS. And that's because they are the best.”
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