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The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
🎙️ Graphite's CEO on why ChatGPT is driving more qualified leads than Google, how to optimize for Reddit without spamming, and why early-stage startups…
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Lenny Rachitsky
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$46B of hard truths from Ben Horowitz: Why founders fail and why you need to run toward fear (a16z co-founder)
Listen now | 🎙️ a16z's co-founder on why he takes CEO advice from an ex-prison gang leader, the $2M IPO everyone called insane, why he backed Adam…
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Lenny Rachitsky
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Building eval systems that improve your AI product
A practical guide to moving beyond generic scores and measuring what matters
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Hamel Husain
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Shreya Shankar
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How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
Finding sharp problems, embracing chaos, PMs as the new bottleneck, and why simplicity still matters most
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Lenny Rachitsky
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How to find the perfect name
A step-by-step playbook for naming in a noisy and AI-driven product landscape
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David Placek
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August 2025

How we restructured Airtable’s entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
Listen now | 🎙️ Airtable’s founder on becoming an IC again, why he split his company into “fast thinking” and “slow thinking” teams, and the specific…
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How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha…
Listen now | 🎙️ The Microsoft AI exec overseeing 15,000 enterprise customers on why products are becoming living organisms, agents are dissolving org…
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Lenny Rachitsky
Taking the week off + a newsletter cadence update
Back next week!
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Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)
Listen now | 🎙️ Inside the hidden economy of AI training: how PhDs make $200/hour breaking ChatGPT, why frontier labs have unlimited demand for human…
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How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
Listen now | 🎙️ Intercom's founder on betting $100M on AI, turning around a stagnant business, why he fired 40% of employees, and why you can't compete…
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Why your AI product needs a different development lifecycle
Introducing the Continuous Calibration/Continuous Development (CC/CD) framework
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Aishwarya Naresh Reganti
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Kiriti Badam
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Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour (Reforge)
Listen now | 🎙️ Reforge founder Brian Balfour on why ChatGPT is on track to become the next major distribution platform, how to capitalize on it, and…
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