The Lenny and Friends Summit is back!

September 10th in San Francisco. Applications are now open.

👋 Hey there, I’m Lenny. Each week, I answer reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Lenny’s Podcast | Lennybot | How I AI | My favorite AI/PM courses, public speaking course, and interview prep copilot

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Two years ago, we held the first-ever Lenny and Friends Summit. It was one of the most meaningful days of my life. Full of in-depth talks, intimate roundtables, and a lot of human connection. At the end of the day, an attendee handed me this note before quickly walking away:

There’s such power in IRL events, especially these days and especially for product leaders, who often lack peers they can be real with. Ever since the first summit, I’ve been getting messages about how much y’all want another event like this.

Today, I’m excited to share that the Lenny and Friends Summit returns on Thursday, September 10, in San Francisco! Apply now.

My vision is to make this the best product event in the world. We’re keeping it intentionally small—every attendee will be handpicked—and along with in-depth talks from the world’s top operators, we’ll have interactive workshops, tons of opportunities to get to know other attendees, and a few fun surprises.

My three main goals for this summit are to help you:

1. Deeply understand where the product role is heading

2. Learn tangible skills to thrive in that future

3. Build lasting connections with other world-class leaders

Here’s the initial lineup of speakers, each of whom has a unique lens into the future of building (with more to be announced soon):

Given that we’re expecting lots of interest and the venue has limited capacity, we’re asking people to apply to attend. Paid newsletter subscribers will get priority consideration. This summit is for senior product and AI leaders; typical titles include Chief, VP, Director, Senior, Group, Lead, or Principal.

If you’re just starting your career in product or growth, the content won’t be as relevant for you. I may host a future event geared toward early-career folks.

To give you a sense of what the last summit felt like, a few messages I got from attendees last year:

“The highest-ROI networking event I have been to.” —Senior PM

“Every aspect of the event was absolutely remarkable.” —CPO

“So many insightful discussions, learnings, and connections, and many tactical takeaways I plan to immediately put in practice.” —Product Lead

“The hit rate of good talks was higher than at any other conference I’ve been to.” —Sr. Director of Product

“A powerful reminder of why I fell in love with building products.” —Founder

Finally, some of my favorite moments from the day:

I’m so excited to be doing this again. Whether you made it to the first summit or missed the chance then, we’ve put a lot of thought into making this one even better: more hands-on workshops, more opportunities to meet other attendees, and more options for how to spend your day.

See you there!

Any questions? Please email [email protected], and we’ll do our best to reply promptly.

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Sincerely,

Lenny 👋