Lenny Rachitsky
Lenny Rachitsky writes Lenny’s Newsletter and hosts Lenny’s Podcast, sharing practical lessons on building products, growing businesses, and finding your way through a tech career.
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Known for
Substack
Podcast
Live eventOverview
- Work
- Writer, podcast host, and angel investor
- Before the newsletter
- Software engineer, Localmind co-founder, and Airbnb product manager
- Started writing
- 2019, after leaving Airbnb
- Breakout
- An essay about seven years of lessons from Airbnb
- Podcast
- Launched in 2022
Mini bio
Before the advice column.
Lenny worked as a software engineer and co-founded Localmind, a service for asking people questions about places nearby. Airbnb acquired the startup in 2012. He joined as an engineer, moved into product management, and spent seven years at the company.
A surprising new path.
After leaving Airbnb in 2019, he began turning notes about what he had learned into essays. His first Airbnb piece found an audience on Medium, and Brian Chesky shared it inside the company. Lenny moved his writing to Substack and developed a weekly advice column, adding paid subscriptions in 2020.
More ways to help.
Lenny launched his podcast in 2022, bringing product leaders and founders into long conversations about how they work. The newsletter reached one million subscribers in March 2025. Since then, projects have included the Lenny & Friends Summit recordings and Lenny’s Jobs, built with Amit Taylor.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2026Lenny’s JobsCo-builder with Amit Taylor
- 2026Lenny & Friends SummitOrganizer
- 2022–presentLenny’s PodcastCreator and host
- 2019–presentLenny’s NewsletterCreator and writer
- 2019What Seven Years at Airbnb Taught Me About Building a BusinessAuthor
Quotes
Only talk about things I know. If I don’t know it, I look at an expert.Lenny Rachitsky, On Substack workshop (August 1, 2020)
One of the rules he shared for writing his newsletter. Source: https://on.substack.com/p/how-lenny-rachitsky-earned-65000
Trivia
- He studied computer science at UC San Diego before working at Webmetrics.
- Julie Zhuo’s advice column for designers helped inspire his own column for product and growth readers.
- His Airbnb sabbatical included a 10-day silent meditation retreat.
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