Opening
Casey Winters (00:00:00): The goal of your Kindle strategies, these like non-scalable hacks, they only exist to unlock the fire strategies, to unlock the things that could take you to millions of users. Lenny (00:00:12): Pinterest, Airbnb, Reddit, Canva, Hipcamp, Thumbtack, Fair, Tinder, Eventbrite. What do these companies have in common? Casey Winters, Casey has worked with and advised more consumer companies on their product and growth strategy than anyone in the world....
The segment is an original transcript moment first. The interpretation should stay attached to what the language actually does.
Low-ego framing
talking to Casey, and I'm excited for you to hear this episode. In our chat we covered Casey's advice on making trade offs as a product leader, justifying non-sexy product investments, the...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Lenny (00:54:43): Love it. Amazing Casey, what a great way to end it. Thank you again for being here. Casey Winters (00:54:48): Thanks so much. Lenny (00:54:50): That was awesome, thank...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Name the work
Lenny (00:29:41): In your post on this topic you have an awesome chart of product market fit over time, illustrating the point you just made that it...
Names a concrete strength, artifact, or contribution instead of offering generic praise.
Low-ego framing
it's like as an exec, I'm asking a question in another language. It's like I don't know if you've ever seen Ocean's Twelve, but as a joke, they invite Matt Damon to this business meeting and they just talk...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Ending
this band called Broadcast and they never really played live a whole lot and their singer died a few years ago, but they recently came out with a recording of a bunch of their live sessions that they recorded on the BBC. And it's like getting this time capsule from the past of some of their early live sessions. That's been really great, so I've been enjoining that record quite a lot lately. Lenny (00:54:02): Awesome. Casey's picks get them here, get them here now....
The ending hands attention back to the guest's work instead of ending on the host.