Opening
Maya Prohovnik (00:00:00): We were obsessed with reducing friction, this was our constant battle. And so we hired a couple of college interns and we brought them in and we were like, people are going to push this magical one button in the Anchor app and they're going to say, I want to distribute my podcast, and your job is going to be to do all that same manual stuff manually, but to them it's going to feel magical and it happened automatically. I still don't know how many people know this....
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Accept praise cleanly
Lenny (00:01:44): Maya Prohovnik (00:04:38): Thank you so much for having me. You and I have been trying to get together for almost a year now. Lenny (00:04:42): Oh,...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Low-ego framing
Maya Prohovnik (00:05:08): I totally agree. I was thinking the...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Name strength directly
Maybe it's just a final question. You're good at so many things, another thing you're really good at is public speaking. I was watching the last Spotify launch event and I was just like, holy moly, she's incredibly...
Says the strength directly to the guest, not only about them.
Accept praise cleanly
chickens, dogfooding, gut level decisions, Radical Candor, so many things. Thank you so much for being here. Two final questions. Where can folks find you online if they want to reach out, and how can...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Ending
Lenny (01:06:27): Oh man. All right. A new project to look into. Maya Prohovnik (01:06:29): Please get chickens, do it. Lenny (01:06:31): Okay. Maya, we've talked about chickens, dogfooding, gut level decisions, Radical Candor, so many things. Thank you so much for being here. Two final questions. Where can folks find you online if they want to reach out, and how can listeners be useful to you? Maya Prohovnik (01:06:43): I'm on threads, I guess, and I'm on LinkedIn....
The ending stays curious after the formal conversation is almost done.