Sanchan Saxena

Lenny (00:00:02): I feel incredibly lucky to have gotten to work with Sanchan while I was at Airbnb. He joined Airbnb as a director of product and quickly moved up the ranks to head of product for all of Airbnb. Before Airbnb, he spent almost four years at Instagram as head of product for Instagram Ads, and then he created and led the Instagram Shopping product and team. Lenny (00:00:21): Before that he was director of product at Yahoo and a PM at Microsoft. And today he's the VP of product at Coinbase....

The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.

Lenny (00:00:34): In my conversation with Sanchan, we cover what he's learned from working with some of today's best CEOs, including Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, Zuck...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Sanchan Saxena (00:03:26): Thank you, Lenny, for inviting me. Excited to be here and chat with you today. Lenny (00:03:29): Absolutely. My pleasure....

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Silicon Valley at Mountain View. And I worked for this product called Hotmail. I don't know how many people know this or not, but there's an email service called Hotmail. I was one of the product people....

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

the idea of hiring and joining company, I wanted to touch on hiring advice. You're really good at hiring. You've hired many people, you've interviewed tons and tons of PMs, and so I just wanted to touch on this...

Says the strength directly to the guest, not only about them.

. Give it a shot and let us know what you think. Lenny (01:00:52): Amazing. Thank you so much, Sanchan, for being here. This was amazing. Sanchan Saxena (01:00:55): Thank you, Lenny, for having me....

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.