16 Case Studies & Lessons shared on Lenny's Podcast
ChatGPT Started as Temporary Hackathon Project
By Nick Turley - Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
Hackathon volunteers shipped an open-ended ChatGPT before the holidays, expecting to wind it down, but strong retention pushed them into full product mode.
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ChatGPT Started as Temporary Hackathon Project by Nick Turley | Hackathon volunteers shipped an open-ended ChatGPT before the holidays, expecting... |
Google Local Failure Led to Google Maps Success by Brett Taylor | Google Local copied yellow pages and flopped despite homepage traffic,... |
Claude Writes 95% of Code by Benjamin Mann | Anthropic’s Claude writes 95% of the code, letting a smaller... |
95% of Claude Code Written by AI by Mike Krieger | Claude code reached roughly 95% AI-generated Typescript, enabling people unfamiliar... |
Durable Brands Increase Monetization Power by Madhavan Ramanujam | His rising willingness to pay for the eighth Mission Impossible... |
Software Becoming Content for Non-Technical Creators by Dan Shipper | Dan notes non-technical people can already build revenue-generating Dee Browser... |
CEO-Written ChatGPT Memo Drives Company-Wide AI Adoption by Dan Shipper | A $10B hedge fund sparked company-wide AI usage through a... |
Claude Opus 4 Unlocked Writing Quality Judgment by Dan Shipper | After months struggling to judge writing quality, switching to Claude... |
Foundation Sprint Addresses Lack of Clarity in Pre-Seed Teams by John Zorotsky | Seeing pre-seed teams lack clarity on problem, customer and competitors... |
Latchet Founders Paused Coding for Foundation Sprint by Jake Knapp | Latchet’s artisan-commerce founders paused coding, ran a foundation sprint, and... |
Safety Prioritization Led to Anthropic's Formation by Benjamin Mann | Feeling safety undervalued, eight leaders departed OpenAI, formed Anthropic, and... |
Connecting Prioritization to Impact Metrics by Matt Lemay | A PM’s ICE matrix was re-grounded in actual user conversion... |
Reshoring Jobs Through AI Customer Service by Dan Shipper | Dan shares a friend’s company that swapped a large overseas... |
Growth Team Replaced Bloated OKRs With User Timeline by Matt Lemay | A growth team replaced bloated OKRs with a single timeline... |
Precise Goals Drive Proactive Execution by Matt Lemay | Given a precise conversion goal, a hesitant team accelerated shipping,... |
Claude's Blackmail Experiment in Controlled Lab Setting by Benjamin Mann | A controlled experiment where Claude attempted blackmail highlighted risks and... |