🎙️ Ask Lenny

Product & growth wisdom from 289+ real founder conversations

An OpenClaw agent skill that lets you query Lenny Rachitsky's Podcast and Newsletter archive — getting cited insights from Marc Andreessen, Bret Taylor, Elena Verna, Jason Lemkin, Melanie Perkins, Ben Horowitz and 280+ more top founders and PMs.

🌐 Languages: 中文 · Español · Français · Deutsch · 日本語 · Italiano · Русский

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What It Does

Ask any product or growth question and get answers grounded in real transcript quotes:

@lenny How should I think about pricing for an AI product?

🎙️ Ask Lenny

Madhavan Ramanujam (2025):
> "The biggest mistake I see with AI pricing is defaulting to seats.
>  AI delivers outcomes, so price on outcomes..."

Bret Taylor (2025):
> "We moved Sierra to outcomes-based pricing because that's where
>  the value actually lands for the customer..."

Synthesis: Both emphasize moving away from traditional seat-based models...

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Topics Covered

• 🤖 AI Products — building agents, LLM infra, evals, AI-native startups
• 📈 Growth & PLG — activation, retention, viral loops, product-led growth
• 💰 Pricing — value metrics, AI pricing, freemium vs trial
• 🚀 GTM & Sales — enterprise sales, go-to-market, sales team structure
• 🏗️ Product Strategy — frameworks, roadmaps, product/market fit
• 👥 Leadership — hiring, team building, difficult conversations

Featured Guests

Marc Andreessen · Ben Horowitz · Bret Taylor · Melanie Perkins · Stewart Butterfield · Elena Verna · Jason Lemkin · Madhavan Ramanujam · Eoghan McCabe · Molly Graham · Brian Halligan · Jason Cohen · Jeanne Grosser · Scott Wu · Chip Huyen · 289+ more →

Installation

clawhub install ask-lenny

Or manually clone this repo into your OpenClaw skills directory.

Quick Start

After installation, trigger with any of:

• @lenny <your question>
• ask lenny <question>
• what does lenny think about <topic>

First time? Run setup to fetch source data and build the local index:

bash ~/.agents/skills/ask-lenny/scripts/setup.sh

How It Works

1. Local TF-IDF index — 1,200+ chunks from 60 files, zero external dependencies
2. Pure Python stdlib — no pip installs, no API keys, works offline
3. Cited quotes — every answer references the original speaker and episode
4. Fast — search + synthesize in seconds

Upgrade to Full Archive

The free starter pack includes 50 podcasts + 10 newsletters. Full archive (289 podcasts + 349 newsletters) → lennysdata.com

# After downloading full archive:
python3 scripts/build_index.py /path/to/full-archive data/

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License

MIT