A comprehensive archive of transcripts from Lenny's Podcast, organized for easy use with AI coding assistants and language models.
Lenny's Podcast features interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts, providing concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Browse by topic: Start with index/README.md to explore episodes by topic.
Search transcripts:
grep -r "product-market fit" episodes/├── episodes/ # 269 episode transcripts
│ └── {guest-name}/
│ └── transcript.md
├── index/ # AI-generated topic index
│ ├── README.md # Main entry point
│ ├── product-management.md # Episodes about product management
│ ├── leadership.md # Episodes about leadership
│ └── ... # 50+ topic files
└── scripts/
└── build-index.sh # Script to regenerate index
Each episode has its own folder named after the guest(s), containing a transcript.md file with:
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YAML Frontmatter - Structured metadata including:
guest: Name of the guest(s)title: Full episode titleyoutube_url: Link to the YouTube videovideo_id: YouTube video IDpublish_date: Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD)description: Episode descriptionduration_seconds: Episode length in secondsduration: Human-readable durationview_count: Number of views at time of archivalchannel: Channel name
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Transcript Content - Full text transcript of the episode
The index/ folder contains AI-generated keyword tags for each episode, organized by topic:
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Product Management | 57+ episodes on PM skills and practices |
| Leadership | Episodes on management and leadership |
| Growth Strategy | Growth tactics and frameworks |
| Product-Market Fit | Finding and measuring PMF |
See index/README.md for the complete list of 50 topics.
The index is generated using Claude CLI. To regenerate:
./scripts/build-index.shThis processes transcripts through Claude to generate keyword tags. The script is idempotent - it skips episodes already present in keyword files, so it can be run multiple times safely.
Each transcript is a standalone markdown file that can be easily parsed by AI systems. The YAML frontmatter provides structured metadata that can be extracted programmatically.
import yaml
def read_transcript(filepath):
with open(filepath, 'r') as f:
content = f.read()
# Split frontmatter and content
parts = content.split('---')
if len(parts) >= 3:
frontmatter = yaml.safe_load(parts[1])
transcript = '---'.join(parts[2:])
return frontmatter, transcript
return None, content
# Example usage
metadata, transcript = read_transcript('episodes/brian-chesky/transcript.md')
print(f"Guest: {metadata['guest']}")
print(f"Title: {metadata['title']}")This archive contains 269 transcripts from Lenny's Podcast episodes.
- Transcripts: Sourced from the Lenny's Podcast Transcripts Archive
- Metadata: Extracted from the Lenny's Podcast YouTube channel
If you notice any issues with the transcripts or metadata, please open an issue or submit a pull request.
Here are some projects that have been built using this transcript archive:
Lenny Playbook by LilysAI – Turns Lenny Podcast transcripts into structured notes, visual infographics, and a chat interface to explore ideas and get actionable answers.
Learn from Lenny by @IamAdiG - An AI agent on X that provides credible product advice based on Lenny's podcasts. Tag it to get spot-on advice with no fluff.
Lenny Skills Database by Refound AI - A searchable database of 86 actionable skills extracted from 297 podcast episodes. Learn how the best product teams actually work.
Lenny MCP by Akshay Chintalapati - A Model Context Protocol server that provides access to Lenny's podcast content for AI applications.
Recapio - Lenny's Podcast Summaries - AI-generated summaries, transcripts, key insights, and chat interface for Lenny's Podcast episodes.
Lenny's Frameworks - A collection of frameworks and mental models extracted from Lenny's Podcast episodes.
Lenny Listens - Uses Lenny’s interviewing methodology to generate AI-led interviews you can run with real customers.
Lenny's Advice Arena - An interactive experience for exploring product advice from Lenny's Podcast.
Lenny Gallery by Alan Chan - An infographic gallery with visual summaries of key episodes, built with Manus AI.
Lenny's Friends in Notion by Saya Iwasaki - turned Lenny's guests into Notion mentors, so now you can ask anything you want & get feedback from them right in your Notion workspace. Each guest has a persona set up with mental models, frameworks & communication styles; you can also query by companies.
Lenny Distilled by Harsh Nene - A curated collection of PM wisdom to dip into anytime...discover a new insight each visit, trace it back to the source quote and YouTube moment. Mapped to the PM craft across 6 dimensions, minimalist design, multiple languages.
Lenny's Library in Radia.io by Kas Eelman - Leveraging transcripts to provide additional insight in to the product competency assessment for Radia users with citations, meta-data and the original episodes.
Lenny for Claude by Arjun Lall - MCP server that surfaces podcast advice inside Claude Code and Claude Desktop. Includes /lenny slash command and optional plan mode hook.
Lennyhub RAG by Hamza Farooq - A production grade knowledge graph RAG, enabling multi-turn questions
Lenny Ideation Constellation & Search - A semantic search engine and idea explorer for Lenny's Podcast. Find exactly what the guests said, or visually discover how their ideas connect, cluster, and contradict across episodes.
LennySan RAG-o-Matic by Dean Peters - A low-barrier, learn-by-building PM pm research tool for exploring Lenny Rachitsky's 320+ podcast episodes using AI and RAG from the CLI, with future support for Jupyter notebooks, time-series exploration, and more.
Ask Lenny by Prayerson Christian - AI research assistant that answers questions using real quotes from Lenny's podcast.
Lenny's Wisdom Wall by Shrikant Kadu - An interactive exploration featuring interesting insights and curated contradictions from Lenny's podcast guests.
Time Capsule by @sameerbajaj - Describe your situation and get a personalized letter with advice from product leaders who were in your exact moment.
Lenny's Experts by @joeyh - Make Lenny's guests your personal expert network. Browse by topic, save what resonates, come back to it later.
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