Lenny's Podcast Transcripts Archive

A comprehensive archive of transcripts from Lenny's Podcast, organized for easy use with AI coding assistants and language models.

About Lenny's Podcast

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.

Quick Start

Browse by topic: Start with index/README.md to explore episodes by topic.

Search transcripts:

grep -r "product-market fit" episodes/

Repository Structure

├── 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

Episode Format

Each episode has its own folder named after the guest(s), containing a transcript.md file with:

1. YAML Frontmatter - Structured metadata including:

   • guest: Name of the guest(s)
   • title: Full episode title
   • youtube_url: Link to the YouTube video
   • video_id: YouTube video ID
   • publish_date: Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD)
   • description: Episode description
   • duration_seconds: Episode length in seconds
   • duration: Human-readable duration
   • view_count: Number of views at time of archival
   • channel: Channel name

2. Transcript Content - Full text transcript of the episode

Topic Index

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.

Rebuilding the Index

The index is generated using Claude CLI. To regenerate:

./scripts/build-index.sh

This 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.

Usage with AI

Loading Transcripts

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.

Example: Reading a Transcript

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']}")

Episode Count

This archive contains 269 transcripts from Lenny's Podcast episodes.

Data Sources

• Transcripts: Sourced from the Lenny's Podcast Transcripts Archive
• Metadata: Extracted from the Lenny's Podcast YouTube channel

Contributing

If you notice any issues with the transcripts or metadata, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

Projects Built with These Transcripts

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.

Lenny's Podcast on Pod Recs by Pod Recs - Browse and save all the things recommended on Lenny's Podcast. Books, films, products... it's all there (and normalised!)

Lenny Antimemes by @antimemetic_ - An antimeme is an idea that resists spreading despite being important. The guests on Lenny's podcast have internalized them anyway - that's part of what makes them outliers. This surfaces those insights.

Lenny's Knowledge Graph by Eze Actis Grosso - Explore concepts, frameworks, guests, and books across 330+ episodes. Find connections, ask questions, and get answers with the exact episode and timestamp—click straight to that moment on YouTube.

Have you built something with these transcripts? Open a PR to add your project to this list!

Disclaimer

This archive is for educational and research purposes. All content belongs to Lenny's Podcast and the respective guests. Please visit the official YouTube channel to support the creators.

License

The transcripts are provided for personal and educational use. Please respect the original content creators' rights.