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Bijal (@bijald) says they began following @lennysan in 2021 and now uses Lenny’s…

2026-05-08 · 18:27 UTC ·@bijald ·1 min read

Brief

Bijal (@bijald) writes that since 2021 they treated @lennysan’s newsletter and podcast as required reading, bingeing 5–6 episodes before interviews. They say Lenny taught concrete PM mindsets—tradeoffs, growth, sharper questioning, taste versus jargon—and that an episode with Shreyas inspired them to implement a Pre-Mortem. Bijal calls Lenny an unofficial mentor to many PMs.

Why it matters

Bijal (@bijald) says they began following @lennysan in 2021 and now uses Lenny’s newsletter and podcast as a pre-interview ritual, bingeing 5–6 episodes before important interview rounds.

Key details

  • Bijal credits Lenny with teaching concrete PM mindsets and skills: how great PMs think, founder tradeoffs, growth mechanics, asking sharper questions, separating good taste from generic PM speak, and linking product, distribution, users, and business.
  • After hearing Lenny’s episode with Shreyas (noted as one of the most-shared), Bijal implemented the Pre-Mortem brainstorming method in their team and calls Lenny the unofficial mentor to a generation of PMs (post dated 2026-05-08).
Source evidence

Back in 2021, when I was starting my PM journey, I would read @lennysan’s newsletters like a bible.

I still remember the day he announced his podcast.
I was literally glued to Spotify waiting for the first episode to drop.

Since then, Lenny has quietly become my pre-interview ritual.
Before any important interview round, I binge 5–6 episodes. Because somewhere between those conversations, your brain starts absorbing:

• how great PMs think
• how founders make tradeoffs
• how growth actually works
• how to ask sharper questions
• how to separate good taste from generic PM speak
• how product, distribution, users, and business connect

And honestly, that has shaped me a lot.
Especially because Lenny’s work never made product feel like some fancy job title. It made it feel like a craft.

Something you keep getting better at by listening, observing, building, writing, shipping, and learning from people who have actually done the work.

So yes, this is a tiny appreciation post.
For the newsletter I treated like coursework; for the podcast I still binge before interviews.

And for becoming the unofficial mentor to an entire generation of PMs trying to get better at the craft.

Bijal (@bijald)

Just opened Spotify to listen to new episodes of @lennysan's podcasts and observed that The episode with .@shreyas is one of the Most shared episodes.I was listening to this episode on my way to work and implemented the Pre Mortem method in our brainstorming session in how to (1)

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