Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2025-02-16
Lenny Rachitsky & Uri Levine: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast (Feb 2025)
A founder’s guide to crisis management | Uri Levine (Waze co-founder, serial entrepreneur)
Uri Levine is a co-founder of Waze (which was acquired by Google for $1.3 billion in 2013), along with nine other companies (including another company he sold for over $1 billion). He’s also been on 20 boards and has been an advisor to over 50 startups.
Lenny Rachitsky discussed Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution by Uri Levine.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
Discussed“In our first conversation, we walked through the biggest lessons that he's learned over the course of working with all of these different startups that he chronicled in his beloved book, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“The um I wrote the book in order to make a bigger impact. Uh I'm an entrepreneur, and everyone knows that, right? So, I built Waze and Moovit and a dozens of other startups.”
“And if this podcast or this book, this one, can help people to become more successful, then I fulfill my destiny.”