Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2023-09-07
Lenny Rachitsky & Claire Butler: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
Brought to you by Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security | Mixpanel—Event analytics that everyone can trust, use, and afford | AssemblyAI—Production-ready AI models to transcribe and understand speech — Claire Butler was Figma’s first GTM hire and their 10th employee.
Claire Butler recommended Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott and Dare to Lead by Brené Brown.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Radical Candor
Recommended“I recommend management books a lot to people. The other piece of this that we didn't touch on at all is scaling a team, and like all the things that go into management. And so radical cander and dare to lead, I to be honest are the ones I recommend the most.”
Where to get it
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Dare to Lead
Recommended“I recommend management books a lot to people. The other piece of this that we didn't touch on at all is scaling a team, and like all the things that go into management. And so radical cander and dare to lead, I to be honest are the ones I recommend the most.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Atomic Habits
“but I I recently got or not recently the last like maybe five years got this motto of like consistent pressure over time um as being more of my motto and like taking some of the pressure off of having to do things immediately or get to a certain place too fast kind of maybe it's more like Atomic habits”