Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2025-01-12
Lenny Rachitsky & Rohini Pandhi: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
How to build your product team from scratch, attract top product talent, go multi-product, and more | Rohini Pandhi (Mercury, Square)
Rohini Pandhi is a product leader at Mercury, and previously spent over seven years at Square/Block leading product work on Square payments, invoicing, and the Bitkey hardware Bitcoin wallet. She’s also the co-founder of the startup bootcamp Transparent Collective and is an active angel investor.
Rohini Pandhi recommended Vector by Lisa Jackson, The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Vector
Recommended“I got this book recently called Vectors, uh aphorisms and aphorisms and uh 10-second essays. It is so much fun to just kind of like pick out a couple of these like 10-second essays at night and just read a couple of these and go to bed.”
Where to get it
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The Inner Game of Tennis
Recommended“And then, the other I guess the other one that I really just enjoy is uh this book called The Inner Game of Tennis. I've already mentioned that I'm a tennis fan, but like it talks about the state of flow that you need when you're playing”
Where to get it
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Pachinko
Recommended“Other books that I think that I've read recently are I feel have been fictions, so uh Pachinko, Cutting for Stone, Song of Achilles, all great ones that I've read recently when I've had some beach time, so highly recommend.”
Where to get it
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Cutting for Stone
Recommended“Other books that I think that I've read recently are I feel have been fictions, so uh Pachinko, Cutting for Stone, Song of Achilles, all great ones that I've read recently when I've had some beach time, so highly recommend.”
Where to get it
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The Song of Achilles
Recommended“Other books that I think that I've read recently are I feel have been fictions, so uh Pachinko, Cutting for Stone, Song of Achilles, all great ones that I've read recently when I've had some beach time, so highly recommend.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Dip
“Like, oh, I got through a few starts of books. Yeah, I think The Ball was one of the few that's like you don't need to finish books. Just stop as soon as you want. It's fine.”