Lenny Distilled

Test for intellectual fearlessness and curiosity

Leadership → Team Building

I'm an intellectually very fearless person, and I have to say when I hire young people, I look for that because I think that's a very important quality if one wants to make a difference.

Dr. Fei-Fei LiThe Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next
Supporting

There are some things that you better hire for and that are super hard to develop in a corporate environment. So for me, that, for example, is curiosity. I think product people need to be curious about the world, how it works, about things, no matter the topic.

Petra WilleHow to be the best coach to product people
Supporting

I just interview for three things: are you a curious problem solver and can you articulate that verbally? Can you work across people? Are you humble enough to work across and are you a good leader?

Jason DroegeScale AI CEO on Meta's $14B deal, scaling Uber Eats to $80B, & what frontier labs are building next
Supporting

Raw cognitive capability is the strongest, the strongest correlate of being at Lovable. But there is this startup mindset that I think is also very strong. Being much more interested in moving very fast and iterating fast, then having a lot of structure, a lot of process.

Anton OsikaBuilding Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people