Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): A lot of companies claim to be the fastest growing companies of all time. Anthropic actually is. You guys were at a billion ARR at the start of 2025. The last number I've seen is 19 billion ARR. That's $1 to $19 billion in 14 months. Amol Avasare (00:00:14): Historically, we were very much the smallest, least well-funded player in this space. We didn't have the free cash flow or the distribution of a Meta or Google. We didn't have the first-mover advantage of an OpenAI....
The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.
Low-ego framing
be the fastest growing companies of all time. Anthropic actually is. You guys were at a billion ARR at the start of 2025. The last number I've seen is 19 billion ARR. That's $1 to $19 billion in 14...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (01:52:20): Dream job for so many people. Amol, thank you so much for being here. Amol Avasare (01:52:23): Thanks, Lenny. Bye everyone. Lenny Rachitsky (01:52:26):...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Return warmth
right now. It's decent on something. Sometimes you're like, "Holy shit, I am so glad that I caught this." And that's very, very helpful. And then I do that for myself as well. My manager, Ami Vora, was...
Matches the guest's warmth and keeps the social temperature generous.
Low-ego framing
capabilities are rising so much. So if I think about, okay, back when we had, I don't know, I want to say Opus 4, there's a series of things the model can do at that point, and Opus 4.5 unlocked a whole bunch...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Ending
Amol Avasare (01:51:42): You can find me on my LinkedIn. It's just Amol Avasare. I'm boring. That's it. You can look online to apply on our jobs page as it rolls across growth engineering, growth product, growth design. We are looking for great people on the growth team. So please come and join us. And I think being helpful to me is just two things, trying our products, giving us feedback, giving us harsh feedback in particular on what [inaudible 01:52:07] you better. And then please send great people our way....
The ending reorients from guest intimacy to listener usefulness.