Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
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they're probably I call them techno utopians who would say feed all data to the algorithm, given an objective, and it will do the right thing. You know, like, the reason that falls down is the algorithms don't understand long term effects often. Nor do they understand how people might respond to it, nor do they understand your intent for the product. And I think it's really important for product managers to play that role. That is our job when you are working on algorithmic, heavy products, your job is figuring out what the algorithm should be responsible for, what people are responsible for, and the free more for making decisions. Welcome to Lenny's podcast, I'm Lenny, and my goal here is to help you get better at the craft of building and growing products. Today, my guest is Adriel Frederick. Adriel is a VPR product that Reddit refocuses on incubating and scaling new products within Reddit. Before that, he was director of product that Lyft, where he led the marketplace teams and the pricing teams over the course of five years. And before that, he was an early PM at Facebook, where he spent four years leading the user acquisition team. Adriel is one of these incredible product leaders who is way too under the radar because he doesn't spend all day on Twitter and instead is executing and building great products. One of the goals of this podcast is to highlight incredible product leaders who you may not be aware of. And Adriel is a great example. In our chat, we talk about the origins of growth hacking, how to get better as a product leader, waste increase diversity at your company, what it was like to work on Facebook's growth team early on, the future of AI, and a lot more. It was such a joy chatting with Adriel, and I'm really excited to share this episode with you. With that, I bring you Adriel Frederick. This episode is brought to you by linear. Let's be honest, the issue tracker that you're using today isn't very helpful. Why is it that it always seems to be working against you instead of working for you? Why does it feel like such a chore to use? Well, linear is different. It's incredibly fast, beautifully designed, and it comes with powerful workflows that streamline your entire product development process from issue tracking all the way to managing product road maps. Linear is designed for the way modern software teams work. What users love about linear are the powerful keyboard shortcuts, efficient GitHub integrations, cycles that actually create progress, and built-in project updates that keep everyone in sync. In short, it just works. Linear is the default tool of choice among startups, and it powers a wide range of large established companies, such as Vercel, Retool, and Cashout. See for yourself why product teams describe using linear as
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