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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 25, 2026PodcastAI Safety's Real Shortage Is Founders, Not IdeasHost Nathan LabenzHalcyon's Mike McCormick on launching about 30 AI safety, cyber, and biosecurity organizations in three years — and why experienced leaders, not more Google Docs, are the bottleneck.
1:37:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 8, 2026PodcastGranola Added More Customers Than Almost Anyone by Being Surprisingly UnambitiousHost Nathan LabenzCo-founder Sam Stephenson tells Nathan Labenz how a calm notes app for frazzled meeting days, one Slack-sharing loop, and a refusal to promise the burning-fire work built a $1.5 billion company.
1:04:51ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 1, 2026Podcast125 million cells took a decade. The next billion takes monthsHost Nathan LabenzMark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan on pairing a frontier biology lab with a frontier AI lab so models train on data that was designed for them.
50:08ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 27, 2025Podcast1Mind's AI Superhuman Now Sources 76% of the PipelineHost Nathan LabenzAmanda Kahlow tells Zapier CEO Wade Foster why she tore up the sales org — and why a face on an agent is mostly a trick to get buyers talking.
1:27:01ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 2, 2025PodcastThe $16 Trillion Services Market Is Being Bought, Not Sold ToHost Nathan LabenzMarc Bhargava of General Catalyst explains how AI-enabled rollups turn low-margin service firms into compounding, software-like businesses.
1:24:27ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 12, 2025Podcast500 Trillion Tokens a Month: How Google Grew 50x in a YearHost Nathan LabenzLogan Kilpatrick returns to Cognitive Revolution to unpack Google's mid-2023 merger, why he expects frontier labs to diverge, and why startups still hold the speed advantage.
1:59:47ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 5, 2024PodcastBCI Would Take 30 Years. This Studio Pivoted to Alignment InsteadHost Nathan LabenzJudd Rosenblatt and Mike Vaiana of AE Studio describe two biologically inspired results that do not need interpretability breakthroughs to work.
55:05ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 26, 2024Podcast400,000 Customers, 100 Million AI Tasks: Zapier’s CEO on Making Computers Do More WorkHost Nathan LabenzWade Foster tells Nathan Labenz how a no-code automation company absorbed LLMs, cloned its CEO with a prompt, and is trying to turn a DIY toolkit into packaged solutions.
46:47ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 3, 2024PodcastEditing Video Like a Document: How Descript Puts AI in the Copilot SeatHost Nathan LabenzDescript CEO Andrew Mason on Underlord, why the timeline had to die, and what a ten-times-more-expensive editor would look like.
1:12:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 6, 2024PodcastThe CEO Who Laid Himself Off Is Building a Business Operating SystemHost Nathan LabenzSiqi Chen of Runway tells Nathan Labenz why finance is a company-wide simulation, why chat boxes fail, and how a 100-person cap plus ambient intelligence is the real product strategy.
52:45ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 13, 2024PodcastA $150 million model, $5 million six months later: Benchmark’s AI investment mathHost Nathan LabenzEric Vishria and Quilter’s Sergiy Nesterenko explain why PCB layout is not a Copilot problem, why human board data would be the wrong training set, and which AI companies look like sugar highs.
56:35ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 19, 2024PodcastThey Asked for a Fraction of the 20 Percent and Still Got NoHost Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz and Nathan Labenz unpack Jan Leike’s resignation, OpenAI’s broken compute pledge, and what a safety culture looks like when the money does not follow the mission.
56:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 25, 2024PodcastA Week of PCB Layout in an Hour: Quilter Trains Agents, Not ImitatorsHost Nathan LabenzSpaceX alum Sergiy Nesterenko tells Will Summerlin how Quilter uses reinforcement learning to compile schematics into manufacturable boards, and why cloning human layouts would cap the system at human skill.
1:43:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 10, 2023PodcastSudowrite sold getting unstuck — then eight million people watched a pile-onHost Nathan LabenzJames Yu tells Nathan Labenz how a GPT-3 toy for fiction became a hierarchical “IDE for storytelling,” and what a viral backlash taught him about craft, cost, and customers.
58:54ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 3, 2023PodcastModels Are Commodities. Perplexity's CEO Says the Index Is the MoatHost Nathan LabenzAravind Srinivas returns to Cognitive Revolution to explain how a 25-person search startup is building its own crawler, index, and models before the big platforms raise the drawbridge.
1:01:09ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 31, 2023PodcastHugging Face Raised $235M. Community Still Is Not a MoatHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg unpack Hugging Face's $4.5 billion Series D, and why a thriving open-source hub may still struggle to become a locked-in business.
58:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 2, 2023PodcastHe Couldn't Convince Anyone to Compete with OpenAI. Two Years Later the Valley Is Full of Them.Host Nathan LabenzSarah Guo and Elad Gil walk Cognitive Revolution through Software 3.0, an 80/20 split with incumbents, and how to tell a fake waitlist from demand that cannot be faked.
1:26:57ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 10, 2023PodcastNine Moats, a Cloud-Shaped Market, and Why OpenAI Is Not Optional YetHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg pressure-test the leaked “no moats” memo and walk through where advantage actually lives in generative AI.
1:50:25ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastFrom Email Client to AI Agent: How Shortwave Rebuilt Itself for the Tidal WaveHost Nathan LabenzShortwave CEO Andrew Lee explains the agent architecture, caching economics and tiny-team culture behind the company's hockey-stick growth.
1:40:51ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastBuilding a Friend, Not an Assistant: Replika's Eugenia Kuyda on Conversational AI and Its LimitsHost Nathan LabenzThe founder of Replika explains why she treats conversation as the product itself, how the company measures emotional outcomes, and why it pulled back from erotic roleplay.