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37:38ENThe Best-Selling Vacuum in America Is a RobotGuest Colin Angle · Host Lex FridmaniRobot CEO Colin Angle on why most robotics companies die, why a Roomba is costed by weight, and why printing privacy promises on the box would hurt sales.
1:47:04ENGustav Söderström on Why Spotify Could Only Be Born in SwedenGuest Gustav Soderstrom · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Spotify’s chief R&D officer about three-minute songs, 250-millisecond playback, playlist luck, and herding record labels.
1:26:27ENKai-Fu Lee: Originality Pride Is a Handcuff on What a Company Can BecomeGuest Kai-Fu Lee · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2019 conversation with Lex Fridman, the investor and former Google China president explains why China's copycat years were a training ground, why data often beats clever algorithms, and what facing death did to his idea of work.
1:25:07ENThe Only Real Freedom Is How AGI Is BornGuest Greg Brockman · Host Lex FridmanGreg Brockman tells Lex Fridman why OpenAI’s job is to set the initial conditions of general intelligence, not to monopolize who builds it.
55:24ENKyle Vogt Built the Highway Kit, Then Scrapped It Before Selling a Single OneGuest Kyle Vogt · Host Lex FridmanThe Cruise president and CTO tells Lex Fridman why a BattleBots kid from Kansas walked away from a working product, partnered with GM, and is spending 2019 grinding from prototype to production.
33:07ENThey Ran an Extension Cord Next Door and Invented GoogleGuest Eric Schmidt · Host Lex FridmanEric Schmidt tells Lex Fridman that Larry and Sergey never held the entrepreneurship meeting: they had a better algorithm, too little power in the dorm, and a $100,000 check.
1:20:09ENStack Overflow Was Never Designed for BeginnersGuest Jeff Atwood · Host Lex FridmanOn Stack Overflow’s tenth birthday, Jeff Atwood talks with Lex Fridman about puzzles, leadership, Discourse, and why a software team’s health is how fast it can change one word.
21:43ENRented Cars, 27 Rejections and the Love Quotient: Arianna Huffington on Obsession and RechargingGuest Arianna Huffington · Host Lex FridmanThe Thrive Global and Huffington Post founder talks to Lex Fridman about mortality, failure, work obsession, polarized media and balancing ambition with love.
10:17ENWhy Great Robots Fail as Businesses, and What iRobot Got RightHost Lex FridmaniRobot co-founder Colin Angle explains why so many robotics companies collapse and how cost, vision and a clear user need shaped the Roomba.
1:30:18ENNight Markets and Chip Foundries: A Week in Taiwan with Jensen HuangHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman follows NVIDIA's CEO through Computex, street food and long chats about Taiwan's tech history, export controls and how to choose business partners.
1:04:39ENFrom Udacity's Self-Driving Car Course to a Startup for Retirement Communities: Oliver Cameron on Building VoyageHost Lex FridmanVoyage CEO Oliver Cameron tells the unconventional story of how a self-driving curriculum became a car, then a company that deploys in retirement communities, and what he learned along the way.









