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Lex Fridman· Feb 11, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Voice Note His Bot Couldn't Handle — and the Agent That Built Itself AnywayGuest OpenClaw · Host Lex FridmanPeter Steinberger tells Lex Fridman how a one-hour WhatsApp toy became GitHub's fastest-growing project, and what it cost him to keep it open.
4:34:10ENLex Fridman· Sep 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersPavel Durov Built Telegram for a Billion People. He Still Won't Carry a Phone.Guest Pavel Durov · Host Lex FridmanIn a four-and-a-half-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Telegram founder traces freedom from a childhood move out of the Soviet Union to a French jail cell, a poisoning, and a 40-person engineering team.
2:12:04ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFrom a Five-Year Phone Queue to 480 Trillion Tokens a MonthGuest Sundar Pichai · Host Lex FridmanSundar Pichai talks with Lex Fridman about Chennai, the AI package, Search, Chrome, Waymo, and why he stayed calm when the headlines said Google was finished.
4:25:19ENLex Fridman· Apr 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA shareware text editor, a 30-hour binge, and a five-year war with AppleGuest Tim Sweeney · Host Lex FridmanTim Sweeney traces Unreal Engine’s thirty-year climb, the four-week birth of Fortnite Battle Royale, a new language for the metaverse, and why he thinks Apple is on the wrong side of computing history.
3:43:34ENLex Fridman· Aug 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAt 27, Pieter Levels Stared at a Hotel Ceiling. Then He Shipped Twelve Startups in a YearGuest Pieter Levels · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the indie hacker behind Photo AI, Nomad List, and Remote OK about viral AI products, digital-nomad loneliness, and why he still deploys PHP to production from a sofa.
3:04:08ENLex Fridman· Jul 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWalk the Rooms: Ivanka Trump on Building, Politics, and the Cost of Hitting SendGuest Ivanka Trump · Host Lex FridmanIn 1960s Czechoslovakia, a 14-year-old ski racer came home from Austria and reported first to the local police — enough detail to be believed, not enough to look like a flight risk.
3:02:16ENLex Fridman· Jun 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe journey begins after the answer: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on search and curiosityGuest Aravind Srinivas · Host Lex FridmanIn 2022, Perplexity's first hire asked about health insurance — and four PhDs could not get a clear answer from Google.
1:43:47ENLex Fridman· Feb 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersYou Have to Run Before You Can Walk: Marc Raibert on Making Metal Look AliveGuest Marc Raibert · Host Lex FridmanThe Boston Dynamics founder tells Lex Fridman why aggressive hopping beat cautious walking, how 109 Atlas falls became a method, and why robots still need a second kind of intelligence.
1:04:38ENLex Fridman· Sep 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHundreds of Miles Apart, Zuckerberg and Fridman Sat Close Enough to See the WrinklesGuest Mark Zuckerberg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sat in a dark room in Austin wearing a Quest headset; Mark Zuckerberg sat in another conference room, also wearing one, and it did not feel like a video call.
2:27:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIt took Atlas fourteen years to walk the way Playter wantedGuest Robert Playter · Host Lex FridmanBoston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter traces thirty years from a MIT basement pogo stick to Atlas, Spot, and Stretch — and why the company still designs machines that are allowed to fall.
2:23:56ENLex Fridman· Mar 25, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersGPT-4 is a very early AI. ChatGPT is the line in the history booksGuest Sam Altman · Host Lex FridmanSix days after GPT-4 shipped, Sam Altman tells Lex Fridman why usability beat raw scale, why alignment and capability are not opposite vectors, and why OpenAI is trying to deploy while the stakes are still low.
2:17:46ENLex Fridman· Jan 11, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersOne Great Video Beats a Hundred Mediocre OnesGuest MrBeast · Host Lex FridmanMrBeast tells Lex Fridman why evergreen hits outlast volume, why YouTube comments are a disgrace, and why an AI clone of himself would drain every video of meaning.
2:29:24ENLex Fridman· Jul 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred Users Signed Up and Never Came BackGuest Brian Armstrong · Host Lex FridmanCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on the buy button that found product-market fit, why he wants customers to leave his platform, and a company that refuses to be a political square.
2:46:26ENLex Fridman· Jun 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersApple Was a $5 Billion Company in Debt When Tony Fadell Built the iPodGuest Tony Fadell · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Thermostat, about the decisions, fights, and luck behind those products.
1:09:10ENLex Fridman· Apr 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Same Snapdragon That Flies on Mars Powers a Galaxy PhoneGuest Cristiano Amon · Host Lex FridmanQualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon talks with Lex Fridman about 5G, Snapdragon, cars, the chip shortage, and how to map the border of your own competence.
2:00:13ENLex Fridman· Feb 26, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of America Dislikes Him. Zuckerberg Still Wants Presence, Not ScreensGuest Mark Zuckerberg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on virtual presence, Instagram's teen research, free speech, and why every content decision costs the company half the country.
2:44:38ENLex Fridman· Nov 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersPosting a photo of this moment was not a product category yetGuest Kevin Systrom · Host Lex FridmanKevin Systrom tells Lex Fridman how Instagram began as a failed check-in app, hid a slow upload behind a caption screen, and later sold a thirteen-person company to Facebook for a billion dollars.
3:14:14ENLex Fridman· Nov 16, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersFour Joints, Eighty Thousand Pounds: Boris Sofman on Cozmo and WaymoGuest Boris Sofman · Host Lex FridmanAnki's co-founder on saturating a few channels of expression, why a beloved robot company still died, and how the same constraint mindset now runs Waymo's trucks.
1:28:46ENLex Fridman· Jan 4, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Speech Company That Gets Paid to Label Its Own Training DataGuest Dan Kokotov · Host Lex FridmanRev VP of engineering Dan Kokotov tells Lex Fridman why a $1.25-a-minute human transcript, a 14% machine word-error rate, and a two-sided freelancer market are the same flywheel.
2:23:10ENLex Fridman· Dec 20, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersBuilding a Driver, Not a Copilot: Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov on Fully Driverless CarsGuest Dmitri Dolgov · Host Lex FridmanFrom a 3 a.m. parking-lot planner at Stanford to a public robotaxi in Phoenix, Dolgov tells Lex Fridman why driver assist and a real driver are different products.
37:38ENLex Fridman· Sep 19, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersThe 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.
57:44ENLex Fridman· Aug 1, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersKevin Scott: Treat AI Like a Hash Table, and Measure Platforms by What Others EarnGuest Kevin Scott · Host Lex FridmanMicrosoft's CTO talks radical markets, data dignity, Dunbar's number, and why a platform fails if only a handful of companies decide what AI is for.
1:47:04ENLex Fridman· Jul 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersGustav 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.
55:24ENLex Fridman· Feb 7, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersKyle 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 25