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3:43:34ENAt 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.
2:07:49ENNobody avoids getting scarred. The question is how you deal with itGuest Walter Isaacson · Host Lex FridmanWalter Isaacson talks with Lex Fridman about the childhoods, demons, and working methods of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Benjamin Franklin.
1:59:13ENSimone Giertz Spent Two and a Half Years on a Coat HangerGuest Simone Giertz · Host Lex FridmanThe inventor formerly known as the Queen of Shitty Robots talks with Lex Fridman about everyday objects, spectacular failure, a brain tumor, and why enthusiasm beats duty.
2:31:14ENAnonymity Is a Tool: How a Yale Freshman Built a Campus Where Students Could SpeakGuest Ryan Schiller · Host Lex FridmanRyan Schiller tells Lex Fridman how a silenced seminar, a Gallup number, and a Mac bought off YouTube advice became Librex, an anonymous discussion feed for verified college communities.
3:03:38ENA Ten-Day Language That Still Runs the WebGuest Brendan Eich · Host Lex FridmanBrendan Eich tells Lex Fridman how JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave were built from rushed bets, open-source escape pods, and accidental tracking.
51:14ENTrust, Then Verify: How Square Let 99 Percent of Merchants InGuest Jack Dorsey · Host Lex FridmanJack Dorsey tells Lex Fridman why Square is an access company, why the internet needs a native currency, and why self-awareness is being outsourced to algorithms.
1:30:52ENCristos Goodrow: There Is No YouTube Algorithm, Only People Moving Through VideoGuest Cristos Goodrow · Host Lex FridmanYouTube’s head of search and discovery tells Lex Fridman why collaborative filtering learned language on its own, why watch time is not satisfaction, and why nobody can predict a viral hit.
1:45:58ENNine of ten colleagues said far-field speech was impossibleGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanRohit Prasad, Amazon’s vice president and head scientist for Alexa, talks with Lex Fridman about conversational AI, the Alexa Prize, trust, and why a 20-minute chat is still years away.
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.
1:20:09ENStack 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.
17:21ENHow Alexa Learned to Hear From Across the Room: Rohit Prasad on Far-Field Speech and IntentGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanAlexa's head scientist recalls the early days of the Echo, when far-field speech recognition seemed unsolvable and there were no customers to collect data from.









