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Lex Fridman· May 30, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen the Plane Went Down, Dan Reynolds Felt NothingGuest Dan Reynolds · Host Lex FridmanThe Imagine Dragons frontman talks with Lex Fridman about C#, ayahuasca, the trap of fame, and the pop prison he built thinking it was a mansion.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· May 30, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersKeith Rabois on Venture Pricing, Founder Decisions and Investing Through a DownturnGuest Keith Rabois · Host Harry StebbingsThe Founders Fund partner discusses upside, paper gains, missed opportunities and his contested views on work and Silicon Valley.
48:19EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· May 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersAydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis and Investing Across StagesGuest Aydin Senkut · Host Harry StebbingsThe Felicis founder discusses diversification, ownership, missed opportunities and building a firm that supports founders.
54:17EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· May 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersOliver Jay on Sales Playbooks, Hiring and Customer LearningGuest Oliver Jay · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Dropbox and Asana sales leader explains why early teams should learn before treating a sales process as fixed and scalable.
2:41:09ENLex Fridman· May 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin inherited Stalin’s rooms, not Stalin’s powerGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Stephen Kotkin tells Lex Fridman why the war in Ukraine is a strategic choice born of Russian weakness, resentment, and a West that kept letting Moscow get away with murder.
1:01:21EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· May 24, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersOren Zeev on Deployment Pace, Ownership and Investing IndependentlyGuest Oren Zeev · Host Harry StebbingsThe Zeev Ventures founder discusses follow-ons, diversification, missed opportunities and the trade-offs of making decisions without partners.
4:15:00ENLex Fridman· May 23, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersSarma Melngailis Wants to Be Understood, Not ForgivenGuest Sarma Melngailis · Host Lex FridmanThe chef behind Pure Food and Wine tells Lex Fridman how a cult of one, a Netflix cut, and a guilty plea turned a New York restaurant into a morality play she still disputes.
1:06:53EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· May 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFabrice Grinda on Three Economic Scenarios and Venture InvestingGuest Fabrice Grinda · Host Harry StebbingsThe FJ Labs founder sets out optimistic, stagnation and severe-downside scenarios from 2022 and discusses how they shaped his investing.
1:39:09ENLex Fridman· May 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBobby Lee Was Not Invited to the WeddingGuest Bobby Lee · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the comedian about a snub that still stings, twelve-hour Skyrim grinds, sex robots, Khalyla, relapse, and the chances he never asks for.
1:52:39ENLex Fridman· May 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEmpathy Is Not Sympathy: Oliver Stone on Putin and the War in UkraineGuest Oliver Stone · Host Lex FridmanThe filmmaker argues that nuclear power is safer than its reputation, that the Ukraine war did not begin on February 24, and that understanding a leader is not the same as excusing him.
3:32:24ENLex Fridman· May 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGlenn Loury Does Not Disagree With Affirmative Action. He Hates It.Guest Glenn Loury · Host Lex FridmanA three-and-a-half-hour conversation with Lex Fridman on King, slavery, Black patriotism, cancel culture, IQ research, Obama, and how to wear a history without being trapped by it.
4:14:40ENLex Fridman· May 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHard Money Is the Control Knob of CivilizationGuest Saifedean Ammous · Host Lex FridmanSaifedean Ammous tells Lex Fridman why the hardness of money sets a society’s time preference, and why he thinks Bitcoin is the hardest money yet invented.
2:55:05ENLex Fridman· May 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersExtinction awareness is the human trait Mason wants to carry to the starsGuest Chris Mason · Host Lex FridmanCornell geneticist Chris Mason on why seeing our own end creates a duty to engineer life for other worlds — and what a 500-year plan would actually require.
3:32:42ENLex Fridman· May 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Yanomamö Said the Only Sensible Reason for War Was WomenGuest David Buss · Host Lex FridmanEvolutionary psychologist David Buss talks with Lex Fridman about sex differences, jealousy, mate switching, and why human mating is a competitive process played out in language.
2:04:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWe're Not Homo Sapiens Anymore, Grimes Says. Call Us Homo TechnoGuest Grimes · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman rarely records after midnight. This episode is the exception: Grimes, eight hours late, on music, memes, motherhood, and why consciousness might be sacred even if humans are not.
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.
4:05:22ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2022PodcastIf We Cannot Say What Life Is, We Cannot Recognize AliensHost Lex FridmanAstrobiologist Sara Walker and chemist Lee Cronin argue that the hunt for alien life is really a hunt for a physics of memory, objects, and time.
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Jane Street· Apr 20, 2022Doug Patti on State Machine Replication at Jane StreetYaron Minsky, Doug Patti · Jane StreetHow Concord and Aria use ordered logs and deterministic state machines to build recoverable trading services.
2:29:08ENLex Fridman· Apr 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersStarvation Is a Weapon. Skye Fitzgerald Still Puts the Camera Down.Guest Skye Fitzgerald · Host Lex FridmanNearly 811 million people are hungry today, and 45 million stand at the edge of famine across 43 countries — while the food to feed them already exists.
3:25:22ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersAndrew Huberman Lets No One Near Him for Two Hours Before a PodcastGuest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanThe Stanford neuroscientist talks with Lex Fridman about building mental states, heat and cold, visual focus, and the four arrows of a relationship.
3:56:54ENLex Fridman· Apr 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen You Inflate Money at 7% and Call It 2%, You Are Bleeding the PatientGuest Michael Saylor · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor argues that inflation is a vector, economics deserves a failing grade, and Bitcoin is the first ethical block of digital energy.
2:04:16ENLex Fridman· Apr 10, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPlease Don't Say That: Rick Rubin on Protecting the Room Where Art HappensGuest Rick Rubin · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the producer about listening blank, ruthless editing, Johnny Cash's "Hurt," and why a compliment can break a session.
3:21:29ENLex Fridman· Apr 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen something in the mind breaks, you see what it was forGuest Karl Deisseroth · Host Lex FridmanStanford psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth talks with Lex Fridman about depression, schizophrenia, optogenetics, and why you can treat one symptom without a theory of everything.
2:48:27ENLex Fridman· Apr 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMost Rivals Loathe Each Other in PeaceGuest Chris Blattman · Host Lex FridmanUniversity of Chicago economist Chris Blattman tells Lex Fridman why prolonged violence is rare, costly, and usually a bargaining failure — recorded in the fifth week of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,478