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1:02:35ENRuchi Sanghvi on South Park Commons, DAOs and Choosing What to BuildGuest Ruchi Sanghvi · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Facebook and Dropbox executive explains why founders need time to explore ideas and how her community and investment fund work.
4:13:30ENHumanity showed up 10^18 times too earlyGuest Robin Hanson · Host Lex FridmanRobin Hanson tells Lex Fridman why our date in cosmic history is data, and why an empty sky means the loud aliens are coming fast.
54:26ENKayvon Beykpour on Product Reviews, Feedback and Periscope’s DefaultsGuest Kayvon Beykpour · Host Harry StebbingsThe Periscope co-founder explains how product teams can use reviews to sharpen decisions without mistaking every piece of leadership feedback for an order.
58:34ENIan Lee on DAOs, Venture Capital and the Promise and Risks of Web3Guest Ian Lee · Host Harry StebbingsThe Syndicate co-founder explains his 2022 thesis on distributed investing, while discussing governance, inequality, usability and security risks.
1:03:16ENTony Fadell on Product Marketing, Customer Experience and Learning from FailureGuest Tony Fadell · Host Harry StebbingsThe product leader shares lessons from Apple, Philips and Nest on judgment, first impressions, clear messaging and constraints.
1:42:06ENJonathan Haidt: Instagram Is Not 'Generally Positive' for Teen MindsGuest Jonathan Haidt · Host Lex FridmanThe NYU social psychologist answers Mark Zuckerberg on adolescent mental health and argues that one business model rewired childhood and then the public square.
1:06:16ENQuick-Commerce Economics: Airlift, JOKR and Zepto Founders Debate Emerging MarketsGuest Usman Gul, Ralf Wenzel, Aadit Palicha · Host Harry StebbingsIn a 2022 roundtable, three founders compare fulfillment costs, basket size, fees and advertising while disagreeing about the economics of delivery speed.
0:50ENA Speaker on Shopping Challenges in Latin American CitiesA short business argument about assortment and travel time.
2:12:00ENWhen 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.
42:01ENKeith 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.
48:19ENAydin 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.
54:17ENOliver 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.
2:41:09ENPutin 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.
1:01:21ENOren 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.
4:15:00ENSarma 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.
1:06:53ENFabrice 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.
1:39:09ENBobby 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.
1:52:39ENEmpathy 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.
3:32:24ENGlenn 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.
4:14:40ENHard 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.
2:55:05ENExtinction 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.
3:32:42ENThe 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.
2:04:58ENWe'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.
1:09:10ENThe 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.
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