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Lex Fridman· Jul 23, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEvery Atom in Your Body Was Forged in a Dead StarGuest Martin Rees · Host Lex FridmanMartin Rees talks Lex Fridman through dark matter, alien life, one-way Mars trips, and why this century is the first in which one species holds the planet.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersKyle Samani on Tokens, Network Effects and Crypto InvestingGuest Kyle Samani · Host Harry StebbingsThe Multicoin co-founder explains his investment process and argues that tokens can coordinate networks, while discussing liquidity, risk and his 2022 views on Bitcoin and Solana.
56:56EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersSam Taylor on Building Sales Around Customer LearningGuest Sam Taylor · Host Harry StebbingsLoom’s sales leader explains how to connect product-led adoption with enterprise selling, hire early teams and turn customer conversations into company-wide insight.
1:54:32ENLex Fridman· Jul 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGod Is Not a Being on the Same Grid as the TeapotGuest Bishop Robert Barron · Host Lex FridmanBishop Robert Barron talks with Lex Fridman about Aquinas’s definition of God, pride as a black hole, the problem of evil, and why he thinks rights and equality do not survive the death of God.
1:13:12EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 18, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDes Traynor on Intercom, Product Strategy and the Real Cost of GrowthGuest Des Traynor · Host Harry StebbingsThe Intercom co-founder discusses defensibility, second products, enterprise buyers and the lessons he has learned as an operator and angel investor.
3:31:02ENLex Fridman· Jul 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA period of calm in capitalism is only a lull before the stormGuest Steve Keen · Host Lex FridmanHeterodox economist Steve Keen walks Lex Fridman from a footnote in Marx to climate models that omit rainfall, and argues that private debt — not inflation — is the failure that actually breaks the system.
52:25EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPeter Singlehurst on Long-Term Investing Across Public and Private MarketsGuest Peter Singlehurst · Host Harry StebbingsThe Baillie Gifford investor explains portfolio concentration, evolving conviction and what he learned from both a failed investment and a missed opportunity.
2:44:16ENLex Fridman· Jul 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersIQ at Eleven Predicted Survival at Eighty. Richard Haier on the Finding Psychology Tried to BuryGuest Richard Haier · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with psychologist Richard Haier about the g factor, The Bell Curve, group differences, and why intelligence research became the most radioactive topic in the field.
53:02EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 13, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersLuc Levesque on Hiring Growth Teams and Building Durable LoopsGuest Luc Levesque · Host Harry StebbingsShopify’s growth leader discusses the hiring signals, experiments and organizational relationships he considers important for growth.
59:39EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMatt Mullenweg on WordPress, Distributed Leadership and Building for DecadesGuest Matt Mullenweg · Host Harry StebbingsThe Automattic founder discusses open-source origins, communication, acquisitions and the personal experiences shaping his leadership.
3:37:34ENLex Fridman· Jul 9, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe KGB taught Jack Barsky to vanish. His daughter taught him to stay.Guest Jack Barsky · Host Lex FridmanA former illegal resident tells Lex Fridman how East German ambition, tradecraft, and an 18-month-old in Queens undid a life built on other people's names.
1:26:16EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMike Chalfen on Building Resilient Venture Portfolios and Supporting FoundersGuest Mike Chalfen · Host Harry StebbingsThe solo investor discusses concentrated portfolios, market risk, unit economics and the work investors can do for founders beyond the boardroom.
1:41:21ENLex Fridman· Jul 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDon't take in the opinion of the worldGuest Joe Rogan · Host Lex FridmanJoe Rogan talks with Lex Fridman about surviving a media pile-on, why Kill Tony exists, and why he wants UFOs to be real too badly to trust himself on them.
49:41EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jul 2, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDaniel Yanisse on Hiring, Fundraising and Checkr’s Growing PainsGuest Daniel Yanisse · Host Harry StebbingsCheckr’s co-founder reflects on delegation, executive hiring, investor relationships and the cost of moving into enterprise too early.
2:10:39ENLex Fridman· Jul 1, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDemis Hassabis: Solve Intelligence, Then Solve Everything ElseGuest Demis Hassabis · Host Lex FridmanThe DeepMind CEO tells Lex Fridman why the Turing Test is the wrong exam, how AlphaFold rewrote biology, and why the quiet radio sky suggests we are probably alone.
0:49EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jun 30, 2022PodcastA 2022 Venture Investor’s View of Preparing for a Market DownturnA short 20VC clip discusses changing conditions, liquidity and valuation multiples.
1:59:43ENLex Fridman· Jun 28, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersFavorite happy songs get 175 plays. The sad ones get 800.Guest Susan Cain · Host Lex FridmanSusan Cain talks with Lex Fridman about introvert energy, bittersweet creativity, and why the longing itself is the cure.
59:54EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jun 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersSonali De Rycker on Venture Cycles, Building Accel’s Team and Learning from MissesGuest Sonali De Rycker · Host Harry StebbingsThe Accel partner discusses founder relationships, investing through downturns and why follow-on decisions require careful debate.
2:43:51ENLex Fridman· Jun 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersTwo Tubes, Millimeters Apart: Jonathan Reisman on the Honest Design of the Human BodyGuest Jonathan Reisman · Host Lex FridmanThe emergency physician and author of The Unseen Body walks Lex Fridman from the throat to the Arctic, arguing that anatomy is mostly brilliant, sometimes a near-miss, and always a story written in scars.
48:33EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jun 24, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHenri Pierre-Jacques on Building Harlem Capital and Funding Diverse FoundersGuest Henri Pierre-Jacques · Host Harry StebbingsThe Harlem Capital managing partner explains first-fund fundraising, portfolio construction, team development and his long-term mission.
1:00:28EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jun 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersZhenya Loginov on Enterprise Sales, Product-Led Growth and HiringGuest Zhenya Loginov · Host Harry StebbingsMiro’s revenue leader discusses when to build an enterprise motion, how to assess sales leaders and how to keep teams aligned as a company grows.
2:38:30ENLex Fridman· Jun 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersYou Will Not Have the Landscape ClearedGuest Douglas Murray · Host Lex FridmanDouglas Murray tells Lex Fridman that a campaign to empty the West of its heroes leaves only the 20th century’s unlearned idea still standing.
32:20EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jun 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGary Vaynerchuk on Early Angel Investing, Family Business and a Long View of WorkGuest Gary Vaynerchuk · Host Harry StebbingsThe entrepreneur recounts his first investments, a difficult family-business conflict and how he thinks about confidence and time.
2:53:51ENLex Fridman· Jun 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWho Gets the Surplus? Richard Wolff on What Marxism Actually MeasuresGuest Richard Wolff · Host Lex FridmanA Marxist economist tells Lex Fridman why Marx wrote almost nothing about communism, why the Soviet Union never counted as socialism, and why American democracy still stops at the factory door.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,479