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0:45ENShreyas Doshi’s Three Types of Product LeadersGuest Shreyas DoshiA short framework for operators, craftspeople and visionaries.
1:01:27ENShreyas Doshi on Product Metrics and Three Types of Product LeaderGuest Shreyas Doshi · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Stripe product leader explains how to measure product success, hire for the work a company actually needs, and balance customer requests with strategy.
2:32:00ENA Cube Inside a Sphere, Right Between Two Super HornetsGuest Ryan Graves · Host Lex FridmanFormer Navy F/A-18 pilot Ryan Graves tells Lex Fridman how unexplained objects filled East Coast training airspace after a radar upgrade, and why a near-collision made it a safety problem the system still cannot process.
49:00ENKirsten Green on Scaling a Venture Firm Without Losing FocusGuest Kirsten Green · Host Harry StebbingsForerunner’s founder explains how consumer insight guides investments, why growing a team is a second job, and how relationships made her career possible.
2:29:24ENA 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.
57:36ENJim Lanzone on Yahoo’s Turnaround and Leading Through a DownturnGuest Jim Lanzone · Host Harry StebbingsIn a 2022 interview, Yahoo’s CEO explains his approach to product leadership, hiring and the proposed revival of an established internet brand.
2:10:08ENGato Is Only the BeginningGuest Oriol Vinyals · Host Lex FridmanDeepMind's Oriol Vinyals talks with Lex Fridman about generalist agents, thrown-away weights, and whether human-level AGI arrives in his lifetime.
56:04ENTony Fadell on Founder Loneliness, Leadership and Building for the Long TermGuest Tony Fadell · Host Harry StebbingsThe Nest founder discusses learning from General Magic, finding trusted partners and pursuing ideas before the data is obvious.
2:13:16ENEvery 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.
53:31ENKyle 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.
56:56ENSam 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.
1:54:32ENGod 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.
1:13:12ENDes 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.
3:31:02ENA 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.
52:25ENPeter 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.
2:44:16ENIQ 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.
53:02ENLuc 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.
59:39ENMatt 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.
3:37:34ENThe 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.
1:26:16ENMike 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.
1:41:21ENDon'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.
49:41ENDaniel 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.
2:10:39ENDemis 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.
0:49ENA 2022 Venture Investor’s View of Preparing for a Market DownturnA short 20VC clip discusses changing conditions, liquidity and valuation multiples.
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