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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDavid Lieb on Bump, Google Photos and Product JudgmentGuest David Lieb · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Google Photos leader discusses founder ownership, customer discovery, retention, product reviews and the limits of intuition.
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Lex Fridman· Sep 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Smile Is Not Happiness: Rana el Kaliouby on Emotion AI and the Empathy CrisisGuest Rana el Kaliouby · Host Lex FridmanThe Affectiva founder and Smart Eye deputy CEO talks with Lex Fridman about teaching machines to read faces, sensing drivers inside the cabin, and why she is proudest of the people her company grew.
1:36:11ENLex Fridman· Sep 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakers2029 Passes the Turing Test. 2045 Is Still the SingularityGuest Ray Kurzweil · Host Lex FridmanRay Kurzweil tells Lex Fridman why his dates have not moved, how to invent in the present tense, and why the replica of his father answered the meaning of life with one word: love.
44:50EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 16, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersSebastian Kanovich on Building dLocal from Uruguay and Scaling Across Emerging MarketsGuest Sebastian Kanovich · Host Harry StebbingsThe dLocal CEO discusses customer-led expansion, bootstrapping and the challenge of preserving a small-team culture after an IPO.
2:15:36ENLex Fridman· Sep 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe War That Invented the Modern American CitizenGuest Christopher Capozzola · Host Lex FridmanMIT historian Christopher Capozzola tells Lex Fridman how World War I rewired American citizenship, surveillance, and the war machine — and why those patterns still shape elections, platforms, and foreign policy.
48:43EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEleanor Dorfman on Building Sales Teams, Playbooks and Customer-Centered ReviewsGuest Eleanor Dorfman · Host Harry StebbingsThe Retool sales leader explains how founders can learn from early customers, hire for ambiguity and build repeatable sales practices.
1:08:45EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 12, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWill Quist on Venture Capital, Investment Risk and Going Beyond ConsensusGuest Will Quist · Host Harry StebbingsThe Slow Ventures partner distinguishes classic venture from growth investing and explains his framework for evaluating companies and building a portfolio.
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Jane Street· Sep 12, 2022Ella Ehrlich on Modernizing a Critical Trading SystemYaron Minsky, Ella Ehrlich · Jane StreetJane Street’s Gord team rebuilt parts of a legacy data pipeline while preserving availability, and Ehrlich describes the recruiting programs she helped develop.
2:35:37ENLex Fridman· Sep 9, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersYou Play Better Chess When You Stop Caring About the NumberGuest Botez Sisters · Host Lex FridmanAlexandra and Andrea Botez talk with Lex Fridman about ratings, streaming personas, depression, and why obsession with a board game can swallow a life.
3:43:01ENLex Fridman· Sep 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPut Hydrogen and CO2 in a Tube. Thermodynamics Wants Cells. Nothing Happens.Guest Nick Lane · Host Lex FridmanBiochemist Nick Lane talks Lex Fridman through hydrothermal vents, mitochondria, sex, consciousness, and why bacteria should be common while civilizations are not.
1:05:21EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMichael Mignano on Anchor, Venture Investing and the Future of Social MediaGuest Michael Mignano · Host Harry StebbingsThe Anchor co-founder discusses joining Lightspeed, the limits of startup hype and why recommendation media may create room for new social products.
3:11:01ENLex Fridman· Sep 4, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhere Do You Go for Wisdom? John Vervaeke on the Meaning CrisisGuest John Vervaeke · Host Lex FridmanA University of Toronto cognitive scientist argues that meaning is a real relationship between self and world, and that modern life has lost the practices that used to repair it.
49:35EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Sep 1, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersAnnie Pearl on Product Focus, Enterprise Expansion and Hiring Product LeadersGuest Annie Pearl · Host Harry StebbingsThe Calendly product leader explains how to time a second product, align self-service and enterprise work, and evaluate product candidates.
47:12ENLex Fridman· Aug 31, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersPutin’s invasion is a supreme crime, Chomsky says — and so was America’s in IraqGuest Noam Chomsky · Host Lex FridmanIn a short remote interview, Noam Chomsky applies one standard to NATO expansion, Western propaganda, and a US-China war he thinks organized human life would not survive.
59:48EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 30, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersLogan Bartlett on Growth Investing, Valuations and Board Responsibilities in 2022Guest Logan Bartlett · Host Harry StebbingsThe Redpoint investor discusses the stalled growth market, private-company marks, follow-on decisions and how boards work with founders.
2:31:52ENLex Fridman· Aug 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersMagnus Carlsen would rather trust the numbers than the fairy taleGuest Magnus Carlsen · Host Lex FridmanThe highest-rated chess player in history tells Lex Fridman how he defines greatness, why he stopped defending the world title, and what a two-dimensional board in his head actually looks like.
3:35:40ENLex Fridman· Aug 24, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersLiv Boeree on Moloch, Useful Fictions, and Why Luck Keeps Poker AliveGuest Liv Boeree · Host Lex FridmanThe poker champion and science educator talks with Lex Fridman about game theory, attention, simulation, aliens, and the existential races that look like games nobody can quit.
53:53EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWesley Chan on Google, Canva and Building a Venture Firm Around Product VisionGuest Wesley Chan · Host Harry StebbingsThe FPV Ventures co-founder explains his approach to product ambition, market sizing and fund construction, and revisits lessons from investments and misses.
3:03:33ENLex Fridman· Aug 19, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBeauty Points Up: Jordan Peterson on God, Tyranny, and How to LiveGuest Jordan Peterson · Host Lex FridmanIn a long conversation with Lex Fridman, the psychologist follows Dostoevsky's claim that beauty will save the world into God, science, power, fame, and the small work of putting a life in order.
1:03:46EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersJordan Van Horn on Sales Playbooks, Hiring and Learning from DealsGuest Jordan Van Horn · Host Harry StebbingsThe Monte Carlo revenue leader explains what founders should document, how to evaluate sales candidates and how to support a growing team.
3:19:52ENLex Fridman· Aug 16, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDuncan Trussell Would Live This Life Again, Dark Parts IncludedGuest Duncan Trussell · Host Lex FridmanA comedian and Lex Fridman talk through eternal recurrence, machine sentience, cancer, war, depression, and the love that makes the loop worth running.
53:44EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersSheel Mohnot on Venture Power Laws, Follow-Ons and Emerging MarketsGuest Sheel Mohnot · Host Harry StebbingsThe Better Tomorrow Ventures cofounder discusses portfolio construction, realized and unrealized outcomes, pricing and the 2022 shift toward cash efficiency.
0:31EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Aug 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBrian Hale on Product Growth FundamentalsGuest Brian Hale · Host Harry StebbingsA short discussion of product details and user friction.
3:33:04ENLex Fridman· Aug 13, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersAfrica's Poverty Is Made of Laws, Not of PeopleGuest Magatte Wade · Host Lex FridmanSenegalese entrepreneur Magatte Wade tells Lex Fridman how tariffs, Napoleonic codes, and a Cold War wrong turn keep the world's youngest continent poor.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,478