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7:47:52ENYou Cannot Peacefully Start a New Government. Balaji Thinks That Is the Bug.Guest Balaji Srinivasan · Host Lex FridmanIn a seven-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, Balaji Srinivasan traces a single thread from the prime-number maze to network states, Wikipedia, the FDA, and crypto property rights.
0:40ENLauren Schwartz on Interviewing Sales CandidatesGuest Lauren Schwartz · Host Harry StebbingsA sales leader recommends specific, evidence-focused questions.
50:41ENLauren Schwartz on Hiring Salespeople and Building an Enterprise Sales TeamGuest Lauren Schwartz · Host Harry StebbingsThe Fivetran enterprise sales leader discusses customer discovery, early hires, onboarding, deal reviews and aligning incentives with customer outcomes.
2:48:42ENThe Forty Games Hikaru Nakamura Still Calls a MistakeGuest Hikaru Nakamura · Host Lex FridmanThe world's top blitz player on a 1 a.m. hotel match with Magnus Carlsen, Kasparov's Berlin files, and why "I literally don't care" is a livelihood, not a meme.
3:03:33ENA Robot Is Whatever Still Has MagicGuest Kate Darling · Host Lex FridmanKate Darling tells Lex Fridman why grocery-store Marty is a real-life Clippy, why animal history is a better guide than humanoid fantasy, and what the Epstein scandal revealed about MIT.
1:02:39ENTristan Handy on Building dbt Labs, Delegating Decisions and Choosing ScaleGuest Tristan Handy · Host Harry StebbingsThe dbt Labs founder discusses bootstrapping an open-source business, balancing venture funding with freedom, and making distributed work more human.
1:27:34ENGustav Söderström on Spotify, Product Strategy and the Value of DebateGuest Gustav Soderstrom · Host Harry StebbingsSpotify’s product and technology leader discusses free mobile listening, licensing, recommendation systems, team debate and the trade-offs of changing direction.
1:26:48ENBrad Gerstner on Power Laws, Investment Discipline and Building AltimeterGuest Brad Gerstner · Host Harry StebbingsThe Altimeter founder discusses technology supercycles, concentrated bets and the personal experiences behind his approach to investing.
4:48:38ENJohn Danaher: A Broken Team, a Year of Grind, and Why Confidence Isn't MentalGuest John Danaher · Host Lex FridmanAfter ADCC 2022, the New Zealand coach walks through a rebuild that began with no gym and ended with the event's strongest team showing—then ranges into Gordon Ryan, animal combat, and the metaphor of the knife.
58:56ENKevin Weil on Product Conviction, Communication and Learning from Twitter and InstagramGuest Kevin Weil · Host Harry StebbingsThe Planet product leader revisits Instagram Stories, discusses building empowered teams and shares lessons from early-stage investing.
3:33:18ENIf you cheat, you play God: GothamChess on Magnus, Hans, and a 0.00 that is not a drawGuest GothamChess · Host Lex FridmanLevy Rozman sits with Lex Fridman to unpack how he reads a rating, why Magnus Carlsen can squeeze a dead-looking endgame for seven hours, and how the Hans Niemann scandal turned chess into a forensic sport.
1:25:29ENAll-In E99: Cheating Allegations, Twitter, AI and Platform RulesHost Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, David FriedbergA 2022 discussion of contested evidence, an unfinished acquisition and changing technology policy.
2:39:40ENThe Self That Swoops In to Decide Is Not ThereGuest Annaka Harris · Host Lex FridmanAnnaka Harris tells Lex Fridman why conscious will is an illusion, why a pea tendril is a better picture of choice than an inner agent, and why she now treats consciousness as a possible fundamental of physics.
47:09ENGeoff Lewis on Bedrock’s Rippling Investment and Concentration StrategyGuest Geoff Lewis · Host Harry StebbingsThe Bedrock founder explains his investment thesis, a missed financing round and why he concentrated capital in Rippling despite an uncertain 2022 market.
1:08:42ENParker Conrad on Rippling, Connected Products and Starting AgainGuest Parker Conrad · Host Harry StebbingsThe Rippling founder discusses his compound-startup strategy, shared employee data, cross-selling and the lessons he draws from earlier ventures.
37:39ENThe T3 Stack’s Tradeoffs, Explained by Its CreatorTheoA 2022 critique of the stack’s components, defaults and project fit.
3:00:21ENCut Off a Planarian's Head. The New Brain Still RemembersGuest Michael Levin · Host Lex FridmanMichael Levin argues that DNA only builds hardware, bioelectric networks store body plans, and frog skin cells can become robots that evolution never designed.
52:02ENTarek Mansour on Building Kalshi, Hiring Engineers and Operating Under ConstraintsGuest Tarek Mansour · Host Harry StebbingsKalshi’s founder discusses the origin of event contracts, recruitment, capital discipline and his 2022 vision for the market.
56:34ENKipp Bodnar on Marketing Channels, Brand and Building a CMO CareerGuest Kipp Bodnar · Host Harry StebbingsHubSpot’s marketing leader discusses focused distribution, customer-centered stories, attribution and the trade-offs of developing a broad leadership skill set.
2:21:28ENThe Seventh-Best Player in the World Is Still the SuckerGuest Daniel Negreanu · Host Lex FridmanDaniel Negreanu talks with Lex Fridman about tells, solvers, variance, and why finding the right table beats being ranked seventh.
51:22ENPaul Davison on Clubhouse, Live Conversation and Building CommunityGuest Paul Davison · Host Harry StebbingsThe Clubhouse co-founder discusses rapid growth, retention, the limits of live content and his plans for smaller social groups.
2:21:55ENWill Sasso Respects Stand-Up Too Much to Do ItGuest Will Sasso · Host Lex FridmanThe MADtv veteran tells Lex Fridman why he never became a stand-up, why impressions work from the outside in, and why he thinks AI is running the same illusion.
59:19ENJulio Vasconcellos on Scaling Peixe Urbano, Investment Focus and Latin AmericaGuest Julio Vasconcellos · Host Harry StebbingsThe Atlantico founder discusses rapid expansion, difficult founder feedback and his historical view of technology adoption and funding in Latin America.
1:08:51ENDavid 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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