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Lex Fridman· Nov 2, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWomen, Life, Freedom: Why Iran's Youngest Generation Has Broken With the Islamic RepublicGuest Abbas Amanat · Host Lex FridmanYale historian Abbas Amanat traces the Mahsa Amini protests through a century of Iranian revolutions, the 1953 CIA coup, and a theocracy that had never existed before.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 31, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBrian Singerman on Venture Pricing, Founder Selection and AndurilGuest Brian Singerman · Host Harry StebbingsThe Founders Fund partner discusses his investing approach in the October 2022 downturn, cross-fund investments and the difficulty of finding new companies.
3:28:47ENLex Fridman· Oct 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersKarpathy Calls Trained Neural Nets Complicated Alien ArtifactsGuest Andrej Karpathy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, Andrej Karpathy refuses the brain analogy, walks the Fermi paradox through Nick Lane's chemistry, and treats the Transformer as a general-purpose differentiable computer.
0:55EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 28, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDrew Houston on Dropbox’s Growth and SetbacksGuest Drew Houston · Host Harry StebbingsThe Dropbox co-founder recalls competition and public failures.
58:09EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 26, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersVaibhav Sahgal on Connecting Users to Value and Building Growth TeamsGuest Vaibhav Sahgal · Host Harry StebbingsThe Reddit product leader shares lessons from Zynga on user research, protecting channels, hiring growth leaders and validating ideas before engineering them.
28:48EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersRishi Sunak on Talent, Investment and Policy Trade-Offs in 2021Guest Rishi Sunak · Host Harry StebbingsIn an interview recorded while he was chancellor, Sunak discusses startup-inspired policymaking, immigration proposals, the Future Fund and the limits of government action.
1:19:15EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersEmil Michael on Negotiations, Uber and Building Through a DownturnGuest Emil Michael · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Uber executive recounts Tellme and Uber deals, offers negotiation lessons and discusses leadership and venture investing in 2022.
2:26:29ENLex Fridman· Oct 24, 2022PodcastYe said schools should teach only engineering. Then he spent an hour rewriting history.Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast in October 2022, the artist formerly known as Kanye West talked design, family, and a theory about Jewish control that the host would not let stand.
1:00:38EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 21, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersKyle Harrison on Venture Differentiation, Community and the Cost of Optimistic ValuationsGuest Kyle Harrison · Host Harry StebbingsThe Contrary partner discusses lessons from several firms, the pressure on undifferentiated investors, and how market corrections changed his own valuation thinking.
7:47:52ENLex Fridman· Oct 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersYou 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.
0:40EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersLauren Schwartz on Interviewing Sales CandidatesGuest Lauren Schwartz · Host Harry StebbingsA sales leader recommends specific, evidence-focused questions.
50:41EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 19, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersLauren 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.
2:48:42ENLex Fridman· Oct 17, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe 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.
3:03:33ENLex Fridman· Oct 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA 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.
1:02:39EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersTristan 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.
1:27:34EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 13, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGustav 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.
1:26:48EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 10, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersBrad 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.
4:48:38ENLex Fridman· Oct 10, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersJohn 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.
58:56EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersKevin 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.
3:33:18ENLex Fridman· Oct 7, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersIf 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.
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All-In Podcast· Oct 7, 2022Podcast · 4 speakersAll-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.
2:39:40ENLex Fridman· Oct 5, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe 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.
47:09EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 5, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersGeoff 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.
1:08:42EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 3, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersParker 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,478