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2:13ENMichael on Food Service and Hospitality at Jane StreetMichael · Jane StreetJane Street’s global food lead describes a varied working day, collaboration across offices and what he looks for in food service colleagues.
3:47:09ENKepler Found Thousands of Planets and Not One Earth TwinGuest David Kipping · Host Lex FridmanDavid Kipping explains why cool, Earth-like worlds are the hardest exoplanets to find, and why James Webb is the first telescope that might catch their moons.
58:55ENCliff Obrecht on Building Canva, Hiring and a Long-Term Founder PartnershipGuest Cliff Obrecht · Host Harry StebbingsThe Canva co-founder describes the journey from school yearbooks to a design platform, the technical setbacks along the way and his approach to deals and family.
3:31ENJess on Hospitality and Collaboration at Jane StreetJess · Jane StreetA New York office administrator describes the range of hospitality work, the skills her team values and the connections she makes across the firm.
1:00:17ENStevie Case on Building Sales Teams, Moving Upmarket and Leading With EmpathyGuest Stevie Case · Host Harry StebbingsVanta CRO Stevie Case explains how founders can test enterprise sales, hire for grit and curiosity, and build a more human sales culture.
2:59:53ENThe Civil War, Jeremi Suri argues, never actually endedGuest Jeremi Suri · Host Lex FridmanA UT Austin historian tells Lex Fridman why American institutions still carry the exclusions of the 17th through 19th centuries — and why stories, not arguments, are what move people.
37:15ENJeff Jordan on Building Two-Sided MarketplacesGuest Jeff Jordan · Host Harry StebbingsThe former OpenTable CEO and a16z investor explains supply, demand, unit economics and marketplace timing through lessons from OpenTable, Airbnb, eBay and Instacart.
49:41ENAlbert Wenger on a Knowledge Age, Climate Investing and Digital PlatformsGuest Albert Wenger · Host Harry StebbingsThe USV investor discusses inequality, climate action and crypto, and argues that social platforms should give users more control.
48:03ENServerless Six Years Later: Architecture, Testing and TradeoffsErwin van der KooghErwin van der Koogh reflects on event-driven systems and debates production testing with the audience.
3:08:07ENA Hundred Million Degrees, Less Energy Than Boiling WaterGuest Dennis Whyte · Host Lex FridmanMIT fusion director Dennis Whyte walks Lex Fridman from E=mc² and the strong force to why a star-hot plasma is, paradoxically, one of the safer ways to make electricity.
1:01:56ENMike Cessario on Building Liquid Death as a Beverage and Entertainment BrandGuest Mike Cessario · Host Harry StebbingsThe Liquid Death founder explains the thinking behind its irreverent marketing, the difficulty of beverage distribution and why he prizes creative ideas that people share.
1:02:45ENHila Qu on Hiring and Building a Product Growth PracticeGuest Hila Qu · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Acorns and GitLab growth leader explains channel experiments, hiring, data foundations and the first 90 days of a growth role.
3:02:52ENI Wanted to Ask God About Hunger and War. I Was Afraid He’d Ask Me the Same QuestionGuest Omar Suleiman · Host Lex FridmanImam Omar Suleiman talks with Lex Fridman about God, his mother’s long illness, why Islam treats suffering as a pixel on a larger canvas, and why seeking truth is worthless if you will not live by it.
53:10ENJeff Jordan on Building and Investing in Two-Sided MarketplacesGuest Jeff Jordan · Host Harry StebbingsThe former eBay and OpenTable executive explains supply, demand, acquisition economics and the role of a venture board member.
57:27ENJason Lemkin on SaaS Growth, Venture Funding and the 2023 ResetGuest Jason Lemkin · Host Harry StebbingsThe SaaStr founder discusses capital efficiency, marketing, private valuations and limited-partner expectations during an uncertain venture market.
1:03:29ZH → EnglishA Multimodal Paper Review: BLIP, CoCa, and BEiT-3From cleaning image–text data to unified pretraining, a guide to the architectures, objectives, and connections behind three vision–language models.
4:32ENJake on Accounting and Collaboration at Jane StreetJake · Jane StreetA member of the New York accounting team explains its role, the value of asking questions, and what candidates should expect in interviews.
3:10ENSergei on Quantitative Research and Collaboration at Jane StreetSergei · Jane StreetA Jane Street researcher describes long-running quantitative projects, working with traders and developers, and the value of continued learning.
2:17:46ENOne Great Video Beats a Hundred Mediocre OnesGuest MrBeast · Host Lex FridmanMrBeast tells Lex Fridman why evergreen hits outlast volume, why YouTube comments are a disgrace, and why an AI clone of himself would drain every video of meaning.
4:30ENHaley on Operations and Collaboration at Jane StreetHaley · Jane StreetA New York operations team member explains post-trade work, cross-team projects and the qualities she values in colleagues.
53:50ENHenry Schuck on ZoomInfo, Sales Slowdowns and the Discipline of GrowthGuest Henry Schuck · Host Harry StebbingsZoomInfo’s founder discusses bootstrapping, leadership, gratitude and how customer buying changed in the software market of early 2023.
53:16ENJason Fried on Independence, Leadership and Basecamp’s Workplace DecisionsGuest Jason Fried · Host Harry StebbingsThe 37signals co-founder discusses profitability, feedback and long partnerships, and reflects on a controversial workplace policy.
0:26ENThree Common Types of Product LeadersA short overview of platform, core product and specialist roles.
1:07:10ZH → EnglishInstructGPT: From Human Feedback to Language Model AlignmentA guide to InstructGPT’s training process, results, and limitations, from supervised fine-tuning and reward modeling to PPO.
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