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25:56ENA Prompt Cannot Hold a Good Design: Six AI Practitioners at Midyear 2024Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil stitch together clips from Stripe, Figma, Figure, OpenAI's Sora team, Cognition, and Scale into a half-year snapshot of what people actually shipping AI were willing to claim.
54:43ENAra Mahdessian on ServiceTitan’s Customer Focus and LeadershipGuest Ara Mahdessian · Host Harry StebbingsThe ServiceTitan CEO discusses early financing, moving upmarket, pricing and how he tries to inspire a demanding team.
18:57ENAI News in July 2024: Small Models, Voice Tools and OpenAI SecurityMatthew Berman, Andrej Karpathy · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews AI product announcements, model evaluation and security reporting, and shares his predictions about the future of computing.
1:12:12ENPat Grady on Sequoia’s Investment Process, Founders and Holding WinnersGuest Pat Grady · Host Harry StebbingsThe Sequoia partner explains how he tests an investment thesis, judges founders and balances patience with the need to return capital.
1:05:52ENAvi Eyal on Venture Returns, Selling Discipline and Supporting FoundersGuest Avi Eyal · Host Harry StebbingsThe Entrée Capital co-founder reflects on monday.com, portfolio construction, liquidity and the difficult decisions behind early-stage investing.
13:30ENAI News in July 2024: Smart Glasses, Robot Skin and Model RoutingMatthew Berman, Mark Zuckerberg · Forward FutureMatthew Berman surveys early plans for AI glasses, robotics demonstrations, generative video and RouteLLM's model-routing results.
3:04:08ENWalk the Rooms: Ivanka Trump on Building, Politics, and the Cost of Hitting SendGuest Ivanka Trump · Host Lex FridmanIn 1960s Czechoslovakia, a 14-year-old ski racer came home from Austria and reported first to the local police — enough detail to be believed, not enough to look like a flight risk.
1:06:53ENMatt Clifford on AI Scaling, China, Defense and Finding FoundersGuest Matt Clifford · Host Harry StebbingsThe Entrepreneur First co-founder weighs new AI ideas against compute constraints, examines competing scenarios for China, and explains how he evaluates entrepreneurial talent.
1:01:42ENSamir Vasavada on Vise: Fundraising, Hiring and Rebuilding After Rapid GrowthGuest Samir Vasavada · Host Harry StebbingsThe Vise co-founder reflects on raising capital quickly, executive hiring, a company reset and the personal pressure of building a startup young.
34:09ENFive Independent Teams Found the Same 10-to-1 Mix That Beats TransformersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe authors of S4 and Mamba argue that mostly state-space layers plus a dash of attention is the architecture that actually works—and they are shipping it first as real-time speech.
1:47:18ENA Cannabis Clip Sat Quiet for a Year. Then It Hit X.Guest Andrew Huberman · Host Lex FridmanAndrew Huberman talks with Lex Fridman about online pile-ons, still minds, sharks, ayahuasca, and the slow work of picking who you eat with.
1:09:08ENAndrew Bialecki on Klaviyo’s Bootstrapping, Shopify Partnership and IPOGuest Andrew Bialecki · Host Harry StebbingsThe Klaviyo CEO discusses early product iteration, customer economics, public markets and his hopes for AI.
58:18ENDavid Luan on Model Scaling, AI Agents and Competition Across the Chip StackGuest David Luan · Host Harry StebbingsThe Adept co-founder explains his views on compute, vertical integration, enterprise agents and why human interaction should shape AI product design.
58:16ENVal Scholz on Revolut’s Referral Growth, Hiring and ScalingGuest Val Scholz · Host Harry StebbingsThe former Revolut growth leader explains onboarding, referrals, experimentation and the organizational challenges of rapid growth.
27:26ENA 40-Person Company With 40,000 Paying Customers Wants to Replace the Camera With AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilHeyGen CEO Joshua Xu tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how avatars, localization, and a component-wise video stack are meant to knock the camera out of content production.
3:02:16ENThe journey begins after the answer: Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on search and curiosityGuest Aravind Srinivas · Host Lex FridmanIn 2022, Perplexity's first hire asked about health insurance — and four PhDs could not get a clear answer from Google.
1:02:17ENMichael Eisenberg on AI Investing, Liquidity and Venture DisciplineGuest Michael Eisenberg · Host Harry StebbingsThe Aleph investor discusses AI business models, national security, venture exits and the risks of mistaking a technology boom for durable returns.
1:24:03ENDanny Rimer on Missed Deals, Investment Discipline and Building Index VenturesGuest Danny Rimer · Host Harry StebbingsThe Index partner reflects on Spotify, Snap, Airbnb and Facebook, explains how the firm makes decisions, and weighs patience against the need to realize returns.
27:37ENLeo Pekelis on Extending Llama 3 to a Million-Token ContextMatthew Berman, Leo Pekelis · Forward FutureGradient’s chief scientist explains long-context training, coding use cases, inference costs and why retrieval benchmarks tell only part of the story.
1:06:40ENJanie Lee on Product Judgment, Hiring and Enterprise ExpansionGuest Janie Lee · Host Harry StebbingsThe Loom product leader discusses customer problems, clear writing, product reviews and the shift from self-serve adoption to enterprise sales.
2:51:58ENSara Walker: Life Is Huge in Time, Not in SpaceGuest Sara Walker · Host Lex FridmanThe astrobiologist tells Lex Fridman why textbook definitions of life fail, how assembly theory measures complexity, and why aliens might disappear into their own causal structure.
1:06:04ENAlexandr Wang on AI Data, Model Development and Building ScaleGuest Alexandr Wang · Host Harry StebbingsScale’s founder discusses his data-bottleneck thesis, enterprise adoption, AI security and the challenges of growing a team.
26:00ENWhy a Zapier founder thinks AGI research has been stalled for four yearsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMike Knoop and François Chollet put more than a million dollars on beating ARC-AGI, the eval they say actually measures general intelligence.
1:25:42ENReid Hoffman on AI Models, Inflection, Governance and Technology’s Social ImpactGuest Reid Hoffman · Host Harry StebbingsHoffman discusses the Microsoft–Inflection arrangement, AI competition and regulation, and his political views in a time-specific 2024 interview.
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