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1:08:33ENEric Vishria on AI Value, Founder Insight and Benchmark’s Investment ProcessGuest Eric Vishria · Host Harry StebbingsThe Benchmark partner discusses durable AI revenue, startup distribution, chip competition and how partners challenge investment decisions.
2:40:25ENThree Out of Four Federal Bureaucrats Should Go Home, Vivek Ramaswamy SaysGuest Vivek Ramaswamy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the biotech founder and former Republican presidential candidate argues for a 75 percent cut in the federal workforce, a creedal American identity, and a Ukraine deal aimed at peeling Russia away from China.
39:05ZH → EnglishWang Xiaochuan on o1, Reinforcement Learning, and Slow ThinkingGuest 王小川 · Host 张小珺Baichuan Intelligence’s founder discusses possible technical paths behind o1, healthcare applications, and choices for AI startups.
1:25:53ENDmitry Gurski on Building Flo Health Through Retention and SimplicityGuest Dmitry Gurski · Host Harry StebbingsFlo’s co-founder discusses consumer subscriptions, product research, fundraising and the challenges of scaling a health app.
1:23:01ENPhil Carter on Growth Loops and Consumer Subscription EconomicsGuest Phil Carter · Host Harry StebbingsThe growth advisor explains acquisition, retention, paywalls and pricing, and why sustainable consumer subscriptions require more than buying traffic.
3:31:57ENA Man-Made Famine, Packaged as the Science of HistoryGuest Vejas Liulevicius · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Vejas Liulevicius walks Lex Fridman from Marx to Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Putin — arguing that a doctrine which claimed scientific certainty made mass death feel like a duty.
48:31ENA Call Center Contact Costs $13. A Company Agent Can Do It for Under a DollarHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSierra cofounder and OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor tells No Priors why branded customer agents are shovel-ready, why RAG demos are not products, and how AI software should charge for the job done.
48:54ENAkshay Kothari on Notion’s Lean Team, Fundraising and Board DesignGuest Akshay Kothari · Host Harry StebbingsThe Notion co-founder discusses staying focused, rebuilding sales and using cash-flow discipline to retain flexibility.
49:33ENShardul Shah on Venture Conviction, Outliers and Decisions at IndexGuest Shardul Shah · Host Harry StebbingsThe Index Ventures partner explains how he evaluates founders, revisits follow-on investments and works through disagreement.
1:09:13ENMike Hudack on Product Simplicity, Experimentation and Building TeamsGuest Mike Hudack · Host Harry StebbingsThe Sling Money founder shares lessons from Facebook, Deliveroo and Monzo on customer choice, data and product leadership.
26:28ENAPI prices fell 200x. The LLM table still is not set.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil, with no guest this week, argue over whether the language-model market has already consolidated — and why falling prices, five-person labs, and AMD’s shopping spree all cut against a simple ending.
21:21ENOpenAI o1’s 2024 Launch: Reasoning Benchmarks and Early TestsMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman reviews o1-preview and o1-mini, OpenAI’s reported evaluations, and his own early coding experiments.
3:42:21ENRome Always Raised Another ArmyGuest Gregory Aldrete · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Gregory Aldrete tells Lex Fridman how a city of mud huts absorbed the Mediterranean, survived Hannibal, and then tore itself apart over the spoils.
1:31:56ENTesting OpenAI o1 on Puzzles, Code and Reasoning: A Launch-Day LivestreamMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman tries o1-preview and o1-mini on word counts, Tetris, physical reasoning and a word puzzle, with viewers checking the results.
1:11:51ENDavid Schneider on Scaling ServiceNow and Being a Useful InvestorGuest David Schneider · Host Harry StebbingsThe former ServiceNow operator discusses enterprise sales, multi-product growth and board work, including the decisions he would make differently.
1:13:00ENSean Rad on Tinder’s Growth, Product Focus and Life After the CEO RoleGuest Sean Rad · Host Harry StebbingsThe Tinder founder reflects on early network effects, product decisions, international expansion and the meaning of success.
1:09:27ENNick Chirls on Venture Incentives, Founder Trust and Overlooked MarketsGuest Nicholas Chirls · Host Harry StebbingsThe Asylum Ventures founder debates fees, investor protections and the trade-offs of early-stage investing with Harry Stebbings.
44:16ENA perfect demo is ten years from a product you can pay forHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAndrej Karpathy uses Waymo's decade-long gap, Tesla's software bet, and a new AI course to argue that autonomous intelligence will stall at product and globalization, not at the first impressive clip.
1:03:46ENZico Kolter on AI Safety, Scaling and the Limits of Open ModelsGuest Zico Kolter · Host Harry StebbingsThe Carnegie Mellon researcher and OpenAI board member explains why prompt injection worries him, how he thinks about open weights, and why AI progress remains uncertain.
37:47ENWorking Backwards from AGI: Magic's Five-Million-Token BetHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilEric Steinberger wants a coding colleague you trust like a teammate — and a world that is still a good place thirty years after AGI.
40:33ENScott Gorlick on Uber’s Driver Acquisition and City Launch PlaybookGuest Scott Gorlick · Host Harry StebbingsAn early Uber employee recalls recruiting drivers, building local teams and managing competition as the company expanded.
4:10:28ENNinety-eight percent of American politics is the moneyGuest Cenk Uygur · Host Lex FridmanCenk Uygur tells Lex Fridman that corporatism, not left versus right, is the system that actually runs Washington — and that the only way out is to starve it of private cash.
42:59ENAWS Is a $100 Billion Cloud. Matt Garman Still Sees a 10x Migration AheadHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAmazon Web Services’ new CEO tells No Priors why 85 percent of workloads are still on-prem, how Bedrock was built from three bets, and why startups remain the company’s growth engine.
50:20ENArvind Narayanan on AI Scaling, Real-World Risks and the Limits of Model BenchmarksGuest Arvind Narayanan · Host Harry StebbingsThe Princeton professor challenges simple claims about scaling, AGI timelines and AI adoption while discussing deepfakes, healthcare, education and security.
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