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Lex Fridman· Aug 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAt 27, Pieter Levels Stared at a Hotel Ceiling. Then He Shipped Twelve Startups in a YearGuest Pieter Levels · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the indie hacker behind Photo AI, Nomad List, and Remote OK about viral AI products, digital-nomad loneliness, and why he still deploys PHP to production from a sofa.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 8, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA Weekend Prototype Now Autocompletes a Third of Brex ExpensesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilPedro Franceschi tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how a 48-hour GPT-3.5 hack became an assistant for 30,000 companies — and why firing 20,000 customers was a leadership-bandwidth decision.
41:25ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersEven If the Models Froze Today, We've Extracted One-Millionth of the ValueHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAirtable CEO Howie Liu on why a 2012 vision deck still maps the company, why enterprise AI is stuck on imagination, and why codegen will not kill no-code before AGI.
3:04:08ENLex Fridman· Jul 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWalk 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.
27:26ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersA 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.
3:02:16ENLex Fridman· Jun 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe 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.
30:16ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersSuno's CEO Thinks a Billion People Will Make Music, Not Just Stream ItHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMikey Shulman tells No Priors why Suno skipped speech, charges from day one, and wants the line between listener and creator to disappear.
29:28ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersDevin Will Not Replace Engineers. It Will Multiply Them, Says Cognition’s Scott WuHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe IOI champion behind Devin explains why an AI software engineer that you can watch over the shoulder creates more human engineers, not fewer.
38:01ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 4, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of GDP Is Labor. Figure Wants Humanoids to Do the Work.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrett Adcock tells No Priors why a 21-month-old company raised $675 million to put general-purpose humanoid robots in factories first, then homes.
36:31ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFigma's One-Way Door Swung Open — With a Billion-Dollar ConsolationHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAfter regulators killed the Adobe deal, Dylan Field tells No Priors how Figma kept building, where AI belongs in design, and why the company was never meant to be only a design tool.
1:43:47ENLex Fridman· Feb 16, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersYou Have to Run Before You Can Walk: Marc Raibert on Making Metal Look AliveGuest Marc Raibert · Host Lex FridmanThe Boston Dynamics founder tells Lex Fridman why aggressive hopping beat cautious walking, how 109 Atlas falls became a method, and why robots still need a second kind of intelligence.
42:07ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 15, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersNotion’s Ivan Zhao: RAG Will Make Organizing OptionalHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Notion CEO tells No Priors why he bet the company on GPT-4, why embeddings matter as much as agents, and why software is entering a bundling cycle.
39:25ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 8, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThree Engineers, Three Weeks: The Internal LLM Tool Half of Stripe Uses Every WeekHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilEmily Glassberg Sands, Stripe's head of information, explains how a non-AI company got generative AI into employees' hands, then into Radar, Sigma, and the products customers actually pay for.
38:48ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 31, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersShopify Built a Copilot, Not an Autopilot, for Every MerchantHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilShopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates on collapsing duplicate engines, shipping AI that proposes but never commits, and teaching storefront search to understand a sweater.
39:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 14, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe Most Underestimated AI Buyer Is the Shop on the CornerHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFormer Square CEO Alyssa Henry tells No Priors that generative AI is unlocking work small merchants always needed and never paid anyone to do.
43:07ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 12, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersThe VCs All Asked Who Else Had Done It. HubSpot’s Answer Was Intuit.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrian Halligan walks through two decades of category creation, a CRM pivot nobody wanted, and why he thinks incumbents — not startups — win this AI round.
1:04:38ENLex Fridman· Sep 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersHundreds of Miles Apart, Zuckerberg and Fridman Sat Close Enough to See the WrinklesGuest Mark Zuckerberg · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sat in a dark room in Austin wearing a Quest headset; Mark Zuckerberg sat in another conference room, also wearing one, and it did not feel like a video call.
47:42ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSal Khan Thinks Every Child Can Finally Have a TutorHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Khan Academy founder tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how a family tutoring side project became an AI teaching assistant, and why he believes education is on the cusp of its biggest positive shift.
39:37ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 22, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersNobody Plans Dinner in KeywordsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilInstacart CEO Fidji Simo tells No Priors why generative AI finally lets grocery software answer the questions people actually ask, and why 80,000 existing stores still beat a dark warehouse.
44:19ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 15, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAI Will Write Ten Times More Code. Someone Still Has to Keep It Running.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilDatadog co-founder Olivier Pomel on why faster generation moves value from writing software to understanding, securing, and operating it.
54:56ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 24, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersKevin Scott Seized Microsoft's GPU Budget, Bet on OpenAI, and Still Didn't See ChatGPT ComingHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFive months after ChatGPT launched, Microsoft's CTO walked No Priors through the all-in bet, the Copilot stack, and why he is still bullish on jobs.
51:55ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 11, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersNine orders of magnitude later, he shipped a companion, not an oracleHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman tells No Priors why Inflection’s first product is a personal AI that sits in your corner, and why the missing piece is a router, not a bigger model.
2:27:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 28, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersIt took Atlas fourteen years to walk the way Playter wantedGuest Robert Playter · Host Lex FridmanBoston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter traces thirty years from a MIT basement pogo stick to Atlas, Spot, and Stretch — and why the company still designs machines that are allowed to fall.
35:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAGI as a side effect: Noam Shazeer on Transformers, Character.AI, and two-hour chatsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn April 2023, the Transformer co-author told No Priors how a 22-person startup turned open-ended chat into a consumer product — and treated AGI as a byproduct of making the model smarter.Load moreShowing 24 of 206