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53:03ENMaria Angelidou-Smith on Product Reviews, Hiring and Building Better TeamsGuest Maria Angelidou-Smith · Host Harry StebbingsThe Personio product and technology leader shares lessons from Meta on product careers, decision-making, resource allocation and leading distributed teams.
26:08ENFewer Than 3% of Deals Get Investigated. Selling to the Monopolist Is What Triggers the FTC.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilChair Lina Khan tells No Priors how merger review actually works in AI markets, why open-weight models matter, and why the agency banned most non-competes.
1:16:09ENBret Taylor on AI Applications, Model Costs and Building SierraGuest Bret Taylor · Host Harry StebbingsThe Sierra co-founder discusses why most companies may buy AI solutions, how agents need guardrails and what founders can learn from technology leaders.
56:26ENDonald Tang on SHEIN’s Supply Chain, Global Growth and AccountabilityGuest Donald Tang · Host Harry StebbingsSHEIN’s executive chairman explains the company’s on-demand model and discusses pricing, environmental questions and public scrutiny.
3:28:51ENShepherds Already Knew: Ed Barnhart on the Americas Before 1492Guest Ed Barnhart · Host Lex FridmanAn archaeologist walks Lex Fridman from lost Amazon cities and Peru's older-than-Egypt pyramids through Maya timekeeping, Aztec sacrifice, Inca empire-building, and the continent the textbooks still treat as empty.
1:00:46ENJeetu Mahtani on International Expansion, Sales and Customer SuccessGuest Jeetu Mahtani · Host Harry StebbingsThe former HubSpot sales leader explains how to test a new market, build partner ecosystems and align sales incentives with customer outcomes.
31:29ENRippling skipped the chatbot and stamped employees after 90 days of workHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCOO Matt MacInnis tells No Priors how Talent Signal reads source code, tickets, and customer conversations, then gives managers one calibrated label: high potential, typical, or pay attention.
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.
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