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Lex Fridman· May 20, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersOliver Anthony sang the pain of working America, then refused the machineGuest Oliver Anthony · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman sits with the Virginia singer-songwriter whose carport hit became a working-class anthem, and who still treats fame as a test of integrity rather than a prize.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· May 19, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDuolingo’s Severin Hacker on AI Tutors, Learning and Building a CompanyGuest Severin Hacker · Host Harry StebbingsThe co-founder explains how Duolingo uses AI, where he sees limits in current tools and why his forecasts about education and work remain uncertain.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 15, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersOne Company Now Holds as Many Documents as the Entire Early WebHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGlean CEO Arvind Jain tells No Priors why enterprise search was a graveyard, how transformers finally made it work, and why a product that searches too well can be too dangerous to sell.
1:04:29EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· May 12, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersImmad Akhund on Mercury, Angel Investing and His New FundGuest Immad Akhund · Host Harry StebbingsThe Mercury CEO discusses a $26 million institutional fund, early-stage investing, AI valuations and the demands of running both.
32:15ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 8, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Hardest Part of Learning Is Getting Yourself to StartHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDuolingo CEO Luis von Ahn tells Sarah Guo how two-minute lessons, streaks, an 83 percent accuracy target, and large language models turned language study into a consumer product.
1:03:27EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· May 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersBucky Moore on Venture Platforms, AI and Early-Stage InvestingGuest Bucky Moore · Host Harry StebbingsThe new Lightspeed partner discusses capital-intensive model companies, seed valuations, founder selection and the role of large venture firms.
3:00:50ENLex Fridman· May 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA Black Hole Is a Place, Not a ThingGuest Janna Levin · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Janna Levin tells Lex Fridman why the event horizon is empty spacetime, why Hawking’s radiation started a war over information, and why gravity itself may not be fundamental.
38:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 1, 2025Podcast · 2 speakerso3 should wait exactly as long as the answer takesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researchers Eric Mitchell and Brandon McKinzie tell No Priors why o3's leap is a chain of tools during reasoning — and why you should send the same prompt a hundred times.
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Matthew Berman· May 1, 2025A Vision of AI Agents Taking On Business LogicMatthew Berman · Forward FutureMatthew Berman explains a prediction that agents could turn natural-language requests into actions on business data.
0:49ENMatthew Berman· May 1, 2025Copilot in Excel and the Idea of Agent-Driven AnalysisSatya Nadella, Matthew Berman · MicrosoftMatthew Berman reacts to a short clip of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussing Copilot as a data-analysis aid.
4:25:19ENLex Fridman· Apr 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA shareware text editor, a 30-hour binge, and a five-year war with AppleGuest Tim Sweeney · Host Lex FridmanTim Sweeney traces Unreal Engine’s thirty-year climb, the four-week birth of Fortnite Battle Royale, a new language for the metaverse, and why he thinks Apple is on the wrong side of computing history.
1:02:51EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 28, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTaavet Hinrikus on Venture Incentives and Europe’s Technology AmbitionsGuest Taavet Hinrikus · Host Harry StebbingsThe Wise co-founder and Plural partner explains his approach to early-stage investing, fund alignment and building European capabilities.
30:46ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 24, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDeep Research Turned Web Browsing into a Trainable ProblemHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI researcher Isa Fulford explains why a side project on read-only synthesis became an agent, when reinforcement fine-tuning is worth it, and why models will hack the search engine you gave them.
3:04:01ENLex Fridman· Apr 24, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersXi Jinping Revived China's Personality Cult. He Did Not Revive Mao's Chaos.Guest Jeffrey Wasserstrom · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Confucius, Tiananmen, censorship, the 2025 trade war, Hong Kong's warning to Taiwan, and why history has no straight road.
1:01:21EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 21, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersJason Wilk on Dave’s Turnaround, Credit and Digital BankingGuest Jason Wilk · Host Harry StebbingsThe Dave founder discusses going public, AI underwriting, customer acquisition and competing to serve consumers with short-term credit.
3:29:02ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersRobert Rodriguez: Sift the Ashes, Keep the Pipe Open, Don't BlinkGuest Robert Rodriguez · Host Lex FridmanThe director of El Mariachi, Desperado, Sin City, and Alita: Battle Angel tells Lex Fridman how limitation, failure, sound, and identity became his method.
40:54ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDiscovery rates collapsed tenfold. KoBold still found a 5% copper depositHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJosh Goldman explains why KoBold Metals treats mineral exploration as an information problem, pairing AI with century-old maps to hunt lithium and copper.
1:12:26EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersVictor Lazarte on Founders, AI and Investing Through a Technology ShiftGuest Victor Lazarte · Host Harry StebbingsThe Benchmark partner discusses founder selection, AI revenue quality, the future of work and the role of a venture investor.
41:52ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 10, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersMercor Hit $100 Million ARR Teaching Models to Hire. Humans Now Write the Exams.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrendan Foody tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how Mercor automated recruiting for frontier labs — and why building evals may become the world's most common knowledge job.
3:19:00ENLex Fridman· Apr 8, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTen Minus Two Equals TwentyGuest Dave Smith · Host Lex FridmanComedian and libertarian Dave Smith tells Lex Fridman that American wars keep manufacturing enemies, that Gaza and Ukraine follow the same arithmetic, and that long conversations broke the old monopoly on selling war.
1:10:19EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Apr 7, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersCarvana CEO Ernie Garcia on Conviction, Debt and Building Through Difficult MarketsGuest Ernest Garcia · Host Harry StebbingsThe co-founder reflects on fundraising, operations, public markets and the personal trade-offs of leading a company.
27:45ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 3, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersNasdaq Down 8% and Ghibli Everywhere: AI Is Already in Inning ThreeHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil on the latest image-gen wow cycle, why public-market panic is mostly noise for software startups, and where specialized models still have room.
47:04EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Mar 31, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersKevin Scott on AI Products, DeepSeek and the Future of SoftwareGuest Kevin Scott · Host Harry StebbingsMicrosoft’s CTO discusses model efficiency, agents, coding and why useful products matter in an AI transition.
3:09:05ENLex Fridman· Mar 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFrom a Ukrainian Dugout, Douglas Murray Refuses to Forget the ObviousGuest Douglas Murray · Host Lex FridmanWatching the Oval Office blowup from an eastern-front bunker, the author of *On Democracies and Death Cults* talks Putin, Zelenskyy, Hamas, Netanyahu, and the people who say they love death more than life.Load moreShowing 24 of 1,529