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1:02:56ENThink Rigorously, Decide Fast: Lessons from Stripe's Culture and Retool's Innovation MachineGuest Eeke de Milliano · Host Lenny RachitskyRetool's head of product and early Stripe PM Eeke de Milliano on first-principles thinking, protecting innovation, right-sizing process and building a balanced product team.
1:13:44ENTalent Density First: Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone on Candor, Keepers and High StandardsGuest Elizabeth Stone · Host Lenny RachitskyA conversation with Netflix's CTO, a trained economist, about her fast rise, how she holds a high bar, and how Netflix's culture and data organization actually work.
1:22:17ENOne Set of Weights, Fourteen Medical Tasks: Inside Google's Multimodal Med-PaLM MHost Nathan LabenzVivek Natarajan and Tao Tu explain how Google built a single generalist biomedical model that reads images, genomics and text, and what it will take to put it in front of patients.
1:03:10ENPause Tokens, Analogical Prompts and Ring Attention: A Tour of the Transformer's Next UpgradesHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and Trey Kollmer walk through five recent papers on pausing, backspacing, prompting, streaming and long-context training, and sketch how they might combine into a more capable model.
1:25:25ENExplore, Exploit, Retain: How Albert Cheng Grows Duolingo, Grammarly and Chess.com-Style Subscription ProductsGuest Albert Cheng · Host Lenny RachitskyA veteran of three of the best-loved consumer subscription apps explains his explore-and-exploit framework, what retention really demands, and why he wants 1,000 experiments a year.
1:31:34ENHow Snyk Grew from a Node.js Niche to a Developer Security GiantGuest Ben Williams · Host Lenny RachitskyBen Williams, VP of Product at Snyk, explains the community, loops, team structure and data foundations behind the company's product-led growth.
1:12:29ENLazy, Vain, Selfish Users and the Rule of Three: An Indian Product Leader's PlaybookGuest Anuj Rathi · Host Lenny RachitskyAnuj Rathi of Jupiter Money walks through how product management took shape in India, and the frameworks he uses for onboarding, working backwards, strategy and marketplaces.
26:45ENStart Small, Build Habits, Pick Your Team: Andrew Ng's Practical Advice for Learning Deep LearningGuest Andrew Ng · Host Lex FridmanIn a clip from the Lex Fridman Podcast, Andrew Ng explains how to begin in deep learning, how to study effectively, and how to choose a career path.
1:07:36ENMake a Podcast to Build for Podcasters: Maya Prohovnik on Dogfooding, Gut Calls and Anchor's Unscalable HacksGuest Maya Prohovnik · Host Lenny RachitskySpotify's head of podcast product and Anchor's employee number one explains how she dogfoods, balances intuition with data, and keeps a startup mindset inside a giant company.
1:01:13ENPinecone's Vector Database Bet: Scaling Through the ChatGPT TsunamiHost Jacob EffronEdo Liberty explains how Pinecone scaled through the generative AI boom, why vector search is more than a database add-on, and where he sees the next AI infrastructure shifts.
1:15:13ENShipping Real Apps Without Writing Code: A Non-Technical PM's Cursor and Claude Code WorkflowGuest Zevi Arnovitz · Host Lenny RachitskyZevi Arnovitz, a product manager with no technical background, walks Lenny Rachitsky through the slash-command workflow he uses to build and ship products with AI.
29:03ENNotion's Simon Last on Rewriting the AI Harness Every Six Months and Managing a Swarm of AgentsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Notion co-founder traces the product's path from a writing assistant to custom background agents, and describes how coding agents changed the way he builds.
12:04ENZuckerberg and Fridman Roll: Why Two Busy Leaders Are Training Jiu-JitsuHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman shares footage of a training session with Mark Zuckerberg and explains why martial arts matter for people who run big companies.
1:31:29ENIs Driving More Like Chess or Conversation? Lex Fridman's Opening Lecture on Deep Learning for Self-Driving CarsHost Lex FridmanThe first lecture of MIT 6.S094 introduces neural networks, reinforcement learning and computer vision through the question of how hard driving really is.
1:45:19ENStop Having All the Answers: An Executive Coach's Playbook for Tough Talks, Co-Founders and EnergyHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Stripe and Pinterest HR leader Rachel Lockett teaches Lenny Rachitsky the practical coaching, conflict and career-design skills she uses with tech CEOs, including two live demonstrations.
1:12:00ENWhy Deep Learning Works at All: Yoshua Bengio on Composition, Saddle Points and the Case for Unsupervised LearningHost Lex FridmanIn a 2016 Deep Learning School talk, Yoshua Bengio explains the assumptions that let neural nets beat the curse of dimensionality and lays out the open challenges ahead.
1:02:15ENSuno’s CEO Says the Future of Music Is a Conversation, Not a PromptHost Jacob EffronSuno CEO Mikey Shulman explains how AI music is moving from text prompts to co-creation, why music evals are subjective, and what he would build next.
1:10:21ENReteaming Is Inevitable: Heidi Helfand on Five Ways Teams Change and How to Do It WellGuest Heidi Helfand · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Dynamic Reteaming explains why stable teams are a myth, how to run reorgs transparently, and when an isolated team is the right tool.
1:09:51ENFrom Campus Job Board to AI Data Powerhouse: How Handshake Hit $50M ARR in Four MonthsGuest Garrett Lord · Host Lenny RachitskyHandshake CEO Garrett Lord explains what expert data labeling actually involves and how a decade-old student network became a supplier to seven frontier AI labs.
35:43ENTwo Four-Hour Sprints and a Mantra: Inside Lex Fridman's Daily RoutineHost Lex FridmanAn hour-by-hour walkthrough of how Lex Fridman structures a day around deep work, strict limits on distractions, exercise, a one-meal keto diet and reading.
26:51ENA Walking Skeleton in a Beautiful Face: Ben Goertzel on What Sophia Really IsHost Lex FridmanThe former Hanson Robotics chief scientist explains how Sophia works, why she is not AGI, and why he thinks the illusion can still be put to good use.
1:25:08ENRahul Vohra on Superhuman: Product-Market Fit Engines, Game Design and a CEO's TimeGuest Rahul Vohra · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Superhuman founder explains how he measures and optimizes product-market fit, why he treats products like games, and how he redesigned his own job to speed up the company.
45:12ENInside a Robot Data Factory: How Mecka Sensorizes Humans to Train RobotsMecka AI founder Josh Gao explains how a company collects, quality-checks and licenses egocentric human data, and why robotics will arrive as a steady unlock of tasks rather than a single breakthrough.
1:02:24ENFrom Looping Forklifts to Self-Driving Cities: Sertac Karaman on Motion PlanningHost Lex FridmanAn MIT professor traces motion planning from the DARPA Urban Challenge to the future of transportation and the cities built around cars.
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