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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Growth Stalls: Jason Cohen's Ordered Checklist for Getting UnstuckGuest Jason Cohen · Host Lenny RachitskySerial founder Jason Cohen walks through the questions he asks, in order, when a product's growth slows, from churn and pricing to net revenue retention, saturated channels and whether you need to grow at all.
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Lex FridmanPodcastFive Lessons from a 91-Year-Old Grandmother: Lex Fridman Remembers the Woman Who Shaped HimHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman uses his microphone to honor his late grandmother, recounting what she taught him about toughness, strength, quiet thought, self-belief and love.
11:26ENLex FridmanPodcastThe Cookie Your Brain Bakes: Joscha Bach on Happiness, Cells and the Meaning of GodHost Lex FridmanIn a short clip, Joscha Bach moves from why happiness is not the point to the cell as a cosmic probe and a naturalistic reading of God as civilization.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastWiring Without a Vision: What OpenAI's and Google's Dueling Launches Really SignalHost Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz and Nathan Labenz unpack the week of GPT-4o and Google I/O, from rushed demos and AI companions to the big tech singularity and the exodus from OpenAI's safety team.
1:47:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 3 speakersBridging the Divide: How Community Notes Built a Trusted Fact-Checking System on DisagreementGuest Keith Coleman, Jay Baxter · Host Lenny RachitskyKeith Coleman and Jay Baxter, the team behind Community Notes, explain how the algorithm works, how a tiny team built it, and why it survived four leaders at Twitter and X.
1:48:13ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastRobotics Hits Its GPT-3.5 Moment: Inside Gemini Robotics, From Embodied Reasoning to OrigamiHost Nathan LabenzGoogle DeepMind researchers Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao explain how Gemini Robotics works, what it can and cannot do, and where the field goes next.
20:50ENLex FridmanPodcastGlitches as Features: What John Hopfield Says Artificial Neural Networks Are MissingHost Lex FridmanIn a short conversation with Lex Fridman, physicist and neural-network pioneer John Hopfield compares evolved brains with today's artificial networks and explains why he expects AI to borrow from biology generation after generation.
13:33ENLex FridmanPodcastRating Jiu-Jitsu Memes With Ryan Hall: Talent, Terminology and Getting HumbledHost Lex FridmanAfter their main podcast conversation, Lex Fridman has Ryan Hall score a printed stack of Reddit jiu-jitsu memes on a scale of 1 to 12.
1:55:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcastPlan Your Chess Moves: Peter Deng on Building Products Used by BillionsHost Lenny RachitskyThe former product leader at OpenAI, Instagram, Uber and Facebook explains how he scales products, assembles teams and hires people who eventually don't need him.
1:35:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersLove, Not Just Like: How Nubank Builds Products Customers Tell Their Friends AboutGuest Jag Duggal · Host Lenny RachitskyNubank's chief product officer Jag Duggal explains the culture, metrics and strategy discipline behind a bank that grows mostly through word of mouth.
1:17:31ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastImage AI Is Still at the GPT-2 Stage: Suhail Doshi on Building a Unified Vision ModelHost Nathan LabenzPlayground AI's founder explains why image generation has barely begun to deliver real utility, and why his team is betting 2024 on editing and a single model that can create, edit and understand pixels.
1:44:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcastMarc Andreessen on Why AI Arrives Just in Time, and Why You Should Not Be FungibleHost Lenny RachitskyThe a16z co-founder argues that AI lands in an economy starved of productivity growth and short of workers, and explains how individuals, parents and founders should respond.
1:08:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPick the Right Growth Engine: Yuriy Timen on Virality, SEO and Paid for Subscription ProductsGuest Yuriy Timen · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Grammarly growth lead Yuriy Timen explains how to tell which acquisition channel fits your product, and how a tighter funding climate is reshuffling the playbook.
10:17ENLex FridmanPodcastNeither Saints Nor Sinners: Ben Goertzel on the Selfish and Altruistic Human MixHost Lex FridmanAI researcher Ben Goertzel explains why humans are a blend of selfishness and altruism, and how much culture can shift that balance.
1:31:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBlue Loops, Eigenquestions and Golden Rituals: Shishir Mehrotra's Playbook for Growth and Great TeamsGuest Shishir Mehrotra · Host Lenny RachitskyCoda's co-founder and CEO explains how his product grows through two loops, how to find the one question that settles many others, and how to hire for the right kind of thinking.
1:33:23ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersProduct-Led Growth Is Really Data-Led Growth: A Practical PlaybookGuest Hila Qu · Host Lenny RachitskyGrowth advisor Hila Qu explains how to add a PLG motion, from avoiding common pitfalls and auditing your funnel to choosing tools and building the team.
1:04:59ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersWhat Makes a Top 1% Product Manager, and What Working Backwards Really MeansGuest Ian McAllister · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Amazon product leader Ian McAllister revisits his famous PM post and explains why most teams misuse Amazon's working backwards process.
1:27:03ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBe the Hero of Your Own Story: Superpowers, Kryptonite and the Leader's JourneyGuest Donna Lichaw · Host Lenny RachitskyExecutive coach Donna Lichaw explains how the stories leaders tell themselves shape their impact, and how to find strengths, reframe imposter syndrome and set goals.
1:39:23ENLenny's PodcastPodcastProven, Better, New: Mark Pincus on Copying Smartly, Killing Hope and Building an Internet TreasureHost Lenny RachitskyThe Zynga founder shares the framework behind his hit games, why starting small beats starting big, and what he sees coming for consumer apps in the age of AI.
1:00:12ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersEvery Champion Wants to Quit: Jimmy Pedro on Judo, Fathers, Injury and the Fight to Keep the Sport Alive in AmericaGuest Jimmy Pedro · Host Lex FridmanThe American judo great and coach talks about his demanding father, a career-threatening neck injury, a comeback at the Olympics, his training system, and why he fears for judo's future.
17:19ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Atoms to Data Centers: How a Modern Processor Finds Parallelism in a Serial ProgramGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanJim Keller walks through the layers of abstraction in computer design, from transistors to out-of-order execution, branch prediction and deterministic answers.
1:35:09ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersReverse-Engineering the Child: Josh Tenenbaum's Case for Human-Like AIGuest MIT AGI · Host Lex FridmanMIT cognitive scientist Josh Tenenbaum argues that real machine intelligence needs models of the world, built by studying how babies think and learn, not just better pattern recognition.
1:31:55ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInnovate, Don't Optimize: Lovable's Growth Chief on Rewriting the Playbook for AIHost Lenny RachitskyElena Verna explains how Lovable reached $200M ARR in under a year with about 100 people, and which growth habits she had to throw away to get there.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastPeter Deng on Why AI Pricing, Evals and Voice Are Still MisunderstoodHost Jacob EffronA product leader's guide to pricing AI around work, making evals the spec, and why voice and proactive agents are underratedLoad moreShowing 24 of 4,496