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Lenny's PodcastPodcastThe Failure Dividend: What Leaders from Airbnb, Google, Pets.com, Quibi, Duolingo, and Toast Learned from Their Worst MomentsHost Lenny RachitskyA compilation of product leaders' most searing failures—and the operating lessons they extracted from them.
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Lex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersRay Kurzweil on Hierarchies, the Neocortex and Merging with AIGuest Ray Kurzweil · Host Lex FridmanIn an MIT AGI course lecture, Kurzweil connects the history of neural networks to his hierarchical theory of the neocortex, language understanding at Google, longevity, jobs and existential risk.
1:19:32ENLenny's PodcastPodcastProduct Ops Is the Operating System Your Product Team Is MissingHost Lenny RachitskyMelissa Perri and Denise Tilles explain how product operations frees product managers from busywork, improves decision speed, and scales product organizations without adding unnecessary overhead.
48:18ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStop Writing Solutions as Opportunities: Teresa Torres on Opportunity Solution Trees and Weekly Customer InterviewsGuest Teresa Torres · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Continuous Discovery Habits explains how to structure a messy product problem, collect customer stories every week, and make better bets with small amounts of data.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastBan Superintelligence or Build the Rules as We Go? Max Tegmark and Dean Ball Clash Over a Precautionary AI RegimeHost Nathan LabenzIn a Doom Debates crossover, the Future of Life Institute's Max Tegmark and former White House adviser Dean Ball argue over whether superintelligence should be prohibited until it is provably controllable.
1:25:15ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersProduct Management Theater and the Road Out: Marty Cagan on TRANSFORMEDGuest Marty Cagan · Host Lenny RachitskyThe SVPG founder explains why many PM roles are really project management, how AI raises the stakes, and how companies can move from feature teams to empowered product teams.
1:00:15ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersCircuit Search, Hindsight and Self-Play: Ilya Sutskever's Case for Where Learning Is GoingGuest Ilya Sutskever · Host Lex FridmanIn an MIT AGI lecture, OpenAI's co-founder explains why deep learning works, then walks through meta-learning, hindsight experience replay, sim-to-real transfer, self-play and learning goals from human feedback.
1:36:53ENLenny's PodcastPodcastIdeology, Restraint and the Core: Peter Sellis on Building Product Teams That WinHost Lenny RachitskySnapchat's first PM and former Discord head of product speaks candidly about team design, why the median PM is weak, and where consumer growth really comes from.
1:16:05ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Founder Is the Product: A Tactical Guide to Founder-Led SalesHost Lenny RachitskyJen Abel walks through outbound messaging, first calls, co-authored scoping, procurement, and closing for early-stage founders.
20:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcastProduct Management Is Dead. What Comes Next Is an AI-Powered Triple ThreatHost Lenny RachitskyClaire argues that AI is collapsing the PM craft and replacing the product triad with multi-skilled leaders backed by agents, tools and a culture of automation.
1:46:04ENLenny'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.
18:24ENLex 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.
2:02:13ENCognitive 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,499