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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersYou Are Not a Marketplace Founder (Yet): A Stanford Professor on Friction, Data and ExperimentsGuest Ramesh Johari · Host Lenny RachitskyRamesh Johari explains what marketplaces really sell, why prediction is not decision-making, and how experiments and rating systems should be designed.
1:12:04ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBeyond the Chat Box: OpenAI's Head of Design on Adaptive Interfaces and the Designer's FutureHost Lenny RachitskyIan Silber, head of product design at OpenAI, discusses designer anxiety, shifting roles, designing for a billion very different users, and where ChatGPT and Codex are headed.
1:56:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSpeak Before You Think: Tristan de Montebello's Games and Methods for Becoming a Better SpeakerGuest Tristan de Montebello · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Ultraspeaking co-creator explains why speaking is a meta skill, then walks Lenny Rachitsky through live practice games and two methods for preparing talks.
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Lex FridmanPodcastOver-Automating, Googling Doctors and Neural Nets: George Hotz Reviews Programming MemesHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman and George Hotz rate printed programming memes, and the jokes turn into candid talk about testing, hiring, social media and the power of neural networks.
1:33:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSell Before You Tell: Wes Kao's Tactics for Communication That Actually LandsHost Lenny RachitskyExecutive-communication teacher Wes Kao breaks down the frameworks — sales before logistics, signposting, MOO, CEDAF — that turn clear thinking into buy-in.
1:19:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastIt's 1997 for AI: Benedict Evans on Why It's a Huge Deal, but Only as Big as the InternetHost Lenny RachitskyAnalyst Benedict Evans explains why he thinks AI is as big as the internet or mobile and no bigger, and what that means for jobs, model companies, distribution and the backlash.
1:24:37ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersTools Exist to Solve Problems: Austin Hay's Practical Guide to Marketing TechnologyGuest Austin Hay · Host Lenny RachitskyRamp's head of marketing technology explains what MarTech is, where it sits in the org, how to build the data stack, and how to hire for it.
1:29:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFive Customers, Three Prototypes, One Day: How to Find Your Bullseye CustomerHost Lenny RachitskyMichael Margolis of GV explains how to narrow to the customer most likely to adopt first — and how to prove it with a one-day research sprint.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersOpen Source Catches Up, Regulation Can Wait: Sarah Guo and Elad Gil Answer Listener QuestionsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilTwo AI investors cover open-source models, autonomous agents, whether to regulate AI, where startups can win, and why healthcare innovation is so hard.
1:19:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcastEngineers Become Sorcerers: OpenAI's Sherwin Wu on the Next 12 to 24 MonthsHost Lenny RachitskyThe head of engineering for OpenAI's API and developer platform describes life with Codex, how management is changing, and why builders should aim for where the models are going.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastAgents Everywhere: OpenAI's Blueprint for Tool Use, Evals, and Computer-Use InfrastructureHost Jacob EffronOpenAI's API platform team explains how agents are moving from deterministic workflows to reasoning-driven tool use, and what developers still lack.
1:31:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcastPerfect Is Creepy: What a Child Psychologist Knows About Leading Difficult AdultsHost Lenny RachitskyDr. Becky Kennedy explains how the principles she uses to raise resilient kids apply to managers, teams and colleagues.
1:04:06ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBuild the Model, Then Garden the Marketplace: Dan Hockenmaier on Growth Models and Marketplace StrategyGuest Dan Hockenmaier · Host Lenny RachitskyFaire's head of strategy and analytics explains how to build a growth model, which marketplace metrics matter, and why marketplaces demand a light touch.
54:52ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastCoding Agents Are Breaking Containment: The 2026 AI Stack, the Coding Wars, and the Next FrontierHost Jacob EffronJacob Effron and Swyx map the state of AI engineering, from agent harnesses and infrastructure churn to coding-market economics, open models, dark factories, and world models.
1:28:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBuild for Feelings, Not Graphs: Inside The Browser Company's Product PhilosophyGuest Josh Miller · Host Lenny RachitskyJosh Miller, CEO of The Browser Company, explains how Arc is built around emotions, values, a tiny-but-unusual team and a bet on the internet as the next computer.
10:39ENLex FridmanPodcastStatistics as Decision-Making: Michael I. Jordan on Bayesians, Frequentists and the Ideas Between ThemHost Lex FridmanBerkeley's Michael I. Jordan explains where statistics came from, why it is really about decisions, and how empirical Bayes and false discovery rate bridge two rival philosophies.
11:29ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy Tesla AI Day Was the Most Impressive Real-World AI Effort Lex Fridman Has SeenHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks through the neural network, data annotation, Dojo and Tesla Bot announcements and what they say about solving real-world robotics.
1:38:33ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPrice Before Product: Madhavan Ramanujam's Masterclass on Monetizing InnovationGuest Madhavan Ramanujam · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Monetizing Innovation walks product teams through willingness-to-pay research, segmentation, pricing models, benefit messaging and behavioral pricing.
1:06:22ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastPerplexity's Bet: Search Becomes Answers, and Answers Become a BusinessHost Jacob EffronThe Perplexity CEO explains how a consumer AI search product is built, sequenced, and defended against Google.
1:01:12ENLenny'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.
52:28ENLex 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,496