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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStay on Your Side of the Net: Carole Robin's Stanford Playbook for Exceptional RelationshipsGuest Carole Robin · Host Lenny RachitskyThe longtime teacher of Stanford GSB's "Touchy Feely" course explains disclosure, vulnerability, feedback and inquiry as learnable leadership skills.
1:40:03ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDo More Per Minute: Shopify's Farhan Thawar on Intensity, Hard Paths and Hiring by DoingGuest Farhan Thawar · Host Lenny RachitskyShopify's head of engineering explains how pair programming, relentless check-ins, deleted code and job trials keep a 10,000-person company moving fast.
1:24:03ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBuilding a Marketplace: Lessons from Lyft and Thumbtack on Liquidity, Supply and ControlGuest Benjamin Lauzier · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Thumbtack product and growth VP Benjamin Lauzier explains how to start a marketplace, measure its health, and grow supply cleverly, drawing on his years at Lyft.
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Lex FridmanPodcastHow Machines Learn to See: From Pixel Differences to Convolutions, ResNets and Scene SegmentationHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture walks from the basics of image classification through landmark network architectures to pixel-level segmentation, optical flow and the SegFuse competition.
1:11:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuild the Skeleton Before the Makeup: Deel’s Playbook for $0 to $295M ARRHost Lenny RachitskyMeltem Kuran Berkowitz explains how Deel used question-answering communities, disciplined SEO, long-tail paid bets and revenue-accountable hiring to scale.
34:33ENLex FridmanPodcastTeaching Cars to Watch the Driver: Deep Learning for Semi-Autonomous VehiclesHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture on using driver-facing cameras and neural networks to understand body pose, gaze, emotion and cognitive load.
21:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcastRowing or Steering: How Atlassian's PMs Became AI BuildersHost Lenny RachitskyAtlassian CPO Tamar Yehoshua explains, through three internal projects, when product managers should write code and when they should guide the team.
1:46:33ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 3 speakersFrom Chaos to a Failure Map: A Hands-On Primer on AI EvalsGuest Hamel Husain, Shreya Shankar · Host Lenny RachitskyHamel Husain and Shreya Shankar walk Lenny Rachitsky through a real error-analysis workflow, from reading traces to building a trustworthy LLM judge.
1:04:09ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersA Developer in Your Pocket: Replit's Amjad Masad on What Happens When Everyone Can Build SoftwareGuest Amjad Masad · Host Lenny RachitskyReplit's co-founder demos an agent that builds a full-stack app in minutes, then explains what it means for product managers, designers, engineers and founders.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastMamba After 90 Days: What 30 Papers Reveal About State Space Models, Hybrids, and Mixture of ExpertsHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz and AI scout Jason Meaux survey the first wave of Mamba-inspired research, from mechanistic studies and synthetic-task tradeoffs to hybrid architectures and MoE variants.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersPricing the Future: Kalshi's Tarek Mansour on Winning the Right to Trade ElectionsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Kalshi CEO explains how his regulated exchange beat the CFTC in court, why he sees event contracts as hedging rather than gambling, and why he thinks market prices beat polls and pundits.
1:23:36ENLenny'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.
17:32ENLex 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.
33:31ENNo 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,494