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52:09ENDifferent, Better, and Instant: What Cash App Taught Ayo Omojola About Building ProductsGuest Ayo Omojola · Host Lenny RachitskyCarbon Health's chief product officer on differentiation at Cash App, building inside a big company, hiring founders, and going deep on the details.
1:08:37ENBeing Strategic Is a Simple Why Plus a Big Change: Anneka Gupta on Product LeadershipGuest Anneka Gupta · Host Lenny RachitskyRubrik's chief product officer shares how she defines strategy, makes decisions, works with founders, gives feedback and keeps a positive mindset.
18:32ENBuild a Lab Inside Your Product Team: Dan Shipper on Keeping Up With a Moving AI FrontierHost Lenny RachitskyEvery CEO Dan Shipper explains how a tiny, disposable-experiment lab can coexist with a focused product team, and how to move winners from one into the other.
1:14:41ENCaring Deeply, Measuring Clearly: Melissa Tan on Building High-Performing Growth TeamsHost Lenny RachitskyA growth leader's guide to hiring, developing, and organizing teams—from Dropbox's early lessons to Webflow's operating rhythms.
1:17:55ENThe Quiet Advantage: How Introverts Can Thrive Without Pretending to Be ExtrovertsHost Lenny RachitskySusan Cain explains what introversion really is and offers practical ways to build visibility, run meetings, parent quiet kids, and design a career around your temperament.
1:14:34ENInside the Frontier Lab: How Karina Nguyen Builds Products by Training the ModelGuest Karina Nguyen · Host Lenny RachitskyOpenAI researcher Karina Nguyen explains synthetic data, evals, how Canvas and Tasks were made, and which human skills matter as models get smarter.
1:09:48ENLovable's Anton Osika on Building "the Last Piece of Software" With 18 PeopleGuest Anton Osika · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Lovable CEO demos an AI software engineer live and explains how a tiny, obsessive team reached explosive growth.
1:18:47ENBefriend the Voice in Your Head: Executive Coach Joe Hudson on Emotions, Enjoyment and ExperimentsGuest Joe Hudson · Host Lenny RachitskyJoe Hudson, a coach to leaders at OpenAI, SpaceX and Apple, explains how to work with your inner critic, welcome your emotions and replace "should" with "want".
1:06:22ENWhen AI Writes 90% of the Code: Anthropic's CPO on New Bottlenecks, Builders and MCPHost Lenny RachitskyMike Krieger on how product work changes inside Anthropic, why he shut down Artifact, and where AI founders can build without being squashed.
1:46:35ENHire Your Agents Like Employees: Claire Vo's Field Guide to Running Nine OpenClawsHost Lenny RachitskyClaire Vo explains how she went from losing her family calendar to OpenClaw to running a team of specialized agents across her business, podcast, course and household.
20:36ENWhy Simple Theories Win: Marcus Hutter on Occam's Razor, Compression and Kolmogorov ComplexityHost Lex FridmanDeepMind researcher Marcus Hutter explains Solomonoff induction, why compression equals understanding, and how a simple universe can still look rich.
2:18:07ENGambling on Trump for the AI Era: Nathan Labenz and Samuel Hammond Argue the StakesHost Nathan LabenzA long, good-natured debate over whether Trump's high-variance, ideas-driven coalition or a stable incrementalist Democratic establishment is the better bet for governing AI, China policy and a possible intelligence explosion.
1:19:56ENAnalytics With a Seat at the Table: How DoorDash Builds a Centralized Data TeamGuest Jessica Lachs · Host Lenny RachitskyDoorDash analytics chief Jessica Lachs explains why she keeps data scientists in one central org, how she hires for curiosity, and how she picks metrics that actually move a business.
10:34ENWhy Deep Learning Needs Rules: Chollet on Interpolation, Abstraction and Hybrid AIGuest François Chollet · Host Lex FridmanFrançois Chollet explains why neural networks only interpolate between points they have seen, and why the best AI systems pair them with symbolic rules.
22:15ENFrom Purpose to Product: Ebi Atawodi’s Playbook for a Vision That ShipsHost Lenny RachitskyHow YouTube Studio’s vision was built, socialized, and turned into live products—plus a practical playbook for product managers at any level.
1:13:40ENThe Long Tail, the World Model, and the 1995 Problem: Inside Waymo's Scaling Phase and Robotics' Missing MomentHost Jacob EffronVincent, a distinguished engineer at Waymo, explains how foundation models became teachers for self-driving, why the long tail and causality are the real frontier, and where robotics still lacks its generalist proof point.
1:19:34ENFei-Fei Li on ImageNet, World Models and Why Everyone Has a Role in AIHost Lenny RachitskyThe scientist often called the godmother of AI traces how big data sparked deep learning, explains why spatial intelligence is the next frontier, and shows what World Labs' first product, Marble, can do.
1:14:51ENLeaving Uber to Write Full Time: Gergely Orosz on Building The Pragmatic EngineerGuest Gergely Orosz · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of the top engineering newsletter on Substack explains why he walked away from a big-tech career, what a week of full-time writing really looks like, and what it takes to make it work.
1:08:32ENSmall Teams, Hard Problems First: How Rippling's Jeremy Henrickson Keeps Velocity at ScaleGuest Jeremy Henrickson · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Rippling product chief and former Coinbase CPO on small teams, designing for the hardest case, fast decisions, and going all the way to the ground.
1:22:31ENFall in Love With the Problem: Uri Levine on Product-Market Fit, Fundraising, and Firing FastHost Lenny RachitskyA tactical founder playbook covering problem validation, product-market fit, fundraising narratives, hard hiring decisions, and user understanding.
1:27:00ENStay 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.
1:40:03ENDo 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.
1:24:03ENBuilding 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.
53:13ENHow 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.
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