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Lex FridmanPodcastThe Second 90%: What It Really Takes to Put Deep Learning on a Driverless CarHost Lex FridmanWaymo's Sacha Arnoud walks MIT students through Waymo's history, its perception stack, and the industrial-scale labeling, compute and testing behind it.
19:13ENLex FridmanPodcastThe Higgs Was the Missing Puzzle Piece. The Real Mystery Is Why It Exists at AllHost Lex FridmanParticle physicist Harry Cliff explains why finding the Higgs confirmed the obvious, why its tuned value is so troubling, and why the search for a deeper theory is stuck.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastHow monday.com Turned a Competitor's Surprise Launch into a New Operating SystemHost Lenny RachitskyChief Product and Technology Officer Daniel Lereya explains how impossible goals, radical transparency and timeboxed deadlines took monday.com past $1 billion in ARR.
1:31:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastZero to $80M in Six Months: How a Solo Founder Bootstrapped Base44 to a Wix ExitHost Lenny RachitskyMaor Shlomo explains how he built and grew the AI app builder Base44 without outside funding, the stack and habits that let one person compete with well-funded rivals, and how the Wix acquisition came together.
40:25ENLex FridmanPodcastA Language That Knows the World: Stephen Wolfram on Computable KnowledgeHost Lex FridmanIn this clip from the Lex Fridman Podcast, Stephen Wolfram explains what makes the Wolfram Language different from ordinary programming languages and how it grew into a computable knowledge base, from Wolfram Alpha to computational contracts.
1:14:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe User Research Reckoning: Why Most Research Is the Wrong KindGuest Judd Antin · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Airbnb head of research Judd Antin explains why the UX research field is shrinking, what kind of research actually moves the business, and how PMs and researchers can fix the system together.
1:28:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSeven Years in the Making: How StackBlitz Turned Bolt into a $40M ARR Overnight SuccessGuest Eric Simons · Host Lenny RachitskyStackBlitz CEO Eric Simons explains how a browser-based operating system, a bootstrapped team and a better Claude model turned a nearly bankrupt company into one of the fastest-growing products ever.
57:15ENLex FridmanPodcastInside Torch and Autograd: How Deep Learning Libraries Compute GradientsHost Lex FridmanAlex Wiltschko of Twitter walks through Lua Torch, then explains automatic differentiation and what separates modern deep learning frameworks.
1:26:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Low-Heart-Rate Playbook: Sam Lessin on Etiquette Rules Silicon Valley Founders SkipHost Lenny RachitskySlow Ventures partner Sam Lessin walks through introductions, conversation, dress, dining, scheduling, email and meetings, then closes with a contrarian take on seed investing in AI.
18:46ENLex FridmanPodcastA Brooding Stuffed Hedgehog and Lex Fridman's Case for Owning LessHost Lex FridmanIn an AMA, Lex Fridman uses his thrift-store hedgehog to talk about minimalism, anthropomorphism in robotics, and why shared experience binds people together.
12:52ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersRoger Penrose on a Universe That Restarts: When the Far Future Becomes the Next Big BangGuest Roger Penrose · Host Lex FridmanPenrose explains conformal cyclic cosmology, in which the remote future of one cosmic eon is mathematically the same as the Big Bang of the next.
1:13:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersAsk for What You Want: Kenneth Berger on Integrity, Hearing No, and Getting Fired from Slack Three TimesGuest Kenneth Berger · Host Lenny RachitskyThe first PM at Slack turned executive coach lays out a three-step practice for naming your desires, asking for them, and accepting whatever answer comes back.
1:38:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersRun Toward the Pain: Ben Horowitz on Hesitation, Confidence and Leading a Company Through the AbyssGuest Ben Horowitz · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Andreessen Horowitz co-founder talks about the psychology of being a CEO, what product managers get wrong about leadership, whether AI is a bubble, and why the US must stay in the AI race.
22:08ENLex FridmanPodcastHeavy, Patient, Relentless: What a Day on the Mats With Khabib Nurmagomedov Feels LikeHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman trains with Khabib Nurmagomedov and his team, then hears how Khabib thinks about pressure, endurance and never stopping.
14:47ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersBuild Your Own Types: What Bjarne Stroustrup Learned from Simula, Fortran and LispGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanThe creator of C++ traces how Simula's user-defined types shaped his language, and why he builds for constrained, long-lived systems.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"Podcast"AI Doctors Are Here": A Father's Account of Fighting His Son's Burkitt Leukemia With GPT-5 Pro and Gemini 3Host Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz recounts the first three weeks of his 6-year-old son's cancer diagnosis and how frontier models served as second opinions, bedside co-pilots and relapse planners.
24:08ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersIntelligence Is Not Just Prediction: David Ferrucci on Explanation, Persuasion and Shared MeaningGuest David Ferrucci · Host Lex FridmanThe lead of IBM's Watson team argues that predicting well is only half of intelligence, and that being understood by others is the other half.
22:03ENLex FridmanPodcastRunning the Drake Equation: Lex Fridman's Estimate of Alien Civilizations, From 0.7 in the Milky Way to Trillions in the UniverseHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks through each parameter of the Drake equation with optimistic, pessimistic and personal estimates, then argues the real lesson is how little we understand about intelligence and communication.
1:26:42ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside Block's AI-Native Bet: Goose, Functional Orgs and Throwing Code AwayGuest Dhanji R. Prasanna · Host Lenny RachitskyBlock CTO Dhanji Prasanna explains how a reorg, an open-source agent and a learning-first culture made the company unusually AI-forward.
1:12:12ENLenny's PodcastPodcastModels Are Grown, Not Built: What Anthropic's Interpretability Research Sees Inside ClaudeHost Lenny RachitskyAnthropic researcher Emmanuel Ameisen explains how studying a language model's intermediate computations reveals concepts, plans and surprising quirks, and why that matters for alignment.
57:11ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Artifact to Organism: Microsoft's Asha Sharma on Products That Learn and an Agentic SocietyGuest Asha Sharma · Host Lenny RachitskyMicrosoft's AI platform product chief explains why products are becoming living systems tuned by post-training, why interfaces are shifting toward code and composability, and how agents may reshape the org chart.
1:32:41ENLenny's PodcastPodcastYou Can Patch a Bug but You Can't Patch a Brain: Why AI Guardrails FailHost Lenny RachitskyHackAPrompt's Sander Schulhoff explains why prompt injection and jailbreaking remain unsolved, why the guardrail industry is selling false comfort, and what organizations can do instead.
1:42:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFive Seconds, Real Stakes: Matthew Dicks on How to Tell Stories People RememberGuest Matthew Dicks · Host Lenny RachitskyThe 59-time Moth Story Slam winner and author of Storyworthy explains the single-moment structure of good stories, how to use them at work, and how to calm stage nerves.
40:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBuilding AI Products When the Ground Keeps MovingHost Lenny RachitskyOpenAI's Kevin Weil and Anthropic's Mike Krieger discuss how AI product management differs from traditional software, from evals and enterprise buyers to computer use, reasoning models, and proactive agents.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,493